Gloucester County Democrat., 1911-11-02
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
BY Clyde H. Tavenner.
what the Farmer Gets.

B. F. Yoakum, president of the Fris-
co railroad, has had a table of figures
prepared, showing how much the far
mer gets for products sold in New
York in one year, and how much the
New York consumer pays for those
same products. Here are the figures:
Farmer Gets. Consumer Pays
Eggs .$17,25S, 900. .$2S.750,o00
Rice 1884, 900. -. 3,191,000
Cabbage -. 1,s25,O0 -. 9,125,000
Milk $3.50. 22,312,00 -. 4S,SS0,0 600
Potatoes ~ 3,425,000. 60,000,o00
Meat, poultry 21a,427, 900. !. 491 100000
On the average, the farmer gets "A
cents out of each dollars worth OF his
products. The express companies AMI
the railroads, and the cold storage
concerns, thanks to the failure OF sue
cessive Republican administrations to
protect the consumer, draw down
golden harvest in excessive charges.
''Official Business"
While President Taft is travelling
over the country making political
speeches, his press bureau in Wash
ington is working overtime sending
out copies of these speeches to the
!
Official frank. On the upper left
hand corner of the envelopes in
which these speeches are mailed is
this Inscription: White House-Offi-
cial Business Penalty for private use
$780,"
Not only has Postmaster General
Hitchcock let down the postal bars in
| this particular, but the White House
virtually has been turned into poll
| teal headquarters. Clerks are busy
sending out advance copies of speeches
delivered and yet to be delivered by
President, while others see to it that
the various press bureaus are sup
piled with all sorts of literature de-
signed to help the President in his
campaign for denomination.
Three Million Short.
1t has just been discovered that the
Washington Navy Yark is upwards of
three million dollars short in its ac-
counts. AS yet nobody has been ac-
cused of stealing anything, and the
shortage is explained on the ground
that the bookkeeping system is at
fault. This system, or lack of it, has
thrived under one Republican admin
| istration after another, and yet moth
| ing so pleases the Republicans as to
attempt to ridicule the Democrats for
putting into operation series of in
vestigations designed to uncover, and
remedy, such little matters as three
MILLION dollar shortages"
One Frightened Trust.
! Chairman Ben Johnson,of the Dem
ocrat;c District Committee of Congress
| has discovered that the District of
Colombia once borrowed twenty-one
million dollars from the government,
and forgot to pay it back. He now
proposes to collect this debt. In
consequence, the Washington real es-
tate trust is in Mysteries. In the cap
ital city the government pays half the
city expenses, hence taxes are low.
Despite this fact, and the further fact
that hundreds of houses are unoccu-
pied, rents and property values are
higher than in any other city of the
size in the country. Besides the real
estate dealers, the idle rich, who come
to Washington and build social ral-
aces, are calling Chairman Johnson a
despot.
We conclude, after reading the Con-
stitution this week, that the interest
on that note is due, and somebody has
been asked to pay up.
--ss * -------7
/ After this year We'll own the Court
House and have the hide of tie last
Loudenslager follower, is the proud
| boast of the Ayis-Albright gang
Republicans who have been voting
for Abraham Lincoln since 1860
should ask themselves next Tuesday
how .'Davy. Baird's methods resemble
Abraham Lincoln's.
! -ss
Candidate Browning, in his speech
to 1873 people in Green's Opera House
last Thursday night, said THAT he
hoped to be worthy successor to
Congressman Loudenslager
gi0e a7s--- s & -----
Ex-Governor Stokes, the only Re-
publican of State prominence who is
apologizing to the people for the days
lof Guardians, addressed an audience
of 1873 people, including those on the
stage, in Green's Opera House last
| 4 hui oudy Al5lib ftC pCOPt'1 HdNS udQ
1Eenough of Guardians.
s1f $3.50 * ----- sfi5
Senator Silzer, in his speech in
Green's Opera House. Monday night,
made this telling point: You now
know, he said, that when you cast
your vote, it can be over-ruled only by
flesh and blood voters. No more va
cant lots, no more ghosts, no more
purchased voters. Hereafter the peo-
pie rule.
AS was the case Of last year, there
are hundreds of Republicans who
are going to vote for the Democratic
legislative candidates in order that
Governor Wilson may have tools to
work with" They can't vote for the
Governor this year. but they can
vote for the men the Governor wants