Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-11-01
Solid South Delegates Control
All Caucuses of Demo-
cratic Party
DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS
DOMINATED BY SOUTH
Southern Leaders Who Opposed War
Measures Are At Head Of All
Important War Com
mittees

Does the American farmer desire
perpetuation of Democratic rule III
House and Senate?
Unjust discrimination has been
practiced against the farmers of the
North, Middle West and West by the
present Democratic Congress, in favor
of Southern products. This has been
done by the Southern Democratic
cOterie now in absolute control OF
House and Senate and by the Demo
cratic National Administration.
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
$210 With no price fixed on wheat
it is the general opinion that the grain
would bring far more to the farmer
than $40 The difference in the
price of wheat as fixed by a Demo
cratic Congress and Democratic
Administration, and an open market,
is the difference in hard cash that the
Northern, Mid-Western and Western
wheat farmer doesn't get a total that
would amount to hundreds Of millions
of dollars. Prorated it woul be
considerable sum in the pocket of each
wheat grower.
Prices of cotton and rice are fixed
by the law Of supply and demand, I'M
hampered by Democratic Congressional
action, and consequently the southern
rice growers and cotton planters are
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enormously increased war time prices
for rice and cotton. The Southern
Democrats who control Congress have
taken good care that the Southern
cotton and rice grower shall not have
the prices of his products controlled by
legislation, but this Southern delega-
tion says what the wheat farmer shall
get for his crop. not what it should
bring in the worlds markets, as in the
case of cotton, which prior to the war
sold at cents per pound, now sells for
80 cents, regulated by the law of sup
ply and demand, but an arbitrary price
that has taken millions out of his
pockets.
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
How long does the wheat farmer,
the wool grower, and the coal produ-
Ger intend to allow Democratic Con-
gressiOnal discrimination in favor of
the cotton and rice planters and the
lumbermen of the Southern States?
If price fixing is to be done at ALL it
should be done justly and without
discrimination in favor of any partic-
ular section.
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 ayia-
ton fields have been established in the
Southern states.
Money collected from the taxpayers
of the North, Midwest and West is
spent by millions in the favored South
Paying comparatively small amounts
of taxes and with small populations
the Southern states not only dominate
Congress and the Administration but
collect immense sums from the other
sections of the country, which they
spend in their own section, through
Southern Cabinet and Southern
L IcSIueilt, WHO UlfectS the oXpeDu1-
lures.
Discrimination in favor of the South
as against the North and West in loca-
ton of environments and other great
war activities has been persistently
practiced by Secretary Baker
Despite the fact that the Northern
and Western states have supplied more
troops for fighting the war with Ger
many Ga 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, Secretary
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.
II the people of the United States
desire a fair administration of Ma
tiOnal affairs they must elect Repub-
lican House and Senate November s.
The South is in control of the legis-