ong time now and ought
to know.

"Don't think me egotistical, but I can't help looking under
the surface and going to the bottom of things. So I learn
more about men in Wall Street and what they are at than
most. This is my thirty-fourth year of sixteen and seventeen
hours a day and three hundred and sixty-five days in the
year, and I have seen them all come and go. I _am_ with the
third generation of my time now. In such matters I feel
somehow that I'm about three hundred years old.

"Men like Rogers are all very good fellows. They are genial
and tolerant in their judgment of others. Yes, they are
mighty good fellows, until you turn them around and look at
their other side. Rogers is lovable enough until he touches
the other button. Then he goes with perfect ruthlessness for
what he wants. And yet, though you are his victim, you can't
bring yourself to hate him. After he has thrown you down and
taken all you have and you turn yourself over and find the
dark lantern has disappeared, and you hear him going up the
lane, you pick yourself out of the gutter and admire the
skill with which he did the job. If you could stand it, you
would almost whistle to have him come back and do it over."

"It is easy to see," I said, "by what you write of Mr.
Rogers in your magazine story, that you were fond of him and
gave him the highest rank for ability, but just the same you
said you had to go on the stand in the gas suit and swear
exactly opposite to his testimony. Do you charge him flatly
with perjury?"

"I have put it fifty times in black and white," answered Mr.
Lawson, "that he committed perjury. There isn't any question
about it. I produced my secretary's minutes, delivered over
the telephone, received by his secretary and afterward
confirmed. He confirmed the message to me, called me up and
talked it over and did business on that agreement. Two men,
Rogers and myself, followed each other on the stand and made
diametrically opposite statements; and neither one of them
reserved himself in stating that it was knowledge at first
hand. Therefore there was perjury."

LEGISLATIVE CORRUPTION

"Mr. Lawson, the whole country is familiar enough with
legislative corruption, so there's nothing new in your
charge that the Legislat