The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1905-07-28

n better cause. 1t is my way of In
dulging myself he said.
MIR. Lawson admits that n millionaire
is nothing, unless he does something.
He ought to know. for he has made II
million over night. He would rather
his name would live as Il common bene-
factor h us Il doratOr of libraries,
or sponsor of cnfeebled colleges.
And he considers that if he succeeds
in breaking John ID. Rockefeller and
the system, his name will not only be
forever written in the M of Wall
street, but it will be n national posses
sion. as broad as liberty itself, and
his achievement one of the greatest
since the martyred Lincoln deprived
the southern planters of their property
in the shape of human lives.
Mr.. Lawson is not eloquent. His
voice is dry. and he is compelled TO
speak III II conversational tone, but If
he was an orator his magnetism could
be no greater. Men leaned Onward to
hear his words, and he is one man who
cannot talk too Ions.
On his Iowa trip Mr.. LAWSON showed
how well he likes publicity. Tuesday
morning he arose shortly after s O'Clock,
just as his train wa leaving Omaha.
He asked for the papers and read With
great interest what had been said about
him. He can read u paragraph at II
time and absorb it all. Wednesday
mornings omaha Bee was given to him
and he turned over the pages hurriedly
There WAS not one single line of type
il. the paper about his address ut Fair
bury. The other papers had two col
uinnS each.
MI. Lawson was plainly nettled. He
had evidently hoped for a copious men
ton in the republican organ of Nebras-
ka. But Idito R~oseWater's reporters
We're either asleep, or the editor-in-chief
had determined to show his disapproval
of ~"Frenzied Finance" by failing to
mention the Fairbury address.
There WAS q sequel to this, which
nowed even more mat MIR. Lawson
was Il trifle partial to notice in the
papers. When II representative of the
Omaha Bee stepped on The platform of
Mr.. Lawson's private car at Missouri
Valley and Introduced himself 10 Ed
ward insolvency, Mr.. Lawson's pri-
waite secretary, the first greeting which
the Bee correspondent received was the
statement that he surely wanted moth
ing as he had printed nothing i'm the
morning paper. He tried to explain, but
failed.
y few minutes later The corresponds
ent met Lawson. He was introduced
as a Bee representative. STRENGTHENING
up TO his full height and looking down
upon he gentleman who represented
EdWard ltosewater's paper, the author
OF .Ffenzied Finance" said:
on, yes, you are the man who did
not mention that we We're in the state
Well. Mir. Lawson, l was not there"
meekly responded the reporter, shocked
but not entirely squelched.
Il realize that you We're not-you
must have been absent" coolly am
sWered MIR. Lawson, With a touch of
kindly sarcasm.
rbj. kjos;ra fl, a,;. :. ..a.,
be taken to indicate two things. Mi.
Lawson may want advertising for per-
sonal reasons, in the event he is work.
ing u gigantic manipulation in securi-
ties; But. as Mas by this time thor
oueiliN "~LaWsoniZed," I take it he de-
SlreS to have his ADDRESSES Well reported,
that his gospel be spread among the
people.
After AL" he said 10 a little group
of newspaper men at Missouri Valley,
IF the people can't hear me, YOU know
what to say. They will read it, and
that is where the good is done"
Mr.. Lawson's plan to break up the
system is not u political doctrine at all
1t may be a little later. He says he
has no Time 10 ever think of accepting
political honors should he be nomi-
mated and elected tic high office us a
reward for his good work.
Some queer ideas, has this Lawson of
''fA nv 'ilpt.li Nto 4
nls money. He seems to think lie is do
ing Just the right thing with it. He has
a wonderful amoun of sense in dispos-
ing II it. He sail he could not con-
scientiouSly give ~ hack driver who
happened to be taking him to Il depot. u
large fec for the haste he had made on
the trip. because the fellow was just as
APT TO take the money and get drunk.
60 home and abuse his Wife and do an
infinite amount of harm, as he was to
take it aud a u monthly installment
on his furniture. He believes it TO be
ney, but when opportunity offers, and
he knows the money is sure to be right
ly used. The Boston millionaire shows he
has Il message from Mars or some
other planet and gives generously.
y number OF his party We're sitting on
the rear end of the train the other
evening, and one OF those self sacrifice
ms Women of the Salvation Army
wearing II straw bonnet and iingling
an instrument 10 the music of which no
less a person than Cleopatra danced.
stepped TO the platform, and asked
quietly:
Gould YOU help a "littlc?"
she probably did not know whom she
WAS addressing. MIR. lawson quickly
laid three bills in the tamborine,
enough To pay all the obligations of the
local army and lay in rations for
i'ioii'uS' dNllllIiiStef 10 many Il SICK per
son. or send flowers to dozens of bed
sides and furnish hundreds of bowls of
soup to the weary W~anderers-$3OO.
Wherefore, earnest, exalted, inwardly
Illuminated. magnetic, gentle and affec-
tomato, millionaire. and many times IL
millionaire. Thomas w. Lawson SEEM
ed to me, just what he said he was
Il patriot.
! decided to heartily endorse the SEN
tilnent OF an old man, feeble and wan,
who upon the platform where
Mr.. Lawson was speaking at Fairbury.
and, SraspinS the speaker by the hand,
said:
You mean a brighter and better day
for us all. God bless you, Thomas w.
Lawson of Boston,"
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