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The Washington times., 1920-02-12
Amazing Discrepancies in Figures

Roughly the bid of the international Mercantile Marine would
be the basis of $50 for the German shipping About year
before the present high costs prevailed British interests offered
the International Si25 ton for its fleet and this offer
voted down by the stockholders of the company. The Shipping
Board has been asking high S235 ton of American p
chaserS for ships.
Mr. Manson that there be the fullest investigation of the
value of the captured German ships before they sold all He
points out that since the big insiders of the International have been
determined to sell he fleet British interests the German prizes
would eventually into English hands a unless Congress
provides that they always ay the American flag long they
are ahoat
More startling disclosures promised by Manson III the course
OF any further investigation.
The Washington times., 1920-02-12
Philip Manson.
THE TELEGRAM TO PRESIDENT WILSON

THE TELEGRAM TO PRESIDENT WILSON
telegram mentions having been President Wia
S a toloTs
New York, February 6, 1920.
HON WOODROW SON. PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
THE WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON, D. c.:
by the Shipping
take place next Wednesday, betrayal of the American peoples
..t, and .houd be held up
vo Some of these last Monday before
,h S.,.,. Conrotee on Commerce
not be altered ample should be all who be
e.ted in bidding make of them This has
never been DONE conditions of
look to you protect those in high position who
~ PHILIP MANSON.
The Washington times., 1920-02-12
The President Should Halt
This Amazing Sacrifice


DRESIDENT WILSON will make blunder of the first
magnitude If he permits the great German feet OF
passenger ships to be sold Monday to single bid
der for approximately $2S,OOO,OOO.
The ships which are now owned by Government
include the finest and greatest ships in the worldhe
peerless Vaterand greatest of the late HambugAm
liners; the Crown Princess Cecee the best of the
late North German Lloyd feet; the Kaiser Wilhelm H.
the America the George Washington (called the Pres
Dental ship, the Kronpnz Wilhelm and twenty-four
others.
The United States Shipping Board seems to have
made secret bargain with single shipping company
the international Mercantile Marine, sell to it this
entire feet nconparably finer than any other single
company in the world possesses, at price about
one-half or onethird its true value
No valid reason or excuse has been given by the
Shipping Board for such sale, such terms, in such
haste, and without competition adequate publicity at
price far below the prevailing market rates for ships
We hope that Senator Fletcher, the able chairman
of the Commerce Committee of the Senate which de-
voted entire day last week to hearing the testimony
of competent shipping opposing this sale will not
fail to call President Wilson's attention today the very
grave scandal which threatens his Administration
The Times can only remind the President how Pres
dent Mckinley escaped equally scandal in
the projected sale of the Union Pacific Railroad for less
ihan half it was worth to a New York syndicate.
That scandal only averted by President Mckin-
eys order posponng the sale. The syndicate then dou
bled its offer. "..
How inadequate the price of $28 900 for this
finest fleet of great liners in the world would be shown
by three facts:
First-It represents about $50 ton. The British
government recently offered pay SIPS ton for the
much older and ships owned by the international
Mercantile Marine. This offer refused!
Two-The Vaterland alone valued, when seized
bv our Government at million dollars. She is the
greatest ship the world and carried than 600
of our soldiers across
Three-The international Mercantile Marine Com
pany which is acquire these ships, organized by
the late j. P Morgan. 1T CAPITALIZED IN PRE-WAR
TIMES A MUCH LESS VALUABLE FLEET THAN
THIS AT $154 100000.
Nominally an American line, this company has never
been patriotic in principle, purpose practice.
organized as a speculative holding company, always to
be subordinate to British shipping interests and British
control.
The very articles of agreement by which it acquired
from British the best ships possessed
tanned this explicit provision, amazing any patriotic
American:
The Washington times., 1920-02-12
Noted Shipper Asks Aid of Hearst
Newspapers to Halt an Outrage
TELEPHONE
WORTH 1873
CABLE Address
PHILM ANsOS
OFFICE OF
PHILIP MANSON
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NEW SSEh
Feb. 4, 1920.

