THE COST OF LIVING.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 24, 29 September 1913, Page 5

THE COST OF LIVING.

INVESTIGATIONS DEMANDED. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [Unitee Press Association. J Washington, September 27. Extraordinary means of calling attention to the high cost of living in the United States have been adopted. Mr Thomas Lawson, author of “Frenzied Finance,” has issued a richlybound edition de luxe of a volume dealing with the cost of living, to be delivered at the Houses of Congressmen and at the White House by express companies, each legislator receiving a copy. Mr Lawson urges ,a joint Congressional court to investigate the wholesale scandals and corruptions prevailing throughout the country, causing the high cost of the necessaries of life. He declared in one chapter that if Lincoln were alive now he would have as much!, chance /of becoming President as Christ would have of becoming a steel trust director. Mr Lawson, unveils bank scandals, whereby the directors misused public funds, and scandals whereby an inside knowledge Government decisions ;was utilised by financiers to make millions on the Stock Exchange, and also wholesale looting of' foreign investors by means of stock manipulation.