The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1918-10-31
SOUTH in CONTROL
AT WASHINGTON
The North and the West Furnish
the Money and the South
r H. Spends 1t

Washington, D. c., October 81
Does the American farmer desire a
perpetuation of democratic rule in
house and senate? =
Unjust discrimination has been prac-
tlced against the farmers of North,
Middle West and West by the, present
democratic congress in favor of South
ern products. This has been done by
the Southern democratic coterie in alb
solute control of the house and senate,
and by the democratic national admin
istration. = 4. ..,~
A price has been fixed on wheat, but
not on cotton or rice, both purely
Southern products. Wheat, by act
OF the democratic congress, is fixed at
$2.10. With no price fixed on wheat
1t is the general opinion that the grain
would bring far more to the farmer
than $2i10. The difference in the
price of wheat as fixed by democratic
congress and a democratic administra-
ton and an open market, is the diff
ference in hard cash that the Northern,
Middle Western and Western wheat
farmer doesn't get, a total that would
amount to hundreds of millions of dol
lars. Prorated it would be a consid-
cradle sum in the pocket of each wheat
grower.
Prices of cotton and rice are fixed
by the law of supply and demand, un-
hampered by democratic congressional
action, and consequently the southern
rice growers and cotton growers are
rapidly becoming wealthy with the
enormously increased war time prices
for rice and cotton. The Southern DEM
ocrats who control congress have TAX
en- good care that the Southern cotton
and rice grower shall not have the
prices of his products controlled by
legislation, but this Southern delega-
ton says what the wheat farmer shall
get for his wheat crop, not what it
should bring in the worlds markets,
as in the case of cotton, which prior
to the war sold at seven cents per
pound, now sells for &c, regulated by
the law of supply and demand, but an
arbitrary price that has taken mil
lions out of his pocket.
Similarly price has been fixed on
wool. It would be hard. to compute
the immense sum that the Middle
Western and Western wool grower has
lost by the arbitrary fixing of the price
of his product. Hundreds of millions
would not cover his. loss. 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 produc-
er intend to allow democratic con-
gressional discrimination in favor of
cotton and rice planters and the lum-
bermen of the Southern states?
The discrimination against every
other section of the country in favor
of the South is not the only way in
which the present democratic congress
has worked for its favored South.
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 memberships and
the chairInen. Not only do they col
lect most of their 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.
Most of the great government plants
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 taxpay-
ers of the North, Middle West and
West is spent by millions in the ia
vored South. Paying comparatively
small amounts of taxes and with small
populations, the Southern states not
only dominate congress and the admin
from the other sections of the coun-
try, which they spend in their own
section, thru a Southern cabinet and
Southern president, who directs the
expenditures. -. ..