The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-16
LAWSON FACES Ruin.
The System Is Pounding the Finan-
ciaI Life Out of Him.

New York, Dec. 16.-The friends of
Thomas ". Lawson who asserted that
the Boston operator, who has been
trying to bear Amalgamated Copper
had coined the procession" and
cleared up a fortune with the rise Of
copper, were as far from the facts as
Lawson was from the safe side OF the
market. The facts are that Lawson
lost instead of winning a fortune by
his failure to force "coppers' down.
Lawson admits that H. H. Rogers the
RockefelIers and their Standard Oil
crowd landed a smashing blow on him
in retaliation for his attacks on the
System" and his revelations as to
"F'renzied Finance
The Boston operator has issued a
statement in which he admits loss
to date of s3.4OO,OOO.
The Standard Oil crowd pushed up
all Amalgamated to 1924, establish
ing new high record since the boom
of 1901, and verifying their prediction
of ten days ago that the stock would
cross par before Christmas. With
grave faces they assured the public
that the reason why Copper was going
up was because it was scarce. The
Standard Oil clique freely predicted
! 2O-cent copper, and assured their
friends in Wall street that AmaIga-
mated would go to 10 before New
Years day.
LAWSUITS ACtIHllSSlOHs
Lawson's admission of his losses
comes in advertisements in the New
| York papers, headed ITO the SYSTEM -
He says:
In beginning my operations today,
/ which will be along lines have pre-
/ frank world with Wall street and the
| system. My portion of the $500, 600
remaining of my first pool Of 10 mill
/ lion dollars and Of the million dollars
| additional, $11,6 500, 0O0, embraces every
/ dollar Of my fortune. If my operation
is unsuccessful, [ shall lose all of it,
| which will mean I shall have lost Is
million dollars belonging to myself and
/ to those who have had faith enough
I in me to join me. 1t viii mean I have
/ sacrificed every dollar and thing OF
worth belonging to me upon which ]
! could raise a dollar to back UP the
( principles have publicly set forth.
! Therefore, this is the opportunity for
/ the street and the system once and for
/ all to do me up and get me off their
! trail. So, with my eyes open, 1 begin
/ the work, and thus far have made
/ great financial losses, but in the doing
I I have shown this fact so that all can
! see.
1.-THE system in the face of the expo
/ sure of its frauds has no better defense
/ than a counter demonstration in the
maket. Its reply to just denunciation
! of its methods is to use its countless
! millions to put up the price of stocks
/ so, at any cost, may be discredited. II
my operations which begin today are
/ successful expect to secure profits OF
/ 100 to 200 per cent upon the amount
with which I will tackle the system
My shares of these profits will devote
to the further exposure Of the SYSTEM
methods until such time as destroy it
4 If fail the world will know it by my
! public bankruptcy, in which event ]
shall be compelled to fall back upon
my pen, unaided with moneyq, to fight
the battle to finish
an this final word, I would say tc
the public and that large following
which 1 have been so many years
building up, that I promise in my
present operation either to vindicatt
my past advices or to give the system
such a quick and merry battle thai
they and the world will know they
have been to the wars"