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Yourve truly,
The Washington times., 1920-02-12
IS IS IS e
"Atten,pt to Loot Public Treasury"

One of the most significant points in the amazing situation
contained letter from Mr. Manson to United States Senator
Fletcher dated February 1920 After giving Senator Fletcher
copy of his telegram to the President, Mr. Manson
FEBRUARY g. 1920.
highest price bid for all of the exGerman ships
and the highest bid Tin fact the only
b the Levahan both bids being made by the
Mercantile Mane the Shipping Board had the
bazen erony to actually undertake spend $5OOOOOOO for
overaung these ships being stated by them be the
of overhauing the Leviathan alone.
M exposure of this latest attempt of the to loot
the public treasury that caused the very sudden change their plans
and their decision to sell the ships in the condition they their
condition being bad they would have and the public
believe.
hope you will get my testimony, which printed part IA
of the hearings, and read it carefully
The Washington times., 1920-02-12
Enormous Tonnage Involved in Deal

Some idea of the enory of the tonnage that the International
Mercantile Marine woud get for $2sOOOO0O be had by
ming the following list of the ships which involved in the DEAL
The Washington times., 1920-02-12

been patriotic principle, purpose or practce 1t Was
organized as speculative holding company, always to
be subordinate British shipping interests and British
control.
The very articles of agreement by which acquired
from British the best ships it possessed
tanned this explicit provision, amazing to any patriotic
American:
"The British UesSels shall remain British
not merely n0n,inalty, but in reality.
jority of the directors of the English subsidiary
companies shall be of British nationality, the
Uessels shall continue to fy the 'ritish f1g
their officers shall be British. and a reasonable
part of their creUs shall be drdUn from the
same nation.
To the company that M e that agreement President
Wilson's Shipping Board intends to sell at one-half
one-thrd its value the finest single fleet of ships in the
world.
Republican farmer., 1920-05-14
SAVING THE MOTHER

HE OLD controversy regarding the ethical right to kill
 the unborn child that the life of the mother may be saved is revived at Marquette University leading Wiscon institution which five doctors have resigned because the religious instructor of the college has severely crcis ed them for saving mother at the expense of the child
 This of many points at which religion and pub
 law The state being the superior secular organization decides what forbidden and what permitted Therefore secular the mother failure to do might punished mal- practice
 the right to establish them which ehcally to what the demands and those who join religious bodies fre quenty discipline rigid than the secular law demands.
 times forbidden what the law permits The priest must be cebate divorce not permitted and But such sub voluntary the secular authority does not mand compel these higher disciplnes
 Quite recently jury found verdict of criminal negli- against child of diphtheria ing doctor relying entirely upon the efficacy prayer Children do die of dphhera though doctors called there statistics showing whether doe than Nevertheless the jury condemned the father for not saving the life.
 very possible that jury might convict who riced the mother to the child although such is on Is available records show.
 appears to be secular medical it chooses provide by rule that the child shall sacrificed but 1t very who that hospital the husband ought to told about the rule The secular practice being thing the religious practice another the submission should be conscious and voluntary.
Republican farmer., 1920-05-14
THE PROTEST OF ss CONGREssMEN

MES CHANGE and the protest of 88 congressman, ad
 dressed to the British minister is not the utionary would been had been uttered before the
 Since the the League of Nations has into being Although entered the League Great Britain Under the Covenant it provided in Article H. that it is the privilege of state whenever it knows of anything which impair the good feeling between nations create risk call that matter to the attention of the offend ing state
 The opening paragraph of the protest With the profound conviction that further awards and acts of should avoided believing that wholesale arrests with trial disturb the and tranquility of people, which direct and plain appeal to the pr- cp of international coity expressed in the Covenant of the This calling attention to something which tends to impair the good feeling between nations.
 The closing words of the protest contain further develop ment of the principle the effect of which has already been described by President Wilson The protest made riendness the peoples of England and Ireland and the name of international peace.7
 The League of Nations fact and America without ing member of it. makes application of of it's leading principles the interest of good feeling between this try Britain, and in support for justice.
Republican farmer., 1920-05-14
POPULATION OF BRIDGEPORT


