Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-10-14
ROW LAWSON TO THE rRoNr.

Thomas w, Lawson will not
subside, he will NOT be hushed;
and perhaps after all it is Law
sons time to crow and to re-
mind the insuring public in the
vernacular of the conjugal rela-
ton: ~ told you So" for about
a year ago, he Of "Frenzied Fl
nance" did a stunt in life insur-
snce exposure that unqnestion-
ably walked up the country. In
a series o articles in Everybody's
magazine he gave a hint Of the
things revealed by the investi-
eating committee and set a good
many policy holders thinking.
He charged that fhe big three
were employing the funds of
their companies in all kinds Of
stock jobbing operations and in
dustrial explorations and recent
revelations only confirm his
charges, that were regarded by
many as gross exaggcrations if
not altogether unfounded. 1t is
Thomas VS. time to talk and
he seizes it as follows:
IL make the solemn and positive as
sertion that, before all the investiga
tons are finished, before the sworn evil
dencs Of the fnanciers Of the leading in
surance companies in this country which
have been ~pluniered il fnished, theirs
will be anywhere from 100 to $50 men.
now posing "a men of affairs Wall
street magnates and m%auipulators of
insurance funds, doing time in state
prisons for terms varying from eight
years to life,
1.-The first thing to be accomplished is
TO demand AMI secure restoration of the
millions that have been stolen. There
are certain men That must be detained
and placed on the witness stand before
they can get out # the country with
their millions.
-"Jalnes II HYDE is working night
and day TO dispose Of all his property
and get out of the United States before
the arm of the law can reach him.
James II. Hyde must be placed on the
stand and forced to confess what he
knows.
Il propose to the policy holders of
this, country ttat they organize and
then appoint delegates, one delegate to
every FIVE or ten, or fifty policy holders
in "A town or county.
Let this delegate come 10 New York
and there meet 10. 900 delegates from
other parts of the Union,
Il am prepared to bear the p%relin,i
nary expense of such a movement; we
will engage Madison Square Garden
and hold daily meetings.
By such a show % strength we can
command the respect of any legislative
investigating committee. Such a COM
mlttee would investigate along the lines
desired by such an influential and intel
ligent body of men.
''At that time | will present 10 that
convention Of policy holders-not d con-
vention Of life Insurance agents sitting
down to feasts provided by Mccall aud
Hyde. iiy filing the feasts of Lucullus
and paid for with policy holders money
"a diagram of the buildings in New
York where the stolen funds are Sc
GREETED, the homes OF men built by
plundering insurance policy holders,
and then in red letters on that diagram
| will mark ''26 Broadway' the home
of Standard Oil, the chief criminal in
the list F"
The utterance commands more
attention today than If would
have received a year ago; in
some respects Lawson has made
good; he has fought in the open
and held his own astonishinglv
well, When he first began his
sensational disclosures about the
methods of Wall street, the pub
lie was more or loss incredulous,
and read his "Frenzied Finance"
articles more for diversion than
for information; but time has
changed that attitude and feel
ing, and what he says today is
received with distinctly more
consideration that his earlier
charges, although allowances
must be still be made for hyper
bole.-Meridian Star.