Show Stop Thief By HERBERT KAUFMAN get gel away with it Your conspiracies OI in in restraint of lof are e breaking us and before we will let th that t come to mean to break you intend to have an adequate food supply at proper prices ire re manipulating the markets holding an enormous ton ton- and fuel in an storage and are shipping provisions immediately require to fort for ign communities greedy wits wits h have ve creat created d a false famine in a land o of f fI I the he I e past year you ou ha have vc brazenly deft defied d both the laws o omd of nd md the laws taws of the country a avaricious schemes have neutralized the most prodigious us Ty y for general prosperity that America ever faced ast as salaries advanced you boosted basic necessities to difference in the pay envelope ar are utterly without charity or discretion If you had the would not loot the tenement pot and the laborers laborer's pail assessed the other you would shrink before the retribution I tingry multitude will inevitably demand I crop reports and the investigations of local off I continent over prove that you lie when you claim there such natural shortages as to justify current quotations ou Oll are simply charging all that the traffic will bear illicit toll at every door I It would be bad enough h he e k Robin Hobin Hoods depredating the well but poverty's precious to your Shylock souls as Dives Dives' dollar ivr VI snared no from your usury Even beans beans' I and an potatoes have turned into luxurious fare far by your despicable con con- con con- Vati e. e.- You have kept cornering and cornering until you have finally cornered us and now the following groups of infuriated citizens are aren in n turn combined to smash your power I IThe The no longer able to subsist upon maximum wage that hat the average business can afford afford afford- The employer already paying the utmost that his enterprises enterprises' can stand stand stand- State and federal workers whose salaries f fixed by legislative too little for fot f fundamental decencies decencIes decencies de de- I enactment enactment in normal times are now Professional folk harassed by un unbearably bigger household I budgets and on the other hand put off by th their r debtors because they cannot settle with butcher and baker and als also pay the doctor and apothecary apothecary- Old people with limited principals hoarded hoarde for inactive years and widows and spinsters dependent on minimum fixed incomes incomes- And last but by no means least the gro grower ver forced to accept your arbitrary purchasing terms or have ve his products go to waste and the retailer thre threatened by bankruptcy b because c your impossible exactions le leave ve him with the slenderest margins of his experience You are the meanest and the most mischievous lot that the republic has met with Besides pilfering the dinner plate and robbing the coal bin you are upsetting tarde calculations from sea sea ito t sea tangling our entire program breeding discontent battening on the nations nation's yields and fatH fattening ning your bank rolls with tenement tenement s savings vi gs If present statutes are not sufficiently punitive ours is after all the sovereign will and neither legislature nor congress dare deny us such laws as will deal with you as you now deal with us The economic cross under which war swept s Europe stagg s is not heavier than the double cross youve you've h handed n ed America You SHANT SHAN'T get away with it Copyright 1916 by Herbert Kaufman Great Britain and all other rights reserved |