CHAPTER V.

PERSONAL HONOR OF WALL STREET MEN.

Breach of Trust Rare Among Wall Street Men.—The English 33

Clergyman’s Notion of Talmage’s Tirades Against Wall

Street.—Adventurous Thieves Have No Sympathizers

Among Wall Street Operators.—Early Training Necessary

for Success in Speculation.—Ferdinand Ward’s Evil

Genius.—A Great Business can only be Built up on

Honest Principles.—Great Generals Make Poor

Financiers, Through Want of Early Training.—Practical

Business is the Best College