If you publish that document, whatever the ultimate results may be, there will be the worst scare in the American money-market which the world has ever known.

London and Paris were never so ill-prepared to come to the rescue, as a glance at the morning papers will show you.

You will not find a city nor a village in this country, or a street, I almost was going to say a house, in New York, where there will not be a ruined man to curse you and your ill-considered action.
The shrinkage in values in a few hours, of good and honest stocks, will come to twice as much as would pay for the Russo-Japanese war.

I doubt whether this country would ever recover from the shock.

That, Mr.Vine, is precisely what would happen if you adopt the methods of which you have just warned us." Weiss ceased speaking and replaced the cigar in his mouth.