The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-09-07
SOUTHERN STATES
HAVE PR0FITED
At the Expense OF New England States,
Declared Senator Lodge in Political
Speech at waterville, Me,
Last Night.

Last Night.
Wateryille Ne, Sept, SENATOR
Henry Cabot Lodge Of Massachusetts,,
speaking at q Republican rally here last
night, asserted that southern states were
profting by government appropriations
at the expense of New England and
few other northern states. Arguing that
il was foregon, conclusion that Maine
would give her electoral vote to Hughes
and Fairbanks the speaker urged AS
first duty that Maine should send sen
ators and representatives TO support the
Hughes polcics.'
when we send from New England
Democratic senators and congressman,
they cease to stand for New England in
terests and follow blndly and obediently
the dictates OF the southern majority"
Senator Lodge said. lie criticised the
tariff bill a. extremely hostile in all It's
provisions TO New England industries
and interests
Having deliberately cut down the tar
IN, not only 10 carry out their free trade
principles but with the purpose OF sub.
stituting direct taxes he continued,
they then framed their direct taxes IN
such way as 10 take nearly all the
money from the North and East. The
total amount raised BY direct taxation,
by emergency, corporation income and
individual income taxes, for the past
year was S2092l5,554. -Four states OF
the North Massachusetts,, New York,
PENNSYLVANIA and Illinoisl. of these taxes
paid $4,000 900; that Is, these four
northern states, out OF the As states,
paid more than half OF these direct taxes.
Ten southern states alabama, Arkan.
sas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana. Mlssis.
sippi North Carolina, South Carolina,
Tennessee and virginia., paid $500 900;
that IS, about 1 per cent OF the entire
tax
The total wealth OF the state Of Mas
sachusetts IS S6,302 100000. Nassachu-
setts pays an emergency tax OF $3.50
O00 corporation income tax OF s2,66S,-
COO a personal income tax of S4,l93,OO0,
or total of Sl0,47l 900. That is tax
OF 81 on every S625 OF wealth. The state
OF Alabama has total wealth OF 81
l27 900 900, about one third the wealth
OF Massachusetts, Alabama pays an
emergency tax OF 1894 900, corporation
income tax OF S20l 600 personal income
tax OF $1,000 or a total tax for these
three purposes OF $4,000, which
amounts to 81 of tax on every $1,000 OF
wealth"
Answering his own question, where IS
our money spent Z" Senator Lodge said,
III Won will examine the bills for ex.
penditures which might perfectly well be
ba+ he
raised from our part Of the country IS
spent very largely in the South
Senator Lodge said that Of the 100000
National Guardsmen at the border on
July 81. the southern states sent 1000
men from Virginia and 500 from Louis
lana and from Texas 5000 THE rest OF
the southern states had not a single man
at the border, while Massachusetts,, New
York. Illinois and Pennsylvania had A.
coo men. u per cent OF all the troops
then present. This is another illustra
ton OF the manner in which the southern
rulers of the Democratic party conduct
the public business and spend the public
money, which they take chiefly from US.
He urged upon the voters OF Maine that
it was especially important to elect both
SENATORS. LOT tllt tbllllbl VI liit t'tAtaet -
the vital point in our system OF govern
ment and it is the point most difficult TO
win in this election for of the president
and the House | have no doubt
1T is a deplorable spectacle said the
speaker in referring TO what he said was
fact. that "the provision OF the appro-
priation bill will not raise the army more
than 5000 men this year. although the
army bill increased it to $4,000 men"
II do not ike the kind of blood stained
peace which we have had in Mexico ne
continued. Dead Americans killed by
foreign nations do not seem to interest
this administration. Do you realize that
between four and five hundred Americans
men. women and children-have been
killed in Mexico in the last five years?
The president had posted on all our con
sulates in Mexico that Mexicans would
be held strictly accountable for any IN
iuries to Americans. II was falsehood
They have never been held accountable
for anything. He calls il peace
"The total number OF killed in the de-
clared war with Spain was IL in the navy
and $50 in the army-297 uniformed
fighting men. Nearly twice that number
of non com Blatant American citizens, un-
armed and helpless, have been murdered
in Mexico. do not like that kind OF
peace 1t is worse than declared war.
Their other cry is that the president
has kept us out of war, with reference to
the war in Europe 1t is not difficult to
keep out of war when nobody wishes to
90 to war with you, but it would have
been probable, think, to have kept out
of war with honor and without humilis
ton. Instead of that, we have been hui
inflated, our people have been killed
when they were lawfully on board mer-
chant ships. and nothing has been done
BY our government This administration
has carried on what it is pleased TO call
policy of shifting from day to day in
the effort to hold or gain this group of
voters or that The only true foreign
policy must be based on the interests
and honor of the United States"