For three days Wall Street and the "System" were panic-stricken—paper values melted to the extent of hundreds of millions.
The laws of the land are strict about panic-breeding by public statements.
If any of the terrible statements I have made had been false, I should to-day be in prison or my body suspended from a lamp-post. I could not possibly have escaped.
What I have stated is truth. No one dares gainsay it.
Wall Street and the "System" for the first time were compelled to come to the rescue and put in jeopardy their own money by buying stocks from the people at inflated prices.
For the first time a break came while the manufacturers of stock still held them.
The people sold them.
To-day every scheme known to frenzied financiering is being worked to make the world believe last week's panic was the result of stock speculators, bears, "Standard Oil," and the "System."
Throughout this country and Europe is being spread the story that I was in league with "Standard Oil" and the "System," that they had sold out their stocks and got me to raid the market to shake out the public.
That another great rise is coming.