AMERICAN PROFITEERING.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3496, 26 May 1920, Page 5

AMERICAN PROFITEERING.

SENATOR ’S_ DENUNCIATION.

VANCOUVER, April 24‘

A Washington message states that .'\h'_ Capper, a Kansas Se-nator, in zi .-peoclx, .~;aid: “The United Etates has 'oouLnlnC :1 1'obbor':~: roost. The proof of prufiteoring is in the margin of profits. In one year during the war the! gross ;'nc<omc of American corporations rose f:'onl t'7,29U,0U0,000 T 0 £17_.50<'),000,000.” ,

‘He rezxd to the Senate a long list of corporzlgfons V_\'llo_sc pr'ofi’t.;-: rose from 20 7'o 200. .}L.CL' cent. .. , Conltix_j.-_uing, he said: "‘The' Wall i\Jtrcét filololi"pafclles continue to be 'w:!l'2no<l by the sun of privilege, fertilised. by "the perspiration of labour, and w:ltel‘ed"'by the tears of poverty. The Cmnnlon people are being urged to purchase war .'~;:l\.=ings stamps in order fllat the United States may live in nine—billion-dollar style on a. six—billion dollar income. The most brazen’ clwallengo in the safurnalia of greed cwnms ‘Ermn the sug_al' gamblers.”