Show + BUSINESS AND SPECULATION Stock jobbimig and speculation enter so + i i largely into tho volume of modern business 1vr1 t busi-ness that it is difficult to Hay where what is called legitimate operations Nrr end and illegitimate schemes commence r com-mence There can be no question as to a the legitimacy of productivo labor which 1 from the farm tho mine tho forest and the sea furnishes material for tho actual necessities of the race Nor is i there any question as to tho necessity I 11 neces-sity or legitimacy of labor Incident l to the shipping and transportation I 1 interest in all its ramifications I Tho common camera of the world areas are-as necessary to its prosperity as am the at 1 farmers and miners The middlemen 1 < I 1 who handle tho products and attend y to their exchanges are equally necessary I nec-essary And in this connection comes in la 1 a w tho temptation to engage in illegitimate if M I not dishonest business For those who by largo transactions In handling the absolute I necessaries of life arc tempted to form combinations to raise tho price of those products on the consumers in business 1 slang to engineer a corner on wheat i1 a meats or other IWeCS1Iai y articles there can be no words of condemnation too i severe They are criminals on a largo C scale and the mi8cr misery they inlllct on a Ia their fellows can hardly be gauged l But it h I in connection with shares 9 of stock in industrial and I railroad corporations cor-porations that sjicculation largely lives moves and has its being The employment employ-ment of brains and capital on a largo scale in the manipulation of market prices of tho millions of shares in great coi porato movement In tho business world I Is not only a waste of productive energy but Is thy moving cause of panics and depression in trade and In tho Nation z and is the cause of untold misery and suffering in individual and national life I I rt i n b t r The decisions of courts and the action of legislatures more and more tend to discourage dis-courage and curtail this vicious phase of icculatlon and theso criminal comblna ± lions In tho markets of tho world Compare Com-pare tho beneficent result of legitimate I mining on the Comstock vein with the j mischievous and < 1 ruinous outcome of I ambling operations in connection with shares of stock by which its great mines were represented in lime open market yo t j long as tho mere stockjobbers trade ix held more honorable and desirable than j I those of productive labor so long will It 110 impossible to distinguish clearly in the public mind between legitimate and legitimate labor and occupation |