cost.

Not one single new fact has been brought to the attention of
the public. If men, by their brains, their capital, and
their energy, acquire properties that have not been
appreciated by the public, put them forth under whatsoever
name, so that the statements made in connection with those
properties are true, and capable of verification, what is it
but a business proposition that cannot be criticised?

What is the "System" which you denounce as the very
personification of evil? Is it not the "System" of which you
have been the leading advocate, votary, and exponent for
many years? Is not the "System," when analyzed and reduced
to its root, a stock-brokerage of which you are and have
been for many years one of the shining lights; not the
system of honest, legitimate brokerage, but the system of
endeavoring by false statements and by exciting the fears of
the multitude to depress and destroy values in order that
its votaries may reap their ill-gotten gains?

Is there one thing in connection with all that you have
written in your articles on "Frenzied Finance" in which you
have not been from start to finish one of the prime movers?
Who is the man that, from the inception of the enterprise
which you most severely criticise, has been most prominently
before the public? Who is the man that, from your own words,
originated the idea and carried it to its completion? Is it
not Thomas W. Lawson? Who is the man that, in the various
schemes which you hold up to the condemnation of the public,
has taken from start to finish the leading part? Is it not
Thomas W. Lawson?

Is there one honest man in the United States who to-night
believes that, in spending the thousands and thousands of
dollars that you have spent in advocating your views and in
posing as the friend of the people, that you have not acted
for your own selfish ends? Do you believe that there is one
man in all this wide world to-day who honestly believes one
single statement that you have made, or who believes that
you have ever turned your hand to, or aided in the slightest
degree in, any honest enterprise? You criticise the copper
corporations who have placed their stock before the public
as a legitimate investment. Can you point to one single
instance in which