Money L Argent — Emile Zola

The time for prating of the purity of our public life and for thanking the Divinity that in financial as in other matters we are not as other men has gone by When disasters like that of the Liberator group are possible when examples of financial unsoundness are matters of everyday occurrence when the very name of trust company Opens up visions of incapacity deceit and fraud it is quite certain that things are pripe for stringent inquiry and reform Of course the cleansing of the Augean stable of finance 1n this country will prove a Herculean labour but al though callous Governments and legislators may postpone and shirk it the task remains before them ever threatening ever calling for attention and each day s delay in dealing with it only adds to the evil We are overrun with rotten limited liability companies flooded with swindling bucket shops crashes and collapses rain upon us and the promoter and the guinea pig still and ever enjoy impunity It is becoming more and more impossible to burke the issue It stares us in the face Even if the various measures of political and social reform about which we have heard so much of recent years should yield all that their partisans declare they will it is doubtful whether there would be much national improvement For the rottenness of our social system must still remain the same the fabric must still repose upon as unsound a basis as it does now if the brigands of Finance remain free to plunder the community and to pave their way to ephemeral wealth and splendour with the bodies of the thrifty and the credulous img src https s3 eu west 1 amazonaws com dia kitadagitim ckeditor_assets pictures 53 content_1_original_original jpg alt height 15 width 15 font size 1 color white font img