aracters
of the age, John Edward O'Sullivan Addicks, of Delaware, Everywhere, and
Nowhere.

The main part of my narrative must of necessity deal with the two real
heads of Standard Oil and Amalgamated, Mr. Henry H. Rogers and Mr.
William Rockefeller; and with the biggest financial institution of
America, if not of the world, the National City Bank of New York, and
its head and dominating spirit, Mr. James Stillman.

An important chapter should be that devoted to the conception and
formation of the United Metals Selling Company, which was specially
organized to control the copper industry of the world without coming
within the restrictions of the laws for the prevention or regulation of
monopolies.

I shall also deal at length with a notorious character, who, like the
spot upon the sun, looms up in all American copper affairs whenever they
appear in the full vision of the public eye--Mr. F. Augustus Heinze, of
Montana.

There will be a chapter of more or less length devoted to one of the
most important episodes in Amalgamated affairs, wherein I shall describe
one of Wall Street's most picturesque, able, and intensely interesting
men, Mr. James R. Keene.

I shall touch on a bit of the nation's history in which within a few
days of the national election of 1896 a hurry-up call for additional
funds to the extent of $5,000,000 was so promptly met as to overturn the
people in five States and thereby preserve the destinies of the
Republican party, of which I am and have always been a member.

I shall draw a picture of two dress-suit cases of money being slipped
across the table at the foot of a judge's bench in the court-room, from
its custodian to its new owners, upon the rendering of a court decision;
and I shall show how the new owners frustrated a plot having for its
object their waylaying and the recovery of the bags of money.

I shall devote some space to pointing out the evils and dangers of the
latter-day methods of corrupting law-makers, and show how one entire
Massachusetts Legislature, with the exception of a few members, was
dealt with as openly as the fishmongers procure their stock-in-trade
upon the wharves; how upon the last day of the Legislature, because
their deferred cash payments were not promptly forthcoming, its members
turned, and made necessary the hurried departure for foreign shores of a
great lawyer and his secretary, with bags of quickly gathered gold, and
all evidences of the crimes commit