South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-10-31
NOT THE SOUTH, BUT GERMANY,
DEAR C. o. p, is OUR ENEMY
NOW, AND WHEAT AND COTTON
ARE IN MUCH The SAME BOAT


would be If they could be. If we may Judge them by
their mouths
Ttts reference, OF course. republican lead
their PubIicists; their propaganda dispensers.
They Still aghung the south, though
cd unconditiOnaly, SO years The continues
abbOrrent TO them though we supposedly have
reunited country Fourhs July Memorial day;
more abhorrent than Spain, abhorrent
than Germany.
All the sectiOnaIism -beIlum recon-
strucOn days every opportunity, par
tlcuIarIy when partsanshp involved 1t Is terrible
calamity that the south should
occasional sembnnce OF representation congress.
couple Of decades, while being quits
totally deprived OF three decades and more.
great hobby-the republican riding horse Of to-
days cotton; southern cotton Up today. # is
practically only staple south; pr1n-
cipaI one being army camps and cantonments.
These camps environments were a great crime
too. the estimate republican publicists UNI
Of that party's former leaders ExT'rest Taft
above partisanship and gave them his approval
There should be camps c>ntonments
established the north" ne said "The
place them" disCOncerdng section
aIists, suppose, but 1t silenced their "envious
tongues"
And 70 it Is COTTON southern cotton, again. quite
exclusively that Is hurting them; this and the
md income taHes-boh OF which, with lying
republican poison they patriotic
heart of the northern indnstriaIist and farmer.
We quote from the local republican mouthpiece
menting the pending bill I says:
bin pending Is so vvorded that the
pays little and manufacturing states
O the. north foot the war bill.
be 80 bad If Il were not for the fact that cotton
the chief product the south virtually
taxed and these southern democrats who
troll things have insisted fixing wheat
price, but refused o a maximum price on
cotton. Cotton is selling today for about 800
percent OF It's actual value. Last year the
nation paid SO, 600 100000 taxes
south, democratic, paid only Is percent of this
The greater of the remainder
of the pocNetbOOks OF people in ni-
nois, Pennsylvania, Indiana and New York
The solid south paid only nine percent OF the
national income tax"
Isn't that way Indiana gets wedged in
with Illinois. Pennsylvania and New York? How
about Ohio, Michigan Wisconsin, any o which
three paid than Indiana? Clever for poll
tioaI effect, the
Note the infallibe economic judgment with which
republican journalistic informant passes
the value OF cotton presuming thrust low with
price high, comparison with the price of
wheat
But get the facts. Ten days before the war brOks
out 1914, wheat cents a busheI; cotton, II
cents a pound.
Ten days aftct the broke out. wheat s1O5
and still soaring. while dropped OF
sight, begging for n market any price
There market
Today guaranteed S2.2O a busheI
has been for Crops.--laclng II of being
three the market price, Just before the
The highest cotton has gone, has been 50 cents
open maret-just three times the pre-Far price,
farmer has a terrible kick the
cotton grower, hasn't he? Why not mention
thing about where northern wool, and oats and corn
and pork, md beef. gone up
Not much? Well ask Col Charles Arthur Carlisle
administrator, why the dairymen for
their milk, they sell their feed
and their cattle, than the milk
worth them.
Furthermore, the republican prOpagandists do
that the president has ordered the price
cotton stabilized and speculation TO cease.
No they mention that do they mention that
the colored people into the army the SOUTH
and brought work In Observation-Disclosures
TO vote republican ticket and incidentally keep
down the white mans wages.-has the
producing I'm the south. away of proportion
to the increased of producing wheat up here.
LgnOrunuy with dishonesty purpose they forget
those features; application might
with equal their wall about the pay
ing T. income
What would the south pay with? Cotton Is an
agricultural product. the agriculturalists
north being burdened with and income
The the northern states paying percent
war, percent Of the income taxes, II tey
are is because they doing 81 percent OF the
prOhtecr1ng, enjoying 81 percent OF the income
They arc qualified for Il; have the wealth
nation in their clutches; have been carpet
haggedv TO perjury by any political party
We hold 10 brief the south Pro-slayery days.
we particular brief for the south OF