The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-14
PLUNGER OPENS
WAR ON LAWSON
Gunlghter Greene Threatens Man
of Frenzies with Dire 49,.
Vengeance. Y
HARTMAN SPARES
BOsTONIAN AWHILE
Accordingly the Nemesis Of the
"System Continues to Emit
kilograms.

Boston, Dec. 14.-Boston is horribly
disappointed because Colonel William
G.. Greene failed to descend upon
Thomas W. Lawson, as he publicly ad-
vertised he would.
The colonel, who is president Of the
Greene Consolidated Copper Mining
company and whose stock dropped nine
points in the market on Monday, is
said to carry pistol with four notches
on it. In his open letter to Mr.. Law
son he denounced him as Char,
fakir and g. charlatan,'' and closed
with this ominous sentences:
"Tuesday in Boston I shall call upon
you.'
Boston waited all day for the trag-
edy and so did Mr.. Lawson, but the
colonel failed to come from New York.
Lawson ON Greene.
Mr.. Lawson issued statement de-
claring that he had offered thru Col
onel Greene brokers to assist him if
he needed assistance to prevent the
crash in Greene copper stocks. Talk
ing about Colonel Greene and the
stock market, Mr.. Lawson said yester-
day:
He 10 a great, big-hearted fellow, who
would starve before doing a wrong. He
has told me many q time that he killed
four men, but they needed it. I believe
1t. Two were shot in the back, but as
ne explained it, that was the only way he
could get them.
know the ours who put Colonel Greene
up to writing that letter. They are get
ting desperate, but they will be moro des-
perate before this situation develops much
further
The Standard OIL system thinks it, Is
fighting Lawson in the stock market.
Fools they are fighting the whole people
tha rpit 4afo "a fha "a
who are Offering back their stock which
they refuse to buy. ,
| # should drop dead today it would do
! the Standard Oil crowd no good The
! people have taken up the work and will
carry It on until the whole corrupt sys-
! tenn Of "frenEied finance" is swept away.
: r thought this afternoon, when the price
! Of Annalgamated stock went up, they had
at least found their brains TO test their
courage I bought 5000 shares myself. The
moment that order was put into the mar
ket tho price dropped. They unloadet
when they found the real money in sight
In Many a Deal. .S~'-
The men who put up the prices at thu
time MIR. Morgan and his friends I'M
loaded Steel stock on the public are thu
same mon who put the prices down after
wards so that they could buy in and re
peat the operation. In that downward
movement Of the market there was {
shrinkage of seven billions of dollars
They put up the price Of Amalgamatet
until It Was worth altogether 5000, 000, 600
Then they put it down until it's aggre
gate price was only $50, 100000. The pub
lto was MIXED FOR $3.50, 100000 In cash
Then they bought in again and had move
it I'D to $82 share, total valuation o
e128, 000, 900, when I shouted the other da
and the public unloaded first and caugh
them at their own game.
They can organize and advertise and d
what they will, but the test Of the stu
alton will remain the same. Offer Their
their stocks and sec whether they will. bu
Mt present prices. The Standard O.
crowd has millions Of money. It has bee
telling the people that Amalgamated wa
worth S11o share. Yet today, when m
money appeared, they were glad to unloa
at nearly $50 share lower. Why? Be
cause they confessed to me that it wa
only worth s45 a share and were work1n
the prtoe up for another milking process
But this time the people were too quic
for them.