endeavored to show that the so-called leaders of finance of the United States are in league to rob and defraud the investing public.
Taking all your statements and analyzing them, what do they amount to? That certain men, amongst whom you yourself was one of the leaders, have bought out certain corporations which were capitalized at a price which you state was far above their cost.
Not one single new fact has been brought to the attention of the public. If men, by their brains, their capital, and their energy, acquire properties that have not been appreciated by the public, put them forth under whatsoever name, so that the statements made in connection with those properties are true, and capable of verification, what is it but a business proposition that cannot be criticised?
What is the "System" which you denounce as the very personification of evil? Is it not the "System" of which you have been the leading advocate, votary, and