The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-02
LAWSON POINTS OUT
INSURANCE CRIMINALS
Boston Financier Says Recent
Investigation and Report
Was WhitewaShed.

BOSTON, March 1.-The Armstrong
insurance report is not drastic and
offers no cure for the real evils of the
insurance system Such Is the con-
cluslon of Thomas w. Lawson after a
careful examination of the document.
He does not intimate In any way that
the commission was not honest. He
does not hesitate TO say, however, that
the commission was under strong pres
sure.
The real criminals were white
washed the real evils OF the system
are not exposed. Nothing Is told that
the public does not already know. The
real criminals have not been held up
to public scorn. No call has been made
upon District Attorney Jerome TO put
the big bandits in stripes. Mr.. Law
son himself predicts that within a year
the men wno he thinks are really the
| Suiltiest OF all-John d. Rockefeller
and H. II, Rogers-will be suffering
for their wrongdoing.
The commission. he says, deliber-
ately avoided going after the big flnan-
clers. and he personally offered the
committee the evidence taken at prl-
Vate hearing In Boston that the insur-
ance companies financed TO the extent
OF Sl2,O0O.0OO the notorious New Eng
land Gas and Coke steal. The COM
mlttee declined to receive a copy OF
this evidence. They would not explore
any avenue on which the big men
might have to travel to States prison.
The Panic Bugaboo.
The committee. as It's report shows.
was led TO believe that If the investi-
gation was too thorough or the report
too drastic. it would result in revela-
tions that would necessitate investiga-
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| panic. Therefore they halted in their
examination and have turned I'm a re-
| port which is of little or no value as q
! cure for the evils of the system, or
! which by itself, or by being founded
on It, win prevent n recurrence OF
such evils, or make It impossible for
the same men TO recommit the same
| crimes.
THE committee was steered away
| from the real thieves" he says, The
committee has not showed n thing
! that the entire public did not know
| from reading the reports OF the hear
ings. except little paragraph about
the wickedness OF syndicates. They
led the chase right away from the syn
dlcates without mentioning who made
up the syndicates and where the poll
cy-bo!dcTs' money went.
Big Ones Got Millions.
am NllIbuEn WITH Nlle -ItNallS, lilS
! McCuTdys and the other poor small fry
that the insurance company puts all
the blame on Where they got tens
| OF thousands the men higher up got
millions. Those are the men which the
American Lubllc must get after.
Listen TO a prediction. Within
| year John u. Rockefeller H II. Rog-
eTs. and I don't know how many more
of their fellows. if living, VIII be wear
iDP StTlupS I'm the States prison
"They can't stop the wave that Is
| sweeping over the country. With the
people in control OF the companies and
an honest board of directors investl-
| eating and prosecuting the thieves that
have robbed I'm the past, their millions
VIII not count for much. They realize
| this and are moving heavGs- and earth
TO get control Of proxies.
Giving Away Policies.
They are cutting In prices on poll
cles rebating and even giving policies
away just TO get the proxies. l have
| a policy OF one OF tho big companies
| York Life or the Mutual-and an afii-
davlt from the man It is Issued TO that
he has never paid one dollar In money
| or any other equivalent for 1t, except
! to turn the proxy accompanying 1t 10
| the agent"
Lawson announces that as soor as ne
has a chance to get his breath he Will
Issue a statement telling the policy
holders how they can use the Arm
strong report TO their own advantage,
although 1t was not Intended TO have
that eject.
Then you VIII sec" he says. that
their plan TO make many thousands of
proxies worthless VIII not amount TO
anything-in fact, II will make the Sc
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