at your
Mr. Lamson and his agents have opened up on my company, and
with their usual criminal methods are endeavoring to ruin
us. This circular is to inform you that I have this day
given notice to each of your officers and directors that, in
three days from to-day, if they have not stopped their dirty
work and taken their hands off my company, they will take
the consequences. I do not pretend to be able to meet them
on the fighting grounds of the courts, for I know too well
their power of corruption and jury-buying, but I assure you
I have other ways by which I can stop them, etc., etc.

If Donohoe had desired to deal with facts, he could not have missed the
details of this story, of which the papers at the time were full. It was
a fight which would have warmed the heart-cockles of an embalmed warrior
of the catacombs. Lamson stock was selling at 62, the highest price it
ever attained, not 122, as this numskull states. When I began operations
I slaughtered it and the reputation of Lamson and his associates; and in
the midst of the fight, when the shares were down to 18, or perhaps 14,
a great public meeting of stockholders--there were a whole lot of
them--was called in the city of Lowell, and, amid fiery speeches, Lamson
was told to choose between refuting my charges of fraud and being
deposed from the presidency of the institution. Lamson attempted
explanations, but the hard-headed stockholders did what the Amalgamated
stockholders will some time do, passed resolutions that Lamson must
punish me for libel or that they would punish him. The gathering then
adjourned to a future date, at which Lamson was to report what action he
had taken to punish me for my crimes. The next step was interesting, and
bears on an accusation I have seen mentioned frequently of late. I had,
when I began my fight, laid before Mr. Joseph Pulitzer, of the New York
_World_, the dastardly crimes of which the company had been guilty, and
was even then engaged in committing, and he had said: "Damnable! I will
aid you in exposing them." And he did. Day after day there were
broadsides in the _World_ relentlessly denouncing the rascalities of the
Lamson outfit. These finally stirred them to action. One day I received
word that some trickery was being put up in the district attorney's
office in New York. A few days later there appeared at my office in
Boston a police officer from New York and three of