Indiana daily times., 1920-10-08
COLVER WARNS
WOMEN AGAINST
G. @. p. PROGRAM
Former Trade Commission
Man Makes Bitter Attack
on Senator Watson.
By STAR Correspondent.

TT. WAYNE, Ind, Oct. S.-War with
Mexico may follow Republican success
and defeat of the League of Nations at
the November election. William B. Col
yer, former chairman of the Federal
trade commission, said hast night to the
State League Of Women Voters here.
Colver said the mercenary interests
which desire to exploit the~natural re-
sources of Mexico are fighting the League
of Nations because it guaranteed Mexico
from such an invasion.
Colyer's warning as to Mexico was
hardly as sensational as bitter attack
he made on Senator James e. Watson.
Reviewing a speech Watson made in
the Senate in which be attacked the Fed
eral trade commission, Colver showed
how the speech came at the tine the
commission was investigating the five
big meat packers.
Because he has never been able to ma ke
Watson support the vague charges he
made against the commission, Colver
ssid. he had 'scome to Indiana, Watson's
home" to force the issue.
-ezIAKEs DEMAND
ON WATSON.
Specifically and with intimations which
pointed to q barrage should Watson re-
ply, Colver demanded to know who pre-
Senate, who supplied Watson with the
facts upon which the speech was
made and who framed the charges
! against the, commission.
i Colyer also asked Watson TO inform
s. the people of Indiana who "hired Clar-
II ence Martin. an Indianapolis attorney,
long before Watson's special committee
3 hired him, and who paid all Martins
expenses before he became attached to
the Senate pay roll.
Colver also quoted Senator Kenyon,
Republican Senator from Iowa. whom
Colyer praised. to show how Watson
had refused to follow up his sensational
charges against the commission.
At the time Watson made his speech
in which he charged that commission en-
ployes who had Investigated the pack
ers were Socialists and Bolshevists, II
was noted how the speech would serve
the packers by undermining faith In the
commission.
FORMER indiana man. friend Of Wat
son. was an agent for. the packers, and
often Rsas in Watson's office.
Colver revealed telegram in which
one of the packers told their legislative
agent to cali upon Watson TO obtain ii
formation as to a committee and Its ac
f.ons
watson was chosen though there were
several other Senators on the committee
WOMEN TOLD OF
EXCESS PROFITS TAX.
Colver denounced the last Republican
Congress for its failure 10 repeal the
excess profits tax and advised the women
to judge of the present promises of
future action by the conduct Of tho
last Congress.
He charged the excess profits tar with
being in part the cause of the high cost
Of living.
There has been at work in this coun-
try for years cleverly masked propa
ganda. the real end of which is first
war and then the annexation Of Mexico,
Colver declared.
"A very definite group of big interests
in this country co1et Mexico.
They want to be allowed to seize and
exploit her natural resources.
asssIf- We sjoined the League OF Nations
we weald bind ourselves to refrain from
wars of conquest.
81 doubt if the American business
man. the worker and the farmer, who
cheerfully pays the cost of a war for
the rights of others, cares to buy war
In defense of the ranches of somebody
else."
Colver said he had now resigned from
the Federal Trade Commission. that he
was a private citizen, that Watson had
insinuated he was a traitor and that
he had awaited this opportunity to meet
him face to face TO demand a white
mans chance" and to again, as man to
man. demand thar Watson either sup
port his charges or give the facts Of
them to the public complete and apollo
gize for them.
- ColVer said no one was paying his
expenses. that he had consulted with
no one nor no political organization,
and that he was speaking before the
women and on their invitation.