The Stock Operator Address
Fours scores and eighty days ago I brought forth on SI a new thread, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are greedy.
Now we are engaged in a great thread war, testing whether this thread or any thread so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their last 50Gs that this thread might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But in a larger sense, we cannot insulate, we cannot desecrate, we cannot wallow on this site. The brave men, winners and losers who struggled here have desecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we make here, but it can never forget what they lost here. It is for us the surviving rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who invested here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored busted we take increased avarice to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of money--that we here highly resolve that these broke shall not have gambled in vain, that this thread under Ahhaha shall have a new birth of greed, and that hoarding of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the Internet." |
