rich man waging a war of this sort. The chances are altogether in favor of their smashing you financially."
"Let them, if they can. There are worse things in this life than being smashed financially."
Mr. Lawson's smile was sunny and confident. He is fearless.
LAWSON, THE MAN
By JAMES CREELMAN
From the New York World, December 12, 1904.
Boston, December 10th.
All through the critical business hours of Friday, when Thomas W. Lawson, master spirit in the present extraordinary war against Standard Oil finance in Wall Street, was reported to be locked up with H. H. Rogers, generalissimo of Standard Oil, perfecting the details of a settlement for $6,000,000—all through that anxious time, when the stock-tickers and newspapers of the country were trying to guess the meaning of Mr. Lawson's sudden silence and inaccessibility, he was standing in his quiet room in Young's Hotel, explaining the situation to the public through the World.
Although I sat in the room