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Iditious conspiracy" as the Minnesota
supreme court Of corporation lawyers
has just convicted him Of being, when,
as they allege, he used the following
Language in q speech delivered in st.
Paul in September 1917, viz.
I'VE got the government control
too largely into the hands Of the
Eprofiteers They are today Influencing
this government Id too largA meas
ure. An influence so large that they
can say-we are going to have forty
billions Of dollars to spend here to
prosecute this war. Now, how much
have we got to pay the farmers for
wheat to keep bread in the boys stom-
tachs. All that we don't have to pay for
wheat to keep bread in the boys stom-
achs we can use to pay profits to our
selves 5:. 5
Then what was Thomas Jefferson
guilty Of when he said "A little rebel
lion now and then Is good thing, for
| it is well that the officers of the gov
ernment be reminded from time to
time that the people retain the pow
ers of resistance" .-..
What was General Grant guilty Of
when he declared both the Mexican
war and the war between the states to
have been "crimes against humanity"
and deliberately provoking war with
Mexican solely for political purposes !?
And what is Judge Garry, head Of
the steel trust, guilty of when he is
quoted as saying, IF war ever comes
between this country and Japan, jap
an will not be the agressor?"
Wherein did Townley tell anything
but the truth? st.s
Let the black record Of the profi-
teers and the courts bear witness
against themselves and for the great
|farmer-labor agitator, A. G. Townley.
Congressional Investigations have
proven that: 81 ,6O0, ,O0O, 900 was spent
allegedly for airplanes and that not a
single fighting plane ever reached the
front, and that somebody got away
with around a billion dollars or more
Of this, fund
It has been proven that hundreds
Of millions of dollars were paid for
ships, many Of which were worse than
useless from the hour of4 launching
and that around $4,000, 900, 900 is un-
accounted for by the geniuses that
managed the Shipping Board. On top
Of this this gang has turned over
ships, that cost Ameican taxpayers
billions Of dollars, to private pluto
cratic corporations for less than the
proverbial "song."
It has been recently shown that the
Lumber Trust was guilty Of doing the
very things it charged the I. w. w.
with intending" to do, and vet not
single lumber king is in prison,
where all would be if there was any
thing like impartial justice in this
country. ss'ssE2. ~ y,
Ex-senator Pettigrew of South Da-
kota quotes from the report of Viii
liam j. Graham then chairman of the
select committee Of the national house
Of representatives, on expenditures in
the War Departmnt, as follows:
~ have been asked by the commit
tee to prepare such portions OF the
minutes Of the Council of National
Defense as seems to be pertinent to
the subject matter we are inquirlng
about. The matter being investigate by
the committee at present is the gener-
al method that was pursued in the
purchase Of supplies for the War de-
partment during the war.
An examination OF these minutes
discloses the fact that a commission
Of seven men chosen by the President
(Wilson), seems to have devised the
entire system Of purchasing war sup
plies, planned press censorship, de-
signed q system Of food control, and
selected Herbert Hoover as it's direct
OF, determined on a daylight saving
scheme, and in a word designed
practically every war measure which
the Congress subsequently enacted
and did an this behind closed doors,
weeks, and even months before the
congress Of the United States declar-
ed war against Germany"
H all the foregoing facts, now
known to all, do not prove that Town
lev was telling the truth when he
made the assertion as the Minnesota
supreme court says he did that The
government control is too largely IN
the hands Of the profiteers, then
nothing is capable Of being proven.
Not only did Townley hit close to
the mark when he pictured these con-
| seienceless profiteers with SAYING,
1--WE are going to have forty billion
dollars to spend here to prosecute
this war, (, and, "all that ws don't have
To pay for wheat to keep bread in the
boys, stomachs we can use to pay
profits to ourselves" but all the in
vestik tikations ia Congress and else
where prove that they got theirs and,
not only got It ia millions and billions,
but are now out working every crook
led scheme their crooked lawyers can