to destroy values that have been created by the works of a lifetime.
To-morrow, in Boston, I shall call upon you. I for many years have stood as a worker, as a man who has built up and who has created, and I know that the savings of a lifetime of many honest investors have been swept away by the falsehoods that you have spread abroad through the public press.
To-morrow, at your office, I shall denounce you for what you are. The Master long ago said: "By your works ye shall be judged."
Personally I shall call upon you for your answer to-morrow.
W. C. Greene.
This is the rejoinder of the "System." No denial of my facts. No defence against my charges, but a volley of mud and a threat of assassination. I had dared tell the people how they had been robbed.
All remember the panic of 1901, the famous Northern Pacific corner, in which values shrank hundreds of