CHAPTER II.

WALL STREET AS A CIVILIZER. CLERICAL OBLIQUITY OF JUDGMENT ABOUT WALL STREET AFFAIRS.—THE SLANDEROUS ELOQUENCE OF TALMAGE.—WALL STREET A GREAT DISTRIBUTOR, AS EXHIBITED IN THE CLEARING HOUSE TRANSACTIONS.—POPULAR DELUSIONS IN REGARD TO SPECULATION.—WHAT OUR REVOLUTIONARY SIRES ADVISED ABOUT IMPROVING THE INDUSTRIAL ARTS, SHOWING THE STRIKING CONTRAST BETWEEN THEIR VIEWS AND THE WAY LORD SALISBURY WANTED TO FIX THINGS FOR THIS COUNTRY. The dense ignorance displayed by men outside of Wall Stre…