Bisbee daily review., 1904-08-25
AL N ICH I ' DOLLAR
 POWER.
AT NO TIME IN HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES WAS POWER
 OF DOLLARS SO GREAT.
SAYS THOMAS LAWSON
"Freedon and Equality are Controlled By Dollars" He Continues in His Bitter Arraignment of Standard ooi crowd-tiow the "Office Boys Un- load Holdings on the Public.

New York, Aug. 23-"At no time in the history of the United States has the power of dollars been as great as now" writes Thomas W. Lawton. con- tinuing his exposure of the Amalga- mated Copper deal in his "Frenz.ed Finance seAies in the September number of Everybody's Magazine.
 Freedom and equality he contin- ues, "are controlled by dollars. The laws which should preserve and en- force all rights are made and enforcs ed by dollars. It is possible today. with dollars, to steer the selection of the candidates of both the great parties for the highest office in our Tsepudiic, that of president of the United States. so that the people. as a matter of fact. must elect one of the 'steered candidates.
 ''I shall go further and say that there exists today uncontrolled in the hands of men a power to make dol lars for nothing. The function of dollarmaking which the people be- ieve is vested in their Government alone and only exercised under the law for their benefit is actually be ing secretly exercised on an eno&mous scale by few private individuals for their own personal benefit
 M-. Lawspn's use of the phrase make dollars" means an expansion of credits, and this he shows. in an il lustration. is made possible by the in- flation of values of property The Standard Oil men, he alleges, used this devise By using Standard Oil stock as collateral the Standard oil group of men, he says, acquire control of banks and trust and insu rance companies in all parts of the United States. Then he writes. the funds of each bank are so manipulated by depositing those of one institution with another as to create in all an ap- parently legitimate basis of increases of capitalization.
 The jugglery of the 39.000.0O0 of mining stocks and other property into s75,000,000 O. Amalgamated Copper company stock is thus described in the lie secunu part was uue sunmuu- ing into the City Bank of certain Stand inginto the City Bank of certain Stand ard Oil lawyers. office boys and clerks. and the organization by them of the Amaigamated Copper company. The lawyers drew up the papers and the omce boys and clerks signed them First, the papers certified that where as We (the office boys and clerks) are desirous of taking advantage of the corporation laws of the State of New Jersey, We (the said office boys and n aAr said laws and form ourselves into the Amalgamated Copper company, which will have capital of s75 DOG, ,O11 and which will be allowed by said laws 10 own copper mines and other things to mine copper and other things. to manufacture, buy, sell, and trade in copper and other things, and to do numerous and various other things"
 The "office boys" having thus be- come the Amalgamated Copper com pany MT. Lawtcn tells how they went on with the deal.
 One Of our number will purchase the entire capital stock of the said Amalgamatei Copper company for S75.OOO,000 cash, which s75.000 900 cash we herewith certify to have been paid en the form of a check for s75,- 100000, herewith delivered 10 the treasurer, one of cur number, by the clerk who drew il; and the treasurer. hereith certiies that he has renewed the $75.0G0, GOO herewith delivers unto said clerk, the S75,000, 900 capital stock of the Amalgamated Copper com pany, and We (the said office boys and cierks) herevi tn certify that there is within the treasury of the Amalgamat- ed Copper company s75.000.00 and we tthe said cffice boys and clerks) vote that it (the sad s75.000. .000) shall be used in the purchase of certain stocks and properties, and said certain stocks and properties shall be the same stock and properties previous ly purchased by MT. Rogers and Will Yam Rockefeller. and now owned by them"
 Further describing the process, MT. Lawson shows how we said office boys and clerks herewith certify that We have paid from the treasury s75.- 000, ,000, that $75 ,000, 900 is in the form of check. and said check is the one previously received. or it's equivalent, by our treasurer. from one of our num- te-tp wifi, the clerk referred to earlier in the papers, and said $75,G00.000 has been paid to Henry H Rogers for his and William Rockefeller's use"