Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1918-10-25
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DEMOCRATIC TICKET.

OkINAOlfbAIIC IIChbE.
U. s. Senator. short term, John F.
Nugent.
U. s. Senator. long term. Frank
l.. Moore.
State Senator. z. M, Pugmire.
State Representative, HI. H. Hon.
Commissioner, First district, Ezra
y. Howell.
Commissioner, Second district, John
n, Peterson.
Commissioner. Third district, M. 3.
Cherry.
Clerk, Auditor and Recorder. Stand
ley Fl. Rich.
Sheriff, Asa Athay.
Treasurer Lucille Hall.
Assessor, Adam L. Berry.
Probate Judge, r. j. Haddock.
Supt. of Public instruction, Sey-
mour H. Spencer.
Prosecuting Attorney, VIM. ]. Ryan.
Surveyor. Robert A. Birch.
At the present time we have i'm the
United States Congress a line of thot
which runs along private monopoly
and would drag us back wherein we
have been struggling to get out Of the
rut for q great many years, and the
advocates Of this theory would have
all interests, both public and private,
go into the hands OF few men: then
we have line of thought among the
more progressive men in Congress-,
which runs along the line OF letting
the public handle the public interests
and the private corporations handle
the private interests, and these men
who champion the cause OF public
ownership Of public corporations have
been figuring for years some plausible
means of taking over the public cor
porations OF our country, but no way
had been found until the great war
made It necessity to take these over
for the protection of our government
and the interest of the individual,
Now the fight is on between them.
What shall we do in the way OF TAX
ing sides? We as individuals can
take sides in this matter on the 9Th
day OF November, 1918, when we cast
our ballot at the polls.
It was necessary for the U. s. gov
ernment to take over the railroads OF
the country, guaranteeing the stock
holders the fair rate of interest on the
money they had invested, thus pro-
tecting the stockholders against any
loss. Now the question is, will we
take these railroads ana pay the own
ers for them and thus save to our
selves and our nation millions of dol
lars Of interest and dividend each
year, or will we return them to the
former owners and go on as we have
been doing, paying excessive freight
rates and what is termed as q just
and fair rate SO as to insure the share
holders a fair rate of interest on his
money invested? II we do this you
must understand we are paying or al
lowing dividends to be paid on mil
lions of dollars of watered stock
which in reality has no real value, but
citizens have paid good money for
this watered stock and naturally are
entitled to dividends on their invest
ments the same as some of the older
stock holders in these companies. The
telephone and telegraph systems OF
our country are in the same class as
our railroads and at the present time
are under the supervision and control
OF our government, and the same ar
gument applies to one as to the other;
but we have something now that be-
longs to us, the merchant marine.
WhASn We nave DuIAL IN the past LIZ
months at great cost and from mon
ey loaned by the people to the govern
ment. What are we going to do
with the enterprise2 WIN we turn
this merchant marine over TO the pri-
vate ownership, or will we keen It
ourselves? If we have great navy,
which we surely will have at the end
of two years, we certainly should have
a merchant marine to supply this ma
w on the water, and If we need
merchant marine to supply our navy
ON the water. then we certainly must
need the Transportation lines on the
land to supply the merchant harine
on the water 80 as to make 1t possible
to supply the water transportation
from the land.
Now. the question for you to de-
eide, Mr.. Voter. is, will the president
of the United States have support to
carry out the progressive idea and
take these public corporations over
and have government ownership OF
all that 10 Of such vital interest to the
welfare Of the public, or will you sup
port the idea of the reactionaries 10
have them placed in the hands of q
few men as they were before the
war? Senator Nugent and Hon.
Frank Moore stand for the President
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