Show ia r m pe DA Y I 1 A novel by THOMAS W LAWSON athor of i fren ted finance 1907 doubleday re rage a co continued from last issue cihat 1 bat do you intelligent roea men think of 0 this situation you know because you know the stock gambling game tint the american people with theli their brastel bras and courage come year as after year wah ath their bags of gold the ailt ot of thir th ir prosperous labors and d dui um u m them hundreds ot of millions into camb inferno ot of yours you know that they are tools fools these silly laili rall ions lons ot of people whom you term lambs and suckers you chuckle as year after year baing ha lag been sent away shorn shora they return for or new shearing you marve mari e that the merchants manu facture ri miners lawyers farmers who hava su intelligence tc gatch such surplus ia would bris bring it to our gambling hell where uror all ail sides Is plain proof that we who cc conduct abduct the gamil ng and produce nothing are obliged to take from who do produce hundreds of n ions each year for expenses and hundred und reds ot of millions million 3 each year toi for for you know that we hae ha nothing to give them in return for what they baing to us you know that thai every dollar of 0 the billions lost in wall street means higher prices tor for steel rails for lumber and cars and that this means higher passenger and fr freight eglit rates to the people you know that when the manufacturer brings litz his wealth to wall street and Is robbed ol 01 ct I 1 tt it he will add something to the price of boots end shoes cotton and woolen clothes and other necessities that he makes and that he sells to the people you know that when the copper lead tin and iron miners part with theli their surplus to the system Sya tem it means hl higher ber prices to the people tor for their copper pets ad gutters Eutte rs fo for r the gatei that comes a through read lead pipes pipes for their tin dippers and wash boilers and for their rents and all those feces setles cities into which fact machinery anery lum lumber bez and other raw and finished material enters yi know that every hundred t millions 11 1 1 11 alons dr yd by real producers to tc the brIga ot of our world means lower wages or loss of the necessities and luxuries tor for RII all the people and espe chally tor for f farmer you know that thai it at is habit th u of avoli beet tc gloat over oi r 11 i s e alo doctrine c t rine of of ibe the system Sy tem 1 ach th ill ae e keople e parrot among them wives the doctrine that the people at large ia aw arp net affected by our gambling alln beca se they the people having no surplus to gamble with neer come in into wall and yet knowing al all tills this yc i never thought with al your wisdom and cantel cynicism elsm that light lacre irl n this institution which you owr and contro centre was ivas the apen open sesame for foi each ach or 0 r all of you to those great chests ot of gom gold that your clients the JS system 5 have e filled to ams br sting ing from I 1 al 1 4 1 I will buy until I 1 have exhausted my fortune of a billion dollars the stores of 0 the people what I 1 ask do you wise men think ot of the situation as you now see it there was vas an stillness ovi 01 the floor til the great brov crowd d which now cow cont contained abiel near lyall the members oe listened with bulging bul it 1 9 eyes yes and open lis to the revelations a ct weir their fellow member from th aito to tim lai bob poured ferth bl liis shot and shell ol 01 0 deadly logic from jhb be idal ast mal mob thi that now surround ed the exchange rose a hoarse bellow ot of impatience for haw fw in that dense de throng outside could understand the silence of the gigantic human crusher which between tin thi hours ot of ten and three was never before known to miss a revolution except while its victims hearts and souls were belag being removed from its sears ears and meshes boh bob bronley paused and looked down into the faces ot of the breathless gamblers with a contempt that was superb he went on men of wall street it Is writ in the looks ot of tho the ancients that every evil contains within itself a cure curi lar or a destroyer Bt royer I 1 do not pretend that tbt what I 1 am r 1 ta to t 0 bilu yu if fi to to 0 ad au a cure foj 1 1 1 ade 1 d au s e evil vil but J do say that w what ha t aam I 1 am avine iou you is a destroyer tor for it and that while it will bo be to the world a cure it may leave you in a more flery fiery hell than the one of which you now feel the flames I 1 do not care if it does when I 1 am through any member of the new york stock exchange who feels the iron in his soul ran can get instant revenge and unlimited wealth you inho are turning over in zour your mind the consideration that your ai gibat eat body can make new rules to rander my discovery inoperative are dealing with a shadow there is no ule ile or device that can prevent its working there are 1000 seats in the new york stock exchange they are IN north orth today to day apiece or 35 55 in all their value is due to the fact that this exchange deals in be between ewein one and three million shares a day were any atte attempt rapt made to prevent the operation operatic ti of my invention transactions would because of such attempt drop to affie or ten thousand shares per day or to such transactions as represented stock that will be actually delivered and actually paid tor for to make my ini lai entin useless it must be made it possible impossible n to buy or sell ell the sanie bhare of block more than once atone at one session and short selling which is now as you know the foundation of the modern stock gambling structure must likewise be made impossible it if this could be done the oooo worth of seats in the exchange changa ex would be worth less than five millions and what Is of far greater import to all the people the financial world would be i revolutionized men ot of wall street do not foul Nour yourselves selves my in invention intention Is a ture destroyer of tho the greatest curse in the world block gambling A i sullen gl growl owl rose from the gam gain alers kobelt brownley glared down 1 let iet me show you the impossibility |