CASE OF GEORGE 

 FISHER* 



THIS is history. It is not a 

 wild extravaganza, like "John 

 Williamson Mackenzie's Great 

 Beef Contract," but is a plain state- 

 ment of facts and circumstances with 

 which the Congress of the United 

 States has interested itself from time 

 to time during the long period of half 

 a century. 



I will not call this matter of George 

 Fisher's a great deathless and unre- 

 lenting swindle upon the Government 

 and people of the United States — for 



* Some years ago, when this was first published, few people believed it, but considered it a mere 

 extravaganza. In these latter days it seems hard to realize that there was ever a time when the 



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