Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1904-07-22
5000, 100000 In SAVING GONE

Lawson says the price of Amalgs
mated Copper was:
800, 600, 900 savings lost.
Thirty men driven to suicide.
Twenty business men made convicts
$4,000 900 cash for Republican cam
paign.
Flight and death of lawyer and hi
clerk.
Thirty suicides, twenty once respect
able men made cOnvicts, and NOR
than 100000, 900 of hard earned saw
ings swept from the public into Stand
ard Oil vaults, is the price, according
to Thomas w. Lawson. of the fiotatior
of the Amalgamated Copper Company
| Under the etitle of "Frenzied Finance.
Mr.. Lawson begins in Everybody
Magazine for July. history of Anal
gamated.
Mr.. Lawson, who is celebrated as a
promising" financier, does not tell the
story in his first instalment, but prom
ises to make revelations that will as.
tonish the world. He gives birdseye
view of the situation and makes it cleaI
that in his exposure he is attacking
''the system" and not persons.
He pays bis caustic respects, how.
ever. to persons who were in charge.
Fl. II. Rogers he describes as the head
of it. William Rockefeller and James
Stillman make up. with Mr.. Rogers, the
great triumYirate. He describes j..
Edward Addicks, ''of Delaware, Ev-
erywhere and Nowhere" as lone of
the most picturesquely notorious char
acJers of the age" Mr.. F. Augustus
Heinze, of Montana, is referred to as
"a notorious character, who, like the
spot upon the sun, looms up in all
American Copper affairs wherever they
appear in the full vision of the public
eye.''
He promises also to devote a chapter
to James r. Keene. Wall streets vet
eran manipulation. He will tell, he
says, how within a few days of the ma
tional election of 1896 ''a hurry Call for
additional funds to the extent of $5,-
OOO,0 900 was so promptly met as to over
turn the people of five States and
thereby preserve the destinies of the
Republican party.''
BRIBERY OF A JUDGE.
II shall draw picture, ,"says be, "Of |
two dress-suit cases of money being
slipped across the table at the foot of a |
judges bench in the courtroom. from |
it's custodian to its new owners. upon |
the rendering Of a court decision, and |
l shall show how the new owners |
plot whereby they were to |
be waylaid and the bags of money re-
covered.
II shall devote some space to point
ing out the evils and dangers of the |
latter day methods of corrupting law
makers and show how one entire Massa- |
chusetts legislature. with the excep |
ton of a few members, were dealt with ]
as openly as the fishmongers procure |
their stock in trade upon the wharves;
how upon the last day of the legislature,
because their deferred cash payments
we're not promptly forthcoming, they |
turned and made necessary the hurried
departure for foreign shores of great
lawyer and his secretary, with bags of |
quickly gathered gold and all evidences
of the crimes committed and attempt
ed; how after the ship arrived at an is
land in foreign seas the great lawyer s.
dead body received hurried burial, and |
his secretary's was later dropped, with
weights about his feet, to the ocean s |
depths, and how ever since the natives
whisper among themselves their grue
some suspicious.''
WORKING OF THE SYSTEM"
Referring to the System. Mr.. Law
son says:
ut is a process or device for the IN
of wealth from the people Is |
savings in the banks, trust and insur |
ance companies. and the public funds |
Through its workings during the lat
twenty years there has grown up IN
this country, a set of colossal corpora
tiOns in which unmeasured success and |
continued immunity from punishment |
have bred an insolent disregard of law.
of common morality and of public and |
private right, together with grim de- /
termination to hold on to, at all haz-
ards, the great possessions they have |
gulped or captured. It is the same
system which has taken from the |
millions of our people billions of dol. |
lars and given them over to score or
two of men with power to use and en-.
joy them as earned dollar by dollar by
the labor of their bodies and minds.
MADE CRUEL BY MONEY.
The men III control of the system are
described as tender hearted and loving
family men laboring IN the vineyard
six days in the week and resting on the |
seventh.
''And yet these men," says he, ito |
whose ey es l have seen the tears come
for Others sufferings, and whose voices
l have heard grow husky in recount
ing the woes of their less fortunate
brothers--these men under the spell of
the brutal code of modern dollar maxi
ing are converted into beasts of prey,
and put to shame the denizens of the
deep, which devour their kind that
they may live.
''In the harness of the system these
men knew no Sabbath, no Him; they
had no time to offer thanks, no care
for earthly or celestial being; from their
eyes no human power could squeeze
tear, no suffering wiring a pang from
their hearts. They were immune to
every feeling known to God or man.
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