The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-01-22

we won I. But there is anOtner
angle to this. The brother over here
anticipated me. | have here the
names of some corporations controls
ed by the beasts of the jungle, and If
we are to believe the first man OF tho
land, controlled by big business, by
soulless corporations, that prey upon
the lives of this American people.
And l want to show you what they do.
Twill read to you the profits made by
some of these corporations in 1912 be-
fore the war, and. some made after
ward. YOU have heard this before, but
it makes a part of my argument.
ban-American Sugar company IN
1913, made 1922 thousand dollars 4 in
1915, 2 million, +939 thousand; Armour
&c company made 6 million in 1913;
in 1916 they made 20 million net prof
its. Swift e coinpany-these fignfes
are taken from the sworn statssnelits-
of the corporations themselves given
to the government upon which slhe
government based the income tax,
81 million before the war, twenty mil
lion in 1916. Dupont Powder com
pany made four and half million III
1913 and in 1916 eighty-two million.
The United States Steel corporation,
that friend of the farmers, taken. care
of them these many years. in 1913
their profits were 81 million dollars
after they had paid everybody all the
salary they could be induced to pay,
In 1916 they raised the salary limit
and made a net profit of 271 millions.
The United States Steel corporation
the first six months of 1917 made a
net profit of 500 million dollars, going
at the rate OF billion dollars net
profit in~one year of the war, where
as they only made 50 million before
the war. A year ago flour was selling
for SIC and SIT barrel, flour made of
wheat that hadn't cost So a barrel u
make. Last spring the grain trust of
the nation was making fifty militia
dollars a month handling flour That
was before President Wilson and The
food administration blocked that rob
berry, it is due to them that it has
been curtailed. To continue it would
be suicide. 1t had to be stoHped
These corporations together in 1915
made a net profit of about four bill
lion dollars. That is more money
than my friend here or McCraig ever
had at one time. That is $40 a piece
for every man, woman and child in
Guiding the negro inhabitants and the
slums in these United States $40
apiece, 5000 for every family in the
United States, the profit taken by
those autocrats of industry, more
than they dared to take in the same
length of time before the war. Now,
gentlemen, if / were one of these
playing poker with these American
people, with four billion dollars
year, and somebody came talking to
the American public with whom I
played poker, telling the American
public, these organizers, about the
beasts of prey, if l were one Of those
organizers, or one of those playing
with the American people, | would.
say, Brother, this is no time for little
things like that. This is no tine for
you and me to quarrel. You have
been sticking to me % years. You
stick to me now and I'll stick u you.
This is no time for us to quarrel.
Let's stick together till we win this
war, and to themselves l am afraid
they say: Here's hoping the war
lasts forever. That is what they say
| don't believe there is a farmer or
league member here in this audi
ence who hasn't heard that from the
lips of agents of big business in This
community. This is not the time for
things like that. Wait till the war is
over. Stand shoulder to shoulder with
me. Let me take care of your money
You don't know how to carry it.
Don't listen to them, they viii say
He is pro-German.
Ladies and gentlemen. was
taught when l was a boy that a pa
triOt was one who made a sacri-
flee for his country My picture of a
patriot is a picture of the soldiers,
the boys at Valley Forge, their feet
wrapped in rags and the rags worn
out The blood of their bodies shed
upon the snow. That is the picture
have of a patriot Patriotism means
sacrifice. A man cannot be a pa
triot unless he sacrifices. These gen
tlemen making four billion dollars a
year, a part of which they give up to