THE OCTOPUS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 10886, 29 September 1913, Page 5

THE OCTOPUS.

FINANCIERS MAKE FORTUNES.

AND OTHERS STARVE. AUTHOR UNVEILS SCANDALS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. WASHINGTON, September 27. Extraordinary means of calling attention to the high cost of living in tlio United States wore adopted by Mr Thomas Lawson, author of "Frenzied Finance." A richly bound edition de luxo of a volume dealing with tho cost of living was delivered to tho Houses of Congress and tho White House by express companies, each legislator receiving a oopy. Mr Lawson in the book urged that a joint Congressional Court should be appointed to investigate tho wholesale scandals and corruptions prevailing throughout the country, causing the high cost of the necessaries of life. Mr Lawson declared in one chaptor that if Lincoln were alive now ho would have as much chance of becoming President as Christ would have of becoming a steol trust direotor. Mr Lawson unveils tho bank scandals by which directors misused public funds, the scandals by which inside knowledge of Government decisions was utilised by financiers to make millions on tho Stock Exchange, and the wholesale looting of foreign investors by means of stock manipulation.