ds in concert would be a great drop in
their price, and that the people's raiding the banks and
trust companies of their deposits would also bring about a
tremendous drop in the price of stocks and bonds; that the
only ones who can possibly benefit are the bears who sell
short; that these bears have no legitimate standing in the
business world, and should have none, and that in the
broadest sense of the term they are not honest men?

7. Do you not know that the greatest institution in this
country to-day is life insurance, and that if you disturb
the confidence of the people in life insurance their
families will be deprived of the greatest source of income
at a time when most in need of it?

8. Do you not know that there can be no new remedy for the
present condition of affairs, even if it is really as bad as
you picture it, and that the only remedy or cure possible is
a more honest enforcement of our present laws, a more honest
conduct of our present enormous business, and a more
intelligent recognition by the working people and farmers of
the inevitable natural laws? Also that there can be nothing
more pernicious than this constant teaching them that their
interests are opposed to the interests of the very rich
class?

9. Did you not write your story to advertise yourself for
the purpose of making money out of the following your
disclosures would bring you and for the purpose of making
money for _Everybody's Magazine_?

10. Do you not own the largest part of _Everybody's
Magazine_, and has not your part of the profits received
from that source since you began your story been very large?

11. Do you not sell stocks short before each of your
advertisements, and are not the press stories and the one
now current in Wall Street that you made over a million
dollars in the decline which preceded the appearance of the
June _Everybody's_, true?

12. Are you going to commit the crime of calling out bank
and trust company deposits?

13. If you make such a call, and it is answered, and there
is a destructive panic and a number of the big New York
banks and trust companies fail, what will you do?

14. If the masses should sell their stocks and bonds and get
their money, what would then happen?

15. Do you dare