NO. 261
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PROFITEERING AND
f-T ry -- - - .
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TOTC7U
e<l, however, money ior the war. ! H O O V E R G E T S O F F
Igo back far enough. It must go ing on uniforms were children end of th e Civil w ar—big b u sin ess ' enough to enjoy a n o th e r 30 y e a rs of
lias been in control of th e U nited life, 1 th in k you will ag re e w ith me
LABOR STRIKES and the money it raised, because
TO A W R O N G S T A R T back to the point of production and young women.
S ta te s. T his control has been very th a t people's rule, w hile by no m eans
This
clothing
manufacturer,
The following editorial from of the war, had to be granted,
Mr. Hoover, our genial food and figure from the actual labor
com
plete. B ased on th e ow nership p erfect, is infin itely p referab le to the
the Topeka Capital, a daily news-
The advocates of freat war controller, hasn't really got on cost of the commodity right like many others, found himself of th e n a tu ra l réso u rces, public u tili ru le of an ig n o ran t, m isguided and
with a strike on his hands when
paper with no special interest in profits and very limited taxes
>’ct—at least, there are i through. Nothing can be done he got the government contract. ties, m ines, facto ries and sto re s, it narrow -visioned plutocracy.
the labor movement, is so liber-' frOm those war profits have won no falling prices to show it— i by hitting the chain in the mid- He denounced the strikers as h as been extended to include new s
“SCOTT NEARING."
al tow ard organized labor and I a victory but R jg a p yrr}lic vJc_ but he is trying, to climb slowly die; by starting with the whole- un-American and appealed to the papers. colleges, schools, churches
th e o th e r forces th a t sh a re pub “F IN K ” D E F IN E S ST A T U S
contains so much good, sound tory
They ever touched the and painfully toward that elu saler. The Hoover plan might patriotism of the countryside. and
lic
opinion,
as well as th e m ach in
reasoning that it is considered same cborfl an(1 sang tbe same [ sive creature, “the man higher work better if we were still in His appeal met with a hearty re e ry of governm ent. P re sid e n t W il
San Francisco, Nov.—A “fink"
sponse.
Schoolboys, many of
worthy of reproduction:
refrain. They loudly declaimed UP ” an(1 Put the screws on him .: the old era of “free competition.’’
employed
by the United Riail-
them in the uniform of Bov son in his “ New F reedom ” calls p a r
roads,
assures
the public, in a
“ Labor is being recklessly at- tbat tbev believed ¡n bi£jb taxes He has got as far as the person As it is now, it will not work. Scouts, and their sisters mad? tic u la r a tte n tio n to th is com plete
tacked because of its selfish n ess' of w ar pro[i(s a, thc
per tjm<. known to us as “the wholesaler," So far as it does work at all, application for work, saying that dom ination by big business of Am local newspaper, that there is a
vast difference between his pro
during w ar tim es exh.b.ted tn
t)]e proper tim e
somc and has decreed that prices of it will give the trusts the great- they wanted to do their bit. In e ric an public life.
man’s factory a boy of 11 “ B usiness, in control of th e sources fession and what he terms thc
strikes, especially upon govern-, nncertain anJ indefinitc
food stuffs shall be regulated est profits, and at the expense of this
of pow er—econom ic, social and poli ordinary, low down scab, who is
m ent work, as in the shipbuild presumably after the war, when i b-v the prices the wholesalers ac-j their competitors. ’Twas always was put to work on a cutting
machine and received $6 a week. tic a l— announced a ‘business adm in declared a cut throat in the
ing industry of the Pacific there could be no more war prof-i tua^>’ Pa.v - That is to say, the j thus ; and
strikebreaking game, and who
thus it always will fThe man who had the job be is tra tio n ’ of tlie w orld's affairs.
works for less wages than is
coast. But vesterdav the facts its.
