the people at inflated prices.
For the first time a break came while the manufacturers of stock still held them.
The people sold them.
To-day every scheme known to frenzied financiering is being worked to make the world believe last week's panic was the result of stock speculators, bears, "Standard Oil," and the "System."
Throughout this country and Europe is being spread the story that I was in league with "Standard Oil" and the "System," that they had sold out their stocks and got me to raid the market to shake out the public.
That another great rise is coming.
This is clever, smart, the only thing possible under the circumstances.
But it is a lie.
I ask the people to watch the desperate efforts that are being made to get this lie to pass for a truth.
The "System" must unload on the public, but above all else the "System" must convince the people that the awful destruction of last week