The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-25
" Most Damnable Treachery
in the Worlds History"
He Says of Russia
SAME DISEASE HAS
SPREAD TO AMERICA
More, Still More" Cry
Profiteers and Labor
While Soldiers Die
(Rv AssocIated- Prees.l

Washington. Feb. 25.-Denouncing
the Bolsheviki surrender to Ger
many. Senator McCumber, Republi-
can, of North Dakota, told the SEN
ate today that "a Bolshevikl" senti-
ment in America was of no less dan
ger to the cause of democracy
against autocracy. Profiteers, labor
slackers, and government officials
who failed to stand against them
were assailed by the senator in
vigorous terms.
Unless conditions change, the
senator declared, only collapse Of
the central powers can save the al
lies from defeat The senator began
with a denuneiation Of the Bolshe-
Wiki surrender. ~
Search the worlds history" de-
clared Senator McCumber, "and
nothing can be found even to ap-
proach this most damnable treachery
to the faithful and bleeding allies
this blacklist treason TO country and
national honor.
With this spectacle Of national
impotency and disgrace before you
and enlightened by the appalling
conditions in our shipyards. is it not
about time we were turning our at
tention to the Bolshevik doctrine of
those in our own country who are
paralyzing the arms Of the govern
ment and imperiling the lives of our
soldiers in France?
"Mors, Still More"
$50, too, we have seen the effect of
this BolshevilIi sentiment more, still
more, always more regardless Of
justice, regardless Of patriotic duty,
in the shameful delay in ship con-
struction on which the very life OF a
great world principle depends. and
we are told that all munition plants,
every line of industry. upon which
the life of the government depends,
will soon be reduced to the same
condition of impOtency as the ship
building program.
THE time has arrived for the
American people to accept this
challenge.
while this Bolshevih cancer
which is sapping our strength and
our safety is not con-
fined to any one class. 1t neverthe- |
less manifests itself in its most
form in supply profiteer-
ing and in labor profiteering in our
said, he would name only
dation of that yard, he said, Us laid
on graft" and the cost of construc-
ton, he said, will be three or four
times the governments original esti-
mates" adding this single holdupl
Of the government probably will cost
not less than 10000, ,0O0."
Atroeious Contracts.
Like conditions prevail he con-
tinued. Throughout the country
wherever speeding up production has
become necessary. Contracts of the
most atrocious character, always
against the government, have been
oK.'d by government officials. The
government pays every dollar of
expense for raw materials and yet
pays individuals enormous profits.
Men who never saw a shipyard, men
Who had no capital, have been given
contracts to build ships and they in
urn have contracted to sublet those
contracts to others, retaining big
Banks have charged
immense bonuses for securing com
.racts for their customers and all
his within the knowledge OF. or
sasiiy obtainable by government Of
icials."
Despite the fact that the nation
needs ships as never before in order
10 transport troops and suppliesl
abroad and Notwithstanding the
patriotic fervor of Gompers, union
abor i'm our shipyards. Is Stacking I'M
/ most shameful and disgracefull
the senator declared.
Just how long the American pe0-
Die will submit to being robbed FIRST,
ly material men, then by the labor
sr, and then to having both rob-
1eries encouraged and acquiesced in
~ the government, the Lord only
gnows.
IF the country is being robbed. It
d the fault OF the officials in charge
ind not because OF lack Of power TO
prevent It,"
Senator McCumber estimated
here were $500, 900 men between the
lges Of is and 62 in this country
loing practically nothing but yet
soldiers are compelled to die forl
hese men,"
when we send men to France and
hen allow those remaining at home
o receive either enormous wages
or labor which they do not perform,
lr enormous profits on goods furn-
shed. thereby delaying and hinder
nF the government i'm it's efforts toll
peed up construction. the death of
very soldier by reason Of this delay
8 chargeable not alone % the slack
RS and idlers but 70 members OF
as w Al