“
T
he
A
m
erican
b
usiness
in
te
re
sts
! retailer, the small exploiter, the be until we get back to the actual fore the strike was called made
paid unionists.
h
av
e
enjoyed
an
unusual
o
p
p
ortunity
were disclosed which throws a
Lugubriously thev
asserted ; ^ast sma^ link ’n the profit- production of the commodity, from $28 to 30 a week.) Inci
finks/’ he said, “stand
significant light on the subject. that if a large percentage of prof- ^’tatclung chain between prodne- That is the place to begin. And dentally. the boy had his wrist d u rin g th e p a st h alf century. T he up “The
for
their
rights and get all
e a lth of thp country increased 35
W , hat happened was the , offer.-. its were
„ taxen
, ,
, bv the govern- er and consumer, will be the first it is vain to look for a general cut bv the machine, several inch w
they
can
get
away with. You
es of flesh being torn out last tim es betw een 1850 and 1916; tlie
of a 33 per
cent
wage
advance
any
“finks” working
don’t
find
regulated.
That is to reduction of prices by beginning week, after he had been doing im provem ents in m achinery, tra n s
'
.
! ment industry would be crip-
for
small
wages—that
is. the
by one of the shipbuilding con
pled and business throttled. A say, again, that the curtailment anywhere else along the profit his bit for the bettef part of a p o rtatio n and th e use of e le c tric old time gang never did. But
pow er m ade possible a production ot
cerns to get workers from other
chain that stretches from pro- month.
few concrete examples of w a r! of profit shall begin with him.
A boy 11 years of age, wearing com m odities sufficien t to provide the tile scabs cut prices all the time.
plants. When competing con profits will demonstrate the fal-i Tt is a beginning at any rate, eduction to consumption,
No decent “fink” will associate
cerns failed to make a corres lacy of the arguments of the tim-1 an<l perhaps it may work indif-J Mr. Hoover is an excellent knee pants, was put to work as n e c essa rie s and m ost of th e sim ple with them.
a cleaner in the same shop. He com forts of life for every m an. wo
ponding advance many work id war profits tax men.
“A job with good loot in it
! ferently in somc cases. In o th -! m an; an efficient man, but be was paid by the niece. Accord m an and child in th e U nited S tates.
was
the express drivers’ strike
men struck,
The Bethlehem Steel Corpora-;ers, it
more likely to be the ¡cannot be expected to work mir- ing to the information now at E ducation w as spread broadcast. in Chicago. There was a cop
“ Nobody will deny that labor tion made average pre-war j l)e.£Bnn,"n£I
the disposal of the secretarv of K now ledge increased. N ever in m od
Mr. Hoover’s real acles; ami if be is so expected, war.
this bov earned $1.25 fo r'a ern tim es had it been e a sie r to m ake on every wagon, and wc always
is selfish, but it is another thing peace profits of four million dol-¡doubles.
he will disappoint us. But in week’s w o r k . — I ssties a n d a w orld fit for people to live in. T his had to split with them when we
to accuse it of lack of loyalty and
lars, and in 1916, made war prof-: Let us take milk for instance. ff*v’ng us a lesson in how not to Events.
w as th e prom ise and th e o p portuni stole a package. We busted open
love of country. Is there an in its of fifty-seven million dollars :• The w holesaler, the farmer tells J do it. he may be instructing us
every package that looked good.”
ty. W h a t w as th e p erform ance?
dustry in the United States that
L U N A T IC S O R G A N IZ E ?
“ In 1916, a fte r a half c e n tu ry of
j the Dupont Powder company j us. pays him but 7 cents a quart , ’n the real and only method pos
NO. A T T E N D A N T S ? YES ru le by ’b usiness m en,' th e p roperty
has not been boosted without
made average pre-war peace ; for it; he retails it—or, as he sible by which it can be done,
In connection with the newly ow n ersh ip of th e co u n try w as so con This Is Just What
cause or reason, other than the ;
though
at
this
stage
we.
of
profits of five million dollars, calls it, distributes it—at from
organized union «if attendants at c e n tra te d th a t 2 per cen t of the peo
We Have Said
belief of the business man that
and in 1916 made war profits of ¡12 to 15 cents a quart. Now course, do not expect him to say the state hospital the following ple ow ned 62 per cen t of th e w e a lth ;
be could get thc price? If so,
. . .
.
,
cightv-two million dollars; th e'M r. Hoover’s fiat would, if ef-pkat the job can only be put anecdote, taken from an ex w hile 6,000,000 fam ilies w ere living
in poverty.
