Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1917-10-05

MORE BY LEGISLATIVE ENACTMENT, AND
CALLS ATTENTION To THE ACHIEVEMENTS
Or FARMERS RECENTLY In VIRGINIA AND
In SOUTH DAKOTA.
II the welfare of the whole community
requires that the property of citizen be
confiscated and appropriated to public
needs, 1t is taken from him no matter how
much he may wish to retain it. The de-
sire of the individual must be subordi-
mated to the interests of the many. The
welfare of the entire State of Maryland
is so interviewer with the interests of the
city of Baltimore that the selfish interests
of few politicians, or the petty whims of
a small community, should not be allowed
to interfere with the proper growth and
development of this great Southern metrop-
oils, am therefore in favor of the extern
sion of its boundaries by Legislative en-
actment
hope and expect to see the Republican
party working to solve the important prob
lens Of state and economics that must in
the future confront the citizens of this
state; they will be more difficult than any
that ever before have confronted them.
The war has torn us from many of our old
moorings, and the relations of the citizen
to the state, and especially the relations
of the farmer to the other classes, will need
to be rearraneed. II elected. hshall stand
in the Legislature for what believe to be
for the welfare of my County. my State
and my Nation. without regard to political
considerations. Iwant no mans vote except
under these conditions. If any Democrat
wishes to vote for me because he believes
that my experience as farmer will render
me competent to advance the interests Of
the producing people in this county and hest
tates to do 80 because | am Republican,
let him remember that Grover Cleveland.
great Democratic President. appointed me
to high Office. have little regard for the
intellectual independence of the man who
votes with party because his ancestors
always did 80. If his forebears were alive
the changes that come in political doctrine
or they might conclude that the salvation
Of the country depends not so much upon
the man who is loyal to party as upon the
man who is loyal to what he believes to
be the best interests of those who work
and produce the wealth of the Nation.
We are young as a Nation. II ever our
foundations are laid so strong and deep as
to continue long into the future they must
be builded upon millions Of independent
homes-upon farms titled by those who
own them. The wealth of the Nation that
endures for prosperity will be found in the
bright eyes and rosy cheeks Of wives and
children. not in the palaces of Fifth Ave
nue. or the villas of Newport. Too long
have we been adjoining the superstructure
of our National Existence without digging
down deep to see If the foundations were
resting upon the solid rocks of a national
wealth eQutably distributed among those
who create it. The farmers Of South Da
kota when they realized that they sold
car of wheat for $500 and then bought it
back in the shape Of -four. bran and mid
dlings for $2100 overturned both the old
political parties and elected n complete
ticket pledged to give them relief in the
shape Of public elevators and such other
means Of marketing their wheat that the
greater part Of the profit on their labor
ohouId ramoin With than, tnataad IF doind
to enrich few parasites living upon their
blood and sweat. shall have more to
say about this later, the meantime ponder
over what happened to those who opposed
Westmoreland Davis for Governor of Viz
ginia. He was the farmers candidate.
THE CHAMPION Or PURE FooD ENDORSES
MOORE For SENATOR.
DIR. Harvey W. Wiley could be neither
cajoled. inundated nor bought. The Ma
ton is more indebted to him for the
present pure food legislation than to any
other man. Before the Congressional Com
mittees he met and put to rout the paid
chemists Of the poison food manufacturers,
and when the bill became law and its
enforcement fell to him, he valiantly fought
the coterie of petty officials who carried
out the mandates Of the corrupt manufac-
turers and tried by every artifce Of De-
partmental regulations TO minimize the
effectiveness Of the law DIR. Wiley wrote
me as follows:
Washington. ID. c., Sept. 28. 1917.
Professor Willis l.. Moore.
Mooreland Farm.
Rockville. Maryland.
Dear Professor Moore:
am pleased to learn from the news
papers that you are candidate for the
Senate in Montgomery county. | should
like to help you II can in your cam
paign. believe that to have a practical
farmer and fruit grower like yourself. with
all the experience you have had in regard
to the interests Of Maryland. in the Senate
would be distinct benefit to the people
Of the State and particularly Of MOntgom-
cry county know your stand on good
roads and on many other public questions
is Of a character to help the whole COM
munity.
am particularly pleased to know that
you are in favor Of a greater Baltimore,
because greater Baltimore means more
prosperous Maryland. Being myself land
owner in Montgomery county, am par
ticularly interested in the welfare not only
Of the county but Of the whole State.
cannot help recalling at this juncture
your splendid attitude Of support for me
in my campaign for pure food. You were
the only high official in the Department Of
Agriculture who stood by me in my hour
Of persecution and Of trial. When my
enemies seemed to have the upper hand
and were attempting to dismiss me from
the Department in disgrace. you stood by