The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-24
LEGAL NOTICE.
The Following Is Ample Notice to
''EverybOdy's Magazine" and
Thomas w. Lawson.

ana, Iuftner TINS nOIlCe Is 10
warn all people in the States of
Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine,
New Hampshire, New York,
Rhode Island and Vermont, ex-
cepting those in the cities of Hart
ford and New Haven, Conn, and
Poughkeepsie, N. Y, against SELL
ing, offering for sale, buying or
reading the October number of a
certain publication called Every
body's Magazine
This said magazine contains a
story written by Thomas w. Law
son, called 'FrenZied Finance
wherein, in an attempt to expose
fiancial blackmail. he bitterly and
brutality attacks one of my clients.
This notice is full warning that
/ shall prosecute to the fullest eX-
tent of the law any person or per-
sons buying, selling, offering for
sale or reading the aforesaid ma
gaZine.
A. ]. SMITH, Attorney"
OF course if Mr.. Lawson has subsi-
died Mr.. Smith into inserting the
above, the notice is. as it claims to be,
a legal one. We do not know that
there is any crime against any such
sort Of humbuggery, but, even to a
nation in which Barnum delighted,
such a dodge would be carrying the
thing a little too far. If Mr.. Lawson
has perpetrated a fraud upon the
American people dwelling in the States
of Connecticut, Massachusetts,, New
Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island
and Vermont, SO as to compel them to
read what he has to say in the Octo-
Der Every body's," he ought to be ex-
posed tried for eXtortion, and sem
fenced to a years confinement at
hard working silence! Genius that it
shows he is, if Lawson has done this
thing out upon him! Even frenZied
finance can be carried too far, goes to
a point in fact which is beyond toll
Grafton when instead of merely rob-
bling the poor it takes the bread from
the mouth of labor to bestow it upon
magazine article on the evils of be-
ing rich Think for a moment If you
WILL of the crystallized ingenuity of
this advertisement TO make readers of
"Everybody's' whether the readers de-
sire to hear or not! 1t is an unau-
thorized and unforgivable trading
upon the highest attributes of human
nature. Imagine Paddy O'Rouke
learning of Mr.. Smiths injunction!
Stop him, bejabbers! Lave him alone
an he'll show 'em Not buy, not read,
indade! Nothing short of revolution
could stop him. For what is a man an
American citizen if he cannot read
what he likes? Read it! We expect to
hear of a mob clamoring outside the
press rooms for more copies than can
be printed!
Consider, too, the mystery of the
advertisement. Why are only half a
dozen States named? Does Mr..
Smith mean to imply that only citizens
of those States are mentally able to
draw conclusions from the article de-
,trimental to his client. Wen show
him." we who are not warned are say
ing to ourselves. "iust as soon as we
find out who the client is, We'll believe
everything that's said about him-for
our State pride. Give us an Every
body's."
And why does Mr. Smith except
the cities of Poughkeepsie, New
Haven and Hartford? Is it
because he considers them mo-
rally so sunk in inquiry as not to
apprehend the evils with which his
client is charged or so full of sweetness
and light that they will believe evil of
no man? Imagine the rush to the
book stores in those towns of touch
Gus pride!
If Mr.. Lawson is at the bottom of
this thing, We repeat that he has ex-
ceeded his own genius and the pa
tience of the kindest people to hum
bug that the sun ever shown upon.
1t has been told of him with glee by
his enemies and admiration by his
friends how once he hired man to
throw brick through window IN
which a book in which he was inter-
ested was displayed. thus making sew
eral thousands of dollars by virtue OF
the free advertisement accorded the
publication. That was as the prank OF
child compared with the Wlckedness
of this last effort, If he be guilty. me
brick incident appealed to the instinct
for sensation; the Commercial adVer-
tisement touches upon mans man.
The response, we take 1t, Will De
enormous.
If, however, the advertisement be
legitimate, handle him careIuily' Inc
name of Smith reduced to such a
clownish idiocy! Sad, oh sad for
such an honorable and sober coghomeh
Since the time of the alien ana sedi-
ton laws there has been nothlng 10
compare with his published prohlpl-
tlon When the smoke clears away
he VIII be glad that he is Smlth De-
cause of the bunch of ms cousins
among whom he may sink ms per-
sonality.
But In either event whether II is
irlschlevous design, or the luck tlidt
follows on the favor of one OF the
roofs who are the care of God. Tom
Lawson and Everybody are again