NP but Wall St. c.1913

[Ian Livingston]

"Oh, we've only begun. We're waking up to sense of our responsibilities,
out here, and we ain't afraid, neither. You fellows back there must be a
tame lot. If you had any nerve you'd get together and march down to Wall
Street and blow it up. Dynamite it, I mean," with a threatening nod.

He was so much in earnest that Carl scarcely knew how to answer him. "That
would be a waste of powder. The same business would go on in anther street.
The street doesn't matter. But what have you fellows out here got to kick
about? You have the only safe place there is. Morgan himself couldn't touch
you. One only has to drive through this country to see that you're all as
rich as barons." -- Willa Cather. Oh, Pioneers.

-- 
"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all creeds
the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in
reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness
groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest
urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant
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