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Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-05-31

Red Lodge, May a5.-Memorial
exercises of an interesting nature
will occur at the Methodist Epis-
copal church next Sunday evening,
the Rev. ]. A. Smith, pastor of the
church, having extended an invita-
ton to all old soldiers and to COM
pany ID. Montana national guard,
to attend. CAPTAIN +. Z. Esselstyn
has accepted the invitation for the
guard, who will assemble at the
armory at 1890 Sunday evening and
attend in full uniform. Confederate
as well as union veterans are invited
to attend the service.
Two relicks of an insane system
"a fake preacher and a tin soldier
will parade with the tinsel and
trappings of armory and church to
fool the people as to the real truth of
the situation. Comrade (2) Ryd-
berg will be there with his gun to
explain the Socialist philosophy,
and shoot the science of proletar-
ianism into them with soft wads or
steel jackets, as no soft-nose bullets
will be permitted by the bourgeois.
Will some dear brother arise and
tell how the Carpenter of Nazareth
assembled the soldiers and talked
to them. Or will the minister that
breaches, but don't practice, tell of
beating the sword into a plow
shear2"
The militia is supposed to be
present in full uniform" which
means more of the gilded colors of
capitalism displayed on the back of
some wage slave that is ignorant of
his real mission in this world.
While the preacher and the militia
are uniting, the Socialists are going
straight ahead teaching the brother
hood of man.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-05-31

ment between two men, one e
master of the greatest of all bus 5
organizations bank of the United
States. The consequence we're
world wide. That night no bomb
was thrown, but a seed sown for the
cruelest harvest of crime, dishonor,
unhappiness and desolation ever
reaped within the confines of our
republic.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-05-31
;annated!

w. +. of NJ, assembled. do at this
time offer and pledge to our
brothers in the above named city,
our moral support and financial aid
in this, their present struggle for
existence, and sincerely hope that
victory will crown their every effort
in this great battle for labor's cause,
and be it futher
Resolved, That a copy of these
resolutions be forwarded to the
Brewers union of Seattle, and that
the same be given to the press of
the country"
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-05-31
Two News Items That
Need No Comment.
Tries to Freeze with Baby-Wom-
an Evicted on Coolest Day
of Season.
Special to the Record.

Special to the Record.
New York, Jan. 27.-Evicted on
the coolest day of the season and
weak from hunger and exposure,
Mrs. Elizabeth Dietz, with her four
small children, sought death by
freezing shortly after midnight under
a factory stoop in Moore street,
Brooklyn.
Il had no home and could not
bear to hear my babies cry" she
told a policeman who found the
starving family, SO | thought the
best thing to do was to freeze. |
got the children as warm as | could,
so they would go to sleep, and /
hoped that none of US would waken
alive"
Policeman Mahoney heard the
faint whimper of child and found
the family under the stoop of a
molding factory at No. $50 Moore
street. Three of the little girls were
unconscious from the cold, while
Mrs. Deitz lay huddled in front of
them with her I5-months-old baby
clasped to her breast. 1t was the
baby girls cry that saved the family.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-05-31
Mrs. Fish's Society Show-Vaud-
eviIIe in an Apple-Blossom
Ballroom Orchard

Special to the Record.
New York, Jan. 27-Mrs. Stuyvesant
Fish amused society tonight with
one of the most original entertain
ments ever given in New York. One
hundred and sixty guests enjoyed
roof garden show in the white and
gold ball room of the Fish house.
Mrs. Fish planned an artistic dec
Grafton for the occasion, and her
florist had a contract to transform
the ball room into a garden with
artificial apple trees in blossom and
with trellises hung with wistaria.
The details were perfect, and even
the polished floor was covered with
artificial grass. Tables and chairs,
painted green, were sprinkled about,
and supper was served to the guests
while the performers sang and
danced.
1t was 1890 when the green velvet
curtains that hid the stage parted.
Not since Mrs. Fish had the Chinese
Honeymoon company at her house
has such an elaborate vaudeville
been given privately. Her guests
said the apple blossom orchard was
triumph in floral decoration.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-05-31

