AMERICAN PROFITEERING.
SENATOR'S DENUNCIATION.
..VANCOUVER, April 24.— A Washington message states that Mr. Capper, a Kansas Senator, m a speech, said : "The United States has become a robber's roost. The proof of profiteering is m the margin of profit. In one year during the war the gross income of American corporations rose from £7 - 290,000,000 to £17,500,000,000. Ho 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 m order that the United States may live m nine-bil-lion-dollar style on a six-billion-dollar income. The most brazen challenge m the saturnalia of greed comes from the sugar gamblers."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15229, 29 May 1920, Page 3
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