. Cannibals of finance : fifteen years' contest with the money trust . had more effect onme than this print in the Kansas City Journal of Eastermorning, 1899. As I opened the paper I was astonishedto find there had been appointed, without my knowledge,a receiver for the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf Kail-road (now the Kansas City Southern). I was amazedand indignant, but looking over at the right hand cornerof the page, filled only with the receivership article,was this print, and as I saw this calm face, pointingup to the realms above matter and its discords, allindignation and resentment lef
. Cannibals of finance : fifteen years' contest with the money trust . had more effect onme than this print in the Kansas City Journal of Eastermorning, 1899. As I opened the paper I was astonishedto find there had been appointed, without my knowledge,a receiver for the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf Kail-road (now the Kansas City Southern). I was amazedand indignant, but looking over at the right hand cornerof the page, filled only with the receivership article,was this print, and as I saw this calm face, pointingup to the realms above matter and its discords, allindignation and resentment left me. The transformationwas really startling. Often in later years, amidst the stress of this earthlyexistence, I have seen this calm face still pointing up-ward, stiU peaceful, and it has time and time againnerved me on to greater triumphs over self and mate-rial conditions. I understand now as never before howthe crusaders were enabled to endure hardships thatwere not possible except by the inspiration of the symbolof the cross blazoned upon their banners. 74. V5 KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN 77 agreed and started in by depositing in a few daysone million dollars of bonds. The Guardian Trust Company, of which I waspresident, was owed four hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars by the Belt Line. It waspromised that this would be paid, and when theplan was issued, this promise was embodied in theplan. This debt of four hundred and seventy-fivethousand dollars was represented by notes of theBelt Line. As any number of the Guardian stock-holders were owners of the Belt bonds and South-ern bonds, all who understood that the Belt Linenotes were being taken up deposited their bonds,and no plan could have succeeded that did not con-template a settlement of this debt. Mr. deGeoijen, being the largest holder of BeltLine bonds and shares, and also a large holderof the Trust Company stock, was satisfied by thejustice of the plan and deposited his bonds andshares and promised his aid to this ne
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