Lee Mantle is the next Montana
man to go to the senate. We offer
this modicum in order to save
w. A. Clark enough to buy another
bronze factory.-Forsyth Times.
Not no your tin type. w. A.
Clark is the Amalgamated capitalist
tool, backed by Tom Carter and
the whole capitalist gang, who is to
be returned II will cost something
like five times as much for the com.
ing election as the former. His
seat that he nows holds cost him
something over a million dollars.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-05-31
ROGERS SUBSCRIPTION

To bring about the proportion
which Mr.. Rogers wanted, bogus
subscription of FIVE or six times the
unallotted balance was put in by
him and this is where the fraud was
committed.
The National City bank was in
duty bound to protect the public
from any such bogus subscription,
and to see that fair treatement was
accorded to all subscribers. Yet
unfaithful to the trust, it permitted
this bogus subscription to be put in
eleven hours after the bids had been
opened.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-05-31
A BIG CLEAN UP

In this way the conspirators Sc
cured from the public $40, ,4I3, 500
of the original cost, $50, 900, 900 and
yet retained over s4S, 500, 900 of the
authorized stock of SIS, 900, 900.
In other words the public paid two
thirds of the puchase price, and the
conspirators retained nearly two
thirds of the property.
Considerations of space forbid
my treating here the immediate dis
astrous results of the crime, the
death pail that fell upon the market,
the brutal insensibility of Standard
OH to the frightful situation its
treachery had caused
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-05-31
THE BANK BOOKS
ARE PROOF

The fraud thus perpetrated
amounts to this: Every subscriber
legally entitled to three shares of
Amalgamated stock was deprived of
two of them by the National City
bank, and the proof is to be found
in the books of said National City
bank. My readers may say here
that this constitutes a fortunate con-
dition, rather than a crime to be
punished, for the less Amalgamated
a man had, the better he was off,
as the stock afterward declined.
This conclusion is a false one,
however.
Here, in simple terms, is an
illustration of what was done in
Amalgamated and of what the
wrong was:
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-05-31

THE first crime of Amalgamated
is a matter of mathematics. 1t in
volved plain fraud and misrepresen-
tation, the insertion of bogus sub
scription and the disruption of
solemn pledges, but the commission
of it was a mere matter of arrange
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-05-31
A LEGAL CONTRACT

The terms of these advertise
ments prescribed the conditions
under which subscriptions for the
stock of the Amalgamated Copper
company must be made to the Ma
tional City bank, and bound the
bank to accept the subscriptions
presented in compliance Herewith.
In fact they constitute legal con-
tract binding the National City bank,
an institution doing business under
the national banking laws of the
United States, to allot to every sub
scriber whose subscription was not
rejucted in full his proportion part
of the $50, 900 shares of the capital
stock of the corporation, his pro-
portionate part being the ratio his
subscription bore to the entire sub
scription received at the National
City bank before IL noon of Thurs
day, May 4. 1899.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-05-31
DEFRAUDED TWO
SHARES EACH

The meaning of this is that every
legitimate subscriber-and | expect
the millions of subscriptions which
the bank decided were illegitimate
and rejected, as they had a perfect
right to do under their contract with
the public-was defrauded of two
shares of each three to which he was
entitled. Before me, as | write, is
the original allotment of the National
City bank to the subscribers,
which | propose to print later as part
of this indictment, showing that the
figures are exactly as | have stated. "
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-05-31

institution up to noon was only So
6o3, 1870, or S. per share on a total
of I, 3ao, ,675 shares.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-05-31


B had valuable race horse and
decided TO dispose of him in five
shares. He offered these FIVE shares
for public subscription and adver-
tised that flower five were subscribed
for he would split up the shares and
allot them pro rata. There were
on the final day seven subscriptions.
Instead of turning over the horse
to the seven subscribers to own and
race in their own way, b notified
them that 2I subscriptions had been
received, and that for their seven
he had allotted them a one-third
ownership, while the other sub
scribers would retain two-thirds.
In the two thirds resided the
right to manage and drive the horse
and the seven had no say whatever
in his direction. The seven honest
subscribers, not suspecting that b
had simply sold them one-third of
his horse at its actual cost, and that
he still retained two-third owner
ship in him, supposed that ii Others
had subscribed on the same terms
as themselves. II the horse were
really able to race and thereby earn
large sums of money, by his arrange
ment it was in BIS power to make
him appear so worthless that the
seven bona fde subscribers would
be inclined to turn over their owner
ships to b at his own figure.
"Contrariwise, b could so dose
the horse as to make him appear
more valuable than he really was,
and use the advantage to dispose of
his fourteen shares for fctitiously
high prices"
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-05-31
THE RESPONSIBILITY

