Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-07-14
SCORES PROF|TEERS'
JUDGE LANDIS In DYNAMIC TALK
CITES GROSS EVILS OF
STOCK DIVIDEND.

Judge K. M. Lands, the star num-
Der of the Chautauqua program, open
ed on the bell of 2:3O Saturday after
noon. Then after paying the custom
AIRY tribute to his audience he 'hopp-
eded onto his main address with Wig
or. He is a small, wiry man, stopped
but virile, with swapping black eyes
and a name of white hair. The judges
delivery is slow but vigorous He
pauses to let some graphic sentence
sink in and then launches forth again
in an avalanche of humor or pathos.
The judge favors taking from the
prOfiteer the cost of the war. He said
that what should have cost eight or
ten billions cost 25 to 80 billions be-
cause of these leeches.s He said that
in New York alone there are 5000
war millionaires. He dwelt with
pathos on the idealism of the soldiers
of America and their fathers and
mothers and sisters and brothers and
compared it to the lecherous intent
of those who viewed the conflict as a
means to money making. He felt that
taking money from the profiteers was
no moral crime because they had no
moral title to their ill-gotten wealth.
He explained the method of stock div
idendS used as a means to obviate the
congressional act levying on incomes.
The judge voiced his opinion of the
supreme court decision denying the
right of congress in this matter by a
vote of five to four by saying that he
would not criticise the courts heart
or head but would pay tribute to its
throat, mouth and stomach in swal-
lowing the argument presented"
eff congress has the right to raise
an army of four million, has the right
to send men to the firing lines and
their death, has the right to declare
war, it has right to tax stock div
idend'
The judge was humorous as he told
of his early life he being the
fourth son, and that a yard of cloth
had to do its full duty" AS result
when a. suit got down the line to him
his appearance could we'll be imagin-
ed. He said that his mother was the
financier of the family and that he
used to wonder why his keen little
mother who used to run the affairs
of the family had to stay at the wash
tub on election day. -t,
Speaking of the two big parties
Judge Lands said he was a Republi-
can and his wife Democrat He said
that he was unable to make out what
either platform meant and he offered
a reward to anyone in the audience
who would so inform him. The judge
stated that without doubt the bosses
in both parties knew exactly what
their candidates would do if elected
and he felt sure that the mass of the
voters had a right to know where both
candidates stood just as the bosses
| do
In conclusion the judge paid a glow
ing tribute to womanhood and ex-
pressed a belief that women would
exert a refining influence on politics
Women have fundamental abhor-
renee of crime" was one of his graph
| ic expressions. At the end the judge
/ spoke of the seventy thousand crosses
row on row, mile after mile, and asked
/ his audience to be faithful to the
/ Americans who died that the world
might live and breathe again!
| Judge Lands is essentially human
AS Judge Goodsell said in introducing
him, "He is much loved and much
hated. In other words he is "just
| folks"
A good deal could be said of Judge
Lands talk. Perhaps he said moth.
/ ing new but he did confirm what most
of us suspected and august opinion oil
! this sort does not hurt the cause OF
the plain people Judge Lands is work
/ ing for.
/ TOhO D TIT Of CnripUf TIL on