ernment, and natural law, and
the relation each holds to the other, or is your knowledge
confined to the skimming and smattering such as any alert
and bright stock speculator would naturally pick up in years
of experience as a broker and manipulator?

2. Do you not know that in all times there have been, and
must naturally be, very rich men, and that necessarily there
can be but very few of these, and that where they are there
must be very many times as many poorer ones, very poor ones?

3. Do you not know that there must be billions of dollars'
worth of stocks and bonds in America, and that they must not
only increase but increase very rapidly, and that their
existence instead of being evidence of great evil is proof
positive of the great prosperity of the whole country and
the whole people, and that it is the sacred duty of all the
people down to the very poorest, who own none of these, to
guard, protect, and maintain their price, and not the duty
of any honest man to destroy or shrink the value of this
evidence of real wealth?

4. Do you not know that a large portion of all these stocks
and bonds is owned by the masses of the people; that if they
should be frightened into selling them there would be no
place to put the vast sums they would receive for them, as
the banks could not profitably use this cash if it were
added to what is deposited now, and that the only sufferers
by this frightened and forced selling would be the people
whom you profess to be working for?

5. Do you not know that if the people should start on a
given day to withdraw their money from the banks and trust
companies throughout this country, there would be the worst
calamity in this country that the world has ever witnessed;
that all lines of business would be disorganized; that the
country would be set back a very long time, and that the
principal sufferers would be the working people and the
farmers, and, in fact, all those classes you profess to be
working for; and do you not know that in the middle of this
calamity you would probably be lynched and perhaps torn limb
from limb by the crazed and deluded people, who would then
see the danger of your teachings?

6. Do you not know that the result of the people's selling
their stocks and bon