Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-08-21
RECORD
GIVEN BY AIKEN.
Shows by Congressional Record
where Congressman from this Dis
trict Has Voted Against Adminis
tratiOn.


candidate for Congress, at the Sena-
torial campaign meeting in Green
WOOD yesterday was delivered too
late FOR an extended account in yes
terday's issue Of the Greenwood
journal. Mr.. Aiken spoke about Is
minutes and confined his remarks en-
tirely to the public record of Con-
.gressman Dominick.
He showed by the Congressional
Record that Mr.. Dominick opposed
the following measures favored by
the administrations:
Against the resolution declaring
that state Of war exists between
this country and Germany.
Against the draft act
Against national prohibition.
Against the espionage, or spy, act.
Against the act eXempting divinity
students from compulsory military
training.
Against the soldier (volunteer)
vote to give the States credit for vol
unteers.
Against the censor bill.
Against the Presidents determi-
nation NOT to send Roosevelt to
France.
Against the daylight saving bill.
Against the Crompton resolution
Of inquiry as to the manufacture of
Intoxicating liquors.
Against his party on the vote to
purge from the Record the speech of
Helm, Of Alabama, in which he bls-
tered Mason and Britton, Republi-
cans, OF Illinois, who were against
the administration.
Mr.. Aiken said that Mr.. Dominick
did not vote on the resolution maxi
ing Guam and the Hawaiian Islands
dry, and that he was also against the
administration on the matter of tax
ing the third issue of bonds
On the last proposition Mr.. Aiken
spoke as follows:
Mr. Dominick has claimed credit
for having Congress reverse itself on
the measure proposing to exempt
banks from State taxes to the extent
Of the investment of their capital
stock in liberty bonds.
| am perfectly willing to concede
him all credit due, but it should be
borne in mind that Congress did not
reverse itself on this issue until after
Democratic House Leader, Mr.. Kitch-
in, had reversed himself.
Now, as to the issue itself: A few
sidelights will show that Mr.. Domi-
nick's attitude on this, as on every
other question touching the vigorous
prosecution Of the war, was hostile to
the administration
| need not remind you with what
patriotism the people of this country
have responded to the first, second
and third Liberty Loans. Nor need l
remind you that in every instance
major portion of these bonds have
been noatnd directly or indirectly
through the banks. If an individual
subscribed. in most cases he paid
down 10 or 20 per cent, and the
!,anks carried the balance. 1t Is an
incoatrovertible fact that not one
Of these loans could have been float
ed but for the patriotic aid Of the
banks and with all the support they
could possibly give, the bonds time
and again have dropped below par.
il the ardor Of the banks is chilled
then to that extent Is the floating Of
the bonds chilled! Whatever else
may be said Of bankers, by those who
would make capital out Of abusing
them, nobody will say Of them as a
class that they are fools. Thotl no.
body could honestly say that they
would invest their capital in bonds in
a market that Is glutted, at a low
fixed rate purely as an investment.
On the contrary, every dollar they
invest In bonds Is at a sacrifice, and
nobly have they made and will they
continue to make the sacrifice. There
is not the slightest danger that they
will retain the investment longer
than a return to healthy and normal
conditions viii enable them to dis
pose of the bonds without injury to
the government.
Government bonds were issued be-
fore this war, and only In one in
stance, In this State. trust company
doing an inactive business, was there
a large investment Of banking capt
tai. This case was carried to the
Supreme Court by Mr.. Dominick, as
Assistant Attorney General, The prin-
ciples Of which he embodied in his
speech against the amendment Cor
section proposing to exempt so
much Of a banks capital from taxa
tion as Is invested in Liberty Bonds.
The United States government does
not tax State bonds. 1t does not tax
the salaries of State officers even of
the smallest subdivision. Then in
the name Of humanity; in the name
Of world freedom; in justice to our
sons and to our brothers who are
barring the way Of the Tinn, whose
Shiny trail bears in its wake the
blood Of the old. and the rape and the
wanton destruction Of the young,
why should any one who calls him
self an American citizen undertake
to block this government in it's efforts
to save itself from the vassalage and
the human race from a damnable
tyranny that hell itself cannot equal?
What are a few years taxes on
few thousand dollars In few banks