The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-08-16
WASHINGTON LETTER
The South After the Loaves and
Fishes-I. w. WIS Wanted Uni
ted States Removed from Their
Literature.
4 Southern CRATER.


Claude Kitchen, chairman of the
ways and means committee is the
gentleman charged with steering
revenue measures through the
House of Representatives By con-
stitutional mandate all bills for
raising revenue originate in that
body, and are referred to Kitchens
committee to be drafted. Provided,
of course, Crown Prince McAdoo
does not see fit to set aside the
Charter of American Liberty and
have the bill drafted in his own of
fee. 1t has been Mr.. Kitchens &C
llnowledged policy to make the
North pay for the war; His idea
is that the South should supply the
legislation and the North the funds.
In this way both sections will be
doing their bit, and the South is to
be rewarded by eXempting her cot
ton from any war burdens, prohib-
iting importations of rice, so that
fsouthern army rice growers may en-
Joy higher prices, and constructing
the army environments, nitrate
plants, etc, in southern states. The
North is to forego earthly rewards
or compensations. but is to reap
spiritual rewards on the field of bat
| tie, honor, courage, bloody sacrifice,
and the bubble reputation at the
lannon's mouth" Check up one
thousand casualties, to strike an av-
erage, and see if it ISN'T so. Mr..
Kitchin believes this to be an equi-
table division of the spoils of mod
ern warfare, and perhaps those who
hold a good name to be greater
than riches may agree with him.
1t happened recently that one E.
L. Travis, described as prominent in
North Carolina politics, got a loop
of the law around his neck on
charges of conspiracy to defraud
the L. s. government out of large
sum of money on a shipping con-
tract. Possibly the receipts from
taxing the North were not being
spent fast enough, because it is al
legged that Travis was to get his
hook in for 100000 for landing
the contract for his principals to
build ships for the Emergency Fleet
Corporation. Travis is said to have
been a member of Kitchin's law
firm. Kitchin says he was in the
firm some years ago. He is also
said to have managed the campaign
of the junior senator from North
Carolina. Of course, no one can az
tribute Travis wrong doing to
Kitchin, yet at the same time it
would be interesting to know if the
views entertained by the latter with
respect to the consideration shown
the North and the South might not
have had some influence on the
mind and conscience of Travis, in
ducing him to believe that, with the
South in the saddle, the North was
fair game.
Remove the I. w. w.
A motion to remove the words
Omitted States" from their litera-
ture was seconded and carried at a
meeting of the I. w. w. in Spokane
last June, according to the testi-
mony of the I. w. w. secretary.
now on trial before Judge Lands.
| Certainly motion to remove the I.
w. W. and its literature from the
United States would meet with
the unanimous approval of every
decent citizen in this country.
The Lesser Evil
Henry NJ. Goldfogle, former dem
ocratic member of congress, has
been designated in a fusion arrange
ment between democrats and repub-
licans as the candidate from the 18th
New York congressional district to
run against Meyer London, social
list London has not supported the
country in the war, and the 18th
district is normally democratic,
Goldfogle having seven terms in
congress to his credit, being de-
feated by London for the Gath con-
gress. 1t is case of two evils,
choose the lesser. A good demo-
crat is to be preferred to a social
list.