The Washington times., 1917-01-01

Federal Government. Or let the post |
office maiIcarrier abstract 30 cents
from the Government mail bak and
Instantly Federal honor is Yindicated
ito the applause of press and Con-
Sgress. Whoever heard of any of these
poor devil petty pilferers being in
svited to Washington for voluntary
revelations?
Says People Were Robbed.
my Dear Chairman: There was n
leak last week and another a short
time before, and one a short time be.
fore that. Through them the Amer
Jean people were robbed of hundreds |
of millions of their savings, and a par
sticular few beneficiaries secured
some sixty-odd millions OF direct plum
der, some of which was split with
Important people.
Doesn't Know Percentage.
Whether men in public life shared
the profits of the bear raid on a $3.50,
1880, or 99-1 per cent basis, Mr..
Lawson says, can be exactly ascer-
tained only by an investigation"
That there are other "leaks" COM
ing that will benefit the particular
Few" and rob the "many" of billions
IS asserted by Mr.. Lawson. He adds:
"when Congress started TO agitate
its virtuous Indignation over last
weeks petty leak of 6O.0OO.0OO it
never occurred to Congress to I'M
loose its indignation at the culmina-
stion of the greatest robbery an
most gigantic crime of all history
sthc premeditated manufacture of
forty billions of fictitious securities,
which means a tax of per cent, two
billions annually, or that much added
ever year to the cost of living.
Alleges Fictitious Values.
"Eut for the greater crime of the
past tw oyears last weeks leak would
have been impossible. In ad-
ditiUn to the Legitimate billions that
have been manufactured at the same
time forty billions of fictitious val.
--ues have been manufactured illegiti-
platcly. These fictitious values have
been put into banks and trust com
psnies and insurance companies in
place of billions of the peoples saw
jnEs which have been withdrawn and
turned over to the few
- ITO. such an extent have these saw
inEs been withdrawn and these ficti-
tious values substituted that today
-the banks, trust companies and in
@surance vaults are bursting with
them"
Gives Possible Res Its.
Mr. Lawson says the results of a
real investigation may be these"
"A-The whole world aghast at
revelations which may so affect the
worlds finance as to bring the war
TO a close
'B-Cost of living may take so
quick drop as will make unneces-
ssary the expensive municipal State.
and Federal Investigations as to
where eggs should be stamped hard
boiled or cold storage before being
: put up sale.
Outlines Plot Possibilities.
The complete exposure of the man
lwho said. to Germany, Give me fifty
millions OF margins and will end
the way by making it impossible for
the allies to finance themselves CT
his trip to, the Emperor for the per-
.1ecting of his scheme; of the return
in an undersea boat of 100000 900 of
American securities; of their sale in
Wall Street: of the splitting up OF
the 100000 900 among six stock eX-
change houses as margins for the
sale Of some three million shares of
short stocks; the smashing of the
markets and the dividing of the
profits of over sixty millions, and the
beginning Of a new smashing leak
campaign: the complete exposure of
the leak, and how it was founda-
toned in Government officials in
formation. that there are in Atlantic
waters eight great submarines, with
others coming; that they will continu
until tho
coast is so effectualIy blockeded as
to make it impossible to ship a pound
of tea or a box Of matches 200 miles
beyond our coast line, thereby bring
ing America face to face with the in
evitable.
Refers To Money Trust Probe.
Mr.. Lawson refers to the investiga-
ton of the money trust by the Pujo
committee and the retention of Samuel
Unternyer as counsel. If a similar
committee is named to investigate this
leak, Mr.. Lawson says he will serve
without fee, and IF l do not show to
the world in the first ten days that the
committees work is the biggest and
most important to the nation I will
agree in advance to be ANONYMOUSLY
fired"
Mr. Lawson SAYS that in an hours IN
he praises for fairness, honesty. ability
wisdom. and experience, he will pro-
duce sufficient goods TO warrant the
President in certifying to Congress his
belief in the wisdom OF instituting at
once such an investigation"
Wants Full Inquiry.
Mr.. Lawson AYERS that he will have
nothing to do with a limited investi-
cation such as the Wood resolution
proposed. Mr.. Wood, he says, wants
to investigate only those things
which point TO certain officials who
might have had something to do with
the leak. The Boston financier de
mands a committee with full power
10 investigate everything and every
bloody (which will tend to show that
last weeks leak and the previous
ones and all stock gambling since
the war began are part of fraud to
rob. American people. You Know what
/ mean, something that will produce
THE. WEATHER REPORT.