TT HE POPULATION of Bridgeport disclosed by the -A Federal does not the of boosting citizens to the proportions deduced from tele phone books city directories school enumeration theless the official of population figures and Bridgeport will have to be content with that it's growth has been substantial though less than it's enthusiastic citizenship had expected, by nearly 10000.
 This disappointment will be endured with patience. Bridgeport will decline to initiate Hartford whose from the period of the of 19O until that of the welkn ring with it's shouting against the official The Bridgeport figures double disappointment they do not disclose the community of 100000 which fdenty expected The figures for Straford Fairfield suburbs will scarcely the sary reach the 100000 point.
 The suspension of the activities by the Remington Co., caused undoubtedly sharper decline than opt- had anticipated The largeness of this usfie conclusion that there will be equally large accession when General Electric Company occupies the Remington Arms left vacant
Republican farmer., 1920-05-14
THRIFT NOT A CURE

S ONES J. H. TREGOE, secretary of N National Association of Credit Men, proclaming which the people America participating should before they have to piper Thrift expression trom these days just in the period of the war
 Who ihere that does not practice thrift? Bank deposits continually larger Funds not lacking for the enterprises Hands lacking with which to the labor of the day
 What needed not thrift but production, saving but workers, pairing of penditures but inventions doing work faster
 Nothing be gained by the continual yelping, for it to that of philosophers who have nothing to except njunctions to thrift
 greatest in the system and the greatest high prices the antique and wastefu distribution, which places horde of middle be- every commodity and its ultimate distribution to the 
 The greatest of high prices is the bill, being paid by taxation which being charged into commodities.
 producing high prices the enlarged profits by industries such the socaled Woolen trust
 scarcity which is not great but enough profiteerng than could exist without it.
 apprehension should not be sought prices, throughout the world by which existing order be brought about
 Men of brains should rather themselves about the than about those minor and lively matters which have to do with prices
 Prices wages to follow each other not complete proportion of the community that lives will .unduly, in period like this
 by adoption of the Fisher dollar, similar salaries and income could be made to with pces that elevation in prices would corresponding elevation the purchasing power of the dollar paid in income, salaries.
 while high and work is plentiful should be which evolutionary economic progress may obtained rather than the revolutionary economic eress which immnent1y threatens.
Republican farmer., 1920-05-14
BAD CONDITION
 OF AFFAIRS IN
 CITY OF MOSCOW

Warsaw, May H. - Advices from Moscow state that in March there was a great dearth of nearly all kinds of medicines in the Russian city and that many drug stores had been compelled to close. Scarcity of wood and coal was also reported, the information received here indicating that numerous frame houses and various other buildings of wood were being demolished to be used as fuel.
 A Pole who came from Moscow within the last few weeks said that while food was terribly expensive there was plenty for those who had
 rubleS which were worth, estimated in American money, a fraction more than one cent. A shave cost 75 rub4es and soap 500 rubIes a pound
 Cigarettes were worth about 70 rubIes each and matches 100 rubles a box. Horse meat sold for $50 rubles a pound, beef bringing $50 rub{es for the same weight. Pork was 1000 rubFes a pound. Black bread re- tailed at $50 rubfes a pound, butter
 2,5O0 and fats 2, 900 per pound Sugar brought 1 800 a, pound when l obtainable and salt was nearly al
 ways to be had at 750 rubles pound.
 ] Clothing for men and women was so expensive that the poorer classes 1 either made their own suits or wore patched garments which they had owned for years
Republican farmer., 1920-05-14
WINE AND BEER PLANK


E0 OPTICAL PARTIES representative bodies. They
 st to represent in the political plane the desires and aspirations of members. The wine and plank adopted by Democratic convention at New Haven a the demands of majority the peo- nIe of Connecticut Connecticut is Con General Assembly of three legislatures did not ratify Eighteenth large majority electors favor the sale of light beers delegates of the State to the National Con vention will a plank national plat not follow that they will be get plank. There thirty states it is possible that the representation dominate the convention The gates however do neither more, les than the cir cumstances permit
Republican farmer., 1920-05-14
FAVORABLE TO
 CHINA'S CLAIM IN
 SEANTUNG FIGHT

