They attack you because they know your honesty and fearlessness, and dread them.

The enormous sums of money these men have at their control enable them to carry on an effective campaign.

They find their tools in a portion of the public press, including especially certain of the great New York newspapers.

They find their agents in some men in public life,--now and then occupying, or having occupied, positions as high as Senator or Governor,--in some men in the pulpit, and most melancholy of all, in a few men on the bench.

By gifts to colleges and universities they are occasionally able to subsidize in their own interest some head of an educational body, who, save only a judge, should of all men be most careful to keep his skirts clear from the taint of such corruption.