In dealing with the organization of
the company Lawson recounts, in
vivid language. the struggle between
himself and Rogers, the point at is
sue being whether Lawson should as
sumo the responsibility for the swim
die or whether the real promoter, the
Stand Oil Co., should assume its
share. Lawson won, to the extent
that he was allowed to prepare ad-
vertisements for the sale of stock,
which he did in such a way as to
make Rockefeller's bank sponsor for
the company.
He then suggested putting Rogers
in the presidency of the Amalga-
mated, but was told the place had
been promised Marcus DAILY. Rog-
ers took the vice-presidency, and
worked in William G.. Rockefeller
for third place, because out-of-town
people would think it was William
Rockefeller himself" instead of his
son. How much of this was pro-
noted by motives of business on
Lawson's part and how much of it
was for the purpose of getting suck
ers to bite readily, is known only to
Lawson and Rogers.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-05-31
ACTED AS AGENT

Rogers agreed to this, and then
Lawson set about getting a written
proof of his agency in the following
manner: There is one more thing"
l CLawson) went on. 1t cannot
openly be put forward that am the
authorized agent of the Amalgamated
company and the City bank-well,
| must have the equivalent of this.
1t must be shown by inference. If
/ insert these three advertisements
in the paper and pay for them, and
the company pay for them, it will
be proof positive for all time that
acted as the authorized agent of not
only the company and the City
bank, but of Marcus DAILY, yourself,
William Rockefeller's son and James
Stillman, and therefore that what
ever my advertisement says will be
binding upon them. Remember,
though, il will be your hunt whether
you tell them of it or not"
This, too, was finally agreed to
by Rogers. Discussing the adver-
tisements and the stock subscrip-
tions, Lawson saws:
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-05-31
LAID ITSELF OPEN

On receipt of official notiffica-
ton from the National City bank
that he has been allotted twenty per
cent, of his subscription, or one
share in every FIVE subscribed for,
the subscriber that had a right TO
think he knew that the total subscrp-
ton to the stock had been FIVE times
SIS, 900, ooo-s37s, 900, ooo-or five
times $50, 900 shares-3,75o, 900
shares; and that before noon May
4th, the National City bank had in
hand certified checks to amount of
SIS, 600. The public, includ-
ing the shrewest Wall Streeters, have
since the subscription closed, be-
lieve the subscription totaled the
figures given above. Indeed, no
one has ever suspected anything to
the contary, because il was clear
that il the allotment was conducted
under conditions other than those
contracted for in the advertisement,
the National City bank had laid
itself open to a charge of fraud
and was liable to each subscriber
for the proportion of shares of which
he had been deprived.
The actual amount of the sub
scriptions received on or before
noon, May 4th, 1899, at the Ma
tional City banl was but SI3a, ,o67,-
600, and the amount of the five per
cent, certified checks received in the
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-05-31
Lawson's Story Of 6be Crime Of Anal

pany's advertisement, which l shall
so word that the enormous proper
ties composing the consolidation will
be set forth, yet without details of
the extent of our holdings in any of
them. In its own advertisement of
fering the stock the City bank will
refer to the advertisement of the
Amalgamated as though all particu-
lars had there been given, and will
see that it reads openly and frankly
and yet contain nothing that need
scare Stillman. Then there will be
a third advertisement, signed by my
self, in which, in the plainest and
strongest terms at my command. l
shall tell what the company is and
what it proposes to do"
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-05-31
Is PER CENT

