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permit a foreign company to establish itself in America. But this question has been promptly settled. The legal consent of the American authorities has been obtained. It is entire and inevocable." 1882 And therefore simple minded people rush forward, subscribe their money, and there is nobody, no government, no official personage, allowed to say that it is not true ! Now, then, when the*final crash comes, as sooner or later it must, the ruined stock- holders will, as I have said before, turn to their government for relief, for it is the habit of the country, in like cases, to do so. But is it not evident to every fair-minded man that no government, no official body, can indorse in any shape or manner whatever an enter- prise organized on such a basis of dishonesty as this? Would it not be unfair to allow it to go on with exposure, and by a continua- tion of its trickery manage to borrow from its government a cloak of respectability, to which it is in no way entitled, and thus, moreover, to cause the blame to fall where it does not belong ?

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