The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-21
Gets After Eckles in March
Number of Frenzied Finance.
HE SUMS UP RESULTS.
Assumes Credit for Much That
Has Happened Recently.
Refers to Kansas and Says:
"GOd Bless Her."

James NJ. Beck. ex-assistant attorney
general of the United States, now coun-
sci and chief orator for the Standard
Oil company, and the system in which
he says:
Mr.. Beck, last February you came to
Boston as counsel for Henry H. Rogers
and on the eve of the gas trial in the
Massachusetts, supreme court. where
Mr.. Rogers and myself were to testify
you tried to have me match up my
testimony. I refused shortly after
| 'Frenzied Finance began and you and
James H. Eckles, .ex-cornptroIler of the
lcurrency of the United States, now rep
resentative of the System in the west,
were selected to sling mud at me at
public dinners and banquets he in the
west, you in the east. You have both
been industriously at it wherever you
knew it was safe that is wherever Won
| were sure could not answer you and
now tonight at the dinner of the Boston
Life Underwriters association here in
my own city you are to again unlfmber
your mud guns. The International
League of Press Clubs is endeavoring to
raise the remaining $4,000 fund for
| building and equipping a home for Jour- |
nallsts. J. Pierpont Morgan has agreed |
| 10 furnish the last IS, 900 provided the |
! fund is raised before June go 1 am ask |
| ed to furnish $1,000 1t is as you know |
a most worthy cause. You and your |
! bosses of the Standard OiI-Amalga- |
| mated city bank big three insurance |
| crowd, have never in your attacks |
upon the public or individual members |
| of the public been known to come out |
In the open but have always made your
cowardly attacks when you were sure it |
| was safe. Therefore I make you the |
| following offer: If you the recognized |
mouthpiece of the Standard Or its
| leading orator, man so thoroughly |
versed in public defamation as to stand |
in the very front ranks of the great
public speakers of this country, will |
in Faneuil hall, the cradle of
American liberty and free speech, meet
me, the layman who has never delivered
a public address, and there debate the !
crimes and the cowardly viIlainies of
your employers within ten days of the |
assault you are to make upon ME in
the house of your friends tonight, I |
will pay over to the journalistic league
the sum of 5000 and if you decide that |
1t is best we will raise a further sum
by charging admission to the nail I |
think we could easily raise the entire
fund of $4,000 by such means.
'Ifyou will bring along your talented
colleague from the west. Mr.. Eckels, so
much the better and if you wish it I /
VIII consent to have every ticket in the
hail sold to your friends, and will ask
no odds but to reply to what you will
say.
Now, Mr. Beck. will you dare to help
this good cause and incidentally give
the people one honest chance to learn
the truth? You have made onslaughts
on me in public addresses where have
had no. opportunity to answer. In your
last address at Philadelphia you called
me 'frenzied faker. A wild run
a muck Malay In spite of your wages
from Standard our You surely will not
prove yourself so cowardly as to do this
and not accept my proposition. I Will
await your answer in rhe reports which
you will read tomorrow of what you
say in the house of your friends and the
insurance people.
Mr.. Lawson advertises the special
features" of the March insta1lment of
'Frenzied Finance" in the New York
papers as follows:
This month I begin the main story
of the crimes of Amalgamated. I take
up and handle fttingly, I think, some
of the scouudrelly systems character
thugs, deal with them and deposit them. |
Rogers man Friday, Denis Donoho and
the Lawson expose they have con-
cocted I swing through the air once
twice, then, with a mop. the gutter mo-
ton drop. 1 reach once for James Fl
Eckels, ex-comptroller of the currency
of the United States, the young dnan-
ciaI phenomenon who jigged the big
Cleveland bond juggle, now president of
the Commercial National bank of Chi
cago, and who is steering for the sys-
tenn in the west. In split-tongued,
understanding, after-dinner style 'EckelS
fays Lawson. the stock jobber'-which
the insurance companies are circulating
by the milliOn-I reach for him and
think. get MN, anyway II LOT you buO
people, to say James NJ. Beck, ex-as-
sistant attorney general of the United
States, valiant trust buster and peo-
pies champion, who got such peep
behind the governments scenes in the
Northern Securities hold-uD that he was
picked up by Rogers, Rockefeller and {
Standard OH for legal adviser think
1 get three fingers and a thumb over
and under his collar and in a jerk, pull I
and twitch, expose just why James M.
Beck is delivering garbage bouquets be-
fore college and insurance roundupS,
tagged Beck Grills Lawson as a Fren-
zied Faker.'
This is the brilliant reformer who
came to Boston on the of the re-
cent infamous gas trial and was so anX-
ious that I should match up my testi-
mony with Rogers. Do you know what
matching up means? Other things and
neople of moment are rnan-handled and t
headed for the hospital. Let the Amer +
lean people, as they thumb over this +
March number of Everybody's, ponder :
what Russel!'s and my work means. .
ireland at the end of a hundred years
of tortured struggle for home rule, pro- /
bably will not attain that end before '
another five or ten have passed. The s
French were 90 years trying to ex-
change their royal collar for the bal G
lots of free men. 1t took the stalwart, '
strenuous Yankee a decade to convince
the royal George that his room was bet l
have been working their bloody kim c
etoscope night and day in the interest I
of constitutional government and are
still at it. Sixty days after the people
had sFrenzied Finance in their hands
the STANDARD OH monster was compeil- c
ed. after 40 years of silence, to publicly c
doff its insolent bonnet to the people a
saThree months after the people got z
their ewes fixed on the deviltries of the 4
system they elected as president +
peoples champion with a popular ma q
iority greater than ever given any OF il
his predecessors. Four months after +
sFrenzied Finance was introduced into e