The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-04-25
JAIL PR0FITEERS
CAPPER PROPOSES

CONTfSuEp FROM FACE oSE.
for loss, 10 abstain from steak one
day a week, and to purchase war
saving stamps that the United states
may live in nine billion style on a
uix billion income.
Tells of sugar Greed.
'At thIs moment the most brazcn
challenge We have had In this sat
urutliA of greed comes from the
ptWhior1 Iu suxur corner has
evidently been formed right under
the Cycs OF tho department of Just
icn. Tho earning season IL coming
on FJr years the sugar interesta
have annually ana openly and
-hamclcasly robbed American house
wives during the canning scason.'
Ahcr reviewing the activities OF
flour. sugar ana cotton mills, the
recent supreme court decision hold
Ing stock dividends untaXablc, and
tho department of Justices cam
paign urging use Of the cheaper
cuts" OF meat which he con-
domucd Senator Capper presented
a list Of corporations whose earnings,
ne suid, wcro proof OF profiteering
open. fragrant, scandalOus'
Tho list with the percentage of
earnings given by senator Capper,
included.
Continental Oh, 200 per cent:
United Fuol Gas. 200: ohio Fuel
supply. 100, Nonquit Spinning com
pany, 100; Amoskeag Cotton Manu-
featuring company, 100; American
Tobacco Securities company 10;
Mnuomct Mills, 60 2-5. Hood Rub
bcr, GG2-3, Crucible steel, so:
cleveland, Akron BAG. so; Union
4 o.
pany, 40. John Il. Thompson com
pnny, a2 "a; st Maurice Paper
company, 80; T.. W. WOoiworth, 80;
Electric Welding. 25, Pineapple
company. %; General Chemical, 20;
American Multigraph, 20, Truscan
steel. 20 per cent
"The standard oil company or In
diana tho senator continued has
recently increased its capital from
81 100000 to S30.000,000, giving Its
stockholders "A stock dividend of
$500 per cent.
The National Candy company's
earnings last year showed an ip-
crease Of 5i5 per cent over 1915;
Burns brothers, the largest retail
coal dealers in the United States
made n not profit of 40 cents "A ton
against u cents la 1915. the earn
iugs OF the United Drug company,
doing business of t50,0O0.0 900 an
nually were 242 per cent greater
than Ia 1916, the American Ice
company, which cuts ice by the mil
lions, but not profits, has In four
years increased It's earnings 2S3 per
cent, the international Cotton com
pany. doing $4,000. 900 worth OF busi-
ness last year, made 80 per cent
moro money, although 1t sold 20
per cent fewer goods, tho Pacific
Mills output Of cotton and worsted
dress goods produced - per cent
more profit than in the year before
the war, and the excess profit sur
plus of the United States steel corr
poration--thc surplus remaining aft
cr dividends aggregated nearly
5000 100000 In the last five years,
although S3t6 100000 was spent on
! improvements.
These patriotic melon raisers
who have made their millions and
[ billions during and since the war.
| said senator Capper, now are urg.
| ing that the soldiers bonus be
| raised by a I pcr cent tax on sale,
/ to be paid on every dollar spent by
every man, woman and child, In the
country, including the ex-service
men themselves, Mr. President.
Il | shall favor placing this tax righ'
Whore II belongS-on war profits