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OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY

AND HOW THE BANKERS USE IT




  OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY

  AND HOW THE BANKERS USE IT


  BY
  LOUIS D. BRANDEIS

  [Illustration]

  NEW YORK
  FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
  PUBLISHERS




  _Copyright, 1913, 1914, by_
  THE MCCLURE PUBLICATIONS

  _Copyright, 1914, by_
  FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY

  _All rights reserved_

FASCo _March, 1914_




PREFACE


While Louis D. Brandeis’s series of articles on the money trust was
running in Harper’s Weekly many inquiries came about publication in
more accessible permanent form. Even without such urgence through the
mail, however, it would have been clear that these articles inevitably
constituted a book, since they embodied an analysis and a narrative
by that mind which, on the great industrial movements of our era, is
the most expert in the United States. The inquiries meant that the
attentive public recognized that here was a contribution to history.
Here was the clearest and most profound treatment ever published on
that part of our business development which, as President Wilson and
other wise men have said, has come to constitute the greatest of our
problems. The story of our time is the story of industry. No scholar
of the future will