The Tomahawk., 1921-07-21

ing strenuous fight against fnancier
management of railroads.
AS one of the leading cartoonists of
the country, with his pen always on
the right side, and as a contributor to
Labor, Baer is likely to slay more
plutocrats outside of congress than he
could in it, where the machine gags
every one who would be loyal to the
people.
Whenever people become serious
about driving out graft and corpora
ton rule men like John M. Baer come
to the top. One might say that the
whole problem of reform lies in a
willingness to listen to honest men
rather than to crafty politicians and
the kept press. There is really no
shortage of honest men if the people
are in earnest about wanting them.
INVESTIGATING PROFITEERS
Economy may be the excuse by
which the friends of big business will
excuse the war ;profteers who ought
to be prosecuted and forced to dis
gorge.
Attorney General Daugherty de-
clares that large sum will be needed
to investigate war contracts prepare
tory to prosecuting all who took ad-
vantage Of the government. Will con-
gress appropriate enough to make a
beginning on the big job? We expect
to see spasms of economy in congress
and pleadings for the poor taxpayer.
But if any one of dozens Of profteers
that could be named could be forced to
pay back, the expenses of the most
thorough investigation would be COW
cred.
The attorney general says that bill
lions of dollars were improperly ex-
pended in injudicious contracts, and
readers who followed the war business
carefully can fully agree with him.
AS we pointed out last week it was
not alone the waste of sums beyond
imagination gathered from poor peo-
pie by the Liberty bond method but
the diversion of labor and capital
away from helping to prosecute the
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the dollar-a-year men,. \ -.
Perley Morse, nationally known ac-
countant, revealed more than so mis-
applied items in dealing with Schwab's
Bethlehem Steel corporation that cost
the government more than 100000
900. - .-.>-@- x --s-.--.
Perhaps we have in these amazing
steals the real reason why we had so
much gag law during the war and
why the patriotism of the ordinary,
honest, everyday mortal was so thor
oughly inquired into.
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METHODIsTs INDORsE PRO-
GRESSIVES ~:
{ The mems assembly of one of the
leading Methodist congregations in.
New Haven, Conn.,, has adopted the
following resolutions defending the
Federation for Social Service of that
denomination and other church organ
izations being attacked by "open
shop" agents: f.. * : =.
eve record ourselves as emphatica1-
ly opposed to this pagan spirit so rife
in parts Of our industrial life and we
heartily commend and approve the
Federation for Social Service in re-
spect to the gallant work of merit it
is doing in helping our Methodist
Episcopal church to be true to its
Christian ideals, together with the ef-
forts it is making to protect us from
this harmful and insidious propagan-
da. 1t is our heartiest wish for it's
continued success in keeping Method
ism clean from this un-American and
UNI Christian spirit" ...z-.-
The mems assembly goes on to say
that "The propaganda that is being
distributed in the interests of the open
shop is the method employed by GER
tain large business interests and
monopolies to revert to an outworn in
dustrial order more characterized by
it's paganism than by the spirit Of
Christianity" 1. i ar ~, s:-. IS
And the assembly warns that eff
forts of corporations to embarrass
certain of our Methodist ministers in
their preaching of the gospel will, i
successful, lead to anarchy. 2 -, +, /
TAFT MADE JUSTICE z5
William Howard Taft, president
from March a, 1909, to March 4, 1913,
has been nominated and confirmed as
chief justice Of the federal supreme
court. The senate vote for confrma-
ton was 60 to 4. - H.. :
Thirty-two senator's did not vote and
Hiram johnson, Borah, Robert La Fol-
lette and Watson of Georgia voted
against Taft. Many southern Demo-
Gratis voted for him on the plea that
Republicans had voted for Chief Jus