In th e ric h e st nation
U nder th e caption “ F a rm e rs and
.
. .
, , , Anaconda Copper Mining com -; tcctive, cut down the profits of i through by the application of S o - change. is decidedlv pertinent:
representing patriotism should be
,
A visitor was beiing shown on ç a rth th e re w ere m ore poverty- L and” w rites one of o u r P o rtlan d
,
,
panv made average pre-war the milk trust. Farmers sell - ; cialist principles. He will leave over a lunatic asylum. “Do you stric k e n in h a b ita n ts in 1916 th an the
c o n tem p o raries:
built then to the business man peace
' profits of eleven
,
....
ing potatoes to the “wholesaler” ; us to find that out, and as we ever have any bother with the e n tire population in 1850. T he cities
millions
“One of th e m irth-provoking jo k es
who has refused to take advan
and war profits in 1916 of fifty get, let ns say, $1 a bushel for starve in thc meantime, there patients?” he asked.
reeked w ith m isery, vice and crim e. of th e day is th e failure of th e ch ic k
tage of any opportunity to make
“Oh, ves: sometimes one of T h e stru g g le for bread w as so te r en farm er.
millions; the Utah Copper com them: the wholesaler gets twice ! is much hope that our half-empty
every dollar of profit attainable.
rible th at m en, wom en and even little
them
will get troublesome.’’
“ His experiences, re la te d by sm il
pany made pre-war peace profits that from the retailer. Now if stomachs will prove better teacli-
children w ere w orking long hours, ing hu m o rists, seldom fail to am use
A\ hen Kansas City’s street ear
“W’liat
would
you
do
if
the
of seven millions and war profits the price the wholesaler pays for ers than our at-present-addled whole lot got troublesome at u n d e r b arb aro u s conditions, for a pit
the reader. He goes 'back to the
strike occurred the other day it
in 1916 of thirty-nine millions: them is to fix the standard of * brains.—(N. A . C all.)
ta n c e w age.
S tu n ted bodies, m is la n d ’ from a city job, in v ests his
once—if
thev
organized
a
re
was learned that thc company
the United States Steel Corpora price for the retailer, it is ap
shapen m inds and dw arfed souls w ere savings in chickens, w orks h ard for
volt?”
was paying its men only 22%
everyw here. T hen cam e 1917. W ar, ab o u t th re e y ears, loses ev ery th in g
The
warden
smiled.
“We
tion made pre-war peace profits parent that we might expect a
B U N K P A T R IO T S
cents an hour.
haven't any fear of that." he said. fam ine, disease, anguish and d eath he has and re tu rn s to h is city job
of sixtv-three millions, and it is reduction in the price of potatoes
(By Berton Braley.)
“Lunatics never organize."-— w ere added to th e lot of a world, sad d er and w iser. T he joke is varied
“Business is selfish, and so is
, ,
, . , .
. , . estimated in 1917 will make live And so with other commodities
w hich h a s been m anaged for half now and then by in se rtin g a fru it
labor, which is a part ot bust- ,
, ,
, . ,
....
I prefer thc slacker to the bunk Stockton Labor Review.
that need no manufacture but are
,.
...
.
.
, ! Hundred and eighty ■millions
a cen tu ry by business m en. m ade safe farm er o r dairy-m an in place of a
ness. It any distinction is to be
,
.
' .
E
N
G
L
IS
H
W
O
R
K
E
R
S
produced
ready
for
consumption.
j
patriot
for th e b usiness in te re sts.
In the last case the govern-
chicken farm er. T he plot is th e sam e
made at all it is not, as is so fre
W A N T 7-H O U R DAY.
Eor
at
least
the
slacker
is
“ The A m erican plutocracy h as been in all cases and th e sto ry ends in
But
how
will
it
be
with
su-
quently encountered, distinction nR!U Faxes untouched to thc
. . _
.... ,
rlode-inp- h i- i lu t v w h ile
AND 5-DAY W E E K tried out for 50 years. It h as had th e sam e way.
