Better days; or, A Millionaire of To-morrowFitch, Thomas
Philosophy
Better days; or, A Millionaire of To-morrow
Fitch, Thomas
Utopias -- Fiction; West (U.S.) -- Fiction
Holders of stock and bonds in the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe,
Denver and Gulf, Kansas City and Chicago, Lakeshore and Michigan
Southern, New York and Erie, and New York and New England Railroads,
who desire to dispose of their holdings, will find a purchaser in me
at the rates prevailing at the close of the Stock Exchange yesterday.
I already own a majority of the capital stock of the roads named, and
intend to consolidate them in one company without any bonded
indebtedness, with the intention of providing the public with a
double-track road between Portland, Maine, and San Francisco,
California, _via_ Boston, New York, Buffalo, Detroit, Chicago, Kansas
City, and Denver, with a branch to Galveston. This consolidated road
will not be run with a view to profit beyond four or five per cent per
annum above operating expenses. In making this experiment I deem it
only right to relieve the present holders of stock and bonds from
loss, and this offer of purchase will remain open for one month.
DAVID MORNING,
_39 Broadway, N. Y. City_.
_2 sq. 1 m., November 19._
We copy from our advertising column the foregoing, which presages the
most important event of the century. Whatever may be thought of the
wisdom of Mr. Morning’s plans in any direction, there can now be no
question as to his ability to carry them forward. The brilliant
strategetical movement by which he bagged two hundred millions of
piratical money from Gray, Claybank, and Wolf, and, while defeating
them, restored values and prosperity, is still fresh in the public mind,
and his subsequent course in searching out all other persons who lost by
the panic, and reimbursing them the amount of their losses, will not
soon be forgotten.
The brave and sagacious action of the Secretary of the Treasury in going
outside of the channels marked by red tape in order to promote Mr.
Morning’s plans, is generally commended by the public, and meets with no
criticism except from the baffled syndicate of scoundrels.
Whatever action, if any, Congress may take next month when it assembles
with regard to the demonetization of gold, and whatever may be the
course pursued by the German Reichstag, the French Chamber of Deputies,
and the British Parliament, all of which are now wrestling with the
great economic problem which the vast gold yield of the Morning mine
presents, yet one thing is certain, David Morning has quietly and
shrewdly placed two thousand five hundred millions of gold in the mints
and treasuries of Europe and America, and obtained therefor money, the
legal tender quality and value of which, no future legislation can
impair.
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