in exhibiting to the public gaze the presumably desirable citizens who are engaged in convicting them, and who inferentially are acting with the entire approval of the chief executive of the nation.
The utmost care has been taken to authenticate and verify the docimients used in this work, the author having been for many years in a position to know the inside workings of the notorious institution which he so ably exposes. We may add also for the information of fliose whom it may concern, that the entire stock is not exposed in the store window. The documents used are but a small part of those available.
The passing away of the present system is certain, and one of the surest s)miptoms of its approaching end is the fact that it is increasingly dependent upon fraud and dissimulation for a prolongation of life. These contradictions become ever more glaring as time passes, and to see the industrial position of 3ie great mining magnates of the west compelled to depend for its existence on an institution like the Pinkerton Detective Agency is surely one of the most portentous symptoms of coming economic change.
Whatever tends to uncover the character of the buttresses upon which modern capitalism depends for support, at the same time helps to undermine the present autocratic industrial regime, and prepare the l^ound for an industrial era founded upon economic justice, and which requires neither fraud, conspiracy nor force for its continuance.
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