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do not know that if there Capitalists, inebad of with having, had kept on recklessly invecting their funds, the trouble would not have stopped where it has Fortunately the banks ceased investing in time, otherwise they would not have had any money left. Other persons are of ofinion that the evil is due to both the broker
and wealthy
wealthy househo
householders, and this is probably the
are now so
reador.
or why the brokers despised and the wealthy
householders do not enlist thes
I the segmpathies
of any one
one. The brokers who used crafty and specious devices to entice people, have only lost what they
:they made, and
on their
the householders, who relying : wealth, took the initiative, have only - suffered from what they brought " themselves. They had not enjoyed to
when ruin, came, and when sein.
smeets long
thi
may var
warning
The
others not to be the originators of what
is evil : But the real origin of the civil lay not here. If traced to its sources one will not be able to refrain from sighing and bitterly complaining of him in whose hands the control of the whole. Colony rested, for not only had he the power to prevent the evil, but it was only right and reasonable that he should lam suppressed it. Instead of doing so, he declared that the rise in the price of
property in the Colony would cause people to come from Canton, who would invest in property in the Colony, live here, and that the stamp would be increased: Were these words
and
revenue
spoken from the heart? In former days speculations in quicksilver and opium brought no profit, but loss only, (and so ) when the speculation in house property first
commenced,
there was a
a great outcry against it, in hopes that the Governor apon
hearing
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