Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1915-04-18
WHERE HAVE THE
MILLIONS CONE
CONGRESSMAN Calls ATTEN.
nos 10 IMMENSE SIMS SIENT
rOE NAVAi rtRPO-E~

'|. NNff 100 INIF Ii
Tasrnrer
rat recently 'r fHe House ~ Rep
rereniafIves and heard the Hon
Augustus Gardner ~ Nasarhussits
make ihr statement upon bic rnspon-
ihIfy aa Member OF the NmerI-
nn Congress thnt
20 tsr uero fn break our today.
10 r0nlf boz found that our coast
defense hase mot .lfNri"n' ammu-
milton f0r an hour 0Fhf
Whether or MOT Mr Gardner
iafemeuf is correct cannot say
because ! DO not SNOW bui thIs !
DO know that ue Io not have fho
mmunIion and armament fHl' we
have paid FOR alH hoHld have DOB
return Tor 'ho countless million of
doIara ~ the American people
money expended from the Public
Treasury
mean to say rhHf those lrmf and
navy officers uhu 200 tHe purchasing
of aar muuitlons au1 Who are paid
% tiHry by me people and pro trust.
.d hy tHo people tO .n Chat fhr Fn.
.rum,ri receives dollars worth Of
material fUr every dollar expended
Ha.. permitted ring of ammunl
fYu msuuncturor. 200 outrIFeously
0ssflHarpo Uncle Sam for armDr
gums powder. and munitions .n gen.
oral
For Instance. the Kar department
100 1913 purchased seven thousand
finch sbrapnel from the ammuui
uou ring paving t2 2G each 'herc
TOR a. the same time precisely fhc
anne uapuol was being mauuiac
furrd 100 the Fotrrument-oVned
Frautford Arsnal tlai'. an over.
head charges included
Vr Average Citizen. are you will
INK that the public officials az the
var department who are spending
YOUR money should pay t2tte Tor
200 article that could have manu-
featured in government plants Tor
tltt5'
This instance is NOT 'ho exception
10 is tho rule The army and navy
officer In 20 years have purchased
tI15. 600 00O worth of arm0r. 1rma
meut ana munitions from four firm
which have % monopoly boo This roun
.rs ou me manufacture of such sup
plies ana have paid This gra ping
var trust from 10 90 so per cent
more than tho same articles could
have peen manufactured for Boz gov
eminent plants
A. the result of frequently repeat
ed statements similar to that made
hv Nr Gardner the average citizen
n 90 lat beginning 90 ask What
becomes 0f tho $3.50. 600 600 that
BE- being spent annually ON our army
and ua,y' Who. pray. is getting Che
money
And 81 is time the people are De
riunur fo h0u anxiety. because
their money has been sQuaudered
hFc water. and unless Mr. Average
CITIZEN wakes Mp and removes the
wool from his eyes % is going 'o
continue to be suuandcrcd
The American people have never
De-, into tro secret OF who tha pro-
ri, maker. arc loo the traffic OF war
and preparation for war in ihN
uutr, lud tho methods Dos Which
they help themselves % the public
trough NU so further and scr.
ure the assertion that not go mrW
beers of Congress know the identify
of tho select RING Of patriots for pro.
Ht into whose pockets iho millions
COY tho maa.,. are pouring which
gentlemen have Waier-ficW mono.
poly Iu this country ou the traffic or
war trading and who have drawn
down every penny of $4,000 nN'
tn excessive ana evturtiunatr pro.
nts from ths government hy direct
virtue of tHur influential friends
in OBJ, army fhc navy and ln Con
erese lest Hry gentlemen 900 Hit'
place. should resent the Implication
of being friends of the war trust J
hasten az tho outset go corcrdr
their contentious that they are pa
triots yes. 600 Of them
Congress ,Hn investigate The VAR
trust until ' - black In the face
and II viii get nowhere The e"cr'
nry OF th, navy can try as Do N'''
is get some one 90 undcrh'd 'ho