The half-dozen great railway chiefs co-operated in the organizing of
a national system of railways that was amazingly efficacious. Never
again was there such a thing as a car shortage. These chiefs were
not the Wall Street railway magnates, but they were the men who
formerly had done the real work while in the employ of the Wall
Street magnates.
Wall Street was dead. There was no more buying and selling and
speculating. Nobody had anything to buy or sell. There was nothing
in which to speculate. "Put the stock gamblers to work," said
Goliah; "give those that are young, and that so desire, a chance to
learn useful trades." "Put the drummers, and salesmen, and
advertising agents, and real estate agents to work," said Goliah; and
by hundreds of thousands the erstwhile useless middlemen and
parasites went into useful occupations. The four hundred thousand
idle gentlemen of the country who had lived upon incomes were
likewise put to work. Then there were a lot of helpless men in high
places who were cleared out, the remarkable thing about this being
that they were cleared out by their own fellows.
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