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Show ' THE STORY f Amalgamated Copper, ' A PERSONAL WORD BY THOMAS W. LAWSON AND ? STATEMENT BY THE PUBLISHERS OF j ;The Personal Word by Mr. Lawson' :-! Personally I know that one hundred millions of dollars lost, thirty men committed suicide, and twenty previously ren f'v citizens went to the penitentiary, directly because of Amaka f ( It was largely because of my efforts that the foundatio ! Amalgamated was successfully laid. It was created because of ' work. It was because of what I stood for, because had the nuV confidence, and because my promises had been kept that the Jm t people invested two hundred million dollars of their savings a flh' was because of Trickery and broken promises'that the public lost - enormous sums they did. - f"'fl My motives for writing the Story of Amalgamated are mi 1 fold: , I have unwittingly been made the instrument by which thy ' -sands upon thousands of investors in America and Europe h 'If ff: been plundered. I wish them to know my position as to thenar J f!' that they may acquit me of intentional wrong-doing; as to thecal !t ent, that they may know that I am doing all in my power to rteSftL the wrongs that have been committed; and as to the future fiSU: they may see how I propose to compel restitution. ' " THOMAS W. LAWS02? 1 ,5f f'i. ; H Statement by the Publishers ol l Everybody's Magazine. f I 10 In the article by Mr. Lawson, beginning in the July under the caption of "Frenzied Finance, the Story of Amalgj!; re? mated," we have a narrative from Mr. Lawson's own Hps, how is ' H'O the last few years, he has seen millions of dollars won without right, k and thousands of men ruined. It is a story of financial tragedjd P today. hts In the great financial happenings of recent years story tellen itf hare given their version; political economists their theories; refora- frc ers their pictures, and historians their tablets. For the nrst tins ' in the history of High Finance we have the High Priest tell It as it Jk! happened, and it is for EVERYBODY'S MAGAZINE to pnbliih' fi "the cold-blooded facts," for Mr. Lawson has pledged himself tottH V' the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. 1 fin THE RID GWAY-THAYEIt COMPANY. ft' ; W ,t Hall Game's New Story r "The Prodigal Son," begins In tho J uly number of EVERYBODY'S MAOA- ih ZINE. 10 cents on all news stands, or $1.00 per year. t THE RIDGWAT-THATER COMPANY, Publishers, Union Square, New Tort. fa |