h the enterprise. It was a straight and proper venture.
The men who are my brokers of to-day fathered it, and they are men of
honor, probity, and responsibility, who since my first year in business
in 1870 have been my close business associates and personal friends. Why
do not Donohoe and his breed of gutter-rooters, when seeking information
about me, ask such men as these for facts about my life?--they know what
every hour of it has been. Strange as it may seem to such vampires, the
men I began to do business with when I was a boy I am doing business
with to-day, and they are my associates and friends.

I postponed until the last moment writing this article in order that I
might be able to diagnose the "System's" attack on me. The first of the
widely advertised series was such a foolish and asinine thing as to be
unworthy of notice, and I desired to see how much further the second
would go. In the former it was charged that I was writing my articles
solely for the purpose of securing stock-market profits and compelling
the "System" to settle; in other words, that I was attempting to
blackmail them; that I had no honorable motives in writing my story, and
had no remedy of any kind in mind; that in the recent panic I had made a
million and a quarter of dollars; that I had secured President
Roosevelt's message eight days before it was published; that I had
advertised on November 29th, unqualifiedly advising all to purchase
Amalgamated, and that on December 6th I had advertised advising all to
sell. It is true that I did advise the public to sell, but that in my
advertisement of November 29th I advised the people to buy Amalgamated
I positively deny. I carefully avoided doing so. The other statements
are equally false, and were made with a full knowledge of their falsity.

The incidents in my career about which I have here set forth the facts
are not secret. All the things I have stated are fully susceptible of
proof. For another instant let me take the assertion that my motive in
this crusade is personal gain through stock-jobbery, and that I have no
aim or end in view other than that. Well, I can to-day show the Remedy
to which I have alluded so often, and which when I worked it out in 1893
I had printed with full detail. It is in my vault now under lock and
key. In the year 1894, in London, I laid a copy of this document before
Joseph Pulitzer of the New York _World_. Remember, this was a year
before I met H. H. Rogers