The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-08
Pot VS.. Kettle.

Anyone who has read the series Of
articles running in popular magazine
under the title. s Frenzied Finance,
must have been impressed by the dis,
closures of corruption in high places
and of general rottenness in the realm
of the money! king. With this he must
have experienced sense of satisfac-
ton, that, sitting high in the financial
circle, there should be found one man
honest and fearless enough to expose it
all. And so majority of readers,
those more especially of the. west, have,
come to look upon Thomas Lawson, the
writer, as a sort of modern financial
Hercules, with the task upon HMM
this case self -imposed--of cleaning the
Augean stables tof Wall street.
q Working without hope of reward
for by his own statement Lawson re-
ceives no pay for the articles, and is in
which they .appear-Lawson has stood
as man disgusted with crime in high
places, with sham and hypocrisy, de-
! termined ito drag. the financial heavy,
weights into the range Of the X-ray,
that thru their gilded coatings there
might be seen those hideous things
greed, avarice and rapine; that behind
these unmasked monsters and lying
along the time-c corridor of the past dec
AIDE there might be seen the forms Of
their victims-the widow, bewailing
her vanished pittance, impoverished or
| phans, embezzling bank clerks, and the
skeletons of the suicides Of the many
ruined by the great game OF s. high
finance
And so it has gone on, with public
| interest in the disclosures increasing
4 from day to day.. -.
L Now comes upon the scene d rude,
coarse Hibernian iconoclast, bearing
the name Donohue, who pens clever
article for the New York Commercial,
and writes pish, tush and fudge, and
Bosh with capital B. He brings up
out of the past once widely heralded
investment proposition backed and ex-
plotted by Lawson, called the Trinity
Copper company, and asks Lawson how
about it,. What, says Mr.. Donohue, has
become of this $6,00O,O00 proposition,
and where are the dividends promised
in the circular letters issued by Lawson,
which Mr.. .Donohue reproduces, and
| where is thesmoney the widows and or
phans put into the scheme3
For answer, Mr.. Donohue says there
is a practically abandoned property IN
the west, a number Of buildings and
some machinery, all going to decay, and
two men in charge of: the plant, who
with Lawson, MI Donohue thinks
} must be the 'ETrinity n referred to in
: the company name. <~+s"
w. Thishwould appear. to. put it, up tc
II Lawson to- show the simple reader, I'M
| familiar with the finer distinctions OF
high finance, just Wherein. except II
: degree, his scheme was Fundamentally
different from those he has so strongly
| condemned, and why the trust mag
r mates should not be Jumped together FOL
: better or worse in the minds OF the or
binary observer who believes in calling
) a spade. a spade. o.: as- :~y
+ y Either Mr.EDonohue has slanderes
q Mr.. Lawson, or the latter is posing II
a false light, and is knocking" tn
other fellows for playing the very gam
= at which he appears to be an adept.
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= Professor F.. C. Van Dyck Of Ne7
Il Brunswick, N. j., has invented an ap
e paratus which can be propelled either O.
s sea or land directly into the; wind tina
moves it. It is operated by windmill
r connected with propeller. This is
IS good. deal like the. snake swallowing it
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