The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-20
LAWSON TO BACK
TALK WITH SUIT
Will Garry Amalgamated Deal
Into Court-Remedy for
Frenzied Finance.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
New York, Sept. 2O.-Thomas W.
Lawson has promised the American peo-
pie, thru Everybody's Magazine for Oc
the Amalgamated rest with his story.
He does not intend to let the thing go
simply with the telling, but will carry
it before the courts. He says:
I do not intend to let the crime Of the
Amalgamated rest with my story. I shall.
after having educated the victims and the
American people sufficiently to under
stand how it was perpetrated, carry it
before the courts. and under the condi-
tions then existing 1 do not think 1t will be
possible for my old friends to run in any
Of their pet judges or stuffed juries on me.
Really, I do not think when these suits
begin that the American people and the
Amalgamated victims will stand any Of
the old brand Of Justice.
Promises Remedy.
Mr.. Lawson goes much further, MAX
ing an announcement, which, if he is
able to realize it, will be Of the utmost
Importance to the nation as we'll as to
investors. He promises a remedy for
i" frenzied finance thru which the peo-
pie are bled for the benefit of unscrup-
ulous masters of finance. In a letter
to the editor of the Journal Of Finance
he was thru writing, Mr.. Lawson says:
I have a remedy for the entire disease
startling statement, isn't it; to many 1t
would be, but I don't think it will be to
you, because you will probably recall as
far back as 1894 my saying to you that
had just returned from a conference in
Paris with some Of the choice financial
spirits Of Europe, and they had enthusi-
astically approved Of startling plans which
had decided to await an opportune time
| to lay before the people of America The
time Is now here, ripe to a lusciousness
beyond my fondest and most enthusiastic
dreams.
Details Of "Crimes'' to Come.
Mr.. Lawson informs his readers fur
Their that what he has written thus far
regarding "Frenzied Finance'' has
been only PREDATORY. The November in
stallment of his story will open with
chapter CHOW We're Off, which will
begin the detailed recital of the
tragic story Of great financial crime, y
inc luding the minutia Of the Amalga'
mated deal, so that the inner workings
will be laid open before the public.
tions Mr.. Lawson, in his October chap
tiers deals with J. Edward O 'Sullivar
Addicks, better known as "Gas" Ad
dd1sks ddc XotaGy Of nfaee
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in connection with his fight with the
Standard Oil crowd for possession Of the
Brooklyn gas interests.
Standard Oil Stock Afoat.
Incidentally Mr.. Lawson says tina
while Standard Oil has been so scientii
cally spreading abroad the impression
that the public should never own it,
stock, secretly they have been engaged
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ties of the people in the form Of bank
and trust companies, railroads, ant
other assets of definite value. The rea
sons for this he gives as follows
The "Rogerses" and the "Rockefellers
know well that the public cannot Away
be kept In ignorance of the methods Of tn
System" by which they have been plum
dered, and that once they are in posses
sion Of the secret Of how the savings o
the many have become the property of tn
few, there may he reprisals of such a ma
ture as to compel the system to yie
up It's gains. They~know that when tina
day comes. it will not be best for Their
} to have their enormous fortunes in sue
get-at-able property as real estate, i
which SO many Of the legitimately &C
quired American fortunes are invested.
a quiet way, therefore, they have put tn
bulk of their made dollars" acquire
from time to time, into unrecorded forms
SuCn as government DOnuS, DOfQS ana pre-
ferred stocks of what they consider non
duplicatable franchise corporations, sue
as railroads, which require rights of way
into municipal public service enterprises
such as gas companies, the existence c
which depends upon rights of way fo
pipes, and into the stocks of banks an
trust and insurance companies, whic
they believe the people will never dar
attack because their savings are Target
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Shafts for 'Gas' Addicks.
Turning to "Gas'' Adicks, Mr.. Law
son delivers himself of as scathing
denunciation. Addicks, he tells, ha
made a round 100000 thru holding II
q gas deal in Chicago. He did this b
forcing the men manipulating the des
to pay him that sum for 100000 wort
OF stock in one of the companies III
volved. Mr.. Lawson continues:
J. Edward O'Sullivan Addicks is ba
man, socially, .in business, In every way
The term bad man" is used advised!
My idea Of a bad man" is that like a ba
dollar he is a counterfeit. A counterfe
has all the appearance of reality, and
yet devoid Of it's properties and virtue.
SO With Addicks.
Addieks soon started after the ga
properties of Boston. He landed the il
terests, made over three companies int