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one case was hearing the most distinguished ex- 

 judge of the court itself declare, "That decision 

 was a damned outrage." 



The other case came later and although of 

 great public importance I will merely outline it 

 here that I may sooner get back to pleasanter 

 subjects. 



The small-minded president of a large trust 

 company which was a creditor of mine claimed to 

 have made a personal loss on stock of my com- 

 pany which he had bought, and thereafter he 

 used his influence and the claim of his company 

 to pursue me. This was not prudent for I knew 

 of a breach of trust of his company under his ad- 

 ministration through which friends of mine and 

 others had been robbed of fifteen million dollars 

 and when I found time I got busy on the subject. 

 I interviewed many of the victims and found all 

 of them bitter against the trust company and 

 denunciatory of its management, but most of 

 them were hopeless of recovery against an insti- 

 tution so politically and financially entrenched. 



One large loser said to me, "I have been the 



