Have you thought of that?"
"No, I hadn't," said Montague.
"I know very few men in Wall Street who use their own money," the
Major added. "Take the case of Wyman, for instance. Wyman's railroad
keeps a cash surplus of twenty or thirty millions, and Wyman uses
that in Wall Street. And when he has made his profit, he takes it
and salts it away in village improvement bonds all over the country.
Do you see?"
"I see," said Montague. "It's a bad game for the small stockholder."
"It's a bad game for the small man of any sort," said the Major.
"When I was young, I can remember, a man would save a little money
and put it into an enterprise of some sort, and whatever the profits
were, he would get his share of them. But now, you see, the big men
have got control, and they are greedier than they used to be. There
is nothing hurts them so much as to see the little fellow get any
share of the profits, and they've all sorts of schemes for doing him
out of it. I could take a week off and tell you about them. You are
manufacturing soap, we will say.
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