The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-10-23

and energy You are unrepentant. UNI
ashamed, and defiant
shall take this opportunity. sir, of
reviewing our own relations during
the past year and contrasting your po-
sition to-day with that you boosted
twelve months ago.
! One year ago in Eyerybody's Maga.
zine, said: q
ts1'he officers, trustees, and officials
OF tie Big Three life insurance com.
panies have been and are now squan,
dering their policy,holders' money.
They are grafters-mean. contempt.
BILE grafters." 4
gave specific instances Of their
/, tkieyeries.
You replied, not by haling me to
court but by: ~
Circulating throughout the world
documents by the millions, disparag-
ing my reputation by advertisements
and news" and editorial" statements
from your subsidized insurance press,
denying my charges and attacking my
character, all at the expense of your
policy-holders and without then
knowledge or approval.
You libeled me in thousands of pri.
vate letters to policy-holders. many OF
which came back to me-.
You employed James NJ. Beck. ex.
Assistant Acknowledgement of the Uni
ted States, then and now chief attor
ney for Henry H. Rogers, the Stand
ard Oil Company, the System" and
the Mutual4ife Insurance Company.
to ridicule my utterances and asperse
my honor in addresses in the cities Of
Philadelphia and Boston.
You employed James H. Echels, ex.
Comptroller of the Currency of the
United States. now president of the
Commercial Bank and representative
of the System" in the West, to at.
tack my arguments and distort my mo.
tives in Chicago.
You ordered Vice President Perkins.
OF the New York Life Insurance Com.
pany, to perform similar service in
Philadelphia; and
The burden of all these documents,
advertisements. and disguised ad,er.
tisements and addresses was: Law.
son Is an uhmitigated liar and a scoun.
drel, whose sole reason for attacking
the insurance companies is that we re.
fused him insurance"
replied by printing your letter to
me, wherein you importuned me to &C.
cept insurance in your company.
Again you gave me the lie, and pro
nounced your letter spurious.
| In turn repeated my charges. and
instanced cases OF perjury, bribery
and false statements.
4 stated that your claim that you,
company did not own, nor loan upon
stocks was false, and that it was made
Tor the purpose of misleading and i'm
posing upon your policy-holders
officials and investors.
]. You answered this by writing a let
Ter to one Of TIE great churchmen OF
America, and in it you said: 81 pledge
you my word of honor this company
has never, since 1899, had dollars in
terest, directly or indirectly, in any
stock. Lawson knows this, and delib
erately, for his own purposes, makes
charges to the contrary which he
knows to be false"
Today you and your fellow plumber
e,s stand convicted in the eyes of the
world not only of juggling the moneys
of the widow and the orphan in the
stock-market, but of manipulating
| iLese trust funds for the benefit o,
your pockets. To-day the world i.
aghast at your perfidy and amazed a
your temerity.
Notwithstanding the t,irpitude al
imagine you can SO conduct yourself
Imagine you can so conduct yourse:
Is 10 prevent the investigators from
fastening on. YOU and your associate.
lie more desperate crimes that hay,
Teen committed in the past-the Is.