ROBBERS’ ROOST
PROFITEERING IN UAA SENATOR'S VIGOROUS ATTACK. VANCOUVER, April 24. : A Waehington message states that Senator Capper, of Kansas, in a speech, said.': “The United States has become a roost. The pAof of profiteering is in the margin of profit. In one year .during the war. the gross income of American corporations rose from-£7,290,900,000 to £17,500,. 000,000.” -He read to the Senate a long fist corporations, whose profits rose'from 30 to 200 per cent. , Ccm turning, he said: “The Wall. Street mdbn patches continue to be taarined by the stm of privilege, - fertifised by the perspiration of labour, and watered by the tears of poverty. The common people are being urged to purchaae war sawings stamps in order that the United States may live in nine-bHlkm-dollar style on a sii-bffiion-dollar income. The moat braaten challenge inthe saturnalia of greed comes from the sugar gamblers.” A Chicago message reports that ; sugar has soared to 164 d retail.
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Southland Times, Issue 18816, 8 May 1920, Page 6
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157ROBBERS’ ROOST Southland Times, Issue 18816, 8 May 1920, Page 6
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