The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-11-03

calico to the M oral sense of the Ameri'
can people. 1t is time some one
dragged YOU out of the Wall Street
conservatory and set you in the plain
1kIte light of daily life. 1t is time
you were shown yourself as you are
to3ay seen by the millions of your
cOuntIymen who, a month ago. be-
heVed you to re great and honorable
MAN.
In spite of the terrible exposures OF
the past few weeks, IN spite OF the
pItiless revealment OF yourself and your
directors as tricksters in spite of the
zayelliDg of the jugglery, grating,
and corruption of your administration
of the most sacred trust that can be
conhded to man, you remain unccn-
Yinced of your fall and unprecedented
BY your shame Fortified by the sym
aathy of your fellow sinners, you
imagine your audacious buster and
youI sly eygslons before the lDvestl-
eating Com nitree of the State of New
York represented shrewd generalship
aud able strategy, forgetting that the
enemy against whom your maneuvers
we're directed was the American people
and that, in inquisItion, your charac-
Ter and reputation were as absolutely
before the TAR as though you had been
INDICTED foI sequestration of the funds
Of some dead friend s wife.
Throughout this broad country of
suIs are good Americans who have
Ilaved aad toiled to gather up the hun
sIeds of dollars which You nave
sxactsd from them yearly as the price
Of the future livelihood CT their wives
and children or rs the provision fol-
thelr own old age You have made
youI self the custodian of these funds
Hnuer sacred pledge Of square dealing
and safe ana honest administration.
You bave made yourself the national
executor, the great depository of the
moneys of the widow and orphan. You
have cried your virtue and honorable
ness from the housetops, and, under
the stress of your pleadings, hundreds
Of millions of dollars have been con-
Sded to you annually-scores of mil
hons of the nation have been turned
into your Golfers, all because you in
nsted that you were honest beyond all
ather men, and that the dear ones left
integrity for support.
And it is with the moneys that
might at any time have been claimed
by these widows and orphans that you
have been rigging syndlcates, deDauch
ing legislatures manipulating stock
markets and doing other things which
will be proven later. Instead of en-
ptOy ing the vast power and the i'm
mense wealth entrusted TO you to con-
serve toe interests of your policy
holders, you have made yourself part
of the cruel robb ug machine which
the System has created to deprive
tue American people of their savings.
Under the pretense of seeking profitable
Investment, your corporation has been
perverted into vast stock gambling
agency. You have hlled the high
places in your corporation with your
o0sD children and relatives. and their
relatives, and conferred on them great
salaT Aes out of which they have grown
1ich. You have paid out to friends
and associates, on various pleas,
snOLmous sums that rightly belonged
30 your policy holders. You have done
all these things habitually, yet today
You describe the investigation being
conducted INTO your operations as an
impertinence and secretly you regard
this inquisltion and all that pertains
to 1t as a waste of time ana energy.
You are unrepentant, q ASHAMED, and
defiant.
shal, re this opportunity. sir, of
povleYtug our own relations during
the pasy -ear and contrasting your
position totay with that you Doasted
twelve months ago
One year ago in Everybody's Maya
xgne, i SD:
The or7Jors. trustees. and officials
OF the Big Thee life insurance COM
panies have been and are now squan
aering tneir policy holders money.
They are grafters- mean, contemplate
gratters
gave specific instances of their
NhieVeries
You replied, not by hallng me to
soart, INT by:
Circulating throughout the world
Documents by the millions dispaIag
ing my reputation by advertisements
and new and editorial sCate-
ments fro your subsidized insurance
press, denying my charges and attack
ing my character, all at the expense of
your policy holders and without their
knowledge or approval
You lloeled me In thousands of prl-
vate letters to policy holders, many OF
which came back TO me.
You employed James M, Beck, ex
Assistant Attorney General of the
United States. then and now chief at
tOrney for Henry II. Rogers, the
Standard Oil Company, the System,
ana the Mutual Life Insurance Com
psny, to ridicule my rttaIances and
aspsrse my honor in addresses in the
CITIES of PhiladelpIa and Boston.
You employed James Fl. Eckels, ex
Comptroller of the Currency of the
UuiteG States. now president of the
Com neIclal Bank and representative
of the system" in the West. to attack
nay arguments and distort my motives
IN Cnlcago.
You ordered Vice pesident Perkins,
81 the New York Life Insurance Com
psny, TO perform similar service in
HnllautlpnIa and
The burden OF all these documents,
advertisem ants, disguised advertise
ments and addresses was: Lawson
il an unnitigated liar and scoundrel,
whose sole reason for attacking the
insurance companies is that we refused
hlm insurance.