The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-02-15

WaShlngtOn.-Al EFFORTS on the
part of ring politicians. backed by the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT lobby,
to stop the investigation Of the oil
scandal will be in vain.
This Cnmasking of the sinister
truth of private ownership of the
government at Washington has set
going a political revolution thruout
the United States. Tens OF thousands
of letters are arriving at the offices of
public men who are thought to be lib
eral or progressive, demanding that
the inquiry be developed thru every
possibl vein of evidence, no matter
what the effect may be upon either
or both of the old party organiza-
tons.
If the shame of bribery, fraud,
theft. Of public property and whole
sale pollution of the springs Of public
action by the oil millionaires shall
wreck the Republican and Democrat
ic parties-well and good. The vot-
ers who are now taking up the issue
in letters and resolutions ask only
that the country be given the facts
as to what kind of government ac-
tually exists. If there is no self
government by the people, if the rep
resentative form is but a mockery,
then the sooner that fact is estab-
hshed, the sooner the mistake can be
repaired.
S7O,OOO,OOO of Loot
Stockholders have been summoned
to produce their books, which already
are being exported by government
accountants, to show whether certain
senators or congressman OF admins
tration people have made fortunes
secretly from private tips as to oil
leases. Rumors that the gang" has
made millions-some say S70,000,00
from trading on the stock market
in Sinclair oil, will be run down.
John I. King, former Republican
national committeeman from Con-
necticut, organizer of the Wood pres
idential boom, and head of the Asso-
citation for Protection OF American
Rights in Mexico, has been sum-
moned. This Association was created
four years ago by the DOheny, Sin
clair, Standard Oil and other oil in
terests, to resist Section 27 of the
new constitution of Mexico which
seemed to threaten their profits from
Mexican oil operations. When Car
rama yielded to their pressure, ex-
erted thru the State Department, and
was overthrow, they resisted recog-
milton of the Obregon government
Fall, as senator and later in the
Harding cabinet, was their spOkes-
man against recognition Of Oregon
Finally. last summer, they got q
compromise with Oregon, and rec
OgnitiOn was given.
Hughes on Grill
King is supposed to know how the
oil crowd Influenced the State De.
partment under Hughes, with refer
ence to Mexico A resolution soor
to be offered in the Senate will ask
Hughes to furnish to the Senate al
correspondence and records showing
his oil diplomacy toward Mexico
Colombia, Britain, Holland, Persia
and any other government in which
American oil kings have sought con
cessiQns. From this data the Senate
committee will proceed to inquire in.
to the means by which Hughes was
induced to beg for American oil priv
ileges in Mesopctamia, Burmah, Co.
lombia. the Dutch East Indies anC
Persia.
Under a separate line of inquiry
will be taken up the question as t.
whether recognition of Russia has
been delayed until the utmost pos.
sible concessions are made to Sin.
clair or Standard Oil by Moscow.
King Helped Pick Harding
King was enc Of the group thai
decided the nomination of Harding
and he was one of the Penrose con
ference at Atlantic City which deter.
mined that Mellon should be secre-
tary of the treasury. Mellon anC
Hughes then promptly put across
the Colombia treaty, paying S25, 0OO,.
900 in satisfaction of Colombian
honor" in the matter of the stealing
of Panama by Roosevelt, and getting
in return, for Mellon and other oil
operators, a lot Of oil concessions II
Colombia.
McADOO INVOLVED IN GREASE
Senator Reed, a Democratic presi-
Dental candidate. is blamed by poll