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scheme and the banking syndicate; and the final diapason, which passed entirely in the regions of fancy, left no man in France igno- rant of the sudden and brilliant fortune he could realize by hurrying up to the subscrip- tion office of the Panama loan ! In all this orgie of unmitigated and uncon- trolled perversion of the public mind, not one line, not one word of contradiction came from any source, to act as an antidote to the poison ; SO that would you believe it?- many Americans, even of those living abroad, finished by yelling for the Panama loan ! There was nothing now apparently to do but to open the gates and let the crowds rush in. But to make the thing more sure it was announced on the first day of the loan, in all the papers of Paris, that M. De Lesseps had obtained the consent of the American govern- ment and people to the scheme, that all ob- stacles in the United States had been re- moved, that his figures had been confirmed by engineers everywhere, and on the strength of these deceptive assurances hundreds of

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