The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-14
LAWSON ADMITS HE HAS
 WR0NGED THE PEOPLE
DID so IN ACCOMPANYING HIS SEVERAL MILLIONS OF
 DOLLARS.

Declares When Time Comes He will
 Give the Money Back to Them-Says
 Every Dollar of ROckefeIIer's Half
 Billion Was Got DishonestIy-If He
 Lives Long Enough Will Make Ameri-
 can People Sell Every Dollars Worth
 of stock They Have.
 Minneapolis, Minn., July 1S.-Thomas w. Lawson of. Boston was the guest of the Minneapolis Commercial club to- day, Mir. Lawson spoke before 200 members of the club after luncheon. He said in part:
 t'I have several millions myself and wronged the American people in get ting them. But I did not know it at the time When the time comes I will give that money back to them
 "John D. Rockefeller is worth $500,- 000,000 and can sit down and show you il weeks time how he got every penny of it. There is no secret about it. Every dollar that John D. Rockefeller has he got dishonestly.
 If live I'm going to make the American people sell every dollars worth Of stock they have and by that time they'll know better than to buy back.s
 MT. Lawson scored the Equitable Life Assurance company severely.
 St. Paul NIinn., July 13.-Thomas w. Lawson of Boston gave a talk to q large audience at the Peoples church tonight. Mr. Lawson declared that should his so-called remedy, which he did not make public, be put into effect there would be great financial revo1u- ton, there would be no more stock in- fIation, the money stolen from the peo- pie by the system would be returned to the people and because railroads and financial corporations would have only to earn a fair percentage on the true value of their Investments, the cost of living would be reduced and wage-earn- CTS would be able to enjoy greater lux uries and to lay by a greater portion of their savings.
 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 system would find means to render it non-ef- fective The people must first get rid of their stocks and bonds, sell then to the system at the present Inflated prices, and then when the system is forced to let them go the people should buy them back eheaply and forever keep the control in their own hands When this had been accomplished his remedy, which he declared to be a sinl- pie business proposition, could be put Into force, and there would never again be imitation of capital stocks. As to whether his plan was dangerous one. he replied that it was; that ts-danger- Dus flor the other fellow" A panic might ensue; in fact he hoped and be- Meved a panic would ersue, but not un- til the people had sold their stocks to the system. My friends" said Mr. Lawson, 'tWall street is nothing but g. trick machine. Every year Rockefeller, Rogers, Morgan and others of their class run the American people throughil the machine from one end to. the other, and as they pass through the money in their pockets falls into the system'a pockets. What I propose to you is simply to reverse the operation, run the system through the other way, and In that manner separate them from their i'll gotten gains Sand return their stolen millions to the rightful owners, the American people"