The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1905-11-02

atiye of the system" I'm the West,
TO attack my arguments and distort
my motives in Chicago.
You ordered viee-President Per-
kins. OF the New York Lille Insur-
ance company, 10 perform similar
services In Philadelphia; and
The burden of all these documents,
advertisements, and disguised adyer-
tisements and addresses was: Law
son is an uumitigated liar and scoun-
irel, whose sole reason for attacking
the insurance companies Is that we
refused him insurance.
replied by printing your letter TO
me, wherein you importuned me to
accept insurance In your company.
Again you gave inc the lie, and pto-
nounced your letter spurious.
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. aud that IL vas
made for the purpose Of misleading
and imposing upon your policy hold
ers, banks, trust companies, Govern
ment officials, and investors.
| You answered this by writing let
ter to one CT the great churcbmen OF
America, and In II you said: II
pledge you my word OF honor this
company has never, since 1899, had
dullar's interest, directly or indirect
ly, In any stock. Lawson knows this,
and deliberately, for his own base
purposes, makes charges TO the con
trary which he knows TO be false"
Today you aud your fellow plunder'
ers stand convicted In the eyes ol
the world not only OF Juggling the
moneys OF the widow and the orphan
In the stock. market. but OF manipu
lating these trust funds for the ben
eft OF your own pockets. Today The
world Is aghast at your perhdy an'
amazed at your temerity.
Notwithstanding the turpitude al
ready exposed To the people, You still
imagine you can SO conduct yoursel
as 10 prevent the investigators from
fastening on you and your associate
the more desperate crimes that hay
been committed In the past-tbe 10
to 200 millions stolen and diverted o
used In corruption. You know as
do that only the very edges OF thi
national cesspool have yet been un
covered. You know that not onl
have the ballot box and the letsgla
ture at Albany been tampered with
but the law-making and administer
ing machinery OF other states col
rupted, the Federal Governn ent SUI
rounded, and certain OF the judiciar
! of America educated"
: You believe yon can keep the ev
l dence Of these crimes from the Amel
lean people by the same kind OF blu
: and enrontery with which you me
my tirst charges. But you have nil
taken the tempers OF our country mel
| have been authorized In writing h
over u, 900 policy. holders, carryin
over 81 millions OF insurance, to az
for them.
had intended TO await the tinis
OF the New York Investigation b.
fore proceeding, but as | have ha
placed In my hands during the pa
few days evidences OF the determine
tion OF yourself and your accomplici
u and fellow conspirators 10 face IL OF
= regardless of consequences, and as
" believe men capable OF committir
y the acts that have been testified
. during the past few days fully capah
l. OF taking the transportable part OF Il
billion and quarter funds to foreis
70 countries, and OF using them to ke'
u themselves from their justly deser
4" ed punishments, | have decided
> act now.
y In sending you this open letter,
- am only actuated by desire TO bril-
~ you and your associates TO such
. sense Of the seriousness of your p0'
J. tion that you will see it Is usele
d longer To defy the American people
Yours, Tor the Exposure OF CorpC
i alton Sneak Thieves,
~ Thomas W. Lawson.