The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-04-02


| has been suggested by Senator Newlands
| the father of the Reclamation Act, and such
| as is outlined by James J. Hill, could be
| formed, should go about this great task
intelligently. Under the present system we
| go about it only expensively.''
CD Ship Subsdy.-In conclusion, the farmers
want no jobbery, subsidies, no special privil-
eyes, no boasting of the loot which any Congress-
man has secured for his district. Their doctrine
is the doctrine of Emerson: "Give bounties;
make equal laws, secure life and property, and
you need not give aims" Take away your arti-
fetal restriction forbidding the purchase Of ships
and shipbuildng materials in the cheapest
ket, and you will not need to go into the public
treasury for a ship subsidy Grant that mer-
chant marine is highly desirable from the stand
point of national interest; is it highly desirable
that the fertility Of American soils be maintained
by the planting Of more legumnous crops-more
cowpeas, and alfalfa and all that. Shall we then
tax all other classes in order to give bountes and
subsidies to encourage farmers to raise these
crops? One plan is not more unrighteous than
the other.
(10) No Graft for Home Districts.-Again, as
we have intimated. our farmers are more anxious
that their Representatives and Senators shall give
their time to promoting great national measures
home boasting about how many thousand dollars
they have secured for public buildings and
called public improvements in their respective
districts. Would that we had more men like
old Bob Toombs who told the Senators to abolish
the United States Mint at Dahlonega, Ca It was
not needed. he declared and he was not going to
support it merely because 1t brought money into
his own State. II am just much opposed to
an abuse in Georgia as am to abuse in New
York. he declared And in great speech In
the Senate fifty years ago he made declaration
that cannot be too seriously considered in this
day of public robbery through extravagant and in
/ direct taxation He said:
i Whenever the system shall be firmly es-
i tablished that the States will enter into
i miserable scramble for the most money for
i their local appropriations, and that Senator
i is to be regarded the ablest representative
/ Of his State who can get for it the largest
/ slice OF the treasury from that day public
| honor and property are gone, and all the
States are disgraced and degraded"
CID Keep Oleo From Playing the Fraud.-A
few other demands of our farmers may be briefly
set forth. They want the bill for removing the
tax colored oleo defeated. The only way to
insure that oleomargarine will be eaten for what
it is. is to have it colored. There is brand
| it when 1t gets the butter plate. And II q
cheap product is wanted let be remembered that
the uncolored product Is now untaxed, and that
oeo will become dearer and not cheaper as soon
as it is allowed to play the fraud by being sold
as butter
(12) No Public Money to Pay Private Debts
Let us mention one other policy. Mr.. Congress-
man, and with that art through. Just as our
people want measures for the public beneht from
you instead Of money for local jobs, SO they want
efficiency the part of all public officials. It y
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