The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast, Vol. 10 (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

William Cowper Brann

 
9781331168355: The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast, Vol. 10 (Classic Reprint)

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The dispatches state that during the three weeks George Gould was lazing and luxuriating in a foreign land the business revival added at least $15,000,000 to the value of the Gold securities. Gadzooks! how sweet idleness must be when sugared with more than $714,000 per day! Im willing to loaf for half the lucre. How refreshing it is to contemplate our plutocrats lying beside their nectar like a job lot of Olympian gods careless of mankind while they smile in secret, looking over wasted lands. Blight and famine, plague and earthquake, roaring deeps and fiery sands, Clanging fights and flaming towns, and sinking ships and praying hands. One of Mr. Gould semployees, who was toiling at risk of life and limb for about $2 a day while his imperial master was doing the dolce far niente act for $714,000 per diem and his board, comments as follows in a letter to the Iconoclast :u W. C. Brann :I tmight be pertinent for you to find out how the festive George, of yacht-racing, Waler-hobnobbing fame, has managed to reap such pronounced benefits from the revival in business. It is notorious among railroad men that one of the first moves of Superintendent Trice, who succeeded Tim Campbell as manager of the I. G. N.
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