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During the Kansas boom of 1886 the land-boomers had their desks in the lobbies of banks, the windows of hardware stores any place and every place offering room for a desk and chair. Now also flourished apace the industry of mortgage loans. Eastern money began to flood the western Plains, attracted by the high rates of interest.
"Patriotism!" he exclaimed scornfully. "My country! The darned fools; the country never belonged to them, but to the speculators, the absentees, land-boomers, swindlers, gangs of thieves the men the patriotic fools starve and fight for their masters. Ba-a!" The opposition collapsed.
The Revolution nearly made way with the property and the Duc de Massena, a few years afterwards, reëstablished it after a fashion, but speculating land-boomers came along in turn and royal memories meaning nothing to them the property was cut up into streets, avenues and house lots. The Chateau de Malmaison, which is very near Rueil, is in quite a different class.
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