XIII. THE TRAP IN FINANCE 266 XIV. LAWYER UNTERMYER DISCOVERS THE "NIGGER" 274 XV. DEGREES IN CRIME 281 XVI. MR. ROGERS UNMASKS 283 XVII. "EXTRACT EVERY DOLLAR" 289 XVIII. THE BITERS BIT 301 XIX. THE DESPOILING OF LEONARD LEWISOHN 307 XX. THE CHRISTENING OF AMALGAMATED 311 XXI. FIXING THE RESPONSIBILITY 320 XXII. THE RESPONSIBILITY FASTENED 332 XXIII. THE FIRST CRIME OF AMALGAMATED 340 XXIV. THE SUBSCRIPTION OPENS 346 XXV. DOLLAR HYDROPHOBIA 351 XXVI. DEVILTRY AFOOT 359 XXVII. THE BLACK FLAG HOISTED 364 XXVIII. THE BOGUS SUBSCRIPTION 370 XXIX. THE AFTERMATH 376 XXX. THE MORNING AFTER 385 XXXI. I WALK THE PLANK 389 XXXII. PERFECTING THE DOUBLE CROSS 397 XXXIII. A RETROSPECT AND A MORAL 405 LAWSON AND HIS CRITICS I. THE INSURANCE CONTROVERSY 413 II. THE ENEMIES I HAVE MADE 487 III. EXPLANATIONS 539 FRENZIED FINANCE THE STORY OF AMALGAMATED _PART I_ CHAPTER I THE TORTUOUS COURSE OF AMALGAMATED Amalgamated Copper was begotten in 1898, born in 1899, and in the first five years of its existence plundered the public to the extent of over one hundred millions of dollars. It was a creature of that incubator of trust and corporation frauds, the State of New Jersey, and was organized ostensibly to mine, manufacture, buy, sell, and deal in copper, one of the staples, the necessities, of civilization. It is a corporation with $155,000,000 capital, 1,550,000 shares of the par value of $100 each. Its entire stock was sold to the public at an average of $115 per share ($100 to $130), and in 1903 the price had declined to $33 per share. From its inception it was known as a "Standard Oil" creature, because its birthplace was the National City Bank of New York (the "Standard Oil" bank), and its parents the leading "Standard Oil" lights, Henry H. Rogers, William Rockefeller, and James Stillman. It has from its birth to present writing been responsible for more hell than any other trust or financial thing since the world began. Because of it the people have sustained incalculable losses and have suffered untold miseries.