Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-11

cotton crop Of the country, the Nancns proudest boast Uhesmounsahe
system has been able 20 make has been limited only by the amount OF
surplus the people have accumulated during their periods Of prosperity
W the president government and all the institutions of the country
was burned into the minds of all last october, when in spite of President
Roosevelts almost superhuman efforts 10 bring the dollar lords within
the grip Of the law, the system deliberately precipiated the most dis
astrous panic in the history of all the world. over 100 banks and trust
companies were wrecked, over 15 men and women committed suicide
and over 100 we're turned into conIcts. Thousands were thrown out OF
employment, cash payments by banks. trust companies and corporations
to labor and depositors were suspended and the produce Of farms was
allowed to rot because nc money could be had to move It. During tns
Srom ~ neonIa iSIS n for smseIve a slaughter prices, billions Of
dollars worth of stocks. bonds and property which the panioOrahed
people rel compelled to throw Over to meet loans they had been led Il
believe would take car of themselves and to protect their business arms
and homes During this panic, the system dropped prices zen si"Ooor
100000. For instance. 100000, 900 Union Pacific. from 1se to 1905
S1SO,OOOOOO St Paul, 176 to 90; 11S5,OOOOOO AmalsamateL $50 10 20,
and SC o through the list of hundreds of railroads and industrial stocks
the system. The property and securities which were gobhed up during tn
panic by the Rockefeners. Morgans, Harrimans-he system-already
show the system by the rise in stocks and bonds which has occurred
since the October panic, a profit of S2OoO,ooOoOO Is it not time Q
the masses-the American peope-to cease playing the ole OF asses 70
the system-yes. asses They will tell you. these otherwise Intelligent
people. that the price of stocks and bonds Is n affair of theirS because
they never buy II sell any. Let me boil this tremendous question to an
A B c point A certain western bank had a large amount OF te DE
a New York bank. This New York bank loaned them out to system
victims, taking a. collateral Union Pacific R. R stock at $50, Reading
R. R. stock at $50. Steel Trust stock !. SO and Tennessee Goal and Iron
stock 1T leo. In the panic the New York bank could not sci 1t collateral
and it busted. and the system bought from it Union Pacific at IO, lead
ing at 20. Steel Trust 1t 20 and Tennessee Coal and Iron at So and the
will not hear anything about until the next panic, when, because of these
secret losses and others o a like nature. the Western bank buHS Now
my intelligent Western friends, you who never buy IT sell stocks and
bonds, and. therefore. arc not interested In the dOings of Wall street.
who do you guess got the money you lOstG Let is sea The Union Pa
cic 3. R stock which the system bought at 100 they sell today at 1876
the Reading they bought at 10 they al sell today at 1875 the Tennessee
bought at 20 is very active today lay t It ~ a. Snd: s o qS opSsa nS% q, a ditf S@
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estates all over the country are nocking to Wall street with tn pro,
oeeds Il their July dividends and coupons and putting them int steel
at As nd 1t looks like a good investment, too, although 1t would nave
perhaps been wiser II these trustees had bought Il ~. n lac
and orphans did not buy a 20. No, they sold It 20 70 Morgan MS
associates which they had bought from Morgan and his associates at o.
and they arr again buying from Morgan and his associates at AZ what
they sold to Morgan and his associates at 20. And in tn ext panic tey
will again sell al 20 and Morgan and his associates will again buy and
be hailed by the people as the panic stopper, the peoples savior And
there o are Four years ago, in "FrenZed Finance" l warned the
American people Of what al coming and though they read, understood
and we're on their guard, down they went before this financial blast IKE
spears of wheat before the reaping machine. There Is no power N earh
to prevent these few men, the system, from working this trick in tn
help themselves as they are today, for when any lew men In america
"a possess themselves at will of the billions of the peoples savings,
nothing is beyond their power, and all the people "a do is what hey are
doing % fantcany wrtnging their hands during panic times and
thanking the lord when panic times are over 1t vas nj worse, while the
system builds up another period of prosperity preparatory to another
sheanng. 1 repeat o power o Earth car prevent these men, u n
power of the people to take the system game fnot their own hands &c be
in all the affairs Of the people is the capacity of a few men to raise and
lower the price of the $40 OO0, 900 900 OF stocks and bonds, for through
their ase and fall the price of necessities and Injuries and labor and
interest are controlled. thereby creating Prosperity" and Hard Times"
II the sam ca control the prices of $40 900, 900, 900 of stocks and
bonds the people will for all time be robbed " their savings, II h
people ca control the price themselves, they will not only be able to get
back the billions of which they have been plundered and turn the 100 and
ordinary Americans. With the instrument OF which 1 have at last gained
possession, after twenty years of active plotting, schemlng and maneu-
verng, to place in the hands of the people the power to control the price
of the $40 600, 0O, 900 of stocks and bonds that they may bankrupt and
destroy the system and come into their WI
w, LAWSON
Boston. August IL, 1908. This advertisement will be continued here
tomorrow.