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Show .U. S. IS "ROBBER ROQSS APPER SAYS TEARS OF POOR IKE WEALTH, SENATOR .SAKS Go After Profiteers and Convict Con-vict or Resign Jobs, He Tells Officers SUGAR GAMBLERS GIVEN ATTENTION Agriculture Declared Tied Up Hand and Foot by Greedy Speculators WASHINGTON. April 21. "The United States has become a robber's roost," Senator Capper, Republican, Kansas, declared in an address today in tho senate in which he scored profiteering prof-iteering and declared that If the law enforcement officers of tho government govern-ment could not enforce the laws they should resign "and let men who can take their places." Declaring that the proof of profiteering profit-eering was in the margin of profit, the senator said that in one year alone during the war. gross Income of American corporations rose from C 3-5 blllloiiH to S 1-2 billions. Ho J read to the senate a long list of cpr-porations cpr-porations whoso profits wore placed at anyv,hcre ironx 2J)4 tov2Q0 per. cent. ' ': ' Tears' of 'Poverty "Wall street's 'melon' patohes," he declared, "continue to be , warmeO 4;ho-'suio-'"prVv! perspiration of labor and watferd by the tears of poverty, and this year will raise a record-breaking crop free from the blight of Income taxes, while I the pcoplo are being urged to buy their coal early and be robbed for less, and to abstain from stealc one day a week and to purchase war sav-I sav-I Ings stamps that the United States ! may live .in nine billion style on a six I billion income. I Gamblers In Sugar j "At this moment the most brazen 'challenge we have had in litis saturnalia saturn-alia of greed conies from the gam-bid's gam-bid's in sugar. A corner has evidently evident-ly been formed right under the eyes of the department of justice. The canning season raid is on. For years ;the sugar interests have annually and I openly and shamelessly robbed American Amer-ican housewives during the canning reason. j "These valriotic melon raisers, who I have made their millions and billions during and since tho war." said Sen-iator Sen-iator Capper, "now are urging that the soldiers' bonus be raised by a one per cent tax on sales to be paid on a dollar dol-lar spent by every man, woman and child in the country, including the ex- service men themselves, j Upon War Profits I "Mr. President, I shall favor plac-' plac-' ing this tax right where it belongs j on war profit and taking from tho sugar stock dividends. from excess war profits and from profiteers all 1 that is needful to compensate the j men who sacrificed themselves instead in-stead of their country or their countrymen. coun-trymen. In time of war. i "During the coal strike, while zero cold and privation threatents tho peo-, peo-, pie the price- of crude ' oil shot up , nearly 300 per cent and still it Is j raising." I The senator cited numerous corporations corpor-ations which he declared had made enormous profits, and then turned to 1 agriculture. ' "Our greatest Industry agriculture i tied hand and foot has been mado j the helpless victim of speculators and I profiteers. j Living in Tents i "It Is wrongful to say b.ecause extravagance ex-travagance flaunts Itself in our cities, that plenty exists in all of the homes i of the land. People who have never known want or privation are living today In tents instead of homes, thousands thou-sands of men, women and children 'arc compelled to do without necessary shoes and clothing, If not fuel and certain articles of food. Senator Lenroot, Republican, Wisconsin, Wis-consin, declared that If "a single millionaire mil-lionaire were sent to Leavonworth under un-der the laws on the books some of this profiteering would bo stopped." "Attorney General Palmer," ho said j "Is setting a now mouse trap around tho country where he ought to bo setting set-ting bear traps. Not one thing is done to the big profiteers." "All llcpubllcnns" Senator Thomas, Democrat, Colorado, Colo-rado, roplylng to Senators Capper and Lenroot, said; "Nearly all tho big profiteers he know anything about personally wore 'members of tho Republican Re-publican party.' "1 can assure the senator from Wisconsin," ho said, "that at the end of tho next administration he has mentioned, ho will find their efforts to reduce profiteering as miserable a failure as in his otimatlon aro those of today. "AH profiteers ought to be punished. punish-ed. But we ought to understand by now that we are fighting conditions instead of causes, as fools in some ot our places as a child who stumbles over a chair and then turns around and klaks It." ftTJ Governmental expenditures, said toMm Senator Thomas, should bo considered H one causo of the difficulty. Mention-ing Mention-ing the soldiers' bonus proposal, the Increase in veterans' pensions, ho sug- jHI gested that "wo do our part instead , OH of only complaining at the results." ' |