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. a
; One year ago in Everybody's Maya
zine. ! said: y
-The 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."
l gave specific instances Of their
tkieyeries.
You replied. not by haiing 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 theiI
knowledge or approval.
You libeled me in thousands of pri.
vate letters to policy-holders, many OF
which came back to me-
Z 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 MutualIife 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 adyer.
tisements and addresses was: Law.
son is an unmitigated liar and a scoun-
drel, whose sole reason for attacking
the insurance companies is that we re.
fused him insurance"
l 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.
l In turn repeated my charges, and
instanced cases Of perjury, bribery.
and false statements.
! stated that your claim that your
company did not own, nor loan upon
stocks was false, and that 1t was made
for the purpose of misleading and i'm
posing upon your policy-holders.
officials and investors.
You answered this by writing 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 delhi.
erately, for his own purposes, makes
charges to the contrary which he
knows to be false"
To day You and your fellow plumber
.eis 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
these trust funds for the benefit of
your pockets. To-day the world is
aghast at your pertidy and amazed at
your temerity.
Notwithstanding the turpitude al.
imagine you can so conduct yourself
Imagine you can so conduct yourself
rs 70 prevent the investigators from
fastening on. You and your associates
lie more desperate crimes that have
teen committed in the past-the $50