Shanghai, May H. The British Chamber of Commerce of Shanghai, representing the bulk of British in terests in the Far East has put it. self on record as in favor of China's claims in the Shantung controversy This was in line with action taken by American commercial organiza tions in China and is regarded as signifi- cant in view of the fact that a part of the English commercial enter prises in the Orient are linked with the Japanese.
 This chamber" declared A. w BurkiH, chairman of the British directorate in his address at the an nuaI meeting, ''is in full sympathy with China in her very natural desire to have control of this provTnce re- turned to her.
 When one takes into consideration that Japan in taking Tsingtao with the help of British troops, was only doing her part as an ally, her pres ent attitude is hard to understand. ''She is taking deliberate steps to control the whole of the land sur rounding the harbor, docks, wharves and railroad terminals, and every ob- stacle is put in the way of other na- tionaIs of acquiring any property fin what undoubtedly is the business center. This policy can only be con- strued in one way, viz, that Japan is not going to allow any other nation to have an opportunity of trading on fair and equal terms with her own nationals. We, none of us want any special consideration; all we ask for is to be allowed to do business on an equal footing
Republican farmer., 1920-05-14
THE7WFNE. AND BEER PLANK

A ESTEEMED contemporary denounces the Democratic 1A party for adopting plank favoring wme and beer theony to the road called straight The great majority the Democratic party Connecticut against prohibition complete The plank is statement of their true it there deceit pretense but straight forward declaration of will and purpose.
 The Republican party covered up It concealed its speakers will about pretending to be thing par4ors and something else in Mayors Wilson's drinking clubs
 Connecticut Republicans in Congress voted against Hocomb is not prohbonis by habit public practice The Republican senators from Connecticut voted against prohibition Connecticut not of three States that did ratify the prohibition amendment.
 Since political parties exist to represent their people what complaint made because the Democratic party frankly and openly does
 prefer the painted method the hypocrtica meth the Republican party which supports sort of 1eg ality, but pretends to do otherwise?
Republican farmer., 1920-05-14
YOUNG GIRL ON
 TRIAL FOR LIFE

Springfield, Mass. May il. = The trial of Miss Jennie Zimmerman
 aged 26, charged with the murder of her cousin, Dr. Henry Zimmerman, in this city, August last year, began before Judge Nelson P. Brown in superior court yesterday. The shoot ing occurred in the street. The young physician who had just been dis charged from the service and was still in his Iieutenant's uniform, had been riding with two Winchester, N H. women, when, the indictment charges, Miss Zimmerman approach ed and after few moments converse ton apart from the others, fired foC- shots. The doctor died instantly
 Miss Zemmerman walked a short dis tance and collapsed. Both Dr. zim- merman and Miss Zimmerman were well known in local Jewish circles.
Republican farmer., 1920-05-14
DR. ABBoTrs EULoGY OF ROOSEVELT

THE REPORT of pr. Abbots remarks commendatory L the late Col. Roosevelt appears the following a1u of the of Khartoum of of Z arrived khartoun the Nile of a
  a civila dml- O the
 
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 " What would have done he hirna drum the order him "Someo the goverr in with matter
 
 
 in usdffc by 
 The judicial trial of accused of s it sts today the ougrowth of long period struggle and aon The drum head court earlier institution To instantly whoever offended characteristic of savage ustice
 MT. Roosevelt proposed a of punshing assin drum head court martial is to say lynch which is itself species of assassination would kill
Republican farmer., 1920-05-14
DEMOCRATIC WOMEN ORGANIZE


