The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-28
MAKE Them PAY
PrOfiteers Should Shoulder War
Cost, Says Capper.
EmphaticalIy Declares Wilson
Caused Sugar Hikes.
VnTERS ne IL & IMpAIIENI
VOTERS OF U. S. IMPATIENT
Country Seeks Relief But Wall
Street Cuts Big Melons.
Loot of Public in Sugar Deals
Has Been Colossal.

Minocqua, Wis. Aug. 2S.-Declarine
that President Wilson was directly re-
sponsible for the sugar shortage and
that this one act is costing the people
of the United States three million dol
lars day. Senator Arthur Capper, of
Kansas, before a gathering of Repub-
hcans of northern Wisconsin today in
sisted that the next administration
should make the war profiteers pay
the cost of the war and also pay the
ex-soldiers all that is due them.
Senator Capper also attacked the
waste and extravaganza of the Wilson
administration, and urged that a
oudget system be adopted.
Voters Are Impatient.
Senator Capper said in part:
II 1 read the signs of the times
rightly, domestic problems are the is
sues uppermost in the minds of voters
today. The nation has looked in vain
10 the present administration for their
solution.
Instead of a solution being forth
coming, the trusts and the big cor
porations have been free to push up
their profits to hitherto unheard of
heights and the cost of living has
kept pace with the crop of melons
cut in Wall street and the extra divi-
dends declared.
THE government goes on spending
money as if it were drunk There are
today 226.369 more employees in gov
ernment service in the United States
than there were before the war
1t is today costing the people two
million dollars an hour on an eight
hour basis to run their government.
on business basis.
I'VE must replace our present
wasteful system with a businessIike
budget system. President Wilson
vetoed the budget bill for no other
reason that I can see other than that
his too plentiful authority.
Loot in Sugar Colossal.
1.-THE colossal loot in sugar is piracy
so stupendous that history has no par
allel for it. 1t is costing the American
people not less than s3.000.0O0 a day.
7 undertake to say that President
Wilson, more than any one else, is to
blame for the sugar outrage.
THE reason sugar is not selling at
II and II cents a pound retail in the
United States today instead of from
II to 20 cents is because the president
gar equalization board and the urgent
recommendation of Herbert Hoover
and buy the Cuban crop.
Palmer Started Hikes.
ION November 8. last. the attorney
general of the United States, whose
duty it is to prosecute profiteers in
stead of legalizing their prices, agreed
to allow the Louisiana cane sugar pro-
ducers to charge II and Is cents for
their sugar at the plantation. This
was at a time when refined sugar was
selling in every state in the United
States at II or IL cents retail.
II should like to see the government
go after profiteers who got rich dur
ing the war and make them pay the
cost of the war. I should like to see
the government compel them to put UP
the money necessary to pay the ex-sol-
diers all that is due them. We shall
have to pay the heavier share. If the
government will put a stiff tax on war
profits and on profiteering, and re-
troactive tax on stock dividends it will
go a long way toward Tightening the
burden on the backs of the people.
Il voted against the League of Ma
tions as brought to us by President
Wilson. A majority of the senate, ir
respective of party or party politics,
refused to bind this country to a con-
tract to send our young men to fight
and die in defense of the territories of
foreign governments.
ITO block such game I believe
American history will one day say was
worth all the trouble. all the delay that
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