Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-09-15
Organized Effort to Pre-
vent American Loan
to Allies.
COMMISSIONERS
ALSO THREATENED
British and Frsneh Agents Nesetiat-
ina Billion Dollar Loan in Danger OF
Personal Violence and Closely Guard
Cd by Dstsetivss-Protssts Being
Sent 70 President Wilson-Unitsd
States Not 70 Interfere.

New York, Sept. 1.-THE pro-Ger-
man campaign against the fiotation
of a billion dollar credit loan II the
United States to Great Britain and
France appeared today to assume tho
proportion of countrywide plot,
threatening even the personal safety OF
the six members Of the Anglo French
commission. Members Of this COM
mission, Of which Lord Reading. lord
chief justice OF England, is chairman.
have doubled their body guards They
have been requested by the police OF
New York not to announce in advance
their plans for the day or to appear on
the streets without detectives guarding
(, them. More than fifty threatening let
ters have been received by the COM
missioners. Some of the most threat
ing Of these letters have been turned
owsr to the police for investigation. 1t
is said, and detectives are engaged IN
seeking thu writer's.
Each Travels Alone.
Largely upon the advice OF the polics
the commissioners do not visit the
financial section in bodies or in couples.
Each travels thru the streets without
the company Of another A detective
Is at tho heels Of each commissioner In
his trips about the city and In some
cases it is said there are several.
Whether this active opposition Is
sporadic in its nature or is organized
is not known. Bankers and other call
ers at the headquarters Of the COM
mission have expressed the view.
CLEANED from their talks with the COM
missioners, that the opinion of the
commissioners themselves is that it is
Of an organized nature.
Threatens Run on Banks.
Other forms Of oppositions, accord
ing to word received by the commits
sion today, have been evidenced In
threats by German American deposit
ors that they would withdraw deposits
in banks participating in the loan.
In the case Of savings banks organ
Md runs on the banks were con-
smplated.
Basil B. Blackett, secretary OF the
commission, in his talk today with
newspaper men, declined to touch upon
this subject but confined his remarks
10 the general situation. He is of the
opinion that any loan placed here
should be open to the entire public,
pro-German and pro-ally In sentiment.
It was learned that invitations had not
been sent to large pro-German banks.
because the commission was somewhat
doubtful whether these banks would
care to participate.
Will Invite German Bankers.
y Heretofore the commission has met
and conferred with only such bankers
as are pro ally in their sympathies and
connections. Some Of the largest finan-
cial institutions in the United States,
j including the big banking house OF
Kuhn, Loeb & Co, which Is second in
New York only to J. P. Morgan & Co.,
have thus been excluded by this policy.
Overtures looking to the possible
participation Of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., in
the loan today were said to be in the
making. James J. Hill. the railway
builder and financier Of tho northwest.
who conferred with J. p. Morgan on
the situation, left Mr.. Morgan's Office
this afternoon for the Office Of Kuhn.
Loeb & Co, and there sat down for
q twenty-minute talk with his old time
friend. Jacob II. Schin, a member Of
the firm. Neither would state after
S the meeting the trend Of the discus
sion.
Lean oppossd In the West.
Some ro-German bankers high in
the money councils OF Wall street feel
g keenly the failure Of their firms to re-
= ceive Invitations to meet the members
OF the commission. These bankers
point out that they are primarily
Americans. notwithstanding their SYM
pathies In the European conflict: that
their interests and the welfare OF the
United States are identical and that II
they have TO choose between con-
tinuance OF American prosperity and
hard times, they choose prosperity, no
matter to whom they will have to lend
money.
On the other hand, intelligence re-
4 ceived during the day by the commits
4 sion - to the activities Of certain
other German sympathizers. chiefly in
the middle west. In the gossip Of Wall
street, pro- German bankers Of Chicago.
Cincinnati, st. Louis, Milwaukee and
other middle western cities would Bit
ferfy oppose any action looking to the
financing Of the loan by American
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