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Show ' Brokers of Wall street - Wall street brokers hold thoinaolvne a million times higher In caste than bookmakers. And they are right. Thoy aro thu creiuo de la cretno of finance. IlooUlna are the scum. Yet there are many bixiktnaknra In the Btreot. and not a few of them are backera of brokera. Rome are big operalora aupportltig brokera by their commlhukins. There are 1,100 members mem-bers of the Stock Exchange, and these represent brokerage and comml4ton linns whose partnerships aggregste no leua than l,:,2 alilebodied men. H la aafe to venture the assertion that each member of the exchange and his partners would turn up the nose at an Income of less than 120.000 a year. Honce: "' 1 i i i mvmmv Hi ' ' At ;n.O0O each year theee brokera clean up net about .000,000. There ire some t,n0 Block Kxchange nrrna which pay $.1,0011,000 annually for th rent of their olftcea. These firms employ em-ploy 7.000 clerks and assistants, bookkeepers, book-keepers, runners, etc., at an average was of tl, &on, which makea $10,6HO,-DID- ThtiM we have in three Items lone tl2,.riOo,000 that miiMt oome out of tin pockete of ctislomere to keep lh great machine well oiled. That la t y, the public paya the sum of $.f'!Ki,ooo annually for the privilege .if ""Pportlng In splendid style 4(.2 people In order that they may have their hanila at telling which way the toc will go New York Presa. |