T~ HE ORGANIZATION of a Connecticut Alliance of
 1 cratic successfully and brilliantly eff feced at the Brookawn club yesterday afternoon The lead ershp organization 4ocazed but this defect may be remeded at leisure Mrs. Hnck who headed the Bridgeport committee which had charge of the dinner must have felt elation she looked the sembage that met organize for political activity in of the two great parties Mrs Hincks of those who fought suffrage fight when the prospect of very distant almost miraculous triumph of which hopeless will be of the wonders of history.
 There have been other poncal dinners in Connecticut in which chief actors but this the first in which
 have met without the guidance of the political leader ship of men, to undertake large political task nothing less than organization for Democracy of the of Con necticut
Republican farmer., 1920-05-14
PROVING THE CASE

MERE IS nothing like experiment to prove the truth o 1 the Before received the ballot It was freely said that they would the ballot if they had 1t They would vote. In California they had election yesterday of which the following reported in a of p
  for wasex 
  In cent men, trict more heav mt a little while the will vote numerously thu men, everywhere and perhaps little numerousy Th sufficient disprove the contention that the will vote,
Republican farmer., 1920-05-14
THE FARMER: FRIDAY, MAYl14, 1920

ed man. said because the kill ng is not however the custom of civilized to punish with death every who commits homicide, but the alty mgated by facts Reminded that the people back home that to say civilization might object to such summary methods, Mr. Roosevelt replied T would have piled, I can't go slow because the is dead.'
 Fortunately Colonel did not commit this for the matter of hs he being but visitor in strange it for his that such crime does not stain it.
 If Roosevelt is to be commemoraed for his Americanism and for his support of the constitution such incidents thai Egypt omitted by his euogsts who in such thing give color of Boshevism than of constitutional ism.
Republican farmer., 1920-05-14

The Triple Alliance which the and Transport representatives from the La Congress and the cooperative prepare and offer flor such actions will substantially reduce present high costs
 country Railroad Brotherhoods continue to give weight prices than they give to wages The Brother hoods have presented to the War Labor Board attempted that high prices to prof iteering.
 shoes products other items. Of cost of producing increased but 15 per cent the price percent wholesale and the profits chief producers of increased from 100000 The large part of the profit in the investigated commodities attributed distribution
 furnish in which two elements contribute high cost There proeering in it, of greedy type and the methods by which is distributed wasteful
 additional light is thrown the combined prof. iteerng the distribution of by James Bakeslee fourth assistant postmaster eral who, letter to Arthur Brisbane the distinguished editor that the oice under suitable conditions ought attanabe distribute at he market Here the difficulty in the way, described by Mr. Blakesee:
 30 900 pounds of mailed
 2O 900 pounds will be shipped 142c
 parcel o
 
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 pounds from refinery price
 17c pound the refinery and that order would
 nave to De p7ceo rnr0uen 0o s s.sAl " poNelS ~ oF
 the refinery in this city who under = the present @ system Tn turn ais
 merchants, and
 D. P Company crovo
 various wholesalers who then dist distribute to retailers
 
 
 zsc to 25c perpo
 Blakesee estimates four cents pound the least would be saved to the by distribution refinery direct to the retailer who allowed estimate profit of three cents pound.
 such system could be arranged it would be refinery sell direct to all purchasers would necessary to fix the wholesale price, goods be delivered at this price long the original producer of declines reach the market except through long chain of intermediates distribution wastes be great and profeering greater
 In the final summing of conditions waste will probably the chieest of material prosperity of inferior methods of ideness of loang the job marginal speculation and of all things whatever by attempt to live without rendering adequate vice.
Republican farmer., 1920-05-14
GETS LIFE IMPRISONMENT.

Springfield, Mass, May 11-Frank W. Potter of Cambridge, a former navy service man, was sentenced to life imprisonment in superior court yesterday after pleading guilty to sec ond degree murder. Potter shot and killed Deputy Sheriff George A. Bills of Palmer on a Boston and Albany train in that town February 24. 1919. when Bills and PatroIman Thomas were trying to arrest him for wound ing Detective Lieutenant J. M. Daily of the Springfield police department in a hotel here a few hours earlier Potter was indicted for first degree murder.