The copper era., 1906-02-22
LaWSOn'S Latest.

To Thomas w. Lawson must be
given the credit for working one of
the greatest freeze-out games ever
conceived, and on absolutely new and
original lines.
His "Frenzied Finance" campaign
against Amalgamated Copper has
fooled nation. The~pubfic, unware
that Ama1gamated was rich to burst
ing in withheld profits, threw its Sc
curties, at any old price, into the
waiting arms of members of the sys-
tem-Lawson's system-who were
very well aware of the 1927 200, 900
net profits then accruing. And while
the public was, scrambling from under
holding it's breath in anticipation
of the fearul punishment that would
be meted out by the STANDARD Oil
Crowd" to this daring teller of damn
ing truths, the delighted magnates
were busy catching fruit which their
good friend was shaking for them
from the over-ripe Amalgamated
tree.
The schemes was colossal in its i'm
pudence, amazing in its success-and
there are signs that it is to be tried
again.
To review the situation very briefly
When the tree had been shaken till
there was no more fruit, "Frenzied
Finance" articles against Amalga-
mated suddenly ceased. It. was nee
essary to do something, and the life
insurance exposures served the turn
admirable, furnished the public with
real scandals of such stupendous i'm
port that Amalgamated was well-nigh
fogotten. Nevertheless prices for
Amalgamated have steadily ad-
vanced, and the stock is now quoted
at S114 per share.
Has the public again absorbed a
goodly portion of the shares at high
prices? Is the fruit again ripe and
is there to be another shaking of
the tree? Read the following special
dispatch from Boston to the Los An
giles Times, of February 3rd date:
''Thomas w. Lawson's mysterious
information, which he has frequently
asserted will demoralize the copper
market, was made public in an article
published in the Boston Herald in
which it is stated that discovery has
been made by DIR. Alexander Shields,
physician and chemist, by which it
is asserted commercial copper can be
manufactured at cost of 2 cents per
pound.
Just how this result has been OBJ
tanned has been kept a secret, but or
binary low-grade iron is said to be the
basis of it. DIR. Shells is said to have
discovered a method of disassociating
iron ore into certain constituent parts
and by placing these in conjunction
with certain other elements produc-
ing copper at price that is no
greater than that quoted above.
"Mr. Lawson is said to have abso-
lutte confidence in the success of the
Glasgow chemists discovery and has
built his stock-market campaign upon
it'
Clever Mr. Lawson! The "Frenzied
Finance" scheme was magnificent in
conception but it pales befor this.
To libel those in the deal, as men
were never before libeled; with blist-
ering arraignment of its officers to
hammer down the price of Amalgam-
ated; to stop when the public had
been squeezed of its last share and to
furnish it with truths so startling
that there has been no time nor in
clination to think of the preceding
,crime-all this was mastery. And
now that it is to be done again, will
nothing less than the transmutation
of metals serve? To fool a nation
was truly great-to fool the world will
be sublime.-Los Angeles Mining Re-
view.