Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1905-07-14

Americans once get it firmly in their
heads that In their midst is a power
working for humiliation of their COM
forts, their happiness and their free
dom-once let them really make sure.
and they will rise and go forth, and
before they return there will have
been placed between the covers of
history pages that will need no book
mark for generations to open to; there
will have been added to the worlds
history pages so black and red that
those telling of the doings of ST.
Petersburg and Paris will appear as
though printed with chalk and water.
"You. don't like this thought
neither do I, but shall I remain silent
because the truths I must tell are
unpalatable and unfattering? 1t is
my duty to describe to you the terri
BILE conditions I see closing in upon
you SO you may be warned before it
is too late.''
''This is as good a place as any to
notify you that the high mystery
woven round finance by the systems
opinion moulders is all moonshine.
There is nothing about legitimate
finance any ordinary business mind
can not master, and nothing about
frenzied finance requiring either
great mental power or intuition to
grasp. I can hire from the news
paper, banking and law Offices of the
country 5000 men at from $4,000 to
$4,000 year each, whom in nine
months / can educate to become equal
in knowledge and capacity to the
socalled great fnanciers. I can not
show them how to become thieves and
thugs, but can equip them with an
understanding of all the devices used
in the game of making millions over
night"
Lawson then took up and discussed
a number of prominent fnanciers of
today.
John A. Mccall, president of the
New York Life Insurance company
at 100000 year few years ago,
he said was a $1,000 a year clerk.
He got into the state insurance de-
partment and there ''was an explosion
which was heard around the world.
President Beers was fired and John
A. Mccall who had learned so many
secrets was put in as president. From
his salary he has been able to save
during his REF incumbency SO far
ten to fifteen Millions"
James H. Eckles, comptroller of
the currency under Cleveland when
J. P. Morgan and associates got
fifteen million profits from under
writing bond issue, soon afterwards
was elected president of one of the
system S leading financial institutions.
Anthony N. Brady. bartender in
the Delevan house at Albany, ''the
gilded establishment where the
boodlers of the New York legislature
n.ade their headquarters, and having
no better customer than Standard
Oil with it's numbered legislative
wants to satisfy. now is director on
the great gas, electric light and trac-
ton corporations of the metropolis,
H. H. Rogers representative.
CATER 1 hollered ''thief" so loudly
the two factions in the, Equitable Life
Assurance society began grabbing for
the control of the institution, Lawson
continued, $50 as to put the evidence
of past robberies out of sight They
made such rumpus the authorities
were forced to take notice, How
did they deal with this terrific situa-
ton? Did they go out and select
some man of unquestioned probity to
rehabilitate the institution? No,
hurriedly they met and next morning
announced that the people need have
no further fear, for one Thomas F.
Ryan had purchased control of the
institution and would see that no one
else got away with the hundreds of
millions of savings the great Equitable
holds. Mr.. RYAN appointed Paui