The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1918-08-22
political ADVERTISEMENT
DOMINICK'S RECORD
GIVEN BY AIKEN
Shows By Congressional Record
Where Congressman From
This District Voted Ag-
ainst Administration

rial campaign i'ec''"S 49, ~, fnr 49,,
.tondpd account in Yesterday issue
- the Journal Mr.. Aiken spoke about
* minutes and confined his remarks en-
tirclv to the public record OF Congress
man Dominick.
He showed by the congressional Rec-
ord that Mr.. Dominick opposed the fol-
lowing measures favored by the admin
istration:
Against the resolution declaring that
a state of war exists between this coun-
try and Germany.
Against the draft act.
Against national prohibitions
Against the espionage, or spy. act.
Against the act non -eXemptlng a.
yinity students from compulsory mill
tary service.
Against the soldier (volunteer) vote
TO give the states credit for volunteers
Against the censor bill.
Against the presidents determination
NOT to send Roosevelt to France.
Against the Crompt0n resolution OF
inquiry as to the manufac ture of intoXi-
eating liquors.
Against his party on the vote to
purge from the Record the speech of
Henin. Of Alabama, in which he bls
tered Mason and Brtton. Republicans,
Of Illinois, who were against the admin
istration.
Mr.. Aiken said that MIR. Dominick
did not vote on the resolution making
Guam and the Hawaiian Islands dry
and that he was also against the adj
ministraton on the matter Of taxing
the third issue Of bonds
On the last proposition MIR, Aiken
spoke as follows
Mr.. Dominick has claimed credit for
having congress reverse itself on the
measure proposing to exempt banks
from state taxes to the extent of the
investment Of their capital stock in
liberty bonds.
| am perfectly willing to concede him
all credit due. but it should be borne in
mind that congress did not reverse it
self on this issue until after that Dem.
ocratic House Leader, Mr.. Ktchin. haC
reversed himself
Now. as to the issue itself, few
sidelights will show that Mr. DOminick s
attitude on this, "a on every other QueS-
ton touching the vigorous prosecution
OF the war, was hostile to the admins
tratloN.
need not remind you with what pa
triotism the people Of this country have
responded to the first, second and third
Liberty Loans Nor need remind you
that in every instance a major portion
of these bords have been tloated direct
y or indirectly through the banks. If
an individual subscribed in most cases
he paid down ten or twenty per cent,
and the banks carried the balance 1t
is an incontrovertiblc fact that not one
Of these loans could have been hoated
but for the patriotic aid Of the banks
and with all the support they could pos
slbly give, the bonds time and again
have dropped below par If the ardor
OF the banks is chilled. then to that ex-
tent is the floating Of the bonds chilled.
Whatever else may be said Of bankers
by those who would make capital out of
abusing them, nobody will say Of them
as class that they are fools Then
nobody could honestly say that thew
would invest their capital in bonds in a
market that is gluttcd. at low fixed
rate purely as an investment. On the
contrary, every dollar they invest in
bonds is at sacrifice, and nobly have
they made and will they continue to
make the sacrifice There is not the
slightest danger that they will retain
the Investment longer than return to
heaithy and normal conditions will en-
aDie them to dispose of the bonds with
out INJURY to the government
government bonds were issued be-
lore TINS war, and only in one instance.
IN this state, trust company doing an
inactive business, was there large in
Vestment OF banking capital. This case
was carried to the Supreme Court Nv
Mr.. Domnick. az assistant attornev
general, the principles Of which he en-.
in nl,
ment Tor sectionl proposing to exemnt
so much Of banks capital from taxa.
ton as is invested in Liberty Bonds.
The United States government does
not tax State bonds. 1t does not tax
the salaries of State officers even of the
smallest sub division. Thenin the name
Of humanity; in the name of world free
dom; in justice to our sons and to oul
sons and brothers who are barring the
way of the Hun whose Shiny trail bears
in it's wake the blood of the old and the
rape and the wanton destruction of the
young. why should any one who calls
himself an American citizen undertake
to block this government in it's efforts
to save itself from vassalage and the
human race from damnable tyranny
that hell itself cannot equal.
What are few years taxes on few
thousand dollars in few banks in Soutl
Carolina, or the Nation, as compared
with the importance Of raising the sin
ews of war to support your boy ant
mine in battling against the lust ant
fury Of the most powerful and bruta
nation that ever cursed this earth?
Mr.. McAdoo plainly stated that h,
asked for the passage of this amend
ment as some little acknowledgment
Of the patriotic services of tie banks il
floating the several liberty loans. Ant