The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-12-23
BOSTON FEELS VERY BAD.
Wanted to See the Meeting Between
Lawson and Greene.

Wanted to See the Meeting Between
Lawson and Greene.
Boston, Dec. 17.-Boston is horribly
disappointed because Colonel William
G. Greene failed to descend upon ThoS.
w. Lawson, as he publicly advertised
he would.
The colonel, who is president of the
! Greene Consolidated Copper Mining
| company and whose stock dropped
points in the market on Monday is
said TO carry a pistol with four notches
on it. In his open letter to Mr.. Law
son he denounced him as a liar. a
fakir and a 2harlatan.' and closed
| with this ominous sentence:
Tuesday in Boston ! shall call upon
| you"
| Boston waited all day for the tragedy
and so did Mr.. Lawson. but the colonel
| failed to come from New York.
Lawson on Greene.
Mr.. Lawson issued a statement de-
| claring that he had offered through
| Colonel GreeneS brokers to assist him
| If he needed assistance to prevent the
crash in Greene copper stocks. Talking
about Colonel Greene and the stock
market. Mr.. Lawson said yesterday:
| He is a great, big-hearted fellow,
who would starve before doing a
wrong. He has told me many time
| that he killed four men, but they
needed it. l believe it. Two We're shot
in the back. but. as he explained it,
that was the only way he could get
| them.
| II know the ours who put Colonel
| Greene up to writing that letter. They
are getting desperate, but they will be
| more desperate before this situation de-
| velopS much further.
''The Standard Oil system thinks it is
| fighting Lawson in the stock market
Fools. they are fighting the whole peo-
pie of the United States. 1t is the peo-
pie who are offering back their stock
which they refuse to buy
If 1 should drop dead today it would
do the Standard Oil crowd no good. The
people have taken up the work and VIII
carry it on until the whole corrupt syS-
TEN of 'frenzied finance is swept away.
Il thought this afternoon, when the
price OF Amalgama ted stock went up, they
| had at least found their brains To test
| their courage | bought 5000 shares myself
The moment that order was put into the
market the price dropped. They unloaded
when they found the real money in sight.
In Many a Deal.
''rhe men who put up the prices at the
time Mr. Morgan and his friends unloaded
| Steel stock on the public are the same men
who put the prices down afterwards so
that they could buy in and repeat the OPP
Grafton. In that downward movement of
the market there was shrinkage Of seven
billions of dollars. They put up the price
of Amalgamated until it was worth alto
/ gcther 5000 coo.
Then they put it down until its aggre-
gate price was only $50OO0,000 The pub
lie was MIXED for $l5OOO0,OO0 in cash
Then they bought in again and had moved
1t UP to So q share, a total valuation of
$l23,OOO,G 500 when l shouted the other day
and the public unioa6cd first and caught
them at their own game.
They can organize and advertise and dc
what they will. but the test OF the stu
alton will remain the same. Offer them
their stocks and see whether they will buy
at present prices. The Standard Oil
crowd has millions of money Il has been
telling the people that Amalgamated was
worth Sl1O share. Yet today, when my
money appeared. they We're glad to unload
at nearly $50 a share lower. Why? Be-
cause they confessed to me that it was
only worth S45 a share and We're working
the price up for another milking process
But this time the people We're too quicl
for them"