'
element and 1 nite'1 Statcs Steel Corporation , gar, for example? The trust al- trankl> dodging hks dut>, while
against the laboring
o p p o rtu n ity to d e m o n stra te w hat
“ F red erick C. Howe m akes som e
more than three’hundred millions i lows thc wholesaler little * profit 1 ‘ lL * ' ,U!1k
patriot is trxing to get p ernan<j 59 p er Cent Reduction an
. 1 1 1 * 1
it could do. D uring 50 y ears of peace th in g m ore th an a joke of th e se com
abuse of lalwir because it goes of dollars of war profits, in re -J ' t here. And if the price of sugar
i b-' " ’1‘1 k)ud Pr< ,in>M and 110 pe;-
in Cost of Necessaries and
and unexam pled p ro sp e rity it has mon experiences in his c u rre n t a rtic le
after the dollar. The distinction
.
■ f o r m a n r e
Threaten Force to Get It
plunged th e U nited S ta te s into a con on ‘T he Decay of A gricu ltu re.’ As he
,,
,
alitv
almost
one
million
dollars
a
is
tixed
on
this
policy
bv
Mr.
i
‘
‘
should be the other wav, because 1 , -
, .
,
. . TT
1
. .
Who i« the bunk m trint?
dition of social disorganization which sees them , tak e n in th e sum , they
. . , t
, „ f
•
d a v , and in other cases cited, ; Hoover, we mav expect no re-!
‘ 1 K unK I alri l -
Representative- of 200.000 ma- today ap p ro ach es econom ic a n arch y com pose n o th in g less th an a n a tio n
What labor can hope for IS no
-
.
,
,
,
H e k th e c o rn e r « r o re r w h o
more than a comfortable living P'-"P"rt'onately, the senate h a s , duct,on ,n the price of sugar, but
'
*>r
chinerv workers held a confer
al tragedy. T he to ta l effect of such
j been as generous. Of course, ion the other hand we may expect ' (JraP^s tkc dag all over the iront ence in Leeds, England, which and social ruin.
“B usiness h as failed.
failures h as been to reduce th e per
wage, while what business goes
all of the expenses of the war a rise. The same is evidently i ot . b’s , sboP and Puts l'P *’’s was called to discuss the recent “T he sam e b usiness purposes and cap ita foo;l production of th e U nited
after is excess profits beyond the !
cannot be paid from current in-¡true of beef, mutton, pork, oils, p )r’CCh
Per cent 011 account award of 75 cents a week in th e sam e business sp irit which p re S ta te s a t an om inous rate . An ex
wildest dreams of avarice. To
cooking fats, rice, breakfast ccr-Iot ^ 1e u ar ’ ^ lc rCi,taurant keep- crease made bv the committee dom inates th e A m erican life, p re am ple or tw o m ay be illum inating.
denounce labor while ignoring : comes; but where we can lessen
eals, canned goods, preserved tr
>cr\e.s lloovei s war ra on production, and which was re- dom inates likew ise th e B ritish life, From 1899 to 1915 our per c a p ita
the
burden
of
the
future,
without
, garded as unsatisfactory.
the profiteering which perfectly
the French life, the G erm an life and m eat production fell from 248 to 219
.
? ,
, ,
' j injury to the present, we insist 1 fruits, etc. How will Mr. IIoo- tions at enhanced schedules; the
A
resoluti,
1
1
1
was
passed
de
represents capital and nisi
1
; business man who subscribes to manding a reduction of 50 per th e B elgian life. The w estern w orld pounds, and m ilk from 95 to 75 gal
is a business-m ade w orld. T he pov lons.
ethics, is merely to show innate j
two Liberty bonds and gets it cent in the price of the necessar e rty . w retch ed n ess, w ar, fam ine, and
beef
trust
pays
for
the
raw
ma-
Fverv
dollar
we
now
incur
“ It m ay su rp rise som e re a d e rs to
American prejudice in favor of
ies
of
life,
and
recommending
terial
that
it
works
up
and
puts
'
back
^m
ediately
with
200
per
disease,
which
glare
at
us
out
of
learn
th a t th e sam e causes w hich
the dollar and against the man. must some time be paid. Every
that,
in
event
of
no
effect
re
th
e
oncom
ing
w
in
ter
a
re
business-
drive the chicken farm e r back to the
dollar we now pay means one on thc market as a finished pro- <cnt ac^F'l from the public he sulting from the demand before
with wife and child.
m ade resu lts.
city in discouragem ent and failu re
duct?
