The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-07-09
Says President Roosevelt is Bound
Hand and Foot.
AUTHOR OF FRENzlEo FINANCE
SAYS He is IN THE WEST TO
WARN THE PEOPLE OF IMPEND-
ING DANGERS AND HE APPEALS
TO THEIR BALLOTS TO PRO-
TEcT GOVERNMENT.
Special to The journal.

Ottowa, Kan, July S.-Thos. w.
Lawson spoke to an immense audience
here to-day, In line with his recent
articles on "Frenzied Finance" Mr..
Lawson said in part:
Mr.. Lawson's Address.
Two factors are inevitable in every
robbery-the robber and the robbed.
Most people fool themselves with
the belief that a robber makes a rob-
berry. This is an error. There must
be a victim-some one who submits
to being robbed. Without a victim
the boldest highwayman on earth is
as impotent as a pump in a dry well.
All robbers become honest men or
cOnvicts when the other party in the
AFFAIR refuses to participate
When you hear a great people COM
plain OF being robbed. don't be indig-
nant,. Get disguised. To IN individu-
a. who has been held up and'smade to
disgorge, some sympathy may be due,
for he, perhaps, has been caught IN
awares, or overpowered, but when a
great, free people is robbed, some.
where their manhood must be at fault
p Between robber and the robbed the
wide difference is all in favor of the
robber. He has a motive for his act
gain. The robbed loses. In robbery
there is excitement; being robbed is
a humiliation. To rob, one must have
pluck and nerve; the robbed who do
not resent are towards.
The robber transgresses the laws of
God and man, but they who allow
themselves to be robbed infringe the
laws of manhooG and the first law of
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Robbery is no new invention. 1t has
existed since the world began. Slav-
cry is its twin brother The fabric of
civilization represents the organiza.
tiOn Of society against robbery.
Robbery is where one takes from
another without his ''by your leave
that which the other does not desire
to part with. Slavery is the condition
of subsection to the will of another by
habit. When great free people sub
init to being robbed they are on the
way to being made slaves. Slavery
as surely follows robbery endured as
the bit and saddle the capture of the
His Mission to the West.
have come to Kansas on a simple
mission-to point out to you that the
American people are being robbed, by
whom. how and what the consequences
will be if the robbery is not staid an0
an example made of the robbers. |
know whereof / speak, and | know my
audience. Despite its present supine-
ness l know that when the American
people digest the brutal facts that |
have to lay before them, and realize
that they are absolutely in the power
of a few men and these few the foul
est robbers this side of hell-they will
stop for one brief minute to pull them
selves together and
Men and Women of Kansas-No
race since Father Time took down his
scythe and went forth will bow lower
to Gods and mans laws than the
American people, but let the American
people once get it firmly into their
heads that in their midst is a power
working for the humiliation of their
comforts their happiness and their
freedom-Once let them really make
sure, and they will rise and go forth,
and before they return there will
have been placed between the covers
of history pages that will need no
bookmark for coming generations to
open TO; there will have been added
to the worlds history pages so black