Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1916-03-10
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
G a . Q r la
RESTLESS OVER PREPAREDNESS

New York, March G.-Growing rest
lessness here marks the development
of the national preparedness program
ut Washington and the deepening dis
appointment over the propositions adj
vanced in the Congress threatens to
flame up in vehement protest.
In the face CT the apparently stud
led efforts of the National Adminstra-
ton to foment trouble and froce
break in the diplomatic relations be-
tween American and the Central Euro
pean powers, it IS inexplicable to the
man in the street that Washington
should be content with email
increase in the army and with de-
ferred plan Of Naval increases.
Neither the house plan Of raising
the army TO 10000 men, nor the
Senate plan of 175,00O finds any dis
coverable favor here, and the citizen
ry have rallied to the Gardner plan
of standing army of 281 900 men,
the feeling IN regard thereto being
that this is really moderate.
! Nor is there any patent popular pa
thence with preparedness plan for
the Navy which has been shriveled up
by Secretary Daniels into "five year.
program that will take eight years
place. Preparedness now is the word
herewith emphasis on the now.
The best news of the day is the for
nation of new American steamship
line that is to carry the Stars and
Stripes back to the Pacific, whence
it's was driven by the Lafollette Sea-
mans act and the threat of the Gov
eminent entering the shipping field.
1t is significant that this enterprise
has been LAUGHED in the face of Sec
rotary McAdoo's persistent adherence
to his ship purchase plan. The fact
is that capital has about made up it's
mind tht the Presidents son-in-law
} can't put this scheme over.
Roosevelt luckp Here it is again.
The Colonel no sooner sets out to
CRAFTY his absorbed desire to see the
West Indies than William Banrs, Jr.,
energies from the cyclone cellar in
which he has hid since the Colonel
lpillowed him in that famous libel suit.
And when Barns got his massive jaws
/ limeberd up he blurted out that he
!, was going to make a tour to line up
, t. &. 0. p. against Roosevelt Could
5 anything be devised the better to
boom the citizen of Oyster Bay? And
5 could anything serve more surely to
, SHliSI the Ola Guaru tnan TO attempt
to deny place in the Republican par
, ty to any man who opposed Taft.
Thus the old bosses of the steam roll
J er, sticking to their 1912 model, are
, skidding to the brink of the chasm of
political oblivion and their very OPP
5 position is clearing the road to Chi
S cago for the Colonel
: Again the railroads are pleading
poverty But they are finding the ears
of the generous paying public deaf to
their inveterate insistence upon high
er rates. The public is getting wise.
1t knows the cause of railroad power
ty. 1t knows that it will not be cur
ed until railroad managers themselves
stop growing inordinately rich on
excessive salaries, fat bonuses and
: rich perquisites and put an end to the
,, lotting of railroad systems by bank
ers.
, Again New York comes across"
with large part of the revenue nee
essary to run the Federal government.
The one small district, two square
miles, that includes the financial sec
ton contributed $26,000000 last year
in federal taxes. This year the
amount will be from $4,000 900 to
S40,O00,000. OF this $17,000,000 will
be in income taves or individuals and
corporations.