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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He buys up the stock, monopolizes the whole affair, drags down the man who sold short, makes largely, pockets the gain, and thanks the Lord for great prosperity in business.
You call it cornering.
I call it gambling, theft, highway robbery, filany accursed.
It is astonishing how some men who are kind in their families, useful in the church, charitable to the poor, are utterly transformed of the devil as soon as they enter the stock exchange.
A respectable member of one of the churches of the city went into a broker's office and said Give me one hundred shares of reading and carry it.
I will leave a margin of five hundred dollars.
Instead of going up according to anticipation, the stock fell.
Every few days the operator called to ask the broker what success.
The stock still declined.
The operator was so terribly excited that the broker asked him what was the matter.
He replied To tell you the truth I borrowed that five hundred dollars that I lost, and in anticipation of what I was sure I was going to get by the operation, I made a very large subscription to the Missionary Society.
The nation has become so accustomed to frauds that no astonishment is excited thereby.
The public conscience has for many years been utterly debauked, and
By what were called fancy stocks, Morris Moticollis, Western City Enterprises, and New England developments.
If a man find on his farm something as large as the head of a pin, that, in a strong sunlight, sparkles a little, a gold company is formed, books are opened, working capital declared, a select number go in on the ground floor, and the estates of widows and orphans are swept into the vortex.
Very little discredit is connected with any such transaction.
If it is only on a large scale.
We cannot bear small and insignificant dishonesties, but take off our hats and bow almost to the ground in the presence of the man who has made one hundred thousand dollars by one swindle.
A woman was arrested in the streets of one of our cities for selling molasses candy on Sunday.
She was tried, condemned, and imprisoned.
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