New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-01
LAWSON FRENzIED
OVER THAT LEAK
Wants to Investigate 1t
and Pay the Bills
Himself

Eight great German submarines are
lurking of the coast Of the United
States. No one has seen them yet
but Thomas ". Lawson. author Of
''Frenzied Finance" says that they arc
there. Likewise more Of them are
coming, and presently the entire At
lantic coast will be blocksded. Hr.
lawson says this, too.
Both Of the above phenomena are
caused by a man-Mr. lawson does
not give his name-who went to the
Kaiser and said: "Here, Kaiser. For
mere fifty millions Of dollars I'll
bust up your Ole wa- and lick the Al
lies for you"
"The job is yours" quoth the Kai-
ser, and the man came home, and lit
tie while sftsrward william Hohenzol-
lern sent him s40,OOO,OO0 worth Of Sc
curities on the Deutschland.
Flimsey Tells Secret
All this Mr. Lawson telis-and much
more-in wad Of his famous himsy
which was distributed around news
paper Offices last night. But he doesn't
tell who told him
The hmsy is copy Of letter which
Lawson has written 70 Representative
r. l.. Henry, chairman Of the House
Committee on Rules. Mr. Henry said,
in speaking of the alleged "lesk" by
which Wall Street is said to have
"clesned up on the stock depression
following Germany's peace note: "If
Mr.. lawson has any real proof OF the
leak I will listen to him"
And now the task Of listening to him
for twelve whole foolscap pages, sin
gle spaced, stsres him in the face.
Nevertheless, Lawson says he has the
proofs. But he isn't going to tell any
one. unless it's President Wilson.
81 will produce in an hours inter
view" he says, with the only man in
America whose fairness, honesty, abil-
ity, wisdom and broad experience i'm
press me as sufficient for the task
President Wilson-suficien goods to
warrant him in certifying to Congress
his belief in the wisdom of instituting
at once an investigation"
That is his proposal. and he dares
Representative Henry TO accept it.
But to return to the submarines
which are lurking of our coast-Mr.
Lawson does not say how they got
there or why they arc connected with
Washington leak in Wall Street.
The author Of the letter to Mr.. Henry
says that if ever nc does make up his
mind 20 expose that leak and the man
the Kaiser told to stop the war, and
"the gigantic crime committed by the
few against the whole American peo-
ple,' and the positions Of the sub
marines, "the high -osl OF living may
take such drop as will make unneces-
sary the expensive municipal, state and
Federal Investigations"
Tells OF the Leak
tCNNcIhiub bHc icdh ilHtllf mf. LAW.
son says:
"My Dear Chairman: There was q
leak last week and another a short time
before that and one 4 short time be-
fore that, Through them the Ameri-
can people were robbed of hundreds OF
millions of dollars Of their savings and
particular few beneficiaries secured
some sixty millions of direct plunder,
some of which was split by important
people.
an addition to the legitimate billions
which have been manufactured in the
last two years forty billions of fictitious
values have been manufactured illegiti-
mately. These fictitious values have
been put into bank trust and insurance
companies in place Of the billions OF
the peoples savings. which have been
withdrawn and turned over TO the few
who manufactured the forty billions OF
fictitious values.
"When Congress started 20 agitate
its virtuous Indignation over last
weeks petty leak OF sixty millions 1t