The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-20
GAMBLED ON MR. 'K|NLEY'S DEATH Lawson Tells More of Standard
 Oil Methods KIND WORDS FOR MORGAN Says Morgan's Code of Honor Is ln- comparabIy Higher Than That
 of Rogers and
 Rockefeller.
KIND WORDS FOR MORGAN

New York November 19.-(Special.)-- How the system trafflcked In the life-blood of President Mckinley, rigging the stock market on the thread that joined the soul and body of the beloved chief executive of the nation after the assassln's bullet had reached its mark, forms the sensational subject to which Thomas W. Lawson de- votes a few chapters of the December Everybodys Magazine. The author of ''Frenzied Finance Is approaching the end of his story of Amalgamated, which, with its digressions here and there, its startling portraiture of men of high finance and pillars of the social and polit- ical structure of the nation, and its sen- sational personal confessions" has had the country by the ears for a year and a half. The pitiess ardor of the narrator continues 10 scourge the votaries of the system as the tale hears its close. The alleged machinations and explorations of Standard Oil in the dark days of the na- tlon's sorrow Is the current installment of exposure and the subsequent reputed pi- ratical operations of the Rogers-Rocke- feller clique form climax.
 "A few hours after the assassin's bullet had struck the President the masters of Standard Oil, grasping the dangers as well as the possibilities of the tragedy. took prompt measures to mold events to their advantage" says MT. Lawson after picturing the tranquil seas on which the argosies of high finance were sailing in ba lot of had quickly concluded that a panic must fol- low the death of Mckinley and that the prices of securities would drop with a crash. To dispose of the stocks they had on hand was the first essential step; the next to sell the market short, so as to make the disaster yield a tribute of gold. To execute these moves 1t was necessary to restore stability temporarily, so that the market could be put into condition to absorb the millions of securities that must be sold before the inevitable crash occurred. At once the superb machinery of the great institution was put in mo- tion. Its most distinguished emissaries were stationed around the fatally wound ed President. These had their instruc- tons-to be optimistic to see that no un- favorable news got out of the invalid : chamber; to make the world believe that recovery was possible even certain. In the meantime the financial kings would take advantage of the respite.
 How could Standard Oil' get control of the person of the President? I hear my readers ask increduously 1 showed you last month that MT. Rogers was able to exhibit to Senator Clark the signatures of a majority of the United States Senate ! .,Ia t,t.x with this demonstration of power this was simple. Are not the great lawyers and business of the country. the mer who are selected for cabinet positions often retainers and employees of Standard i oil? Or they are likely to have interests | in common with that great organization which compel them to take orders from it's leaders. What more simple and prop CT that such men should have been opti- mistic In this situation? And that Is all that Mir Rogers and his fellow plotters required.
 How eminently successful the conspiracy was all who recall the incidents connect ed with the tragedy will remember. The President was shot on Friday, September G. By the following Monday the news was on the way to the four corners o1 earth, President Mckinley is better; ht will recover Each day almost right UT to the death gasp bulletins from the care fully guarded house in Buffalo told of i'm. provement; so that during that memora ble week the stock market recovered anc became almost buoyant, while all the time stocgs and bonds to untold values issued from some mysterious source and were exchanged for the peoples money.
 My readers may well gasp at the bruta callousness of the plot l have outlined They may well shudder at, the ghoulisf greed that would turn national calamity into gold harvest. But what is there | incompatible with the spirit of frenzec finance in such hideous thrift? Do not our philanthropic insurance presidents risk the savings of widows and orphans in stock speculation? Do they not divert the revenues of a kingdom into their owi and their relatives pockets? Have not patriotic packers supplied our soldiers with embalmed beef? Have not certain eminent merchants made millions out oi shoddy uniforms and paper boots for oui armies in the field? In the despotism oi dollars greed is the ruling motive: loy- atty, generosity, any sentiment of friend ship or of pity are fatuous extravagances that interiors with progress"
 Mir Lawson then tells of the stock mar. ket conditions at the close of the caam- itous September week. and of the further slump that was expected with the re opening of the exchanges the followins Monday. Why the expected drop did mol take place was due. according to Lawson tO the nreSooce in tho field of o,, ipH,,ano.