How
will
he
figure
the
is
suPP^sed
to
serve:
the
land-
“If labor is not to be specially dollar less we must pay in the cost of manufacture when the ' ^ rd who sends out notices of in- October 15. 1917, such immediate “C apitalism h as had its chance. a re also a t w ork to c u t down our
action be taken as should secure T h e re has been am ple o p p o rtu n ity supply of m eat and m ilk. T he long
blamed, neither is business. Bus future. Every dollar we refuse
“wholesaler”
himself
is
the
m
an-’
creased
rents
011
PaPer
with
an
it.
for it to d e m o n stra te its pow er as a and sh o rt of the situ a tio n is th a t the
iness exists for profit, and that to take today when we are able ufacturer? If all commodities | eml>osse(1 f,a£ in tIlc corncr-
Resolutions were also passed civilizing agency. The resu lt of the econom ic conditions u n d e r which the
to
take
it
from
these
enormous
is the whole story. Business lias
food producer m ust live and w ork
passed regularly through the
t,le empF>er who talks in favor of a national minimum a c tiv ity is world chaos.
war
profits,
is
an
added
dollar
rate of waives, a seven hour day “ Many stu d e n ts of social affa irs a re e x tirp a tin g him. T he A m erican
been brought up on profit-mak-
hands of Wholesalers and job- i about the “(1>sloyal and unpat-
ing as the only excuse for its we and our children must liere- bers, who were not the manu- i r,Otlc woH<man” that strikes for and a five-dav week. If the men p red icted th e failure of capitalism . farm er who ow ns his land and tills
are compelled to encage in a T hey pointed out th a t society o rg a n it w ith his hands is disappearing.
existence. The whole secret of
meet in- walkout to enforce their demands ized for th e profit of th e few a t “ In som e in sta n c es th e land w hich
,
,
.
. . ..
\\ hen wc now refuse to take, facturers of the product, and anothcr (lollar a daY
business and meaning of it lie
.
each of these took his regular | crcasetl 1,v,n> cost due to the manv thousands more are ex- th e expense of the m any, m u st nec he once farm ed lies untilled. T he
t
it
*•
r
as
r.ngland
with
its
X0 r per cent
in profits. In the time of war
.
nected to co with them. The
1
,
tax now takes, a just proportion profit. Mr. Hoover’s task would ■ act,v,t,es of othcr bunk Patriots delegates declared that it was e ssa rily b reak to pieces. They enclosed but uncu ltiv ated farm s in
thousands of business men have
..
be much easier. But most in- !and ,n the next breath denounces not shillings and pence that they show ed th a t th e b ru ta l h e a rtle ssn e ss th e U nited S ta te s cover 400,000,000
e
these enormous war profits,
a feeling
that they would like , of
1
in d u stria l exploitation, as it w as acres of good land. )5ome of th e
we say to those wdio go across dustry has passed out of th a t/* 1^ confiscatory and socialistic wanted, but decent living con of
p e rp e tu ate d u n d er th e c a p italistic farm s which w ere once tilled by th o se
to make some sacrifice for the i
staffe long ago. The trusts beat
of takin" *.en '>er cent of ditions.
regim e, m u st inevitably d estro y it “horny handed sons of toil,” so d e a r
country, but they do not know the sea: “Not only must you
his
extra
war profits to carry on
self.
to th e politicians, h av e been m erged
fight the battles of the republic the United tSates government.
T W IL IG H T O F C A P IT A L
how to do it in prices. That is
the
war.
“C
om
petition
belongs
in
the
ju
n
into im m ense feudal e s ta te s .
Tw o
upon a foreign soil, but if you ! What have they to fear from Mr.
