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Show BOOMERANG OF GREED. The falluro of D. J. Su)ly, tho cotton cot-ton speculator, Is merely nnother In-Blanco In-Blanco of ovorrenchlng grcod. If Mr. Sully had been content with n moderate mod-erate profit of a million dollars, or perhaps of threo or four millions, ho could undoubtedly hnvo romo off with a wholo skin whon cotton reached tho abnormal figures of tho Inst of January. Janu-ary. But like othor mon Intoxicated by success, ho was not satisfied with bis achievement. Tlio fascination of tho "game" or greed for monoy they amount practlcalLv lo tho samo thing urged him Intrf nnother bull movement. move-ment. Ho belloved ho could put cotton cot-ton to almost any prlco he pleased and ho tallod. Tho case Is by no tncanw peculiar. Tho successful speculator who bo-comes bo-comes overconfident, tries to run a corner and Is pulverlzod In tho nt-tempt, nt-tempt, Is n familiar figure in American market history. Natural laws which aro always at work eliminating thu unfit rarely nllow the too greedy speculator spec-ulator to escape. Occasionally a rare combination of qualities may havo him, but as a rule tho man who trios to hold up society and pick Its pockets pock-ets Is overwhelmed. Jle may win for a tlmo whom tho gods would destroy they first mnko mad but In the ond ho rarely survives. Yet tho failures thnt Btrow the path do not doter other ambitions nnd grasping mon from setting out on tho snmo course Every now aspirant Imagines that he will proyo too smart to bo caimht. The mtatakos of others ho will avoid, llo does not percqlvo that ho Is defying tho law that compensation com-pensation legitimately goe onlv for service done Ho does not foreseo that flnnlly to, too, will succumb to th boomerang of greed. Pittsburg Dlspotcli |