The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-11-02

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 rockets.
Similarly a price has been fixed on
wool. 1t would be hard to compute
the immense sun 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 IN 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 pro-
ducer intend to allow Democratic Con.
%gressional discrimination in favor of
the cotton and rice planters and the
lumbermen 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 Con-
gress has worked for it's 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 memberships
and the chairmen. Not only do they
collect 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.
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.
Despite the fact that the Northern
and Western States have supplied
more troops for fighting the war with
Germany "a 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, Secre-
tary Baker has located most of the
army activities in the South, where
army expenditures are pouring a
steady stream of gold into the hands
of the people of that section.
If the people of the United States
desire a fair administration of Ma
tional affairs they must elect a Re-
publican House and Senate Novem-
Der 5.
The South is in control of the legis-
lation of the country, and also in con-
troll of the Nation in practically all
of its administration in the war. Sew
enty-eight per cent of the Washington
employees are from those states
where cotton is king.
Never in the history of this Repub-
lie has the power of. determining the
national policies been concentrated in
the hands of so few men, or so mon
opoliZed by a small number of states.
OF the fifty-two Democrats in the
Senate, thirty represent the solid
South" and eight others were born
in the South, so that in the Senate
there are thirty-eight Democrats who
are responsive to Southern interests.
OF the seventy-five committees In
the Senate about one-third practically
do not function. OF the twenty-one
chairmanships assigned to Republi-
cans all belong to this list
OF the sixty-one House Committees
forty-two are important. Every one
of the forty-two has a Southern Demo
crat for chairman. Democrats from
North and West, representing thirty
one states, have been allotted only
twenty-one chairmanships and these
are of a minor character. Northern
Democrats representing two-thirds of
the states in the Union, and a much
greater proportion of population,
wealth, industrial, agricultural and
business interests, are limited to only
one-third of the chairmanships of the
House of Representatives.
Having put over" the fake cam
paign slogan of "He kept us out of
war" in 1916, the Democrats, with an
~effrontery unparalleled In American
political history, are attempting to
again fool the people with win with
Wilson" Meanwhile they are con-
Quoting the Government in the inter-
est of the "Solid South"