And while our public gasped in disgust at the sickening revelations of the Beef scandal and foreign countries quickly cancelled their contracts for American prepared meats, the millionaire packer, insolent in the possession of wealth stolen from a poisoned public, impudently appeared in public in his fashionable touring car, with head erect and self-satisfied, wholly indifferent to his shame.
These and other evidences of the plutocracy's cruel grip upon the nation had ended by exasperating the people.

There must be a limit somewhere to the turpitudes of a degenerate class of _nouveaux riches_.

The day of reckoning was fast approaching for the grafters and among the first to taste the vengeance of the people would be the Colossus.

But while waiting for the people to rise in their righteous wrath, Ryder was all powerful, and if it were true that he had instituted these impeachment proceedings her father had little chance.

What could be done?
They could not sit and wait, as Stott had said, for the action of the Senate.