America Saved from War (1916)

"Tom Lannigan Uncovers a Plot of the Graft Ring to Involve the Nation in War and Ingeniously Frustrates the Original Gang."

The plan is this: a foreign man of war is interned in the harbor. By blowing up this boat, Carney figures that strained relation existing between this country and warring nations will snap and the United States will be drawn into the conflict. This would mean untold orders and profit for the Steel Trust. Stone and Carney plan to carry out the plot with aid of an eccentric inventor named Bill Bean. #7 in the Graft serial.