Show 1 AS M LAWSONS STORIES STRIKE ST IKE IKEL f fi I i L ONE OF NEW YORKS CRITICS I Till rIll T UK art ft rt on Frenzied Finance 1 1 I W it h W v Lawson his hlA r i 11 1 nn fill frenzy rolling hns has hasi Irr i r ti lr g tu to 11 a II magazine lava 1110 be bo boff bea 1 a ff r iry r tad and social phenomenon r rI Iri interest They TM coar I 1 n Avidity In all nil ports parts p rh of o OUr I Into n the lIl backwoods e Jk Jj Si ga i Ii l iho the first tIt question you youa S j I hA a aAk k 1 11 k lave Have you OU tend rend Law h Pr ks 1 1 Jr i out 0 ot of the tho no J tl the tho train stops for fort forNi 1 In t e Ni A ft ma and tho limo Inquiry wilt will t lil 4 1 I J It by R a 1 native What k r l f uk of oo Lawson In New N Ii minIng tA r u q e In brokers offices and r y ems 1 Lawson awon Is III tho the chin chief i r for Cor reading It ml i lay lant M Vu hi r h If v hi bo tory the latest novel on t Lawson has displaced he the sensational prints and find the flashy journals Journal In barber shops and barrooms penetrating the lowest t stratum of oC road era em as 18 well us UI piquing the curiosity n of tho the highest find and making of ot himself In Ina Ina a n few tew months o Q veritable literary lit elft r prodigy or terror Yet Vet this effort effect t defective comes by MUse cause lAwsons audience BJ ea acquired his hla clean sweep of or the till Held field should houll not nol leas lead profession professional al nl n writers to renounce a n craft In which any upstart may tUBY appear and carry oft tho the laurels The rhO wonder Is III explicable applicable Lawson has hall taking literary qualities out oat the thA prime primo ul of ot truth which Is neither here nor there thereIn In III bin he has hall neatly nearly nil fill the elements the declare in u a I popular style Ills His frank rank ami ouch pungent slanginess Is II tho the precise e medium for tor his hili tale Into It H yields n a sperm splendid did touch of Then Thin he abound abounds in minute detail Defoe did not surpass lawson In the art of oC buttress I hug ing romances with un an amount of apparent ra lou Incident which ashamed of them 11 v The close observer who ho nosed mi an eye yta puss pals through all al the colors color of the p b be altogether wrong onu one fuels fuel In his hI exact count account of millions million n Law 11 son eon n In is I also ulso Names are III blurted right Fight out tut PI ll and are Ir set et down dorm with the ill ac accuracy K curacy nf of eur lt trout from a 11 dI not cote book A novelist weld not carted him in fn faithful description Ilan u f t the of or his hi 1 mil lie He u It highly dramatic too Neue Nel nf or the Ih l for foe him Is I In III the th first person or lr direct discourse His HIli articles bristle with whim quotation marks and racy din dla 11 flute Its Ite pages Neither Aristotle nor nor IHlI Salute H Hu could have lid down more In rules for attaining e c literary vogue than thun those tho which Luu LII son ran has hee ha round found In his hi mother wit wll witTo witTo To 10 so 10 lucky a II style It Lawson La lOn has add tiel ad 4 the further advantage of a theme which seer ever lies near n the heart hoart h art of or the muse melees In lit iii a democracy Vast aal wealth Is III the of ot Ills hI story and the edi edl editors tore tOIl of popular long discovered that Ihal no ho topic is III dearer tn to the great reat body boil J i of IO tenders renders An account of How nO flow the Bring Up U Their Children will be read with eagerness ea ID la hundred hundreds of or thousands ef ot poverty stricken homes homell while a n huge hue edition will Hill be carried off oft by an supposed oled to be b a n solution of the Ih problem on Mrs Mr dr Eighty Servants and How Them We do love a I lord but oven even lIn better be love loe a multimillionaire At Ac A I Talleyrand found out the must mont In Interesting II mini man In this Ihl country to 10 judge by Jy the way ay rumor arch and small talk pinged etl about him was 11 the rich Robert Mirris of ot Philadelphia phil ht so 10 ever r since