The labor world., 1922-09-16
READ Them and WEEP
Congressman Huddleston:~ 1T is alb


surd that the administration has no
settled policy from one day to an.
other. It is ridiculous that the ad-
ministration is like a chameleon,
changing color from hour to hour as
it may confer with one senator with
certain views, then. with another Of
different views, then with big busi-
ness men with opposing opinions;
that hops and skips in it's policies
as it passes from one industry TO
another and taking complexion from
each and giving constantly changing
blasts with every emotion that has
stirred it, but all of which means
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Record.
Senator La Toilette: I have OBJ
served in the news DISPATCHES that
Secretary Weeks now has before him
and is carefully considering a plan
for subsidizing the munition plants
Of the country. After election I have
no doubt that the proposition to sub
sidize the munition plants will be
brought forward and pressed to pas
sage by the same interests which are
now opposing adjusted compensation
for the neutrality-suspicious. Re-
cord.
Senator Capper.--Mr. President, 1
believe the war profiteers and the
peace profiteers owe a bonus to the
soldiers of the World war. There is
no better guaranty against militar-
is mthan to require the men who
profit out of war to pay for It.
Those who remained at home made
enough here in the United States to
enable us to pay many times over
ism than to require the men who
fought our battles. Wall street wants
to pay it with a sales tax, which
would be paid largely by the farm
ers, the laboring people, and others
in the form Of a, tax on food and
clothing and other necessities: I
will never cast my vote for a. sales
tax or any other device which shifts
tax burdens to the backs Of the poor
in higher prices and increased cost
Of living. Taxes to pay the bonus
or taxes for any other purpose should
be laid upon wealth in proportion
to ability to pay.
Profiteering during the war pro-
duced one American millionaire for
every three American soldiers killed
in France. I would like to see the
government recover the hundreds Of
millions Of dollars stolen from the
treasury by the crooks and grafters
who profiteered off the government
in war contracts and then use that
money to Pay the soldiers bonus
Congressional Record.
Senator Reed: Create a commits
sion, create a board, create a gov
ernmental tribunal to limit in time
the production of coal, and just as
certainly as water runs down hill,
just as certainly as night follows
the disappearance Of the sun behind
the western horizon, just as certain
ly as the eternal ceaseless vigilance
Of a. vested interest will gain its end
while the people sleep, just 80 GER
tainly will that commission or board
ultimately come under the control
of those who are producing the coal
in the country. The great competi-
tive field will have. been destroyed,
and few gentlemen will sit here in
Washington, appointed by a presi-
dent or somebody else, and in the
end the attorneys and counselors
and representatives Of the great in
vested capital that is vitality con-
cerned will have their way. Now, II
we are going to make this govern
ment a general socialism, let US do
it in the open. Let us say it is going
| to be a socialism and that everybody
has to work so many hours. Let US
start right there. Then we will not
have any more strikes. Let US say
that everybody has to work, and If
he has to work there will not be
any use in having any property,
and consequently we can wipe out
capital. When we say that, let us
say we have written the epitaph of
,Anglo-Saxon greatness and we have
set up a tombstor . over the grave
of the greatest republic ever framed
by men under the providence Of God.
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