spended
from a lamp-post. I could not possibly have escaped.

What I have stated is truth. No one dares gainsay it.

Wall Street and the "System" for the first time were
compelled to come to the rescue and put in jeopardy their
own money by buying stocks from the people at inflated
prices.

For the first time a break came while the manufacturers of
stock still held them.

The people sold them.

To-day every scheme known to frenzied financiering is being
worked to make the world believe last week's panic was the
result of stock speculators, bears, "Standard Oil," and the
"System."

Throughout this country and Europe is being spread the story
that I was in league with "Standard Oil" and the "System,"
that they had sold out their stocks and got me to raid the
market to shake out the public.

That another great rise is coming.

* * * * *

This is clever, smart, the only thing possible under the
circumstances.

But it is a lie.

I ask the people to watch the desperate efforts that are
being made to get this lie to pass for a truth.

The "System" must unload on the public, but above all else
the "System" must convince the people that the awful
destruction of last week could not have been brought about
merely by the people's own doings.

If the people are not so convinced they will know their
power, and that they have in their own hands, to use at any
time, a weapon which can stand the "System" on its head.

There is no reason why the people cannot reverse the old
process and always sell at the top to the frenzied
financiers and buy from them at the bottom.

* * * * *

This is my warning:

I ask the people and Wall Street and the "System" to give it
weight or their loss will be on their own heads.

I am going to strike again, suddenly, sharply,
sensationally, and in a way that will produce effects upon
prices and upon markets, so much more destructive, that the
effects and the destruction of last week will appear by
comparison as milk to vitriol.

Every owner of an active stock in which the "System" has any
interest owes it to himself to weigh my warning.

The result must be terrible for Wall Street and the