This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...Aftermath. This article sums up our "Great American Fraud" series, and considers the libel suits and protests which have resulted from it. There have been but two bona fide suits and one case--the Oppenheimer Institute--where it seems necessary to right an injustice. From Collier's Weekly for January 5, 1907. It is now about a year and eight months since Collier's announced the " Great American Fraud " series. In the ten long articles which composed that series, and the innumerable minor paragrafs which accompanied it, 264 patent medicins, quack doctors, firms, individuals, institutes, and institutions were attackt and denounced. It is now nearly four months since the last article was printed, a period ample for all the attackt who had a grievance to bring their suit or state their protest. The time seems appropriate, therefore, for a summing up, which summing up discovers, out of all the 264 concerns and individuals attackt, just two suits for libel on the docket and two personal protests filed with us. These are all that now remain; the scores of threats, lawyer letters, and loudly proclaimed suits which never materialized--they only remain as an amusing recollection. This, in spite of the fact that the series dealt necessarily in strong language. While there was always the intent and purpose to be strictly fair, it seemed necessary to put certain truths bluntly and even harshly at times--not because we liked to use such terms, but because accuracy could be exprest no other way. Some of those with whom we have dealt have been called, without qualification, murderers. We used the word because we knew them to be taking their profits at the cost of human lives. Several we have specifically designated as thieves, because...