Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-04-24
Us. ROBBERS ROOST.
SAYSCAPPER, AS He
AYSPROF|TEERS
Kansas Senator Declares
Laws Should Be Enforced OF
! Officers Resign.

VtlsVVS y slVOISlis
Tho United States has become y
oobbers' roost." Senator Capper. re-
publican. Kansas. declared in a pre-
Sared address today in the Senate. In
Nhich he scored profteering. and de-
ylared If the law enforcement onicers
Of the government could not enforce
the laws they should resign "and let
Snen who can take their places"
Declaring that the proof of prof
Steering was in the margin Of profit.
the senator said that In one year alone
hurinE the war the gross income Of
American corporations rose from thir-
xy-five and one-.hird billions to eigh-
ty-four and one-half billions He read
70 the Senate long list OF CORPORA
Sions whose profits were placed at
onyVhere from 20 to 200 per cent
Melon Patches Prosper.
wall streets melon patches" he
Declared. continue to be warmed by
the sun Of privilege, fertilized by the
perspiration OF labor and watered by
tho tears OF poverty, and this year
will raise q record-breaking crop free
from the blight of income taxes, while
the people are being urged to buy
their coal early and be robbed for
less, to abstain from steak ono day
week. and to purchase war savings
stamps that the United States may
live In nine-billion style on = six
bullion income.
-At this moment the most brazen
challenge we have had in this satur-
MALTA OF greed comes from the gam
olers In sugar. A corner has evidently
been formed right under the eyes of
ths Department Of Justice The can
ntAg season raid IL on. For years the
sugar interests haye annually and
openly and shamelessly robbed Ameri-
eayu Rfe1teerfag II Proved.
sAftsP reviewing the activities Of
Hour. sugar and cotton mills, the re-
cant Supreme Court decision holding
stock dividends untaxAble and the
Oeparfment OF Justices campaign
urgtng use Of the cheaper cuts" of
OAVD9r presented list Of corpora
t3one whose earnings. he said. were
pro0 Of proffeerinE. -open. hasrant.
tcandnloua"
Nnneo anA Ennalng1 PsesenteA.
This list with the. percentage of
SArn1ks - given by Senator Capper.
Costinsnt.i on. 400 per cent: Unit
e rnsla aGss. 200 per cent: Ohio Fuel
ntag EemDany. -1ee per cent: Amos
EeqG Gott6n NaDufactxFing Company,
IL - cents At6t1 Aotofs, 100 per
eat: NoDhuA Naauf1cturing Company,
10 tef cent: Amefican Tobacco Sc
eurittes Company. Is per cent: Mano-
1nst Mllls. sSA per cent: Hood Rub
Der. go per cent: Cfueible Steel, so
Der cent; ClevelAnd-Akron Bag, SO
per cent; Union Bag and Paper, SO
Der cent; Auto Car Company, 40 per
cant; John r. Thompson Company.
S3h Per cent: St. Maurice Paper Com
pAny. 30 per cent: r. W. Wooiworth,
% per cent; Electric Welding Of Bos-
ton. 36 per cent; Delaware and Cleve-
land, IS per cent: Hawaiian Pineap-
PIE Company. IS per cent. Electric
srai Chemical. 20 per cent; American
A0ltiGraph. 20 per cent; Frusean
Steel, 20 per cent.
Tho Standard Oil Company Of In
diana" the senator continued, has
recent1y increased its capital from
6tockholders . stock dividend OF $500
per cent
C.nAy ana Coal P,sat..
sTAe National Candy Company's
earnings last year showed an increase
OF 545 per cent over 1915; Burns
8rothers. the largest retail coal deal
ers In the United States, made q net
pRo0t Of 20 cents a ton. against 231
cents In 1916: the earnings Of the
United Drug Company. doing a busi-
ness Of $50.o00,000 annually, were 242
pef cent greater than 1916; the Amer
lean Ice Company, which cuts ice by
the millions. but not profits. has in the
last four years Increased it's earn
1nEn 283 per cent: the International
~ Q Q
Ooe worth Of business last year, made
- per cent more money although 1t
sid 20 per cent fewer goods; the Pa
C40c mills output of cotton and
Norsted dress goods produced "a per
cent more profit than in the year be-
gore the war. and the excess profit
surplus of United States Steel-the
surplus remaining after dividends
has aggregated nearly $500. .O0O. 900 in
TIE last five years. although 1915, ,O00.-
30 was spent on improvements"
wants War PfoAts Taxed.
These patriotic melon raisers. who
have made their millions and billions
during and since the war, now are
urging that the soldier bonus be rails
ed by per cent tax on sales to
be paid on every dollar spent by every
man, woman and child in the country,
Including the ex-service men them
selves. Mr.. President, I shall favor
placing this tax right where 1t be-
aongs-on war proits-and taking
from these huge stock dividends. from
excess war profits and from the prof.
teers all that is needful to compen-
oate the men who sacrificed them
selves instead Of their country or their
countrymen in the time of war
During the coal strike. while zero
gold and privation threatened the
people. the price of crude oil shot up
besrly 500 per cent and still is rising.
sIt II said the poor mans luxury Is
aobacco. The contribNt1on to good
GoveYnment of the Tobacco Products
Corporation IL a dividend balance show
9ng . rise of 1,547 per cent over its
1914 profits. which the smoker had to
bay or go without this solace.
The General Cigar Company, which
In 1905 acquired the property and
hnRineaa of the old Yni tod