The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-14
rs SYSTEM CORNERED?
Thomas w. Lawson Says Standard Oils
Burial Is Near. ..
journal Special Service.

journal Special Service.
has issued a signed statement, outlining
more, fully than before his view. of
Standard Oils immediate intentions
toward the public. Mr.. Lawson says:
"What does Rogers mean when he
says he has been cured Of the disease
he calls enterprise?' 49,.
"Your question is easy to answer
by anyone who has followed the ssnaky,
strangling course of STANDARD OIL and
the System
"Standard Oh and the System are
cornered-cornered as ARE rats who
have gnawed the bottom out of a ship
in midocean. s-z.,...E. = s. -.
}'t!During the past two years Standard
Oil and their dupe stock gambling asso-.
ciates have been loaded with billions
of stocks and bonds sold to them by the
people and the people. now own the
cash. But, owing to educational pub
licity the American people for the first
time in the history Of finance, refuse to
relieve Wall street of its burdensome
paper billions. r.. x,
- Big Heads Met.
HA short time ago the big heads Of
26 Broadway, in staid and solemn fam
lily conclave, admitted-to themselves
that they had been backed into cor
ner and that the last hope was to trick
Roosevelt into a saving alliance. Rog-
ers and Archbold were, chosen to pull
of the trick and, at midnight S1,3 at ths
master made the plea of his life. It
was a wondrously attractive picture
that Rogers painted, and he was elo-
quently assisted by the able Root.
Later I will unfold this picture to the
public gaze. ~ -
"Had Roosevelt succumbed, the face
of the world would have temporarily
Svengai was up against an irresponsible
subject, and the face of the world re-
manned undisturbed-that is, for the
time, for, at the previous System meet
ing the machinery was put in motion
which later will work vast upheavals.
"When Rogers reported back the life
or death campaign Of "Standard Oil
and the System was decided upon. IL
substance it was:
q Bring Roosevelt to terms By plac
ing between Standard Oil and the on
coming wrath Of the people all bu
Standard Oil capitalists.
"Accordingly plans were laid to un
load all STANDARD Oil securities: Thu
for months No. 2 Broadway has beef
bolstering up old pools, forming new
ones, promising its moneyed associate
rich deals to come in copper, steel ant
railroads. Rogers has been turning
the paper wealth Of No. rs Broadway
into cash. -. -:
What Rogers Meant.
q, "What Rogers meant was simpl,
this: His job is nearly complete. Fl
will Join the Rockefellers. When tn
gambling public of Wall street wake
up to stare at absolute ruin, Rogers will
say:
could do business no longer under tn
whip of crazy Roosevelt. We mean
all we promised but we could not knoy
that the American public would bac
up an insane president. It. is now u
to you. the capitalists Of America an
custodians of the peoples deposits, t
bring him to terms. If you can, we
and good. If you cannot the const
quences are yours to take upon you
selves ..-. E
'sRogers few announced readin
= tered turnout the world by Rogers ow
alton of active and aggressive war o
President Roosevelt and the America
people.
"The fight is: now on and Will
Standard Oil will give Roosevelt an
the Americans a big battle and muc
merry hell, you can put me down as b,
ing willing to wager my all against
year before last IS Panama that whs
Rogers said on July will go into histor
as the Introductory remarks 'of the b,
rial sermon of Standard Oil and tt
"-Thomas w. lawson