The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-07
BLACKMAlLING
AMALGAMATED
MINING INTERESTS

Thomas w. Lawson. copper mining
operator at Boston, has the following
/ letter in the New York Journal of the
I'd inst:
! In my opinion the time has arrived
! when a few plain facts should be stated
| IN contradiction of the false rumors and
| stories that have been put aflOat with the
| intent to deceive the thousands of in
VISITORS. residing in every state and terri
! tory in America and in Europe, to the
| end that these investors may be induced
| to throw their Amalgamated holdings on
tne market, that those who manufacture
and put afiOat these false stories may at
tain their ends an end as morally and
| and legally criminal as that sought by
| the burglar or sneak thier.
Attempt to Rob the Innocent.
Probably never in the history Of cor
porate affairs has there been a more
lawless and dastardly attempt to rob in
nocent investors than the one that is now
under way In Amalgamated, and never
one that has met with such eager and
earnest approval and assistance from
msinformed financial writer's and
brokers'.
In what say speak for no other than
myself. and that no one may be in doubt
as to my motive I frankly state that
am the owner Of a large amount of ANAL
gamated.
One week ago today Amalgamated
stock became the target of a most furi-
Gus onslaught. This onslaught has been
kept up with steadily increasing fury,
night and day, until the close of business
yesterday in the stock market. in the
European metal market, in the press and
In tho 1Nv11y
America and Europe.
Statements have been openly made by
responsible brokers, responsible newspa-
pers and financially irresponsible, but
crminally responsible rumor mOngers
and blackmailers which. if per cent are
true, mean that the most powerful and
responsible aggregation of capitalists and
business men in the world are knaveS
and criminals, which in turn means that
a majority of all the great corporations
whose securities are actively dealt in on
the New York stock exchange, and a
great majority Of national and savings
banks and insurance interests, the direc-
ton of which enanate from these men,
may be rotten to the core and at all
times on the verge of collapse. which
in turn means that the collapse of Anal
gamated will be followed by the collapse
of the leading Wall street pets" which
in turn means the most disastrous panic
Wall street has yet witnessed.
Stories False, He Says.
1t is charged that the Analgamated
Copper company is the worst blind pool
in Wall street; that it is managed by
rascals who are surreptitiousy selling
copper at II to IA cents per pound. while
issuing public statements that the price
is being firmly held at practically II;
that these men are selling every share
of stock possible, they are going to knock
the bottom out of the price, the copper
industry will go to smash, and the ANAL
gamated will become non-dividend pay
ing; that the Amalgamated company
last week sold 5000. 900 pounds of copper
at IL TO IA cents; that it, or the men
controlling it, have bought $4,000 shares
of Rio Tinto and are at war with the
Rothschilds.
Each and every one Of these stories
Is false, or the entire Wall street struc-
ture is resting on volcano which may
burst at any minute. These stories are
originated and put afloat under the ST.
pervision of professional blackmailer
having headquarters in Boston, and who,
at the inception of the Amalgamated
Copper company, demanded the payment
OF large sum of cash and the handling
OF all the Amalgamated company's ad-
Vertlsing, and when his demands were
refused threatened to wage continuous
warfare by the dissemination of false
stories. which threat he has carried out
by causing to be published daily false
stories wherein he has charged the
Amalgamated directors with every pos
slble crime, including perjury, theft, bur
glary and murder.
Have Not Stopped at Crime.
In the spreading of these false stories
those having charge Of the conspiracy
nave not stopped at crime. as witness
the publication in New York and Lon
uon ny a discharged employee of the
A"algamated Selling company over his
Signature an absolutely false story to the
effect that he positively knew that the
president of the Amalgamated COMMAND
had that day sold IS, 900, 900 pounds If
copper at IL to IA cents, when he knew
the sale had been made at 1874 cents.
The facts about the Amalgamated arc.
Its affairs are now, and have been since
ITS creation, managed by the most repre-
sentative men in America, including
Messrs Rockefeller and Rogers. Still
man and Olcott, ]. Pierpont Morgan &
Co., and Flower & Co., leaders of the
stock brokerage business.
instead of Amalgamted capital being
made up of unknown blind pool ouanti-
ties its assets are most widely known.
The facts about the drop in the price
or Amalgamated during the past week
are: Two weeks ago a bear CAMPAIGN
was organized by certain Wall street
spectators to take advantage of these
well known facts. INSCRIPTIONS enemies
OIL the company were doing all in their
power to demoralize stockholders. con-
1use opposition producers and frighten
consumers.
The leader of the Amalgamated bear
campaigning was up to a short time
ago the representative of the bull nool
IN Amaigamated. His word. work and