The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-14
IS NOT UT
 AFIR OFFICE Tom !y.wson Has No fs1.''al a@ Ambitions OTHER WORK TO BE DONE Thirsts for Blood of DeSpised
 system" Famous Creator of "Frensied Finance' Deliyers at St. Paul . Charac-
 teristic, straight-from-
 Shoulder Speech.
OTHER WORK TO BE DONE

St. Paul, July 13.-I have no politi- cal ambitions. I could not accept po- litical office were 1t rendered me. l have work cut out which even If devote eighteen hours per day to IL. will last me until I am over 90 years old-too old to think of political hon. ors.''
 So said Thomas w. Lawson. in an address to a large audience at the Peo- ple's Church in this city tonight.
 MT. Lawson did not deliver set speech; he talked informally in con- versational tone, devoting his time In answering a series of questions pro- pounded to him by Q local newspaper. He declared that should his so-calied remedy be put into effect there would be no political revolution; the various parties would go on battling for their principles as heretofore.
 But a great financial revolution there would be; there would be no more stock imitation; the money stolen from the people by the System" would be returned to the people and, because railroads and industrial corporations would have only to earn fair percent age of the true value of their invest ments, the cost of living would be re- duced and wage earners would be able to enjoy greater luxuries and to lay by a greater portion of their earnings.
 As to when he would propound this remedy he said that 1t would be fool ish to make it known until the people were ready for it: otherwise the "Sys- tenn would find means to render it non- effective. The people must first get rid of their stocks and bonds: sell them to the System" at the present inflated prices and then, when the System" was forced to let them go, the people should buy them back cheaply and forever keep the control in their own hands.
 Lawson's Remedy.
 When this had been accomplished. his remedy. which he declared to be a sim pie business proposition, could be put into force and there would never again be imitation of capital stocks. As to whether or not his plan was a dan gerous one. he replied that 1t wss-- that is, dangerous for the other fel- low" panic might ensue; in fact, he hoped and believed a panic would en- sue, but not until the people had sold their stocks to the System"
 My friends" said Mir. Lawson. Wall Street is nothing but a machine-a trick machine. Every year Rockefel- Ter, Rogers, Morgan and others of their class run the American people through that machine from one end to the other; and, as they pass through. the money in their pockets falls into the systems" bucket. What I pro- pose to you Is simply to reverse the op- eration; run the System through the other way and In that manner separate them from their ill-gotten gains and make them return their stolen millions to their rlghtful owners-the Ameri- can people" .~"
 Of the insurance question he said that his fight was not against honest insurance and he believed that most of the insurance companies were based upon honest principles. Some of them. however, were run in a dishonest man ner. He expected to bring suits against certain companies on behalf of 5000 policyholders in an effort to se- cure restitution of moneys wrongfully retained; and these suits would be prosecuted to the end. +-" s..~