Three' life-insurance companies have been and are systematically robbing their policy-holders. They are grafters—mean, contemptible grafters."
I gave specific instances of their thieveries.
You replied, not by haling me to court, but by:
Circulating throughout the world documents by the millions, disparaging my reputation by advertisements and "news" and "editorial" statements from your subsidized insurance press, denying my charges and attacking my character, all at the expense of your policy-holders.
You libelled me in thousands of private letters to policy-holders, many of which came back to me.
You employed James M. Beck, ex-Assistant Attorney-General of the United States, then and now chief attorney for Henry H. Rogers, the Standard Oil Company, the "System," and the Mutual Life Insurance Company, to ridicule my utterances and asperse my honor in addresses in the cities of Philadelphia and Boston.
You employed James H. Eckels, ex-Comptroller of the Currency of the United