HORSE PLAY JUSTICE
Paine, Robert F.
HORSE PLAY JUSTICE By AFTER making oath to 'tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth," Fall's son-in-law and President Day, of the Sinclair Exploration Co., refuse to testify,...
...There is a power trust, representing billions of dollars, to prevent that concord ; and, a good deal of history becomes ancient before a fight through the courts is concluded...
...isn't...
...AFTER, OR BEFORE...
...It has its argument, to be sure, but it is an aid in defeating justice and its effects are disastrous to the parties availing themselves of it...
...What is continued installment buying prosperity else than the people going more deeply into debt...
...A chicken-stealing penalty for assassination of the government...
...LOOKS OMINOUS US...
...but, he wasn't kicked off the steps, and he may be able to figure out that bankers are partial to farm relief in the shape of more federal pawnshops at which the farmers can put up what they haven't already got "in hock...
...Verily, Justice is cross-eyed...
...Desiring to present measures for farm relief, the senator and his following went to headquarters of the American Bankers' Association's convention, at Houston, Texas...
...And the work will not conflict with the interests of the power trust...
...What "internal improvements" of consequence are in the president's program...
...He declares that ap- portionment of Colorado river water can be arrived at in two ways...
...Of course, Mr...
...Government will not be properly aroused, it would seem, until human corpses float above the submerged millions of acres in the Southwest...
...The maximum penalty for such crime is §5,000 fine and six years' imprisonment...
...A program may be a splendid work of art, and still be hopeless of establishment...
...No form of government can long endure without the impartial administration of justice...
...Life must have seemed very unfinished to Holland...
...What a man is finishes in dust...
...The parties who corrupt elections or "fix" juries are guilty of the highest of crimes —assassination of the government...
...Is it anything short of condemnation of those parties, as well as himself...
...HORSE PLAY JUSTICE By AFTER making oath to 'tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth," Fall's son-in-law and President Day, of the Sinclair Exploration Co., refuse to testify, on the ground it might incriminate them...
...THE UNFINISHED IFE seems something always un-"L finished," wrote that fine fellow, W. H. Porterfield, just before undergoing the surgical operation from which he did not recover...
...And this is particularly true in the case of Fall and Sinclair...
...Risk of ruin, because the power trust wants its way...
...If Mr...
...Important government witnesses sneak out of the country and the State Department is powerless to have them sent back within the jurisdiction of U. S. courts...
...The issue seems to be as to whether the U. S. Chamber of Commerce of the U. S. Treasury Department shall have the say as to taxation...
...Chamber of Commerce vs...
...Too, too bad...
...So, next year, the democracy will engage in a great fight over tariff, near-beer and, perhaps, the religion of national leaders...
...first, through concord of the watershed states and, secondly, by court decree...
...The aviators knew their business, their planes were of best material and perfectly equipped...
...And their punishment should fit their crimes...
...r ¦ 'r 1? AFTER YOUR DUCATS WALL STREET publicity agents inform that the stimulus for stock market advances is in "President Coolidge's program of internal improvements and the hope that installment buying prosperity can be continued...
...Coolidge et Mellon sounds something like a suit for divorce with large alimony...
...Kellogg will be quite busy with U. S. and Nicaraguan presidential free elections, next year, but he might have enough marines not working to take on Panama, too...
...In fact, the whole proceedings in the oil scandal cases have been a travesty on justice and demontration of what money can do to ravish justice...
...IT'S VERY SIMPLE CHAIRMAN SMITH of the House Irrigation Committee puts the matter in a nutshell...
...The composite of all rights and all hopes of orderly government is in that word "Justice," justice as administered by a judicial system...
...First, the highest court declares that there has been a foul conspiracy to rob the government...
...What Big Business is after is tax reduction of about $400,000,000 largely to apply on reduction of income tax on corporations from 131/2 to 10 per cent...
...FREEDOM SHRIEKS SOME MORE CONSUL-GENERAL de la Guardia, representing Panama on the Pacific Coast, has got his eyes focused on our Secretary Kellogg where the latter's eyebrows meet...
...What is the effect upon a jury, when a fellow refuses to tell the whole truth in respect of others, because it might disclose his own guilt...
