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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Down went the whole nation, went.
Members of parliament, tradesmen, physicians, clergymen, lawyers, royal ladies, and poor needle women in one stupendous calamity.
The whole earth and all the ages heard that bubble burst.
But I'm not through.
Our young men shall hear more startling things.
We surpass England in having higher mountains, deeper rivers, greater cataracts and larger armies.
Yes, we have surpassed it in magnitude of swindles.
I wish to unfold before the young men of the country and before those in whose hands may now be the price of blood the widespread, ghastly and almost infinitely greater wickedness of the gamblers in oil stock.
Now the obtaining of lands, the transporting of machinery, and the forming of companies for the production of oil is just as honourable as any organization for the obtaining
the obtaining of coal, iron, copper, or zinc.
God poured out before this nation a river of oil, and intended us to gather it up, transport it, and use it.
and there were companies formed that have withstood all commercial changes and continued year after year in the prosecution of an honourable business.
I have just as much respect for the man who has made fifty thousand dollars by oil as I have for him who has made it by spices.
Out of twelve hundred petroleum companies, how many do you suppose was honestly formed and rightfully conducted?
Do you say six hundred?
You make large demands upon one's credulity.
But let us be generous and suppose that six hundred companies bought land, issued honest circulars, sent out machinery, and plunged into the earth for the rightful development of resources.
To form the other six hundred companies only three or four things were necessary first an attractive circular, regardless of expense.
It must have all the colours and hues of earth and sea and heaven.
Let the letters flame with all the beauty of gold and jasper and amethyst.
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