The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-11-01

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Southern States.
How long does the wheat farmer,
the wool grower, and the coal produc-
er intend to allow Democratic Con-
gressional discrimination in favor of
the cotton and rice planters and the
lumbermen of the Southern States.
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 its favored
Section.
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 environments, and most of the
army aviation fields have been estab-
lished in the Southern states.
Money collected from the taxpayers
of the North, Midwest and West is
spent by millions in che 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 a
Southern Cabinet and Southern Pre-
sident, who directs the expenditures.
Discrimination in favor of the South
as against the North and West in To-
cation 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
Germany "a 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.
If the people of the United States
desire fair administration of Nation
al affairs they must elect Republi-
can House and Senate November s..
The South is in control of the leg
islation of the country, and also in
control of the Nation In practically
all of its administration in the war.
Seventy-eight per cent of the Wash
ington employees are from those
states where cotton is king.
Never in the history of this Re-
public has the power of determining
the national policies been concentrate
ed in the hands of so few men, or so
monopolized by small number of
states.
OF the fifty-two Democrats in the
Senate thirty represent the "Solid
South" and eight others were born
in the South, so that in the Senate
there are thirty-eight Democrats who
are responsive to Southern interests.
Of the seventy-fve committees in
the Senate about one-third practical
ly do not function. Of the twenty-one
chairmanships assigned to Republi-
cans all belong to this list.
Nearly every important committee
in the Senate has a Southern Demo-
crat for it's chairman.
Of the sixty-one House Committees
forty-two are important. Every one
of the forty-two has Southern DEM
ocrat for chairman. Democrats from
North and West, representing thirty
one states, have been allotted only
twenty-one chairmanships and these
are Of minor character. Northern
Democrats representing two-thirds of
the States in the Union, and a much
greater proportion of population.
wealth, industrial, agricultural and
business interests, are limited to only
one-third of the chairmanships of the
House Of Representatives.
win with Wilson" has been SUBJ
stituted for "He kept us out of war;"
and with this and similar fake catch
words, planned to influence the cleo
torate November s, the Democratic
campaign managers are again schem-
ing to impose on the voters.
Having put over" the fake cam
paign slogan of "He kept us out of
war" in 1916, the Democrats, with an
effrontery unparalleled in American
political history, are attempting to
again fool the people with "Win with
wilson" Meanwhile they are con-
Quoting the Government in the inter-
est of the "Solid South"