Life — August 31, 1911 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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SINGLE then, mind you, I had to wait until it was low enough to buy again; rounding up the circle, as we say, was a matter of months or even years. Now all is different. No more water; just a plain businesslike basis, with everybody work- ing for us legitimately and aboveboard. At this package was brought in from the steamer that had just arrived. It was marked, “ Pass free through the Custom House; for 3PM” Morgan was too excited to speal “Ha, ba!” he exclaimed “It's new batch of orders. I sent over a mil- lion the other day and ordered my agent to get every King in Europe to fix me up. Here's the Star and Garter from my old side partner, King George. Alphonso sends me the grand order of the Span- ish bull fighters Nicholas—look at it! ain't it grand?—sends me this signet ring, entitling me to go anywhere in Rus- without a passport Mohammed V. Turkey, Key to City of Constanti nople; now, that was nice of him, wasn’t He wants me to lend him a couple lions with the privilege of under- ing Constantinople ” Every King had sent something. “If you should walk up Broadway with all of those things on,” said I, “they would scarcely recognize ovr First Amcrican—first in war, first in peace and first in all the bond issues of the éoun- tey." Morgan didn’t like it “You mustn't even joke about such things,” he said sternly.“ My boy, there point a large ENGAGED is real work to do, The secret of my success with the people is to keep things moving; to give them a constant change.” Then he turned earnestly to me. “ Ballingford,” he said, “you help us out. The people of this country will stand almost anything We can take away their rights and their property; we can make them pay a high tanti while we pocket the difference between the prices here and abroad; we can kick the nicest women in the face when they come through the Custom House; we can laugh and snap our fingers at the millions of unemployed who think we owe them something; we can grind up little children for factory and mill wor! we can throw open the United States Treasury to the insiders and actually cart away the gold in sight of every- one; we can appear to curb the vari- ous trusts in public, while dn’ secret we are actually merging them all into one, which one or two of us control we can load our favorite must women with jewels and employ the artisans of the world to work night and day; we can compel ever he is, to give back to our banks every cent of money he has carned—we can do all this, Ballingford, and more: but when we take Wall Street we are destroying the means by which the great public had the pleasure of ruining themselves—and I fear for the result.” With that T left h J. Bouxore Batttxcrorp. workman, no matter who away MARKIED A Right and a Wrong Way OT long ago two girls who were short of money shot a man in New York. After bemg weil the papers they were released, and since then playing to houses. As one gentleman put it, “ They This leads us to the natu as to just what crimes we necd commit in order to become blush at would crime would do, provided it Jands us in jail for a sufficient time to cali attention , nevertheless, we believe that some discrimination is necessary. The great point is to retain your te- spectability while committing the erin vertised in have been crowde can aly inquiry famous. At fir: scem as if almost any Prominent financiers, for example, are eminently respectable, THe EXD OF A SUMMER retRraTiON comicbooks.com