Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-11-01


Hardly any wool is produced in the
south
A price has been fixed on coal. Most .
of the coal is mined in the north and
middle west
But no price has been fixed on lum-
Der, another principal product of the
Southern States.
How long does the wheat farmer,
the wool grower and the coal producer
intend to allow Democratic congress
sional discrimination in favor of the
cotton and rice planters and the lum-
bermen of the Southern States?
Other Acts of Favoriteism.
The discrimination against every
other section of the country in favor
of the South is not the only way in
which the present Democratic cong
ress has worked for its favored sec
ton.
The present Democratic congress is
collecting the bulk of the revenue to
carry on the war and the government
north of the Mason and Dixon line.
The Democrats accomplish this by
their control of the Ways and Means
and Finance committees, in which they
have the majority membership and
the chairmen. Not only do they col
lect most of the revenue from the
north, middle-west and west, but they
spend most of this revenue in the
"Solid South" an unfair method of
distribution of these immense sums.
Money Spent in Favored South.
Most of the great governmentplants
for war work, most of the army can
tonments, and most of the army avia-
ton fields have been established in the
Southern States.
Money collected from the taxpayers
of the north, midle-west and west is
spent by millions in the favored South.
Paying comparatively small amounts
of taxes and with small populations,
the Southern States not only dominate
congress and the administration but
collect immense sums from the other
sections of the country, which they
spend in their own section, through a
Southern cabinet and Southern pres
ident, who directs the expenditures.
Discrimination in favor of the South
as against the North and West in To-
cation of environments and other great
war activities has been persistently
practiced bby Secretary Baker.
Despite the fact that the Northern
and Western States have supplied
more troops for fighting the war with
Germany Ga glance at the casualty
list of any day will tell the story
and have paid more taxes to support
/, the war than the Southern States
Secretary Baker has located most OF
the army activities in the South, where
army expenditures are pouring 6
, steady stream of gold into the hands
of the people of that section.
II You Want An Even Break.
If the people of the United States
desire fair administration of nation
al affairs, they must elect Repub
lican House and Senate November 3
The South is in control of the legis
lation of the country, and also in con
troll of the nation in practically all o.
its administration in the war. Seven
ty-eight per cent of the Washington
employees are from those states wher,
cotton is king.
Never in the history of this Repub
lie has the power of determining thu
national policies been concentrated il
the hands Of so few men, or so mo
nopolized by small number of states
t How Power is Distributed.
OF the fifty-two Democrats in th'
Senate, thirty represent the "SoliC
South" and eight others were born
; in the South, so that in the Senate
there are thirty-eight Democrats wh'
are responsive to Southern interests
OF the seventy-five committees il
the Senate about one-third PRACTICAL.
: do not function. OF the twenty-on,
chairmanships assigned to Republi
cans all belong to this list.
Nearly every important committed
I in the Senate has a Southern Demo
crat for its chairman.
OF the siXty-one House committees
forty-two are important Eevry on,
of the forty-two has Southern Dem
ocrat for chairman. Democrats from
4 North and West, representing thirty
one states, have been allotted onl!
twenty-one chairmanships and thes,
are of a minor character. Northern
Democrats representing two-thirds o
l the States in the Union, and a mucl
= greater proportion of population
wealth, industrial, agricultural an,
business interests, are limited to onl!
one-third of the chairmanships of thu
= House of Representatives
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