Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-05-06

law They were taken out promptly
and given freedom to protect them
selves against those combinations Of
meat cattle, cotton and fruit COM
binations, which dictated prices and
from under the dictation of those com
binations which wrr+rh did not give
labor a just share of the fruits of
prosperity"
I'VE further got rid of government
by injunction and gave the labor
ing man trial by jury for indirect
contempts, and at the same time
wrote chart of liberty for the bust
ness man, so that he can hold up
his head and do business without fear
Of being held as a criminal for trans,
acting legitimate business. The Clay
ton bill did all of these things and
large part Of the prosperity now en-
joyed is due to its sensible and hui
name provision
Shipping Bill.
I'VE tried to give the people a
shipping bill and were prevented
from doingfi so by a fillibuster in the
senate. Our shipping has gone down
for the same reason that Solomon
had none. He had the wealth of the
world at his command and made sill
yer as pebbles in the streets of Jerus
alem and all nations paid him trib-
ute in gold but when he went to trans
port the trees in the forests from
Lebanon to Jerusalem he had not
sailor, nor ship and had to go to
tho mort horn +rty
KING of Tyre, to do his shipping This
was because the Jewish people could
make a better living on land than
Trey could on the sea- The northern
people of Tyre could not in their I'M
productive country raise cattle. wheat
figs, dates and olive oil, so they did
the shipping to Solomon We once
had shipping industry in this coun-
try but it was largely in our north.
eastern country of, New England,
where farming and cattle raising are
carried on under unfavorable condi-
tons, and after the great west was
opened up and our mines and factor
les offered good wages to the Young
men they left the poor warges in
shipping and its hard conditions of
labor for better wages and better
conditions on land England has been
Tor hundreds of years developing her
shipping. She is forced to do so be-
cause she has to protect her colonies
and has to bring her foodstuffs from
foreign lands. She is a nation of
trained seamen but of interest and
necessity.
Our National Problem.
I'VE are bound to bridge the differ
ence in conditions and the difference
made by her experience and great
starts In my judgment no private
interest will be able to do so effective
" 1t is our national problem and we
must solve it for all our people by
all our people, and it was for this
reason that | supported our shipping
bill. ] would not vote for government
ownership in anything which could
be done as we'll by private individuals.
and if the problem can be worked
out by private capital without iniur-
ing labor and in q way that promises
permancy I am willing to help, but /
feel convinced that private capital
will not invest in an enterprise which
must compete with the great adyan-
tages which England now has over
u.s. ! do not believe that our capital.
lists will risk their money in, an en-
terprlSe which advances the re
sources for a foreign government.
without our giving subsidies, which
Will encourage a monopoly which will
be dangerous to every other interest
in the country. Inasmuch as we pro
duce one-third more than we can
consume at home we must find
market for this one-third or else re-
duce production and impoverish la
Dor. thing which is unthinkable.
this surplus will increase rather than
diminish and we are face to face with
the problem that we must furnish
shipping or rely upon the uncertain
shipping facilities furnished us by
cur competitors for the markets of
the world
Vote for Woods.
Samuel V. Woods stands for the
administrations policy in all of these
matters and for the unfinished pro-
gram of good roads and rural credits.
He has been for rural credits for
eight or ten years to my knowledge.
If you elect him you will do posi-
tive thing. If you defeat him for
Bowers, you simply vote no and turn
your back upon progress and the
things which have made you great
and prosperous. The Woodrow Will
son people need the ability of Sam
uel Woods in Congress. Nobody needs
George Bowers. If elected George
Bowers can do nothing but go in with
a Mann organization, a thing which
Roosevelt denounced here in 1914, If
Wilson writes a note for peace Mann
denounces it. If he sends the army
into Mexico Mann stands on his dig
nifty and makes a stage play of oppo
sition. If Wilson sends an ultimatum
to Germany to protect American life
Mann joins the kickersh and goes into
Mysteries that can have no other eff
feet than that of injuring the ability
OF our government to secure its rights
In other words Mr. Mann is the lead
err of the opposition in the lower
house, which has retrogaded into a
mere ODDOSitiOn that has hppu do