The Washington times., 1921-01-26
Today
How Little Tweed Knew.
Dangerous Wisdom Teeth.
The German Puzzle.
MapoIeonic Residue.
UC0tOOCs
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE


money, earn more money. For In
stance, suppose you are interested
In the oil business and your great
est customers are corporations.
city gas companies, etc, that buy
fuel oil.
You buy up those corporations.
Then you own their purchasing
agents. Those agents do rs they
are told and buy your oil At any
price you choose to fix.
Then, because oil is SO dear, the
gas or other corporation stock
that you have bought Is no longer
able TO pay its big dividends on
watered capitalization
Next, you send the corpora
tion's president, whom you also
hire and own, with his lawyers, to
visit the Public Service Commis-
sion. With a tear in each eye, they
say. "oil is SO dear that we can't
make any money" The Commits
sion allows them q higher rate,
dividends are resumed.
You have lacked up the price
of oil most simply without fric-
ton, your corporation stocks are
paying well. And the little fools
that vote are paying the bill.
It's much simpler and safer than
Bill Tweed's methods, and q mil
lion times more profitable.
Senator Calder Of New York
says the people Of this country,
last year, "were robbed Of one
thousand five hundred million dol
lars by the men in the coal trade"
II the coal business, by monop-
oily and conspiracy, with Govern
ment dishonesty and stupidity aid
ing, steals fifteen hundred millions
from the people in one year, what
do you suppose are the total an
nual stealings of all the monopo-
lists and conspirators?
There are two problems in this
country.
First, to stop wholesale thieving
by taxation of life's necessaries.
Second, to find work for the
millions Of unemployed.
These problems will not be
solved for many a day. But they
must be solved SOME day. II not,
look out for an explosion. The
peoples wisdom tooth is bound to
come through sooner or later.
Dentists will tell you that wisdom
teeth cause a lot Of trouble when
they come through the wrong
way.
The question that agitates
France is "How can Germany be
completely disarmed, reduced to
and kept in a state of poverty that
will make her forever incapable
Of dangerous recovery, while,. at
the same time, indefinitely, paying
large sums to France
Before long France, England
and all Western Europe may be
asking "How can we, with utmost
speed, enable Germany to help
keep back the power that really
threatens us-in Russia and In
Asia beyond?"
England's question is very dif-
ferent from that Of France. With
out colonies or a fighting navy
Germany is no longer feared by
England w England's problem
France, and at the same time put
Germany to work, restoring pro-
duction in Russia, pouring out
Russian grain to feed Europe
thus making Europe independent
of the United States?" ;
Not the crushed military power
of Germany, but the rising finan-
cial power and world influence Of
this country worry England. They
have statesmen in England, where
we have politicians, and the Eng
lish statesmen look far ahead.
A most interesting idiocy, born
of war hatred and fear, is the sug-
gestion that the German govern
ment be completely disarmed and
at the same time expected to main
tain firm government, subduing
Bolshevists and Sparticides, and
enforcing payment of gigantic
taxes that even the mildest war
indemnity will make necessary.
If we need, as Senators allege,
q standing army of hundred and
seventy-five thousand soldiers in
this country, separated from in
vasion by three thousand miles Of
water, what is the minimum re-
quired by Germany with Russia at
her elbow on the other side of an
imaginary boundary line?
Yesterday traffic was tied up in
Baltimore by an unusual appari-
ton. Down the street came an
old-fashioned carriage drawn by
prancing chestnut horses. High
up sat a colored coachman and
footman, in black livery, their
coats "pipef" in red. High silk
hats with gold bands, and cock
ades at the side, finished off
those dignified personages. In
the carriage rode, with his wife,
Mr.. Bonaparte, once Attorney Cen
cral and distant relative Of Ma
poleon Bonaparte.
How did the original Bona