3500. According to Mr. Prune, all the troubles of the world
could be traced to a group of men he described as leeches, who went around
buying up all the raw materials of the world, waiting a few days, and then
selling them again.
3501. Sometimes when these men purchased gold or silver, or
paper scrap they made money, and sometimes they lost money, but all the time
they were looking to drive the price of their holdings up. They did this mostly
by trying to spread rumors, and create fear and panics. If they could get prices
to go up, they would unload their holdings and re-invest in something else.
3502. What angered the Prune, and Bluto was the fact that
these investors never had any use for the gold or silver they bought or sold,
never even looked at the tons of paper scrap they owned for a number of days.
Their only involvement was to make money on the transaction, and this struck
the two men as an unforgivable kind of sin.
3503. I ventured to make a comment in the middle of their
discussion, I said, “It seems to me that both of you are engaged in buying and
sells copper to make some money, and neither of you are plumbers, and neither
of you has any use for broken refrigerators or the aluminum siding from old
houses. So aren’t you just like the leeches.”
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