Ashley Jane
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292 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
Ashley Jane’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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What shall such an one say when God, in the great day of account, hold up before him the circular and the map and the newspaper advertisement?
Speechless.
Before that day shall come I warn you, disgorge, you infamous stock gamblers.
Gather together so many of your company as have any honesty left and join in the following circular.
We the undersigned do hereby repent of our villainies and beg pardon of the public for all the wrongs that we have done them, and hereby ask the widows and orphans whom we have made penniless to come next Saturday between ten and three o'clock and receive back what we stole from them.
We hereby confess that the wells spoken of in our circular never yielded any oil, and that the creeks running through our ornamented map were an entire fiction, and that the elder who piously rolled up his eyes and said it was a safe investment was not as devout as he looked to be.
Signed by the subscribers at their office in the year of our Lord eighteen seventy one was
Then your conscience will be clear, and you can die in peace.
But I have no faith in such a reformation.
When the devil gets such a fair hold of a man he hardly ever lets go.
To the young I turn and utter a word of warning.
While you were determined to be acute businessmen, resolve at the very threshold that you will have nothing to do with stock gambling.
This country can richly afford to lose the eight hundred millions of dollars swindled out of honest people.
If our young men buy it will be worn for all the future.
Think you such enterprises are forever passed away?
No, they begin already to clamour for public attention and patronage.
There are now hundreds of printing presses busy in making pamphlets and circulars for schemes as hollow and nefarious as those I have mentioned.
There are silver mining companies founded upon nobody knows what to accomplish what nobody cares.
There will be other Canada Gold Companies, there will be other copper mining companies, there will be more mutual consumers coal companies, who, not satisfied with the price of ordinary coal dealers, will resolve themselves into consumers associations where the thing consumed is not the coal but themselves.
The companies that were to be immaculate, setting the whole community to playing the game of whose coal
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