...Lindy might make a million speeches to popularize flying, he might do a nonstop stunt around the world, hopping off from the tip of Mt...
...Witnesses refuse to testify because it might make them as guilty as the prisoners at the bar...
...The complete answer to "Show me...
...To prevent similar ruin in the flourishing Southwest of the country is a different matter...
...Mellon has a surplus, it should be dissipated in behalf of the corporations, etc., etc...
...The menu of a classy hotel grill room may be a delight, but it doesn't mean much to a fellow who has only a cheese-sandwich purse...
...Sense, security and threat of future similar disasters dictate this...
...Millions will and should be spent on relief and control in the Mississippi basin and in New England...
...He has been dead for over four years...
...His good deeds have no finish...
...Stunts and talk are weak in arousing the folks to risk their necks...
...Recently the $48,000,000 submarine boulevard tunnel, linking New York and New Jersey and seven years in the making, was formally opened...
...None that will not have to run the gauntlet of courts and a Congress to be "worked" by a billion dollar Power Trust lobby...
...THE Administration and Congressmen are thoroughly aroused to the immediate necessity of flood relief and control, say several dispatches from Washington...
...Coolidge regards this reduction to be too large and premature...
...Too bad...
...Kellogg should see to it that she does have it...
...C. S. Duncan, economist of the Association of Railway Executives, sadly testifies that, in seven years past, Class 1 railroads have paid, in taxes, $2,269,-000,000, which was $198,500,000 more than they paid in dividends...
...BIG DEMONSTRATION NOT ONLY did Lindy's airplane fly 22,350 air miles, in his tour of the country, without mechanical break, forced landiag or delay, but the Department of Commerce plane accompanying him did the same...
...Somebody has got to shell out a $4,000,000 or $5,000,-000 campaign fund next year...
...Such is the sort of "bunk" that is being continually fed out.to people having bank balances...
...What is true of the Colorado project is true, of the Great Lakes Waterway, Muscle Shoals, or any other great project which the people would carry on by and for themselves...
...Still, at least 75 per cent of the corporations don't pay the taxes at all but "pass the buck" on to the consumers...
...Everest, and still fail to create popular confidence, as he has in his demonstrations made since his flight to Paris...
...Figuratively, the door was slammed in Senator Caraway's face...
...Belisario Porras, formerly for ten years Panama's president and her leading lawyer, is reported to have declared that Panama cannot have a free presidential election, in 1928, and that Mr...
...Just like a man who forgets to lock his barn doors and discovers that his horse has been stolen during the night...
...Finally, there is no reason why one tainted jury after another cannot cause mistrial, by reason of the work of hired private detectives, usually a brood of sneaks who will corrupt witnesses, jurors, even domestic circles for Pay...
...and, all that that court can do is order the robbers to return the loot...
...Apparently, the issue is rather serious...
...It always carries on and on, with its benefits to mankind...
...F IXING the jury," declares Attor- ney Pomerene, who is prosecuting Fall and Sinclair, "strikes at the very heart of the judicial system and the Constitutional processes of the government...
...Such privilege, granted by law, is one thing that makes law both comedy and farce...
...FLYING AMBULANCES NEXT IN GERMANY, constantly near the fore in matters of aviation, the airplane-ambulance has appeared...
...A large two-motor plane is so constructed that a light ambulance can be run onto a carrying deck and taken aloft...
...AFTER THAT SURPLUS THE Ways and Means committee is hearing a great deal about the enormous, oppressive tax burdens borne by the corporations, especially the railroads...
...SNUBBED HARD SENATOR CARAWAY, of Arkansas, is at least partly convinced that bankers do not look kindly upon relief for farmers...
...Caraway and party were informed by a sweet young girl operator of the convention's switch-board that she was under instructions to tell them that there was no room for them on the program...
...Still, the corporations were never more prosperous in their lives...
...The great deed is always unfinished...
...It was the dream and design of Clifford Holland...
...Nevertheless, the number of people who give up the "pay-as-you-go" policy and sacrifice independence through installment plan buying is certainly growing...
...Scores of men have been hanged, hundreds are now in prison for life for smaller crimes...
...Yes, indeed...
Vol. 19 • December 1927 • No. 12
