Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1918-06-07

increase OF the tax on swollen fortunes
which finally became the law OF tbs land.
Information upon that subject is easily
obtainable and | hope you Will inform
yourselves, because Il Is necessary IN
forming your just judgment OF my acts.
ft shows the spirit and temper of my
services, ana answers the traducers or
virtue, the critics of wisdom, and the as
icaI enemies who are bowling Justify at
my heels. The taxing power Is one OF
the most potential agencies OF govern
function usually results m the concen-
| tration of the Nations wealth in the
hands Of the favored few. II lie the blight
misuse of the taxing power, think, Is
fundamentally responsible for the disco
luton and downfall of every government
| similar to ours whose skeletons cumber
! the shores of time today.
1t has been truly said that Commerce
has set the mark OF selftshness, the sig
net of its all-enslaving power, upon
shining ore and called it gold; before
whose image bow the vulgar great, the
vainly rich, the miserable proud. the
kings, and with blind feelings reverence
the power that grinds them to the dust
Of misery"
| St Paul recorded the conclusions OF
| Omniscienee when he said. THE love OF
money is the root of all evil.
At the helm Of the Ship of State have
| stood with that class of patriotic states
snen whose every endeavor has been TO
| guide the Ship across the shoals OF pri-
| vate interests, to avoid the breakers OF
| personal greed and steer II safely into
| the halcyon harbor of constitutional gov
eminent and universal right.
To Meet Expenses OF War.
I would especially ask your considera-
ton of my record in the matter OF rails
Ing funds with which TO meet the ex-
penses of this war. 1t must not be for
gotten that the most colossal fortunes
ever acquired by man have been amass-
ed in the United States since August, |
1914. The booty gathered by the con-
Rome were but tips to the waiter COM
pared in magnitude. For three years
after that time the American manufaet-
urer and Big Business man absorbed the |
| surplus wealth, the Accommodations OF
centuries, of our present Allies In Eu-
rope. When the United States in 1871,
entered the war and made loan TO our |
European Allies, the same manufactur-
ers and Big Business men continued 10 |
absorb. And when it became necessary |
to enact laws providing for raising the |
revenue to meet the enormous expenses |
incident to the war, the Omnipotent pow
ers of predatory interests were able to |
defeat (by convincing Congress, OF |
course, of the correctness of their Cause) |
every measure that had for its purpose |
the adequate taxation OF war profits. |
profits fifty per cent. But We We're de-
feated. We tried to make 1t fifty-five. |
sixty, sixty-five, seventy, seventy-flve. |
but In every instance we failed The |
profiteers got away with their enormous |
earnings There are very few corpora
tions. ! dare say. in America today that
are not making moro money than they |
aver made in their lives. The railroads,
the Communicated ships. the manufact-
urers-all-are reaping a harvest or rev.
enue far, far above that enjoyed in nor
NAL times. To think Of anybody making
money out of this war is horrible to con-
template-it Is needless to say that l
opposed such policy. But that fact has
has been SO Enthusiastically attested and
proclaimed to the world by newspapers
that belong to the interests In their def
amation and Misrepresentation of me.
that to state the matter In detail Is SUI
perfluous. The kept press Will always
find some excuse to Islander the repre-
sentative of the people who fail to do
the bidding of the interests.
Railroad Regulation and Child Labor.
l want you to notice my record on the
question OF railroad regulation; the child
labor law, which was intended to pre-
vent the bodies of those precious little
ones from being woven into fabrics and
sold at enormous prices to fill the con-
scienceless Golfers OF soulless corpora
lions.
My advocacy of the Alaskan Railroad
enterprise is also worthy of your consd-
Grafton. My effort to carry out the sol
emn promise made in the Democratic
platform and accumulated by the candi-
date of our party for the Presidency for
free tolls for American Independent ships
through the Panama Canal, and Ameri-
can control of the Canal, should not es-
cape your attention. The building OF
merchant marine along lines of Justice
and efficiency. the protection of Ameri.
can labor against the exactions or
wealth. prohibition legislation, for the
protection Of the human race against the
evil effect of intemperance, as well as
for the conservation of foodstuffs during
the war. Rivers and Harbor improve
ments, especially that measure which |
championed for the control OF the great
western border, the Mississippi river
are matters which l would have you con-
slider.
You are familiar with all of those
things 1 am sure, because they are Of
such recent occurrence.
Will you be kind enough also to take
my record in the matter of internal i'm
provements of my State, the develop
ment of agriculture, the elimination OF
the pests that destroy our crops, and the
diseases that kill our livestock. II there
is any matter of legislation which inter-
ests me above all others, 1t is that which
pertains to the development of the farm,
the betterment of farm life and the COM
forts of the farmers home.
! am a friend to labor in all the voca-
lions of life, but realize that all perma-
nent proSperitay comes from the farm.
1t is the substratum upon which is build
ed the whole superstructure of COM
merce. When the farmers. of this coun-
try prosper, the railroads, the banks,
houses of merchandise, the lawyers, the
preachers, the doctors, the mechanics, In
word, every vocation prospers But,
parayze the strong arm of the farmer,
let unpropitious seasons come and failure
curse his soil, all business languishes
and the superstructure withers and dies
The farmers toll produces the wealth
OF the country, maintains its commerce
in time of peace, and his steady, strong
arm, along with his brethren in other vo-
cations, fight the Nations battles in time
of war.
There is another point that must not
be overlooked. In this day since the dol
lar has become the god and commerce
the religion we must look to the man
who lives next to the soil for the genuine
brand of unalloyed patriotism.
In the farmers home is located the So
cial dynamo which sends its patriotic
current throughout the body polite, re-
viving the soul, stimulating truth and
virtuous daring, and which will save this
Republic if indeed 1t shall be saved from
the corrodng and poisoning influences
of Commerciaiized Seifishness.
But / have endeavored to represent