Frenzied Finance, Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated

NEW YORK THE RIDGWAY-THAYER COMPANY 1905
Copyright, 1905, by THE RIDGWAY-THAYER COMPANY
These articles are reprinted from Everybody's Magazine Copyright, 1904, by the Ridgway-Thayer Company Copyright, 1905, by the Ridgway-Thayer Company
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To Penitence: that those whose deviltry is exposed within its pages may see in a true light the wrongs they have wrought—and repent.
To Punishment: that the unpenalized crimes of which it is the chronicle may appear in such hideousness to the world as forever to disgrace their perpetrators.
To Penitence: that the transgressors, learning the error of their ways, may reform.
To Punishment: that the sins of the century crying to heaven for vengeance may on earth be visited with condemnation stern enough to halt greed at the kill.
To Punishment: that public indignation may be so aroused against the practices of high finance that it shall come to be as culpable to graft and cozen within the law as it is lawless to-day to counterfeit and steal.
To Penitence: that in the minds of all who read this eventful history there may grow up a knowledge and a conviction that the gaining of vast wealth is not worth the sacrifice of manhood, and that poverty and abstinence with honor are better worth having than millions and luxury at the cost of candor and rectitude.