The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-12-02
LAWSON SAYS He
WILL STAY BY IT
Author Of "Frenzied Finance
Does His Own Private
Advertising.
THE"sYsTEM" DESPERATE
And Mr.. Lawson Says When He Gets
Done With It, II VIII Have No
Time or Energy Left Except
to Cry for Mercy.

Chicago, Nov. 26.-Thomas w. Law
son is having his troubles along with
those he is making for STANDARD OIL"
He has explained why he uses the ad-
vertising section Of Everybodys Maya
zine for his attack upon insurance
companies which is because the man
agement of the magazine refused to
print it in the reading part. Mr.. Law
son prints in the Chicago Tribune a
half page signed advertisement in
which he says among other things:
Since the last issue Of Everybody's Mag
azine, STANDARD OIL stung, has broken
forty years of insolcnt silence. Like tho
giant bully of the fable it cannot stand
the hot iron, and at the first scar cries out.
Unlike the millions into whose hearts it
has poured its boiling OIL, into whose souls
1t has injected It's withcred poison, 1t could
not take It's medicine in silence. My story,
i"Frenz.ed Finance. said STANDARD OH is
deliberately and systematically dcbauch-
ing the American people and cold blooded-
ly robbins the masses" STANDARD Oii'
met and solemnly 'rcsoluted for the first
time in it's existence to speak to the peo-
pie, and this is what 1t said: ITS lie
We are not bad"
Two More Sections Ahead.
With the January chapter of "Frenzied
Finance" | have completed the first sec
ton of my story, The Setting. In this sec,
ton, which began last July, l have said
STANDARD on Is bad-the monster OF
modern times; it is now at the zenith OF
It's destruction-spre career There
will ne two more sections of "ErenZed FL
nance" The Facts and the Remedy. The
second section, which begins with the Feb
tuary number, will prove the assertions
OF the first and the a st., VIII snow oc ne
and effectively strike standard or
has, as yet, only spoken once 1t will be
made to speak again: and from then on 10
its end 1t will be with it. as 1t always has
been with its predecessors since the world
began, one continuous cry. Mercy
My right to hold Standard on up to
upon what STANDARD or and the "Sys-
tenn" 'resolutc," but upon the verdict the
American people will render That verdict
will not be rendered until the people nave
my charges, my proofs and my remedy
before them. Then--the American people
have never vet failed to reEaer just YER
tent to accept the one they will mete out
to my story. "Frenzied Finance. and
standard Or and the SYSTEM can
now do nothing but walt for what the
American people will mete out to them.
Has Had No Benefit.
have been accused Of benefiting fnan-
cially by the great success which has at
| tended Everybody's Magazine since my
can people I have not directly or indi-
rectly. penny's interest in this magazine;
give my time. my energy, my money and
my story freely for the sole purpose Of
getting before the people the truth 1t has
been my good fortune or misfortune to be
| the custodian of. l have nothing but
gratitude to the American people and the
press for the way they have received my
| story, and to the owners of Everybody
Magazine for the way they have placed It
before the people. But the publishers of
Every body's Magazine do not always
think as l do and when they differ from
me as to how certain parts should be
handled. l must, in justice to myself, go
| it alone.
The Ridgeway- Thayer company pub
| fishers Of Everybody's) were reluctant to
| advertise the insurance part of this issue,
and / therefore decided to advertise 1t
Independently of them. L therefore give
| this notice to the people that they may
absolve the owners OF Evcrybody's Maya
zine from any of the consequences which
may follow this or like advertising. I
alone am responsible. / earnestly ask
every man and woman who reads this
issue. particularly the clergy, to aid me
in getting a copy OF 1t to others less for
tunate that themselves. II 1t We're only a
question Of the money cost. would will
lngly place a free copy in the hands of
every grown person on the North Ameri-
can continent. but this l cannot do with
out the assistance of those in position
| to know the ones who do not get 1t.
The last paragraph explains why Mr..
Lawson prints in the advertising sec
ton Of Everybody's Magazine especially
| that part of his revelations" which
deal with insurance companies.