ISM IS A P P R O A C H IN G gle. Even th e re m any c re a tu re s have hundred m illion a c re s of our b est
not business. And there is no
Tie
is
the
banker,
the
financier,
return you must pay a greater Hoover, even with the govern-
wav of conducting business yet
the money lender who cheers for T h a t th e A m erican plu to cracy Is reje cte d it as a m ethod of social o r farm land have been disposed of in
proportion of the cost than you j ment back of him?
a tra g ic failu re is a sse rte d by Scott
th a t way. T he holdings in which
known that is not thc business
our boys in khaki and forecloses N earing, chairm an of th e executive ganization.
ought to pay because we did not
“ Society can be built upon one they have been m erged ran g e from
T
1
1
other
w’ords,
where
the
way.
notes and mortgages on the fam com m ittee of th e P eople’s Council principle, and only one. T h at p rin a m inim um of 4000 a c re s up to sev
“These things being self-evi have the courage, or because we “wholesaler" is really an agent ilies they have left behind.
of A m erica, in th e fifth and la s t of ciple is co-operation. Service m u st eral m illion. O ne-fourth of th e tilla
were lacking in something else instead o f an independent profit
dent. the less said about labor’s
a se rie s of open le tte rs to th e New be ren d ered for serv ice; all m ust ble land in th e U nited S ta te s is owned
Tic
is
any
and
every
member
unpatriotism in seeking profits, in dealing with the profits that eer—as is the condition in scores of the tribe of “ I ’ll get-mine"— Y ork T im es. “T he A m erican bu si w ork to g e th e r in the in te re sts of all. by 50,000 persons. Such a fact r e
or higher wages necessary for a were made out of the struggle of industries—there is no reason and when the real patriots who ness world is a business failu re ,” B usiness is organized on th e rule of m inds one shiveringly of Ireland in
in which you risked vonr lives." for expecting any reduction of
C hairm an N earing declares, and the tooth and claw. Society m ust be o r its w orst days.
decent living, the better.”
are
suffering
and
sacrificing
and
tim
e has come for th e people of the ganized on th e rule of m utual aid.
“ T h ere is a th ird w ay by which the
We say as well, to the small prices through t h e Hoover
toiling
and
fighting
to
win
this
U nited S ta te s to ta k e control of T he failure of th e A m erican plutoc sm ali fa rm e r who ow ns his land d is
taxpayer, the merchant and the scheme.
JOHNSON ON
war for democracy and decency th e ir own a ffa irs, econom ic as well racy w as inevitable. It is none the ap p ears. H is farm is lo st by fo re
farmer: “You in the end must
How,
for
example,
is
coal
to
less deplorable th a t ten s of m illions closure and a te n a n t su p p lan ts the
W A R P R O F IT S
find time to attend to him lie's as political."
foot a greater part of this bill j)C c]ieapene(l p II it is to be done
The le tte r re a d s:
of people m u st su ffer because of the in d ep en d en t land ow ner. T hc in crease
going to “get his” with com- “ E d ito r of th e T im es: T have
Following final passage in thc than you should have paid, and at all. Mr. Hoover must go back , pound ¡ntercst ,,nd a bo„,|s
inability of th e leaders of our civil of te n a n t farm ers has been a sto n ish
w
ritte
n
you
four
le
tte
rs
.
I
began
ization to com prehend th e sim plest ingly rapid of late years.
senate of the two billion dollar that which we could have paid of the wholesaler, to the "pit s
When
that
glad
period
arrives
by a sk in g why th e business in te re s ts principles of social organization.
“ It is idle to detail th ese troubles
war revenue bill Senator Hiram today from the steel corpora mouth”-—to thc coal mine ow n
w ere not in favor of an early peace,
“ T he plutocracy has had its day. w ithout m entioning th e cau se and
the
rest
of
11s
will
be
present
to
W. Johnson made public a state tions, the copper companies and er; and after that comes the rail
and th en pointed out th a t A m erican T he tw ilig h t of capitalism is com cure.
