"ROBBERS' ROOST": PROFITEERING IN U.S.A.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXXI, Issue LXXXI, 14 May 1920, Page 5

"ROBBERS' ROOST": PROFITEERING IN U.S.A.

VANCOUVER, April 24. A Washington message states that Senator Capper, of Kansas, in a speech, said: "The United States has become & robbers' roost. The proof of profiteering is in the margi* of profit. In one year during the war the gross income of American corporations rose from £7,290,000 to £17,500,000." He read to the Senate a long list of corporations whose profits rose from 20 to 200 per cent." Continuing, he said: "The Wall Street melon patches continue to be 'warmed by the sun of privilege, fertilised by the perspiration of labor, and watered by the tears of poverty. The common people are being urged to purchase war savings stamps in order that the United States >may live. in nine-hilKon-dollar style on a Bix-billion-dollar income. The most brazen challenge in the saturnalia of greed comes from the sugar gamblers." A Chicago, message reports that sugar has soared to I6£d retail.