to my successor double the many thousands of dollars I am paying
each month to get this work of mine properly before the people.

What Donohoe says of my Trinity Copper is not only absolutely false, but
has over and over again been demonstrated to be so. The actual facts
regarding that property have been printed time and again in reputable
Boston newspapers, and casual inquiry will obtain you the full details.
In addition, practically everything which Donohoe, the hired mouthpiece
of "Standard Oil" and the "System," has said is absolutely untrue and
made from whole cloth. When I say this I cover all criticism which has
been made upon me or my work by "Standard Oil" or the "System," for this
character thug has utilized every dirty slander which my enemies ever
invented and put into circulation.

Did I make my fortune honestly, you ask? and I answer: In thirty-six
years of active business life, very active, embracing transactions
through which I have passed from poverty to wealth and back again from
riches to poverty, and in which I might easily have retained the riches
by sacrificing a principle, I have never once in all these years and in
all these transactions done a wrong to man, woman, or child, nor taken
from man, woman, or child a dollar unfairly, much less dishonestly.
Rather a remarkable record, you will say, for one who has made millions
in the stock business. But I should not be broadly honest if I did not
add the modification that these millions of dollars were made in the
open stock-market, by methods which in the open stock-market are called
fair and honest; that is, I have played the game according to the rules,
and the "other fellow" has had equal chance with me and might have done
anything I ever did. If, however, business were conducted as it should
be and as it will be after my "Remedy" has reformed present conditions,
such methods will net those using them only thousands where I have
gained millions.

You add that you are inclined to think I am a "grafter." In reply I can
only say you would not dare--and I don't know your size, color, or
length of trigger-finger--to say it in my presence, though of course, it
is absolutely immaterial what you or your kind think of me or my work.

THE LAWSON PANIC

During the eighteen months in which "Frenzied Finance" has been before
the public, history has been made at a stiff pace. Next to the insurance
revelations which are still in process of deliverance, the