The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-25
HOG ISLAND
YARD BUILT
UPON GRAFT
Senator McCMnber Scores Delay
and Calls Profiteers Bolshe-
Wiki Of America
sAPP1NG NATIONS ENERGY

Washington, Feb. 25.-Denouncine
the Eolsheviki surrender to Germany
Senator 4McCumber, republican, Of
North Dakota. told the senate today
that "a Bolsheviki sentiment in Amer
lea was Of no less danger to the cause
OF Democracy against autocracy
Profiteers, labor slackers, and govern
ment' officials, who fail to stand
against them, we're, assailed by the
senator in vigorous terms.
unless condit tionss change, the sen
ator declared, only a collapse of the
central powers can save the: allies from
defeat. The senator began with a de
nunciation OF the. Bolsheviki surren
der. ,-- -, la
Search the. worlds history he
declared. "and nothing can be found
even to approach this most damnable
treachery to the faithful and bleeding
alies-this blacklist treason to coun
try and national honor
With this spectacle Of national i'm
potency and disgrace before you and
enlightened nv the appalling condi
tions of our shipyards,, is 1t not about
time we were turning our attention tC
the Bolsheviki doctrine of those ii:
our own country who are paralyzing
the arms of the government and i'm
periling the lives OF our soldiers in
France?
Delay in shipbuiidine.
$50. too, we have seen the effect
of this Bolsheviki sentiment more still
more, always more regardless Of JUS
tice, regardless OF patriotic duty, In
the shameful delay IN ship construc
,tion on which the very life Of q great
would principle depends, and, we are
told that all munitions plans, every
line of industry upon which the gov
ernment depends will soon be reduced
70 the same. condition of impotency
as the shipbuilding program.
I Accept Challenge.
"The time has arrived for the Amer
ican people to accept this challenge
while the B0lsheviki cancer which
is sapping our strength and leopard
izing our safety Is not confined to
any one class. it nevertheless mani
tests itself In its most malignant form
in supplying profiteering and in Ia;
Dor profiteering in our shipyards."
In supply profiteering. Senator Nc
Cumber said, he would name only
one shipysrd, Hog Island Shipyarc
The foundation OF that yard, he sain
"is laid on graft and the cost Of
construction, he said, will be "thrcc
or four times the governments origin
al estimate, T" adding, this single hold
up of the government probably will
cost not less than thirty millions.
Like conditions prevail" he fon..
tinued, Throughout the country
where stecding up has been neces.
sary. Contracts of the most atrocious
character, almost always against the
government have been o. KID by gov
ernment officials. The government
pays every dollar Of expense for raw
materials, and yet pays individuals
enormous profits Men who never saw
shipvards, men who never had had
capital, were given contracts to build
ships and then they in turn have con-
traeted to sub.let those contracts, to
others, retaining big commissions.
Ranks have charged immense bonuses
for securing contracts for their Gus
toners and all this within the known.
edge Of or easily obtainable by gov
ernment officials" 3,