Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... tension and gave them at par, although the rest of its stock was at a big premium, to its shareholders. Said he: "The old cow has calved but she won't calve again." It was good, and stood for quite ten years as true, but finally died from going "bully "; but it was past the Baring (syndicate) epoch. "Everything comes," etc. By the way, one reason, I heard from England, for not publishing one of my letters about the Argentine Railway was because it would have " beared the Baring syndicate." I thought till then that financial papers were independent concerns; I've thought differently since. I said in it that I did not think that the Central shares would pass 70 per cent. for years, and so it came to pass. But it is a mistake to be a " bear "--except in private life, where a hug is sometimes within the limit of practical politics and not bad form. He that does not believe that things will "boom," or write so for others, is not a desirable correspondent; and when things turn out as he has forecast (when a " bear" profits), he will be cursed for being a prophet of evil--in fact, till quite lately, he would have been considered to possess the evil eye. This stigma still holds to the extent of people not asking his opinion except as to the prospective life of a deceased wife's mother. Towards the year 1894 came more political troubles--Provincial this time. Since 1892 we had had for President Dr. Saenz Pena, a judge (the decano) of the Supreme Court and a most worthy man, but not quite of the stamp required to manage a South American Republic. It is hardly untrue to say that the "bold bad man " is possessed of a character more in accordance with his surroundings. If one could find a bold, good, and crafty one, he would be the deus ex viachina....