The Jones County news., 1915-05-06
BILBO'SNEW PLANK in PLATFORM

and trusts, that they had bette
hunt for the nigger in the wood
pile, for the coon was surely ther
and sooner or later would shoy
his kinky head.
When we saw those corporation
lawyers, mill men and even Som
of Plato, and who were only thre,
three years ago denouncing their
now dearly beloved Theodore al
a CRATER and bribe-taker, falling
upon his neck and slobberinQ
over him. and riding him around
in their fine moter cars, we knew
that gang had some axes to shar-
pen and had arranged with Bilbo
to turn the grindstone for them.
But we did not expect Bilbo TO
show his hand 80 soon and plain-
ly as he did last week 10 announ-
cling that he had placed bran
new plank in his rotten and sha-
ky platform, /. O., to exempt all
Mississippi-grown products from
taxation, II matters not in whose
hands said products may be.
In his preamble, as is Bilbo's
wont, he Of course brings in the
farmer, and tells about how his
undying devotion to, and his un-
selfish love for the poor fellow o.
hind the plow, and whose inter-
ests and welfare are so near and
dear to his heart, inspired that
new plank in his platform.
Now, the Editor Of the News Is |
not cannibal, but we will agree
to eat raw, and without salt either, |
any and every farmer in Missis- !
sippi who has ever paid one cop
per Of taxation on his cotton, corn, |
syrup, tatoes, or anything else
he has grown on his land since
the State law was passed exemp-
ting from taxation all agrioultu-
raj products 80 long as they re-
main in the hands Of the farmer
who dug said produce from the
earth with his horny hands and
them with the sweat Of
lis honest brow.
But when said produce passes
rom the hands Of the grower and
nto the hands Of the middle man
md speculator, who bought it for
he purpose Of making gain from |
he farmers industry, then under I
ur State laws such agricultural {
roducts are subject to taxation a
nd should be taxed.
Bilbo must look upon the farm r
rs of Mississippi as but degree o
from idiots to suppose il
hey can be fooled and their votes o
ontrolled by any such pluperfect I
OF and nonsense. t,
Here is the milk in the cocoa n
ut: Under the guise and pre- r,
anse Of protecting and befriend- 81
IS the farmer, Bilbo is simply B
aving the way for carrying out y
lat deal he made through those
orporation lawyers to get the ST
nancial aid and backing Of the Is
reat interests they represent. b
In the event that Bilbo should al
hanoe to be elected Governor of b.
lississippi, he will claim that the al
eople endorsed that Grown in e1
Iississippi- Exemption plank in it
is platform and demand that the pi
legislature enact law putting "
into force,
VIII that new exemption law W
clip the farmer or lift any part W
the load of taxation from his th
ickg Now, all of his farm pr
'oducts are already exempt un- it
he sells them. So any farmer al
ith as much brains as doodle ov
IN plainly see that Bilbohad not er
8 interest or welfare at heart in OF
lvocacy of that new exemption M
ank, any more than when he til
d his organ helped to put those
ira Judges on the taxpayers, wi
when he appointed that gang fo,
So so day niggers, including po
sweet-scented Jodie Strother. 20
Then who will be the benefiici- We
es OF that wholesale exemption