ere based on falsehood and misrepresentation from start to
finish? How, by the use of names that are well known in the
financial and business world, you endeavored to rob and
convert to your own use what you thought was one of the
greatest properties in the world? What has been the result
of your advertisements of the last few days? Has it not been
to destroy confidence, to create a panic among people who
had invested their earnings in what they have considered as
legitimate propositions? Have you ever paused and thought
for one moment about what the results of your selfish and
distorted statements might be?

In your articles you have spoken of the loss that has been
entailed upon widows and orphans, of disgrace and suicide
and other ills that have come through what you are pleased
to call the workings of the "System," the "System" of which
you have been and are to-day the exponent, the system of
misrepresentation and of spreading false statements; in
other words, of stealing Heaven's livery to serve the devil
in. Millions of dollars of legitimate investments have been
lost to the people who have made them. Why? Because you, in
your selfish egotism, have looked to nothing but your
personal gain, thinking nothing, caring less for the woe
that you might work to thousands, pandering to the worst
prejudices, and by means of such words as "Standard Oil,"
"Amalgamated," "Frenzied Finance," etc., and making
statements which investors have not the means or the time to
dispute, you have endeavored to destroy values that have
been created by the works of a lifetime.

To-morrow, in Boston, I shall call upon you. I for many
years have stood as a worker, as a man who has built up and
who has created, and I know that the savings of a lifetime
of many honest investors have been swept away by the
falsehoods that you have spread abroad through the public
press.

To-morrow, at your office, I shall denounce you for what you
are. The Master long ago said: "By your works ye shall be
judged."

Personally I shall call upon you for your answer to-morrow.

W. C. GREENE.

This is the rejoinder of the "System." No denial of my facts. No defence
against my charges, but a volley of mud and a threat of assassination. I
had dared tell the people how they