The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-08-02

: PAVS,oA ,OVo, CONClAu6 fo,GVI IOduS, uiS
tributed as follows:
Spokane . s17,OOO,55E
4 st. Paul . . 16,2O5 900
i Omaha - 1926, ,140
I; Wichita - 1929, 700
Houston .-... 9,8O7,7
New Orleans ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 7,646, SAC
Louisville ,. 500, LOG
Berkeley ... 6,698, 400
ST. Louis ----.-..-.-...-.-~. 7,172, ,172
Columbia . 4,746,513
Baltimore ... 4,140, 500
tSpringfield -. 1851, ,595
Then the Income Tax law came as
result of the leadership of Woodrow
Wilson. Mr. Wilson's idea was that the
man who is making twenty-five thous
and dollars a year could better afford
to pay the government five thousand
dollars than could the man who was
making only one thousand dollars
spare ten dollars. The income tax is
just, it is right 1t calls upon those best
able to bear 1t for a greater portion OF
money to meet government expenses
| All this legislation tended to cut the
cords that had bound the agricultural
classes so long and give them that free
dom in business so long enjoyed by
other avOcatiOns. AS result, the farm
ers have enjoyed degree of prosperi
ty under the Wilson administration
j that they never experienced before
When the European war started in
1914. Woodrow Wilson saw that condi-
tions that never before confronted this
country had to be met. 1t VIII be re-
gcalled that the Shipping trust raised
freight rates out of all proportion. The
cost of carrying bale of cotton across
the ocean was raised from about three
dollars to ST. All other freight in pro-
portion. This forced the price of cotton
!. fdown to and cents, which meant
ruin for the southern farmer. Mr.. VIII
son appeared before Congress and
urged that the quickest way to meet
. the situation, the surest way to bring
the Shipping trust to terms, was for
J the government To appropriate honey
to buy or build some ships SO that Un-
Gle Sam could himself, haul freight
across the ocean. The President e
views in regard to this matter crystal
! lied into the Ship-purchase bill. This
J bill was violently antagonized by the
Republicans-the party that made the
Trusts and that has always shown its
willingness to protect monopolies from
honest competion-and few men
elected as Democrats joined together
| with the Republicans to keep the bill
from being enacted into law, an &C
ton on the par of hese senaors that
, cost the farmers of the South several
hundred million dollars
, Another feature of getting freight
,across the ocean after the war began
insurance. The rate was raised out OF
all proportion. President Wilson went
before Congress and urged that the
government go into the business of in.
surance on ocean freight traffic. Con.
gress agreed, in spite of the opposition
of some, and soon marine insurance
rates dropped several hundred per
cent For instance the rate on a bale
of cotton was $3.50, but as soon as
President Wilson's idea was incorpo.
rated into law, the rate dropped to IS
cents per bale which saved the cotton
farmer alone hundreds of thousands
dollars.
Another matter that came up in the
early days of the Wilson administra
tiOn which showed Mr. Wilson's de-
termination to insist On square deal
for all, was the repeal of the Free tolls
act, law passed by the preceding Re-
publican national administration which
gave the cOastwise shipping monopoly
right to use the Panama canal without
paying tolls. Mr.. Wilson held that there
was no more justice in giving certain
ships or any other business or enter.
prise the free use of the canal than
would be giving any line of business
or set of merchants use of the mails
without the payment of postage or in
oulldlng 3 railroad Tor the free use Of
any set of men. In this, the President
was true to the people and not to the
classes.
In everything the President has done
he has shown an abiding faith in the
great body of the people and determ.
ination to give the little man down the
line an equal show.
The Federal Reserve banking law
the Farm Loan banking act, the tariff
law and the Income tax law have all
lifted the burdens from the farmer and
taken the fetters frepn his feet; thus It
is that he is enjoying degree of pros
1Eerity never before known in Amerca
The tariff law enlarged the farmers
markets and all the acts If the Wilson
administration have shown that the
farmers and the t0ilers have friend
at the head of the government.