dy. That, of course, is a
tremendous thing to say. I have spent my life on it. I have
been waiting for the opportunity."

"I may not ask you what your remedy is?"

"No, I shall propose that myself when I have laid all my
facts about these crimes before the people. I am going to
tell them about some startling crimes. All that I have told
so far, including the systematic corruption of the
Massachusetts Legislature, relates to the past. That is, the
deeds are dead, so to speak. But the crimes of Amalgamated,
though in one sense they are now past, are yet connected
with the present, because Amalgamated is alive. The man who
was robbed in 1899, in 1900, and 1901 has his claim
unsettled. That man is alive and Amalgamated is a big,
living corporation. When I get to that I shall be talking in
the present and something is going to be done.

"I have the remedy for the whole thing. You will appreciate
the largeness of that statement, but I have thought and
advised and worked it out. My remedy is based on common
sense."

"Does it aim at any real change in our political system? Is
it socialistic?"

"Oh, no; it doesn't mean a turning over in politics. You and
I know that the dollar is what is running things in this
country to-day, and if you come along with an ideal
proposition--a proposition that carries with it a change in
our laws or a proposition to have some new laws passed--you
might as well say good-by to it, because the fellow whose
hundred millions you want to take away is going to say: 'How
many dollars does it need to turn that upside down?' and he
is going to supply the dollars."

LAWSON'S VERSATILITY

Mr. Lawson gave me nearly three hours of his time, and
during those three hours he was interrupted every five
minutes or so by telephone calls. He conducted his business
right along, ordering the selling and buying of stocks,
making or declining appointments, talking with his
publishers, his lawyers, his family, his friends. It would
have goaded almost any man into excitement and irritability,
but it was all in a day's work with Lawson. Yet he is not
phlegmatic; indeed, he is extraordinarily animated. But it
is animation with composure. In a business way there is not
a busier man in the country, but he fin