Ashley Jane
speaker
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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Because there are men in this department of business sharp, deceitful, and totally iniquitous, you have no right to denounce the entire class.
Importers, shoe dealers, lumbermen do not want to be held responsible for the moral deficits of their comrades in business.
Neither have you a right to excoriate those who are conscientiously operating through the channels spoken of.
If they take a risk, so do all businessmen.
The merchant who buys silk at five dollars per yard takes his chances.
He expects it to go up to six dollars.
It may fall to four dollars.
If a man by straightforward operations in stocks meets with disaster and fails, he deserves sympathy just as much as he who sold spices or calicos, and through some miscalculation is struck down bankrupt.
We have no right to impose restrictions upon this class of men that we impose upon no other.
What right of you to denounce the operation buyer ten days or buyer twenty days when you take a house?
Buyer three hundred and sixty five days.
Perhaps the entire payment is to be made at the end of the year when you do not know but that by that time you will be penniless.
Give all men their due if you would hold beneficent influence over them.
Do not be too rough in pulling out the weeds, lest you uproot also the marigolds and verbanas.
In the board of brokers there are some of the most conscientious, upright Christian men of our cities, men who would scorn a lie or a subterfuge.
Indeed, there are men in these boards who might, in some respects, teach a lesson of morality to other commercial circles.
I will not deny that there are special temptations connected with this business even when carried on legitimately.
So there are dangers to the engineer on a railroad.
He does not know what night he may dash into the coal train.
But engines must be run, and stocks must be sold.
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