The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1916-08-24


tithe Of the things its offie-seekinl
advocates pretend it does. 1t vii
not give the farm owners an unlimited
supply OF cash at infnitesimal cost
l. proposes to loan money to land own
e1s at per cent, and at the same
time provides that the rate Of interes,
shall not be higher than 6 per cent
! That is specimen contradiction. Il
proposes to create a body corpora {
ard polite" and then provides that
state officers, including the governor,
shall be the officers, and con.
rolling authorities. This, if it
means anything, means that the state
# Missouri shall 90 into the private
backing business in opposition TO all
other banking interests. Think
that over in all its iuIlness of idiocy.
Suppose law should be proposed
compelling not authorizing, but Com
pelling the state to 60 into the busi
ness oI manufacturing cofFiaS and sup
plying the people at a fixed price,
Without regard TO the law of supply
and demand!
The law orders the legislature to ap-
propriate one million dollars out Of
money in the treasury" OF the state as
working capital. With state finances
in their present condition, where in the
word is that million dollars coming
tron,2 why, out of the treasury"
says the supporter Of the bill. Can
legislation even Of the common or
Gardner variety, get blood out Of a
uriI? Presumably the appropyia-
ion is to take precedence OF all other
appropriations, since the bill does not
say it shall come from money not
otherwise appropriated " Yet, the
constitution of Missouri provides for
the order in which appropriations shall
be made and become avai able.
Right There Is One OF The Places
Where Constitutional Amendmen,
Danger Lies.
So on, all the way through, the bill
it is full Of these faults and false pre-.
lenses. On the initial working capi
tai Of single million dollars, the bill
provides for an issue Of S40,00O,O00
in bonds on notes and deeds Of trust"
Supposedly this means the notes Of
the deluded farmers, but the bill does
not say so, The manager May deter.
mine, mine from time to time, the
length bonds shall run, and upon what
method they may be recalled" What
tremendous power 10 place in the
hands Of single mani No bank,
state or national, gives any one man
any such power over its resources.
These are but specimens Of fully
hundred inconsistencies and incongrui.
ties in The measure. The arguments
put forth by Mr.. Gardner and his lieu.
tenants in advocacy OF the law or even
worse than the law itself. They are
contradictory and confusing in the ex-
treme, and are apparently intended TO
be so. There seems to be but one
purpose in view-to catch the farmer
vote by treating the man Of the fields
as though he were an idiot, unable to
think, and can be caught BY the veri.
est chat and chatter. shall have
more to say later about both the bill
and the iallacious arguments advanced
in support Of it. ! have studied both
very carefully.
Meantime it is well to keep in view
the Big Facts: Gardner says, over
his owe signature: MY first and
greatest charge, il elected, would be
to make the Missouri State Land Bank
Act operative" This land bank bill,
then, must be taken as Gardner's
platform. The very best thing that
could be done for the entire state,
especially Ior the farming community,
and others, Gardner is trying to befool,
wonld be to see that they Fully Un-
derstand this platform, and what Gard
ner proposes to do if he is made gov
emor. II this is clearly unders ood,
there is no danger Of Gardner ever be-
coming governor. The Censor.
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