All we appropriated for the navy last year was four million dollars.
And there's eighty million people in this country.
And that figures a nickel apiece.
And what the hell kind of a navy do you expect for a nickel?
Still they are crying that the country is in destitution circumstances.
That is inconsis—inconsis—you can't deny it.
Our country has got a superabum, a superabum—a superabum—we've got a lot of money.
There's money lying in the treasury that never was touched. And the first fellow that will touch it will get six months.
The whole trouble is the trusts.
Look what the cold storage trust have done with the eggs. Sixty cents a dozen—for the good ones. And the good ones are rotten.
Then they say the reason prices are going up is because wages are getting higher.