ure of Massachusetts was bought up.
But what will attract national notice is the definiteness of
your accusation. You charge H.M. Whitney, brother of the
late W. C. Whitney, and one of the foremost business men of
your State, with having done the corrupting in order to get
through a complete charter for a gas company. Now, when you
pillory a person of Whitney's standing and prominence, as
you have done, he has got to do one of two things--either
force you to come to the front and compel you to prove the
truth of what you say or stand before the public morally
convicted."

"That's right," agreed Lawson heartily.

"Do you stand ready to prove your charge if he challenges
you to do it?"

"What else can I do? Of course I can prove it. I'm sorry for
Whitney. He is a good fellow on his personal side, like
Rogers, but truth is truth."

"However used we may have become to buying Legislatures,
however commonplace it may be, still, when a financially
responsible man like yourself gives concrete instance, and
is prepared with proofs, the fact is horribly startling to
everybody that cares for his country. What is to be the end
of this sort of thing--the purchase of the people's
representatives by the criminal rich?"

"Well, you can ask me a question even broader than that.
What is going to be the end, not only of such things as I
have stated in regard to the corruption of the Legislature
of Massachusetts--and we all admit that the same thing is
being done in other States--what is going to be the outcome
of this rottenness in connection with the practices in Wall
Street that I am telling about in my magazine narrative in
'Frenzied Finance'? To answer would be to disclose my
remedy--the climax to my whole story. At present I can only
say that I make no charges loosely, on insufficient
evidence. I state only what I know. I have seen the
iniquities worked out. I know that these crimes are being
committed every day; that these great financial schemes are
carried through, not only by the commission of moral crimes,
but legal crimes--crimes for which those participating in
them can be held responsible if they are gone after in the
right way, and I am going to show the right way.

THE REMEDY

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