Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-07-15
FRENzlED FlNANclER SAYS HE
DOESN'T WANT EVEN THE
PRESIDENCY.
PREDICTS REVOLUTION
Says Red Rebellion VIII overtake the
Country Unless "The System is
Throttled-says People Who Hold
Stocks Should Sell Quickly.

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Des Moines, July Ito establish
a new basis for business and not to
gain the presidency. is the ambition of
Thomas w. Lawson of Boston, who
visited Iowa on Wednesday for the
first time since 1883.
"The presidency of the United States
is the greatest thing in the world" he
said in his private car at Missouri
Valley to q group Of newspaper repre-
sentatives, abut do not seek it: 1t
does not tempt me, and 1t Is not true
that it is my hope to win 1t by the
campaign am making
Il have quite different am bition. If
there shall come a time when the re-
tention of their surplus earnings shall
be guaranteed to the people who pro.
duce them in the sweat OF their faces,
shall be content. 1t will be monu-
ment enough for one man that he for
ever stopped the unrighteous absorp-
tion by the few of the earnings of the
many. .94,i, ~ @
The system has inflated the stocks
and bound securities representing the
Industrial machinery of the nation to
| $50 200, 900, 900. These stocks and
bonds are now at high price. Let the
people who hold them sell. Very
quickly, then. will the imitation disap-
pear and the securities assume their
actual value of twenty or thirty bill
lions.
my plan contemplates the perman-
ency of this nominated value. If the
people shall adopt.it they will effect a
reduction in interest, insurance and
freight rates which will guarantee
them the retention Of portion of the
fruits Of their labor now wholly alb.
lsorhed hg the system which iniquitous.
fair and reasonable return on the
A face value; Of these securities and
stock capitalization.
IF the people shall adopt my plan
well and good; II not, no one will be
hurt, shall have made q fool Of my
4 self and spent two millions doing ii
and the time of red revolution will
draw nearer and nearer
In Six Months.
Mr. Lawson was asked when the
crash in stocks predicted by him will
come and when the announcement o1
his plan may be expected
he said. "A short time ago it looked
4 like long time In the future but
events have conspired to hasten the
inevitable. The system is powerless
J to stop it.
| What dc. you expect it to do tt
: you?" he was asked.
J, Threaten everything, do nothing
Alfred Henry Lewis once visited me
and told him the story of the idol o
heather people in the far east. L
was of stone and forbidding Of aspect
A legend was attached to the image
and the people for centuries bowed tt
. it and crawled before it and Offered
sacrifice to save themselves from th,
blight which otherwise they. feared
from it.
well, one day. a man knew th,
stuff of which it was made, or guessed
q 1t, said noslonger would he bend kne,
to this terrible image and to convinc,
his fellows that 1t was powerles
walked up to it, spat upon it nd 'use,
it despitefully When it did not strik
him dead, nor moved, the peopl
awoke to the realization OF their thraIl
dom and it became common to snnit
Wv AAAAe16oO anu uSC IL
till, in time, there was none SO poo
as to do 1t reverence
well. for many years men said tn
system could blight and destroy an,
no man had the courage to spea]
above whisper before It, It is di1
ferent, now, | think.
why, the bootblacks on the street
OF New York today, even, think the,
have not fully discharged their dut,
to their government If they do no
toss cigar stump at William Rocke
feller as he passes.
The system's Popularity"
, ITS getting fashionable now u
) scratch a match on the nose Of tn
: system and spit on It's toe. Soon me,
: will blow cigarette smoke in It's ey
: with impunity, and now and then on
bolder than the rest will kick 1t in th
: stomach
They said was crazy, and talke
, of my pink and my horses, and toll
! what they were going to do to me
: Well, there were hose who said
4 would be drawn and quartere.. i
seven ways and would be destroyed
yet I am going. am writing toda
the fourteenth installment of my stor
i in Everybody's, the longest serial eve
s written, and it will continue till tn