Respectability

Juggling for millions, as it is performed by trust experts. deserves the reception which is following the exposures. Turning water into money is safer than selling gold bricks, because the trust manipulators purchase the ablest legal talent. Morally, between such performances and easymark thieving schemes, there is no difference. When the eleventh commandment, or "Thou shalt not be found out," is broken  by these voracious plutocrats, we stand aghast at the unconcern with which they bleed the public. lying for money seems to be consistent with high position in society and business. Men most conspicuously desired in society have fattened on bribery and false pretenses. Some of them have been honored with public office, Nothing could be more respectable than they. They are our nobility as able to ride over the scruples of classes below them as the nobility of birth once rode over plebian bodies which blocked the streets the exposures in Wall Street may diminish the prestige of "success," as accumulating wealth by disregarding honesty is called, if they do, they will accomplish a profound improvement. "Pluck, skill, and determination," says a humorist, "will, in time, work wonder but they get much quicker returns by working suckers." - Collier's Weekly.