INVESTIGATION OF DISPUTED PEDIGREES. 431 



The deadly parallel columns tell the whole story. The central 

 and most important fact in Mr. Helton's statement has been de- 

 liberately and carefully cut out by Mr. Brodhead, and the evi- 

 dence that he did so cannot be wiped out either by money or by 

 the torture of invalids. The testimony of cold type remains for- 

 ever. Has Mr. Brodhead, it is asked, professed to have given 

 the whole of Mr. Holton's statement, and suppressed a vital part 

 of it? He has given every word and letter of the statement, 

 from the date line to the signature, except the one sentence that 

 is the life and soul of the whole statement, and that sentence I 

 have printed above in capital letters, so that it may be easily dis- 

 tinguished and compared. For years I have known that Mr. 

 Brodhead possessed most remarkable visual powers. When he 

 wanted to see a thing he could see it through a stone wall and 

 without any assistance from the "X-rays," and when he didn't 

 want to see a thing he couldn't see it even when held up to his 

 very nose under an arc light. The deception practiced here 

 might justly be designated by a harder name, for it was deliber- 

 ately planned and carried out in order to gain an end by suppress- 

 ing the truth. Why did he not free himself from his marvelous 

 powers of vision, and looking out of the natural eyes of his mind ? 

 see the imminent danger of a terrible exposure? In keeping back 

 part of the truth with the pretension that he had given it all, 

 how could he avoid recalling the fate of Annanias and Sapphira 

 for keeping back part of the price with the pretension that they 

 had given it all? 



As an exercise in ethical athletics I will submit the following 

 abstract question to the debating clubs, especially in Kentucky, 

 viz., "Is the man who suppresses the truth in order to sustain a 

 fraudulent pedigree any more worthy of belief than the man who 

 made the pedigree and sold the horse upon it?" 



