The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-06-23

amount OF money they made out OF the
war, And, Of course everyone has to
pay an income tax, 30 that doesn't
mean anything. think the meanest
type Of man on earth was the man
who used the requirements OF the
great war to cheat the government and
the people. Instead OF giving, fighting,
and helping to the limit when the
country needed help as II never had
needed It before, these men actually
made It harder to win the war, and at
the same time kept rolling the money
into their own pockets.
81 can't help but remember just one
little thing from the war that was the
result of proflteering. You know 1t
rained and rained and rained in
France and II the doughboys needed
anything they needed protection from
the rain. But you should have seen
some of the raincoats made after the
war started and issued to the men in
France. They hardly reached their
knees and were nearly as thin as It's
sue paper. Somebody must have made
a nice pile of money on that.
But Riddles, feel better today
about thi sthing than have for long
time because the time is coming very
soon when these men will be brought
to task for their actions Ever since
the war there has been a lot Of talk
about going after these war grafters.
The late attorney general, Mr.. Palmer,
di da lot of talking but stopped there,
too However, Mr. Palmer and his as
sociates do not count for anything now
and I know that for long time some
earnest quiet work his been going on
in preparation for the work Of bring
ing these men to task and making
them square things with the govern
| IHeHl anu Tie peopie'
Attorney General Daugherty, head
of the Department Of Justice, Is going
to see that justice Is done. He is not
going to conduct tea party. 1t Is 60
ing to be real business and he is 60
ing to the limit in making the war
grafters square things. 1t seems that
for some time he has had an investiga-
ton made of the various kinds Of con-
tracts for war supplies and they have
found such tremendous number of
grating cases that special burau
must be established to handle the job
The big fellows are the ones who will
be brought to justice"
81 heard that there were hundreds
of millions of dollars paid out of the
Treasury that were not fair profits,
said Jack
Eyes, Jack, guess 1t was so much
that it Is hard to realize, but if Attor-
ney General Daugherty succeeds, and
| think he will, that money will be re-
turned to the government. In his state
ment on this subject made after a con-
ference with President Harding, Mr.
Daugherty said something about the
draft dodgers. I'll read it to you:
"How are we going to justify the
actio no fthe government in sending
men to Jail for trying to render the
draft law ineffective, when we are let
ting certain kinds Of men 60 free, after
they have mulcted the government and
the people Of unimaginable sums"
"If these men think the present all.
ministration is going to stand for
what they did, they have another think
coming. 1t Is going to take q lot bi
hard work to gring about justice In
this matter, but Mr.. Daugherty Jis
bringing big men to help him. In fact
right now Mr.. Daugherty is trying &c
find big men to take charge Of this
work. In his work of organizing the
special bureau to prosecute these
cases, Mr.. Daugherty will have the aid
of Col William Hayward, Federal dis
trict attorney of New York, who will
have charge of all cases that will come
up in New oYrk."
How about the business men who
took fair profits and even gave the
government supplies at loss?" asked
Jack. 81 hope they will give those
men credit"
Don't worry about that, Jack. Mr.
Daugherty is well aware that there
were hundreds Of patriotic American
business men whose wrist thought was
for America and backing up the fight.
ing forces, and whose last Thoughts
we're of their pocket books. He will
see that those men are protected. Hs-
ten to what he says about that:
Business men who served thtir
government faithfully and took only
fair profits to which they were EMIT
led have nothing to fear now. The
many thousands of men in this class
need not be uneasy that charges that
may be found later to be false, will Jbt
used against them
I'm mighty glad these grafters are
going to get IT," said Jack.
$50 am l." said Ruth.
"Yes, children, 1t is the only fair apo
square thing and Mr.. Daugherty is tc
be congratulated on his efforts and
splendid plans to work 1t out"