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"I asked you not to quarrel," Conward returned, with remarkable composure. "I suggested that we get at the facts. That seems to be a business suggestion. I think we are agreed that the boom is over. Values are on the down grade. The boomsters are departing. They are moving on to new fields, as we should have done a year or two ago, but I confess I had a sort of sentiment for this place.
Of course, there are speculators and real-estate boomsters who gamble with our earnings, but their job is not as easy as it looks. They run big risks and bear some strain. Still, if it was left to me, I'd make them plow." Helen laughed. "You're rather drastic, Stephen; but if one takes the long view, I dare say you are right." "Then let's take the narrowest view we can.
Between seven and eight hundred people had gone up to those regions via Edmonton, bound for the Yukon, many of whom, after a tale of suffering which might have filled its boomsters' souls with remorse, had found solitary graves, and the remainder were slowly toiling out of the country, having sunk what means they possessed in the vain pursuit of gold.
A'm none of y'r immigration boomsters who goes in a Pullman car, then tells the world all about Now, which way to y'r Missionary Williams?" Bat flushed; but he did not laugh. Oddly enough, he forgot the feature-story. Wayland rose and came forward and involuntarily held out his hand. "I wish you'd stay for the night," he said.
But" with an inspiration "why don't he go to one of these big-bug boomsters he knows that he got letters of introduction to and get him to fix him up?" "Oh, Lord!" exclaimed Steelman, hopelessly. "Listen to him! Can't you see that they're the last men he wants to let into his game? Why, he wants to use THEM! They're the mugs as far as he is concerned!"
This is a white man's climate. Follow our latitude into Europe if you want to find the seats of power and success. London and Berlin are north of us; Paris very little south." "Where did you get this stuff?" Dave interjected. "Sounds like the prelude of an address before a boomsters' club." "I've been thinking, while you've been too busy to think," Conward retorted. "Then there's transportation.
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