The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-12-01
Says His Plan Will Restore
Confidence and Will 0bviate
Necessity for New Currency
Laws or Other Laws.
MEN OF THE HARTMAN
KIND ARE NOT NEEDED.
Except for Schemes and Plots
To PilIage People in Defi-
ance of Existing Laws
Are Double Dealers.

Thomas W. Lawson's famous and
much-waited for communication re-
garding the present crisis in America s
financial and industrial affairs, is at
hand. Under the title THE Crisis, Its
Cause and Cure" Mr.. Lawson address
es remarkable communication to
President Roosevelt and calls upon
him to rid the country once and for all
time OF the ruthless money robbers OF
Wall Street. The communication is
too long to be produced in full. In this
communication to the president Law
son says:
Until the beginning of the present
"crisis" the System had found no way
TO accomplish your discrediting.
Upon the second day of the panic
the System saw the light it had been
seeking.
After getting the panic in hand the
System determined to prolong the at
tending crisis" until you, becoming
fearful of the threatened disaster to le-
ultimate business. especially in the
South and West. would advocate new
legislation, particularly new currency
moves.
THE System planned to force you
through your trusted associates un.
sound advice. into an untenable posi-.
tion, and as soon as you were on rec
ord as advocating unsound and impos.
eibie relief measures, its intent was to
show the people that such measures
tended to disaster, and If possible, that
the moves you recommended were lille.
gal.
The System decided to have labor
thrown out of employment wholesaled
ly. to the end that the empty winter
dinner pail would make your re-elec
ton impossible. The System, direct
~ and indirectly controlling many o1
the great abor-emplOying industries II
the country, ordered that every per
son possible be discharged and wher
discharged, that they be informed that
the reason for such action was ina
bility to finance business" because 81
lack of confidence" which you had de
stroyed by your reckless acts and
talk"
''lp my capacity as financial expert
I desire to-46ord my belief that
If, on November Is you had publicly
said to the System in that straight
from-the-Shoulder language you USED
at Provincetown and at Nashville:
Il have taken due notice of the pres
ent crisis. 1t has made plain my du
ty to all the people, and | say agair
,x.
before | will not recede Il step FROM
my road. | know the cause of thi.
crisis is the looting of banks and trus
companies by the use of stocks an
bonds with bogus values. know tn,
cause is not in the country's currency
IF you had said this to the people
the crisis, by :he time congress meets
would have been thing of the past
There would be no use for any new
legislation. Prosperity would returl
with a rush. There would be n,
wholesale discharge of labor and on
country would have taken on re
newed life and prosperity and the on
ly consequences would be:
A score or two of suicides o
scoundrels who have brutally robbie
the people.
A few score new-made convicts fror
the same class.
The closing up of few score bank
and trust companies controlled b
these scoundrels and the exposure O
losses amounting to two or three bill
ions Of dollars, but which have alread
been absolutely lost. and the assumr
tion of these losses by few innocen
people and by many guilty men who's
actions have brough such loss about.
Had you done this. the Syster
wculd have been wiped out and in it