line has hI Dives been bettt a R national national admiration President In his hs hI of or yesier day ria spoke of ot the tho brutal envy and ana ha hatred hatred tred trod ff felt fell It by a poor man towards tOWArd II a rich richman man m an but our observation is I that gap gup gapIng Ing curiosity fathomless toadying toad II and silly 1813 1111 aping make mike up the commoner at al attitude altitude of at the poor in III the presence 01 ot those thole having great real possessions possession With a n subject thus dius as III broad as nl hu human human man mUll tally folly all Mr Mt h Larson hue has also allO the good fortune of being eln able uble to add crime to great Iffet wealth It If the very er rich are r Interesting MI ier per se H the criminal rich ilch richare richare are doubly doubt fascinating And Lawson pitched upon u II public predisposed tu to II believe be II e The sublime fervor of faith u is 1 nothing to In the credulousness of a II lo p pIn In Wall street t redo Credo quia Im Thousands l till all over the In land ml had been bitten n i in the financial operation l Whirl Which pretends to tn describe They Tha knew klew that It was through no taint fault of C their own Every velY Innocent who taken lakes takena a flyer In A it blown speculation II U certain tain Lain that hit own Judgment Is III excellent his hll financial financial shrewdness beyond die dis dispute pate and that nothing but the he machin machinations aliens of n wicked men could have parted parle him hum from his hll money Lawson him the millionaire schemers schemer at III then nefarious work The victim pores porel t the story of the unscrupulous manipulation lation of stocks and the heartless fleet Deec fleecing fleetIng ing of and takes comfort am fori to tn Ills his soul loul Now he sees leel It all He H was wall taken In III by a set of oC villains Thus be beSides Sides the he agreeable to a morbid morbin imagination which Lawson gives give 11 In III his hla narrative of ot crime In seven Ilyn figures he hp niches lil hIe a I to 10 the Hie multitude which no man can an number of luckless and Ind ruined speculators In such urh circumstance Instantaneous ary RIy tame fame and circulation glove above are no longer a mystery The serious part remains r maln Mr AIr Ir Law lawson luon son may be the most mOlt prodigious liar that ever put pen to paper III r Ills lilt lies II may maybe mu be IX 1 like the father that begat them gross groas RM IM a mountain That Is III not nol the thing which really rally People do donot donot donot not really gr ll cr Cie e a whether his hla particular atones are liTe r this and that plunger pluner in the market actually the Infamous part alleged whether brazen promoters i tally really bought a I lature In the way wa described they the be believe believe believe lieve that tha other lather stories of oC the kind arm are true tru if tc lAwsons are Ire not He Ito galls rallI the credit of a I millionaire turning turn Inn states evidence ellenee The Impression mad made madis madIA is IA ai ae unmistakable as It will t tit 19 Indell hie hi That there Is I a class of ot rich men man who carry Into Inlo enormous operation operations lt the methods method of ot the time sneak thief anti and the earn cam sharper that they the rob the widow ann ana take away 1110 the till portion of the lIle orphan with no more ore scruple crupl than Ihn u 11 burglar that lint honor Lonor and anel good faith are d m 1 un unknown unknown known Mown among amon them as 81 among this Is l the popular conviction upon which has so to skillfully played He lie has hat heightened It but he old did Id not create creale It It NL Nt ha A the existence ot of such men Is II tile the greet great reat social menace They The lire are the blackest embodiment of ot that spirit of materialism which fears not notis notIs is II our Immense task talk today tOda to resist and drive from us UI If we would Dot ot ae ass 1111 drive from us u Ir it we w would not see um umit It drag our oU whole whoa civilisation Into the pit New York last |