The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-21
FINS ON LAW SON S
'FRENz|ED FINANCE
But the Boston stockmarket sa-
want bitches a String to
1.-THE End. 3
New York Herald special service..

New York Herald Special Service.
New York, Jan. 20.-Thomas w.
Lawson has at last written THE End =
after his long serial upon Frenzied
Finance. In the February number of
Eyerybody's magazine he has a final
tilt at Henry II. Rogers, tells how the
'smug men of Boston undertook to
reorganize the Massachusetts, gas com
panies, draws character sketch Of j.
Edward Addicks, which is a masterpiece
of Lawsorian satire, and Introduces a
new figure. into his story Holier
Than Thou'' Pepper, named as receiver
in the Bay state gas ENHANCEMENT.
The article is prefaced by an editor s
note, which declares it to be !. actually
the final chapter of Frenzied Finance
But in his epilogue Lawson hints at
another propaganda. Having educated
the people in the ways of the "Sys-
tenn, he promises at some future date
to bring forward an antidote for it,, his
" Remedy,'' and. as additional assur-
will not be Idle, even if g Frenzied Fl
nance is finished, announcement is
made that 'sin the March number Mr..
Lawson will in his ow nforcible way
show what the inquisition has revealed
and how much has been concealed
p What Lawson s'Eas Done" = :
4: Mr.. Lawson. summarizes his work in
the following fashion: : .... @...sf :. +,
= Twenty months ago, when I began
this history, I said: Il shall, tell You
OF. things and conditions I have seen
that you. may know what is going on
among you, and so can stop what is and
make: impossible what is on the way
[ shall write truthfully, plainly, bluntly
so you may all see, feel and understand
and 1 shall spare none-not myself, nor
those with whom have been associated
for if what I have, to say is worth tax.
ing at my weighing and the price paid
accordingly, the sacrifice Of a few men
more or less will be Of slight conse.
quence compared with the use the world
can make of the knowledge that I shall
impart to the world z .~ :
!. My story is now spread before you
and it is for you to decide whether OF
not l have made good my promise. ]
have said what have had to say-and
have finished. The evidence and the
argument are before you. I await your
verdict, confident that it will not differ
from those [ have just cited.
1.-The story recited in these pages il
but the necessary prelude to PROPOSE
tion, the demonstration of which I an
about to begin. Il e.. =. ~.
.. -, His Remedy. .... ~ g. &c
|. 49, 90 The publication of my remedy i.
another matter, however. It calls fo]
quite different form Of exposition
and from now on I shall perhap
erect on the side of calmness, studio,
evenness of statement and sobriety O
recommendation. Not, indeed, that
throw away the pen with which
"Frenzied Finance'' was written, 70
the crimes set forth therein have man,
prototypes calling as loudly for tn
scourge and the scalpel, and in tn
course of time, when the mathematic
and economics of my remedy have bee
given to the people, I shall return t
the performance of other American row
'alties whose millions have been crimpe
and gathered by methods as devilish a
those of Standard Oil and Amalga
mated.'' ~ Q,