Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-07-10
Another Ringing Speech
At Ottawa, Kansas.
Tells Chautauquans Of Great
Money Kings Evils.
Frenzied Finance Laid Bare With Mis- Own
Sure Cure for Il.

Il 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 stayed and
an example made of the robbers.
know whereof l speak, and | know my
audience. Despite its present supine-
ness l know that when the American
people digest the brutal facts that l
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
What right have / to speak more
than another. you ask?
81 speak of subject that l have
spent my life studying. l know the rob-
bers and their methods l have hunted
with their pack and been harried by
their bounds. have felt the yoke of the
System round my own neck and have
thrown it off.
at is essential first for you to know
the Systems machine and how it has
been operated in the past. I am out
here to explain its workings to you. In
my store. 'Frenzied Finance / have
been Illustrating to the American peo-
pie by means Of live examples how the
wheels within wheels turn and how
the teeth and cogs by which the grind
crs revolvc are fitted into each other.
"You all have met millionaires; many
of you have known in their youth men
who have become eminent bankers and
financiers. I ask you if these men
cd hrai J,n,
you? Smarter and shrewder perhaps,
but did ii strike you that they could
grasp great problems you were de-
barr'd from understanding I am sure
it did not. The truth is that there is
nothing about legitimate finance any
ordinary business mind cannot master
in :: short time. and nothing about
Trcnzicd finance requiring either great
mental tower or intuition to grasp.
And the thi, very. thuggery and murder
of il can all be taken in in half the time
it takes IL burglar and the pickpocket
to a"uuitc "A mastery of their profess
Sons. and Il much briefer period than
the 1ucrcsSful r"'tnterfeiter must put i'm
to initiate successfully the nations
money"
Mr. Lawson then gave an account of
Ins Sutiuttl Use 10 nll1lltldl lame from
comparative opscurity of John a. Nc
Call. president of the New York Life
Insurance CO., who had been an ord-
nary hard-working insurance agent; of
Anthony ~ Brady. the STANDARD Oil
masnate. who had been q bartender
in the Dclavan House in Albany; of
Thomas +. Ryan. who recently came
into control of the Equitable. who got
A.,
franchise in New York City at the time
the famous .Jak,, sharp Doodle scandal
was exposed: of James II. Eckels tho
young man from an Illinois town who
jumped into sudden notoriety when
h" WAS appointed controller of the
treasury under Cleveland and later be-
came president of Il large bank: final
ly of Paul Morton, who has just been
elected chairman of the Equitable Co.
He said:
These illustrations of 'Frenzied fl
nance | have set before you to show
in round about way what this inscru-
table and deeply scientific business
which Wall street tells you is incOm-
prch.nsiblc to the unframed mind real
~ amounts to.
MEN and women Of Kansas. mine is
the task of the schoolmaStcr. for | am
here to tell you how STANDARD Oil and
the System the great organizations of
th.s" few men who have usurped the
wealth ana power Of the people. have
hNrnotizcd you int" believing that .
and make - instead of only 4.
81" begin with. in a country in which
the ma iority rule there are but three
ways whereby the few can concentrate
in themselves the power over all the
pcople.
by force The few by holiness might
conquer AMI cuslavc 4 timid popul;,c"
Rut this is not Il condition that could
occur to the American people.
'Ry the consent of the people-Whct
that happens there will be no Ameri
can people.
Without their neutrality-suspicious.
guile and trickery.
The only way free people can be
come debtor slaves of n few of thei
number is through this minority secret
" cre#tinE artificial economic Condi
tious which secure to them the result.
at the labor Of the majority withou
returning it fair value.
When people discover that tn
honorable rules II has made for the reg
u'ation of commercial relations be
tween it's individuals have been tam
perel with for the benefit of the diShon
est few. il is their legal and moral dut
and right to correct the perverSion an
undo the wrongs wrought through il
This may be done by one of two meth
ods-reshapinE the laws and proceed
ing 10y due legal process to deprive TIL
few Of the profits their evasion ha
Gained for them: or by the many CON
pelling the few to submit to the sam
artificial condition which they had Gre
ated for the plundering of the man.
This latter can be accomplished with
out new or special legislation. and cor
sttUtes the best plan of amendmen
for it is dangerous practice for
great people arbitrarily to make law
TO deprive one class of something f
another's benefit.
Il am flatfootedly opposed to or
class of our people depriving anotht
class If its property by special law
for that way lies anarchy: but I a
glad to say that the wrongs I am hel
to disclose to you can be righted Will