462 THE GROUNDSWELL. 



thinks he will &quot;put up a margin,&quot; or &quot;pool-in&quot; on a high 

 market in hopes it will go higher. Stocks fall. He covers 

 the loss, and so on, perhaps, until his money is all lost. 

 His cupidity being now thoroughly aroused, the regret at 

 losing his hard-earned dollars, tempts him to borrow from 

 his employer s till to tide himself over the point whence he 

 is assured stocks must rise. Alas ! they do not rise, and 

 the man, at last, finds himself in disgrace as a common thief. 

 This is only one phase of the case, and one of the least dark 

 and sorrowful at that. Many desolate homes of the coun 

 try, if it could be known,, would tell tales* of lost innocence 

 and happiness, perhaps, with the husband and father an 

 exile and a fugitive from justice, and the family, once com 

 fortable, suffering the pangs of poverty. The author of all 

 this misery recks little. The money-king enjoys himself 

 with his ill-gotten wealth ; sits, with slippered feet, in a 

 gorgeous home ; sips his costly wines ; and, feted and feting, 

 fares sumptuously every day. 



The government may punish the puny victim whom h&amp;lt; 

 has destroyed ; but the great robber the Mephistopheles of 

 Wall Street is shielded by the power of wealth. 



THE GHOULS OF WALL STREET. 



There is nothing to which this class of men may be mor* 

 fittingly likened than Ghouls, which feed on the putrid carcassed 

 of dead men ; for these human vultures carry their victims id 

 swift destruction, and their families to poverty and starva j 

 tion. These stock gamblers subvert the established usages 

 of trade ; break down the barriers of legitimate buying and 

 selling ; abolish the coin values of the country ; create ficti 

 tious values, bulling or bearing stocks at will, until the 



