Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-06-02
DAUGHERTY AFTER
WAR PR0F|TEERS
ATTORNEY GENERAL PROMISES
THEY WILL BE INDICTED
AND PROSECUTED.
"BIG MEN, TO BE UNDER FIRE
Proceedings Against These Characters
Will Have Considerable Effect on
the Legislation to Pay a Bonus to
Those Who Fought.
BIZ EpMARp 3. CLARK


from the Department of Justice that
on the passage of bill for an addi-
fional grand jury for the District Of Co.
lumbia, cases which have been pre-
pared against alleged wartime prof.
teers will be taken up for indictment
and for the prosecution of the in
dicted
For weeks charges were made free
ly that the Department of Justice was
u laggard IN its attempts to get at the
protiteers. The matter was taken up
in congress and direct charges against
the department were made by some
Republican representatives., and Of
course the Democrats have been max
Ing capital out of the controversy.
A promise of prosecution and a
statement of what has been done were
made by the attorney general in let
ter to the President The direct word
is that some of "the big ones of earth
will be under the fire of the courts be-
fore much time has elapsed.
The fate of the bill for bonus for
the former service men is perhaps in
some measure dependent upon what
happens to the proiiteers or to the men
alleged to be such. If there had
been no profiteering during the war,
there probably would have been no
demand for a bonus from veterans of
the World war. The majority in the
senate today is trying to figure out
some means Of providing what is
equivalent to a cash bonus and doing
1t in such way that it will receive
ments prove that men IN business life
most active in opposition to the bonus
profited largely at the expense Of the
government during the war, it seems
likely that opposition to the cash pay
ments to the veterans will melt away
like a snow on southern slope under
spring sun.
No Politics in the Bonus.
OF course the fact that some men
profiteered during the war, "did" their
government out of money and en-
rlched themselves at the expense of
the taxpayers does not in itself form
an excuse for the calling upon the tax
payers to pay more money, but it sup
plies the human reason for the de-
mand of the ex-service men that they
get bonus, and it also supplies rea-
son why the inen asking for the bonus
get considerable sympathy from the
people for their demand.
, Members Of the lower house who
voted in favor of the bonus have told
your correspondent that they do not
believe that vote for or against the
bonus will have any political effect
one way or the other. These members
said they thought men who voted
against the measure will get as much
voting benefit at the polls from their
action as would come to men who
voted for the measure.
One of these representatives has
told me that he was moved to vote
for the bonus by the comparatively re-
cent action of certain great business
organizations Of the country which
came out in bitter opposition to the
payment of anything to the former
service men.
This man said that study Of the
personnel of the business organiza
lions showed him that large number
of che memberships are held by mer
who reaped financial harvests from
the war, although he would not sa,
whether or not he thought all these
men actually were Intentional prom
teers. The representative added tina
opposition to the payment of compare
lively small sums of money to tn
men who served did not come witt
good grace from men who did no
serve and who made large sums o
money as a result of their business
activities during the war.
Many Charges by Both Parties.
The PROTECTING charges have bee
provocative of all kinds of charge
against individuals and corporations Il
priyate life and against officials of gov
eminent. Democrats and some Repub
Iicans with them have charged that tn
present administration has endeavore'
through Its department ol JUSTICE I
cover up some of the profteerinl
Many Republicans have declared, o
the contrary. that the Department o
Justice has been at work unearthing tn
facts in the various cases, and tina
when they are disclosed to the publ
view it will be found that officials o
the previous administration winked a
profiteering operations.
That there was profiteering durin
the war is known to every American
Men who made. fortunes out Of tn
government contracts spent their &C
auired riches In gIarfne living in New
York city, END. In winter 81 Floridl
resorts and elsewhere Tasy fiaunte'
their wealth. II = said At man.
of them since have g,ne troke. no
being able to sterd he prosperit
which suddenly came ~ f,iem.
Bureau Transfer Controversy.
1t III Intended to Transfer som
.roxtof~1 bs1rs ssss.fsf 2 government fror