TO effect this they decided to
allot each subscriber just the number
of shares of Amalgamted necessary
to render the amount of money ac-
companying his subscription equal
to about a IS OF 80 per cent pay
ment on his whole subscription.
This would constitute such a large
margin as to assure the payment of
the other 10 or IS per cent due.
For instance, a man who applied
for a hundred shares accompanied
his subscription with a check for
$500. He was allotted 40 shares,
valued So, 900 on which his $500
check represented payment of IS
per cent. II the conditions of the
National City banks advertisement
had been complied with, he was alb
solutely emitted to three shares of
every FIVE subscribed for, or 90 in
all.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-05-31
LAWSON Is DISCARDED

When the subscription had reach
ed sum that made failure impos-
sible, Rogers notified Lawson that
he was to be thrown over and Ros-
well P. Flower given the job of
stock manipulation. Lawson threat
ened to go to the newspapers and
bluffed Rogers into allowing him to
hold the place little longer.
The total subscriptions to the
stock as reported by Sullivan
were s4I2, 900, 900 and about ST.
500, 900 has been paid in. Rogers
and Stillman needed the money,
and determined to hold it.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-05-31

An unparalleled story of swindling
by the promoters of the most power
ful of Americas corporations is
graphically told by Tom Lawson in
Everybody magazine for June, says
the Butte Evening News, a paper
radically opposed to the Amalga-
mated. For merely attempting one
half as much as Lawson charges,
Rogers and company with having
carried to consummation, Whitaker
Wright was brought up with a short
turn in England, yet the extraordi-
nary story of crime as recited by
Lawson has scarcely created ripple
in the public mind.
Lawson. by his own statement,
was a party to the crookedness he
describes; he benefited by it. He
would have it appear that his con-
science was lulled to sleep by the
sophistries of Henry Rogers.
CLEARING HIS SKIRTS
He evidently believes that his pub
lic prominence will exonerate him
for his part in the deal, in the face
of the fact that he admits that he
was suspicious of his CO. partners in
crime, and assisted by means of
carefully worded advertisements, and
also in the published list of officers
of the monumental swindle, so that
when the crash came he would not
stand alone.
The last chapter in The crime of
the Amalgamated" is not mere asser-
tons on Lawson's part. He has
given facts and figures in support of
his charges. Regardless of his be-
ing a notorious liar; regardless of
his having been as deep in the mud
as those whom he denounces, he has
presented a damning indictment of
Rogers, Rockefeller and Stillman,
and one under which they are COM
PEELED to keep silent. The charges
are such that to ignore them is con-
fession of guilt
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-05-31
THE OFFICE
BOY PURCHASE

The story that the Amalgamated
was organized by Standard Oil Of
fee boys and bookkeepers is repeat
ed in the June story. The Office
boys and bookkeepers bought the
stock of the Amalgamated for S75,-
900, 900, using a check, which was
again used to buy the stock back
from them by Henry Rogers and
William Rockefeller. He then takes
up the advertisements, showing how
the city bank was committed to the
scheme, and the stock subscriptions.
The conversations between himself
and Rogers on these points in the
gigantic plan to rob the stock buyer,
are given in detail. Here is a sample
of Lawson's arguments to Rogers.
THE CITY BANK
I'VE will print three advertise
ments-a plain notice of the City
bank, which must be signed not only
with the usual National City Bank,
but James Stillman, president. This
will Immediately follow the COM
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-05-31
HUNGRY FOR SUCKERS

In futher support of his charge of
fraud against the City bank, Lawson
AYERS that the public canidence was
abused again by violation of the
agreement that only five million
dollars worth of stock was to be
sold.
Rogers became SO hungry for
sucker money that he caused the
bank to sell SIS, 900, 900 worth in
stead of the sum originally agreed.
This was done, Rogers argued, be-
cause S., 900, 900 would not satisfy
the demand, and the disappointed
subscribers might start an invest
igation," which would hurt the
Amalgamated on the stock market,
if, indeed, it did not expose the
rottenness of its organization. He
promised that every dollar received
from the excess sales was to be kept
intact. The dishonest feature of
the $40, 900, 900 exess stock is to be
found in this that because of the
large quantity of stock sold the in
terest of the purchasers could not
be protected and depreciation of the
stock, in the light of its heavy cap-
italization, was an inevitable result.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-05-31
WORK OF TWO MEN

In conclusion Lawson says;
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-05-31

treachery had caused.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-05-31
AN ILLUSTRATION

wrong was:
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1905-03-30
Bee X MAN.