T he sm all farm e r can not
the others now profiting from roads and other means of trans look on approvingly and to yell— business had m ade billions of profits ing. B usiness m en will no longer m ake a living because he is preyed
ment in which be said:
“Hit him again, he has no out of th e w ar in E urope; th a t it was
I voted for the revenue bill the w’ar, in our tenderness and pOrtation that brings the coal to
rule th e w orld th a t th ey have w reck upon by th e tra n sp o rta tio n com pan
friends!”
playing
‘p
ro
fite
e
r’
and
p
rep
a
rin
g
to
ed. T he people a re tak in g a hand. ies, by the city m iddlem en, by cru d e
because it was the only revenue timidity we put upon you.”
the place where the consumers
m ake billions m ore out of th e w ar
“ A lready th e people of R ussia have ly in adequate m ark e tin g a rra n g e
The generosity and the char reach it. .\nd how will this
bill presented, and the money to
“P R O F IT E E R S .”
supplies fu rn ish ed to th e U nited u n d e rta k en to control th e ir own a f m ents. by lack of d istrib u tin g ag en
be derived from this bill is ab ity of the Congress to the D u scheme apply to Rockefeller’s
The patriotism of voting Am S tates, and th a t the business in te r fairs. W h e th e r or not th ey succeed, cies. by scores of o th e r p a ra site s and
solutely essential for the prose pont Powder Company in per oil? These things are just as nec erican girls and boys is being ex e sts w ere tak in g o p p o rtu n ity of th e th e will is th e re ; th e w ay alone hin d ran ces. Society is organized to
mitting it to retain so great a essary as food stuffs.
cution of the war.
exploit him but n ot to help him e x
ploited by the makers of army w ar crisis to launch an a tta c k a t m ust be found.
th
e
radical
p
a
rt
of
th
e
lab
o
r
move
“T
he
tim
e
h
a
s
come
for
th
e
A
m
er
cept in som e m inor p a rtic u la rs.”
Our contest in the senate was proportion of its 1.600 per cent
The Hoover scheme, as it and navy uniforms, an investiga
m ent u n d er cover of patriotism . In ican people to follow the exam p’e
The last sen te n c e an sw ers one-half
tion
now
being
conducted
by
the
not without results. The reve- profit, to the Utah Copper com-; stands. will not do. It does not
this, th e la s t of th e le tte rs , which of th e ir R ussian com rades. To th ro*’ of th e question. Society is organized,
war
department
discloses.
The
nue from war profits under our panv in yielding it so great a
says. The federal in I propose to w rite you. I d esire to asid e th e b arb arism s of m odern i 1- not to help but to exploit the sm all
assault was raised a half billion, part of its 500 per cent war prof- lion dollars a day war profits, Tribune
vestigators found children arc show th a t the A m erican business d u strial society, to d estro y econon- farm e r as well as all w orkingm en.
and the table taxes—those upon its. to the Anaconda Copper com- and to the others making enor working on these uniforms, some w orld is a failure and th a t th e tim e is p a ra sitism ; to an n ih ila te all of Only by the elim ination of all exploi
tea. coffee, sugar, cocoa, and the panv with its 500 per cent war mous gains out of our struggle, of them bovs in Bov Scout uni has com e for th e people of th e U n it th e social in stitu tio n s which enab e tatio n can th e obsession be e ra d ic a t
like—were stricken from the bill, profits, to the Bethlehem Steel must all be paid somc day when forms. and some of them as ed S ta te s to tak e control of th e ir one m an to live upon an o th er m an ’s ed; th a t c o n stitu te s th e cure. B ut if
own a ffa irs—econom ic as well as po labor. The tim e has come for tl e the intention is to re tu rn to th e tim e
The bill, nevertheless, in mv company with its 1.400 per cent there are no longer war profits, young as 12 vears of age.
litical.
peoples everyw here to tak e p o ssess when sm all farm s w*ere p rev a len t
one small New Jersev town
opinfon, does not raise sufficient ■ war profits, and to the United and the reckoning will then be not In far
“
T
he
A
m
erican
p
lu
tocracy
h
as
ion of th e w orld and run it for the everyw here, or r a th e r w hen th e re
from this city the invest!
revenue and is entirely too ten- States Steel Corporation in p e r-w ith the ordinary taxpayers of
found that 'about *40 per failed, tragically.
service of m ankind.
w ere none hut sm all farm s, the aim
“For
m
ore
th
an
50
y
e
a
rs—since
the
“
If
you,
Mr.
E
ditor,
a
re
fo
rtu
n
a
te
is retro g re ssiv e . N ot back to sm all
der of war profits. It represent-m itting it to reain almost a mil-j the nation.—Triniday Free P ress.' cent of
gQO employes ’’work -