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The Octopus

CHAPTER I
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A new world of markets discovered, the matter as important as the discovery of America.

The torrent of wheat was to be diverted, flowing back upon itself in a sudden, colossal eddy, stranding the middleman, the ENTRE-PRENEUR, the elevator-and mixing-house men dry and despairing, their occupation gone.

He saw the farmer suddenly emancipated, the world's food no longer at the mercy of the speculator, thousands upon thousands of men set free of the grip of Trust and ring and monopoly acting for themselves, selling their own wheat, organising into one gigantic trust, themselves, sending their agents to all the entry ports of China.

Himself, Annixter, Broderson and Osterman would pool their issues.

He would convince them of the magnificence of the new movement.


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