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 Betwee
Lawson and Greene.

"ah1eo TO Gee the meeting 6etWee n
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 8
points in the market on Monday is
said to carry Il pistol with four notches
on 1t. In his open letter to Mr.. Law
son he denounced him as liar. a
fakir and a charlatan," and closed
with this OminOuS sentence:
Tuesday in Boston I 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 Greene's 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 q
wrong. He has told me many a 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 I 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 Amalgamated stock went up they
| had at least found their brains. To test
their courage 1 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.
| THE men who put up the prices at the
| time Mr.. Morgan and his friends unoaded
| 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
| tne market ltlere was a Shflnkage OF seven
! billions of dollars. They put up the price
of Amalgamated until it was worth alto
gether 5000 100000
Then they put it down until it's aggre-
gate price only $5O,00O,C00 The pub
| lie was MIXED for $150,0O00C0 in cash
Then they bought in again and had moved
1t up to So a share, a total valuation OF
S123,OOO,GO, when / shouted the other day
and the public unloaded 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 then
their stocks and see whether they will buy
at present prices. The Standard Oh
crowd has millions of money. 1t has beer
telling the people that Amalgamated was
worth $40 share. Yet today, when my
money appeared, they were glad to unload
at nearly $50 a share lower. Why? Be
cause they confessed to me that it was
only worth Si5 a share and were working
the price up for another milking process
But this time the people were too quicl
for them"