Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-09-19 | Page 1 | Gov. Cox Assails Sugar Profiteer

e tf t 4 NOMINEE SAYS I m PLAN TO CURB GREEDY , Favors Rotary Fund of Government Gov-ernment to Purchase Food Supplies OFFERS HOOVER JOB IN HIS CABINET Candidate Says President Has Fought Profiteers for Five Years OAKLAND, Cal.. Sept. 18. Sugar profiteers were arralgneel here tonight by Governor James M C".. Hemocrat-lc Hemocrat-lc candidate for president. In the third speech of his trans-bay program. Speaking from the rostrum where President Wilson made one of the last speeches preceding his breakdown. Governor Cox reviewed attempts by the porsldent to dethrone profiteers who have r Igned for "five long years jordld. soulless ugly and hateful.'" I am in favor, In circumstances liko this." the governor said, "of the government, through congress, supplying sup-plying a rotary fund to be placed in the hands of the president for the purchase of as much of the sugar crop ice i. nccesaary to prevent profiteering. If elected 111 November. I shill recommend recom-mend to the congress that this be done for future emergencies in food supplies. sup-plies. n EZl Si 6 ROBBED "The extent to which profiteering prevailed during the war. und especially especial-ly since the signing ot the armistice, has been outrageous. The amount .stolen from householders of America in that time would pay off the greater pari of the funded debt arising from the war Itself. "it must be more than a coincidence t that the many profiteers who were protected by th senatorial Oligarch) In the pri sent congress are paying their share into the Republican campaign cam-paign fund, which I charge will not I be less than $15,000,000." PRAISES HOOVER "Mr. Hoover's effective service in the war was largely due to his thorough tho-rough training as an engineer," he sulel. "and If I can Induce him, one of the best engineers in the country-will country-will sit In my cabinet." The governor also faorcd in this speech the abolishing of the excess profits tax. which, he said, w.rs justified justi-fied during tho war. but no longer ieasary, and the substltutlonkfor it of a tax of one or one and one-half per cent on the olume of business of a firm. SPEAKS in WOBfl N At a lunch' on by the San Francisco center, a woman's organization, he declared that the country would have had a much better Idea of bash- conditions con-ditions in Russia if a group of women of the character of Jane Addams or the heads of American educational Institutions In-stitutions had been Included in the Root mission to Russia. A rotary fund by which tho president pres-ident could buy up an entire sugar crop or In any other way meet u food crisis when congress was not In M'Silon w.is proposed In hoth his talks. tie s.iid ths government should have Inventories of all food supplies to forestall alarm over the possibilities of food shortage.