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Show TREASURY FUNDS USEIJOjll GDX . Proof of Shameless Propaganda at the Expense of the Taxpayers. Tax-payers. NOT AN ISOLATED INSTANCE Comptroijer of Currency Williams Said to Hve Long Been Active in the Improper Expounding of Political Views. John Skelton Williams, whom the Semite refused to confirm as President Wilson's comptroller of the currency, is now perniciously active in spreading Democratic propaganda at government expense through the official channels of the United States treasury. Under date of July 31, 1920, Comptroller Comp-troller Williams Issued a two-page bulletin bul-letin on the business conditions of this country, taking occasion in the middle of it to slip in a paragraph which is simply Wilson propaganda, purely obiter dicta in an official statement from the comptroller's office. It was hoped aud intended, of course, that it might have more or less weight with many of the smaller bankers of the country. The offensive paragraph was as follows: "Aside from the disturbed and alarming state of affairs in parts of the old world, for which, I am convinced, con-vinced, this country's refusal to ratify the peace treaty is largely responsible, responsi-ble, there is absolutely no justification for the spirit of pessimism and uneasiness uneasi-ness prevalent in business and finan. cial circles in many sections of the United States today." This is not an isolated instance by any means, according to a Washington man who keeps tab on what Williams sends out. It is charged that it is Comptroller Williams' constant practice prac-tice thus to prostitute his office, nud to expound in official communications personal views which have no place there and which are designed, either to vent his personal spleen, or to curry favor with President Wilson. When a Republican congress put a stop to administration officials having this sort of stuff printed at government govern-ment expense at the government printing print-ing office, administration officials then installed expensive mimeographing outfits in their respective offices, and this kind of publicity is now sent out broadcast over the country in mimeographed mime-ographed form on government stationery station-ery and mailed under a government frank, wherever and whenever possible possi-ble to do so. In this particular case the statement was mimeographed on treasury department letter heads from the comptroller of the currency's office and sent out under the frank of the treasury department to every banker in the United States. |