| [CHAPTER I.] |
| PAGES. |
| A Preliminary Survey, | 15-18 |
| [CHAPTER II.] |
| The Pacific Railroad Iniquity, | 19-28 |
| [CHAPTER III.] |
| The Monopolists "Help Themselves," | 29-39 |
| [CHAPTER IV.] |
| How Congress Betrayed the People, | 40-48 |
| [CHAPTER V.] |
| Congress Become a Stock Exchange, | 49-55 |
| [CHAPTER VI.] |
| How the Land Grant Railroads "Develope" a Country, | 56-62 |
| [CHAPTER VII.] |
| The Credit Mobilier and a Villainous Contract, | 63-80 |
| [CHAPTER VIII.] |
| Has Congress the Power, under the Constitution,to Create or Endow Private Corporations? | 81-91 |
| [CHAPTER IX.] |
| State Rights at the Bar of a Corrupt Congress, | 92-98 |
| [CHAPTER X.] |
| An Unsettled Account—A Guilty Directory, | 99-105 |
| [CHAPTER XI.] |
| Sole Purposes of Taxation, | 106-111 |
| [CHAPTER XII.] |
| The Right of Eminent Domain—Unconstitutionalityof Municipal Aid to Railroads, | 112-122 |
| [CHAPTER XIII.] |
| The Fatal Policy of Mortgaging Cities andCounties for the Construction of Railroads, | 123-129 |
| [CHAPTER XIV.] |
| The Impoverishing Transportation System—TheWarehouse Conspiracy, | 130-137 |
| [CHAPTER XV.] |
| A New and False Principle in Hydraulics—WateredStock—Its Unlawful Profits the Source of Extortionate Tariffs—The FastDispatch Swindle, | 138-146 |
| [CHAPTER XVI.] |
| A Privileged Class—The Monopolists Relievedof the Burdens of Taxation—An OutrageUpon Republican Government, | 147-151 |
| [CHAPTER XVII.] |
| The Strong Grasp of Consolidated Capital uponAmerican Legislation—Beecher on "Reformation or Revolution"—History of RailwayLegislation in Iowa, | 152-168 |
| [CHAPTER XVIII.] |
| The "Trail of the Serpent" in the InteriorDepartment, | 169-179 |
| [CHAPTER XIX.] |
| The Monopolists at the Door of the Whitehouse, | 180-185 |
| [CHAPTER XX.] |
| The United States Treasury the Vassal of WallStreet—Stock "Operations" Explained, | 186-197 |
| [CHAPTER XXI.] |
| How Wall Street Builds Railroads—A Hot-Bedof Corruption, | 198-201 |
| [CHAPTER XXII.] |
| The Supreme Bench Invaded—Its Decisions Reviewed, | 202-222 |
| [CHAPTER XXIII.] |
| Bank Monopolists—Their Control of the Currency—ABankrupt Financial Policy, | 223-230 |
| [CHAPTER XXIV.] |
| Our Tariff Policy—Does "Protection" Protect? | 231-239 |
| [CHAPTER XXV.] |
| Patent Rights, and Their Abuses, | 240-246 |
| [CONCLUSION.] |
| Reformation or Revolution—A Radical ChangeDemanded in the Administration of PublicAffairs—Conclusions of the Author, | 247-326 |