We have been having some very
fine weather lately.
Mr.. Renza Calhoun and sister Miss
Gertie, of Mt. Lake Park, have been
the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. John A.
Wilt the past week.
Miss Lillian Calhoun is getting
along very nicely with her school at
this place.
The farmers of this place will soon
commence their spring blowing.
Miss Gertie Calhoun and Mr.. Renza
Calhoun and Mr.. Martin Childs were
were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Dick
Custer Sunday.
Our school will close at this place
April eth.
Mr.. o. Brien, who has been sick, is
improving.
DIED.
THOMAs-At his home near Sand
Spring, Garrett county, on Wednes-
day, the 22nd inst, Burbridge Thomas,
| aged 80 years, five months and 90 days.
His remains were inferred in the Gene
terry near his home the 25th inst,
Rev. DOnachy officiating who deliver
ed a very impressive sermon from 1st
/ Cor. 10, 20. The choir sang several
very appropriate hymns among them
being one entitled Death Shall Not
Destroy Ny Comforter This selec-
ton, by the request of the deceased,
had been sung to him by one of his
brothers few days preceding his de-
mise. He was consistent member of
! the Church of God for 1G y ears having
been converted under the ministerial
work of Rev. K. r. Nananum. Mr..
| Thomas remains were followed 10
the grave by large concOurse of sor-
rowing relatives friends and neigh
bOrs. He leaves a widow and three
children, one son and two daughters,
who have the deep felt sympathy of
their neighbors and friends. The
! pail bearers We're Messrs. Franklin
Humberson, VIM. HENDERSON. David
Taylor, John Taylor, Freeman Savage
and Samuel Nansickle He now rests
from his labors, feeling assured that
he has gone home enjoying the com
pany of loving father and sister who
had preceded him. w. w. S.
Low MILK.-Mrs. Elizabeth
Lowdermilk died at the home of her
son, j. NJ. Lowdermilk, near Hoyes,
March 10, at the ripe old age of al
most % years. She lived a consistent
Christian life all these years. She had
wonderful memory and retained
her mental faculties to the very last.
Her children, grandchildren and great
grandchild, en- rise up and call her
blessed.
A FRIEND.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1905-03-30
EVANSVILLE,

John Zehner had public sale on the
18th inst. Cows brought good prices.
Valentine Bender rented his farm
10 Jonas Ash. Val is going to run the
wooden mill to its full capacity.
No prospects for much sugar this
season. Some opened their camus
and got a short run and now it is to
warm.
The saw mills that had closed down
this winter in this section on account
of the deep snow, are again in opera
ton.
The roads are almost impossible.
The following parties from this
place attended the Hagerstown blood
ed stock sale on the 18th inst: Jacob
s. Miller, Simon NJ. Yoder, c. w.
Bender, H. S. Noder, and Lewis S.
1oder. c. W. Bender brought two
thoroughbred Shropshire ewes and
Simon w. Yoder got one eve and
Jacob S. Miller captured the prize win
ming Shropshire ram. The sheep
were bought to lay the foundation
for tiue flock of Shropshires. H. S.
loder was on the lookout for few
fine ShOrthorn Durham cows, but as
he could not suit himself at the sale
he went to see breeder of fine Short
horns and succeeded in buying the
eight year old prize winning COWS.
Lady Rose that took three first
prizes at the HagerstOwn Fair at three
different times and her two year old
grand daughter equally as fine an
animal as her grand mother that
weighs sixteen hundred pounds in
show condition. After he had them
at home he was so well pleased with
his selection that he took a trip some
where in Pennsylvania in pursuit of
male suitable as first class herd
header He succeeded in buying a
dark red animal that weighs 24OO
pounds. This is an animal that will
make any breeder smile. Both COW
and heifer are deep red. This is to be
the foundation of his future herd of
Shorthorns. | predict in the near
future the northern end of Garrett
County can show as fine Shorthorn
cattle and Shropshire sheep as any in
the state CT Maryland. H. C. Yoder
sold one bull calf nine months old for
sos and also sold eight cows to make
room for the new stock he purchased.
GUESS WHO.