Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-12-10

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iue Incredible romances with an amount
of apparently yeucious incident which
makes uubolioycrs ashamed of theme
selves. The close observer who noted
am angry magntes eyes pass through
all thC gOlJIs OF The spectrum cannot
Doe ultogather wrong one feels On his
exact account of millions stolen Law
son ls also overwhelmingly concrete.
Names ure hluwCd right out Places
and du'os are set down with the ac-
Curdcy ui extracts from q detectives
note hook A society novelist could not
exceed him DO faithful description of
the surroundings of bis criminal mIl-
liunalres. lie Us highly dramatic too.
None lt The edi0us cratic ohlIQuu for
him, Everything is ln the first person
Or direct discourse. His articles br.stle
win quotation marks and rlcy dio-
loguc ellis jos pages Neither Aristotle
nor Horace Quintllau nor Sautc-
Heouya, could have laid down more In-
iUlllhlt rules for attaining immense
literary vogue than those which Lave
son has found On bis mother w.t.
To so lucky style Lawson has add
ed the further advantage of a theme
which ever lies near the heart of tho
masses boo democracy Vast wealth is
the subject Of his story. and the edl.
tors OF popular magazines long since
discovered that mo- topic rs doarer TO
the great body Of l0-Cent readers An
account Of How the CrOcsuses BRING
Up Their Children VIII be- read with
eagerness IN hundreds Of thousands Of
poverty stricken homes, while a huge
edition win be carried off by an article
supposed 10 be @ solution Of the servant
problem ON Mrs. Ftzboolles Eighty
Servants, and How She Manages
Them, We do love a lord, but even
better love q mulu-milIonalrc A.
Tallcyrand found out that the most iu-
teresting man On this country 10 judge
by the way rumor and small talk played
about him, was the rich Robert Morris
Of Philadelphia, 80 ever since has Dives
been a national admiration President
Roosevelt, In his sermOnette Of yes,er-
day, spoke Of the brutal envy and ha-
tired felt by poor man towards a rich
man. but our observation is that gau-
ing curiosity fathomless toadying, and
silly apiug make up the commoner ate
tltude Of the poor IN the presence OF
those having great possessions.
With % subject 'Aus as broad as hu,
man folly, Mr. Lawson has also the
good fortune OF being able To- add crime
20 great wealth W the very rich are
interesting per Sc, the criminal rich
are doubly fascinating And Lawson
pitched upon a pablo predisposed 90
believe, The sublime feryor of faith rs
nothing 10 the RIGHTEOUSNESS OF a loser
I'm Wall street CredO QuIJ imposslbue.
Thousands an over the land had been
bitten In the financial operations when
Lawson prateuds to describe. They
knew that 10 was through NO fault OF
their own Every Innocent who takes
@ flyer in a blown speculation, is Cor-
tain that his own Judgment Is excellent,
his financial shrewdnoss beyond dis
pute and that nothing but the machine
atIons OF wicked men could have parted
him from his money Lawson shows
him the millionaire schcmers at their
notorious work The victim pores oven
the story OF the INSCRIPTIONS manipu-
latlon Of stocks and the heartlpss fleece
ing Of investors. and takes comfort to
his soul Now he sees IL ALL He was
taken In by a set of villains, Thus. be-
sides the agreeable flip 90 a morbid
Imagination, which Lawson gives In his
narrative Of crime In seven figures, he
makes his appeal 20 the multitude
which no man can number OF luckless
investors ana ruined spectators. IN
such circumstance, instantaneous lite,-
airy fame and circulation above COO 600
are no longer a mystery.
The serious part remains Mr. Lawson
may be the most prodigous liar thar
ever put pen TO paper His Hes may
be Ike the father that begat them
gross az a mountain That Is not the
thing which really signifies. People do
not greatly cfSe whether his PARTICULAR
stories are true-'Nhether this and that
plunger IN the market actually played
the Infamous part alleged whether
brazen promoters really bought a legls-
lature in the way dcscrbed they be.
lleye that other stories OF the Kind arr
true, n Lawsons are not, He gains
the credit Of a millionaire turninb
states evidence. The impression made
Is as unmlstakable as Il win be indoli-
BILE. That there is a class Of rich men
who carry into enormous operations the
methods OF the sneak thief and the card
sharper; that they rob the widow ann
take away the portion OF the orphan
with no more scruple than a burglar;
that honor and good faith are a un.
known among them rs among jailbras
this is the popular conviction upon
which Lawson has so skintully played.
He has heightened II, but he did not
create Il. Now the existence Of such
men IL the great social menace, They
are the blacklist embodiment Of tina,
spirit Of materlalism which fears not
Is our immense task today TO resist
and drive from US, II we would not see
and drive from us, lr we would not sees
It drag our whole civilization into the
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