The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-11-23
Comes As a Climax to Latter's
Bold Magazine Articles on
"Ffeuziel Finance
LAWSON GIVES OUT
RED HOT STATEMENT
SAYS BRING ON YOUR SUITS;
WILL GIVE NO ODDS AND ASK
NONE" - WILL CoNTlN-
UE HIS WRITINGS.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Boston. Nov 22,-Thomas w Law
on issued tonight a signed statemen
which. however beyond the inferenc'
in the opening sentence, throws It'll
light upon the origin or nature of th,
suit or suits brought against him to
day by Attorney Fuller, supposed t
be nc ing for the Standard OH inter
ests for $3.50. 900 damages.
In conclusion, Lawson refers L
pressure being brought at sWash hing
ton in an effort TO exclude from The
mails his writings on finance. Fl,
expresses the opinion that such pro
ceedng wonld not Be permitted by
the pos al authorities. The statement
in part follows
He'll Fight the Suits.
In regard TO the suits and rumof
of suits civil and criminal brought
aud to be brought against me by
Standard OIL insurance companies
and individuals. because of my story
'Frenzied Finance, | can simply say;
Bring them along one and al and
will be found on hand prepared e
give battle to finish, giving no odds
or mercy and asking for none.
Il have been telling few raw
truths, and in this age OF dollars nc
man will be allowed to distribute
truths about financial rasca ity with
out paying 'he price. My truths are
big ones. and suppose the price viii
be equally big, but the American peo
pie may rest ea@y that whatever the
price, I'll pay 4 and not ask any sym,
pathy for doing so. and they can rest
easy about another fac I'll make
those who have been plunder ng the
people during the past ten years pay
q price to which mine will appear lik,
a tight shoe compared with the In
quisitorial rack Of the dark ages.
Let the American people make n
mistake, twelve O'Clock is just be.
ing struck at the while you wait facto
ry where multi-millionaires have been
turned ont from raw material, and un.
less miss my guess II will take
more court trials than there are in
America to drown the ominous sound
Of hat high-noon bell"
Some of Lawson's Shots.
In the December number of Every
body's Mr.. Lawson has the most
startling and specific installment yet
given.
In one paragraph he says:
IF an outsider could possibly have
obtained the entry to the headquart
ers of he Whitney Massachusetts
Pipe line. at loung's hotel, Boston
say at o'clock any evening during
the session. this is what he would
see: IN parlor 10, seated ut a long
table dozen OF MIR. Towle's chiefs
all In their shirt sleeves. smokinr
copiously; before each sncet of pa
per on which was printed list OF
of the legislature: against
every name blank space for memo
randa; at the hcad Of the table Towlt
Mr.. Whitney's lawyer, frown
ing severely over similar sheet of
paper having broader memoranda.
spaces. One after another the chief
would call off the names of the legis
lators, reporting as they went along
'All reports in at last, Towle re
tired TO room II and speedily re
turned with the stuff consisting of
cash. stock, puts, calls, or transport
alton tickets. which he dealt out 4
the chiefs TO fulfil the promises they
had made for the day II would be
obvious to the outsider as soon as
he had learned what was being deai
IN. that a large proportion of thi
members of the great and general
court of Massachusetts had bargain
I'd with the different members of the
machine to sell their votes, not only
n committee. bu. in full session OF
The legislature
How He Downed Whitney.
In another part of the same article
le says:
In January 1896 Henrv NJ Whi'
icy who had the reputation of carry
ng the Massachusetts legislature in
10 f~oA B0thttf USfDIt luAS
stature with proposition for q
'harter for new aud independent
gas company. The basis of his claim
vas that he had come in.o possession
)f patented device through which
{ became possible TO turn the low
5rada suiphuric coal of Nova Scotia
nto coke without sacrificing either
he valuable by-produets. such as am
nonia, tar, etc. or Illuminating gas.
Nhitney's petition set forth further.
hat because of the exceedingly low
price of this province coal and its
richness in by-products he could af-
ord to sell gas TO consumers at so
.ents per thousand feet fthe legal rate
vas then 81 per thousand feet)
Understanding the danger to Bay
sta-e Gas from such a competitor,
HE f,onth xs-f4h a4414l,r~