The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-23
Congressman Bathrlck Plans
System For Farm Loans.
EFFECT OF APPROPRIATIONS.
Suggested That Expenditures Have
Brought North and South Together
In Zone Grand Raid" - President
Elect Causes Lockjaw Among States
men Who Visit Him,
BY ARTHUR w. DUNN.

Washington, Jan. 2O.-iSpecial. III
the Populists. who assembled at Ocala
Fla, in 1890 and afterward nominated
ticket at Omaha in 1892, could have
stayed together they might have been
putting the principles they then enunci
ated into law instead Of seeing Repub
lican and Democratic parties putting
their theories into practice. President
Taft. in an effort to do something for
the farmers, has suggested farm loans
at low rate of interest Congress
man Bathrick fOrmulates the sugges-
ton into bill which provides for a
of the government
The plan differs little from the sub
treasury proposition of the Populists
simply in this, however-that the gov
eminent is TO secure itself upon farm
loans instead of having the collateral.
farm products, stored in so called sub
treasures Of course it will be some
time before the farm loan plan is put
into effect, but it is observed that Il
Republican president encourages and
a Democratic congressman formulates
q scheme for loaning farmers govern
ment money at a low rate of interest
Coxey Too Previous.
Those who recall General Coxey and
his army can no doubt remember the
derision which his project for issuing
bonds to the amount Of $500, 200. 900
and applying the proceeds to the
building of roads caused up and down
the country. And yet if the plans of
the advocates of good roads should be
carried out that half billion will be
only drop in the bucket Once there
is a project put on foot to build roads
for the whole country by the govern
ment there is no end to the expendi
lures. Estimates go into the billions
and beyond, for, as one man said, 1.-The
wind will blow away billion dollars of
the roads every year after they are
constructed"
New Kind Of Republican.
Congressman Carter was discussing
the good qualities of an Officeholder in
Oklahoma and concluded by saying
that the only objection that might be
found to him was that he was a rabid
Republican.
81 never heard of a rabid Republi
can," said Miller of Minnesota.
Then you don't know the Oklahoma,
brand" said Carter
Shearing the Lambs.
Curiously enough, congressman are
amazed to find that stock exchanges
are engaged in manipulating stocks or
that stocks are manipulated so that
certain people, small in number, make
large profits and that other people,
very numerous. contribute to the
wealth of those few. "AmaZement sits
upon her brow" remarked Hamlet,
speaking of the queen That was when
she found out what she had known all
the time, only it was being made pub
lie. So with our congressman. They
are amazed when they are told about
the big profits Of big banks. They are
astOunded when they learn that manip-
ulations on stock exchanges net big
money, and occasionally congress
man will introduce resolution, with
series of whereases attached. and de-
mand an inquiry
And yet the facts are all there and
have been for years, Just as they were
twenty years ago when the WaShburn-
Hatch anticipation bill was before con-
greSs. That measure was intended to
stop stock gambling. but after q year
or two it died
Effect of Appropriations.
Congressman Kinkaid of Nebraska
was discoursing on the decadence of
state rights and the tendency toward
Capitalization. He had been talking of
he former ideas which Slayden of Tex
rs interrupted to call the good old
lays" to which 'Kinkaid assented and
added, 1.-The change in the sentiment
has been accelerated, perhaps, by self
sh interests and motives or by appro-
Driations which might have been Sc
,Gred'
Like Mark Twain's suggestion of
he old flag and an appropriation, re-
marked Slayden
"And by the improvement of rivers
ind harbors and things like that" said |
Il think they have helped
o bring the north and the south to- |
sether again.
I'm one grand raid" said Slayden
"And we all join hands, continued |
especially when an omnibus
public building bill comes up We are
III brothers then, and we are all state |
lights men then, and are especially for |
he national government at that time.
Gives Them Lockiaw.
at looks as if Woodrow Wilson had
licked case of lockjaw into Hoke
'mith ana those other Democrats who
ave been making the pilgrimage to
remarked Charlie Carlin of
Firginia. ut is noticeable that they
ave nothing to say when they return
Governor Wilson not only seems able
0 keep his own counsel, but he makef
be other people respect his condolences