The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-12-22
LAWSON AFTER KEENE
Author of "Frenzied Finance" Accuses
the Prince of Manipulators OF
Makina Bio "Wash" Sales.

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New York, Dec. 2l.-Thomas W. Law
son, in a sensational statement teie-
graphed to New York, declares he mas
proof in q personal note from James X.
Keene, thai investors were sWihule"
into buying 292, 900 shares or -Alla'sa-
mated Copper by means OF WASH
sales operated by Keene from Flower
& Co.'S offices. no the members Oh the
stock exchange, Mr.. Lawson addresses
himself in this manner:
Don't get ratified or illustrated hut
every man jack of you wHn Jas
washed Il share Of certain stocks VIII
have to explain before 4 COMMISSION
and exhibit to it your dirty inner. iiiell
the world will see not only the laundry
Of the system but those who benefit
by the bunco game and now the Wnole
swindle is run. In A~malgamated alone,
in one deal. Jim Keene washed SO
much it will take my clerks weeks 10
add up the purchase and sales Sips
The street thought it was n Sfeat
joke, and it was, yes; but not 10 'ne
poor devils who We're sWindled no
buying the 292, GOO shares of the pool
which were worked off from Flower u
cos Office.
Lawson Says He's Loaded.
Il make 1t II ptlilL " 50 wen ~
in this fight that l am making. and in
this case | array among my other
proofs a six-page, long hand personal
note, which that king of ~manipuiators,
james r. Keene, wrote to me.
Mr.. Lawson then addresses himself
to investors and spectators. saying
that he reserves the riglG to break in
upon the "frenZied fnancierS' at any
time the public good demands it, n
adds:
Keep your eyes on Wall streets
'frenzied tinanCiers' and notice how
much courage they have to mark up
prices and at the same time watch for
the beginning of reai business. Again.
| repeat: Now is the time to do your
thinking, not when they are all sellers
and curSers.
Have you noticed the great influx Of
investors In steel common n pre-
ferred? They didn'l want it at sc or
81 and &c the other day, but they do at
*93 and so. OF course, there is no swim
die in these prices. It's just the legiti-
mate rush of investors.
Has it ever occurred to Wall street
hat VIII happen when the thousands
of people who hav bought stocks,
steel, say. for instance. at ficticiousiy
made prices, learn that there have been
millions of dollars paid out i'll COM
hiiSSloIS III ilIhtlilS liIlittcuo IA l'SS III
the stock exchange for the sole purpose
of getting others to purchase on mis-
representations?
A Parting Shot.
Don't all rush TO get together TO get
your books and vouchers burned; first,
because it will make such a terrific bon
fire that the world viii see it, an, neXt,
under plans now formulated, it won't
do a bit of good, especially since we
have such men rs President Roosevelt
at the mead of the nation. and District
Attorney Jerome at the head OF the
New York city law department."
Lawson's charges against keene
mean that he has aroused a new and
great enemy in his fight on the Wall
street system and Standard Oil. Keene
is dreaded by the men who expose even
the most ~unimportnnt matters in which
he has made them cOntidants. His long
memory has StreWn Wall street with
wrecks of me and corporations that
stirred him to battle. He has been de-
feated repeatedly by combinations, but
every time he has. after a few years.
suddenly sprung to the front triumph
ant and stronger than ever.
A Stormy Career.
Jay Gould ruined keene once in a
grain deal That was years ago, but
Gould stocks have hardly even today
recovered from the furious hammering
they later received from the angry bear
leader. The late w. c. Whitney once
offended kcene and Whitney's pet
banking corporation. the State Trust
company, went out of existence Il short
time after Keene began his assaults
upon it.
Keene's great Southern Pacific pool
was delused With n food of stock from
the Union Pacific offices. Keene lost
millions and his ~son-in-law, Talbot J..
Taylor, was forced to make an assign
meut All Wall street went into retire
ment when Taylor shut his doors and
for more than a year the stock ex-
change did not do enough business from
brokers TO pay office rent But at last
Taylor resumed business and Keene
was found in charge Of the stock mar
ket. Business returned and big me who
had made their peace with Kecne were
able to breathe easy once more. 1t is
the triumphant K~eene-Keene strong
and in the ~ascendent after scores of
battles, whom Lawson has Deliberately
challenged. Wall street expects a fight
that will shake the foundation of thing
in tho 81 repf