The Lamar register., 1919-02-19

credit for the governments helping
out" the farmer. AT that point, Con
gresham Dies said:
Mr. Chairman, when Members talk
about loaning money to the farmers of
this country, and talk about Democrats
and Republicans, it makes an honest
nonpartisan man laugh. The best thing
you can do for the farmers of this
country is to let them alone and quit
spending their money and taxing the
eternal life out of them.
| wish the farmers of this country
and the taxpayers of our land might
have a return of the old democratic
and republican theory that Govern
ment is not created to support the peo-
pie. but that it is a creature to be sup
ported by the people.
The great mistakes we are making,
my friends, here now is that we are
practicing Hypocrisy upon the people.
We are leading them to believe that
the Government can support them and
lift them by their boot straps out Of
their financial difficulties when, as
honest men, we should say to them
that all that the Government can do
is to protect their life and their lib
erty and tax them to support the Gov
eminent.
have been here 10 years, and am
going out now
A Member And voluntarily, too.
Mr.. DIES. Yes; and will tell you
what you have done, and ! hope you
will take it in good part: You have
taken the fairest and best Government
ever known among men and you are
making it into the most despicable
socialism. You took the American peo-
pie at a time when they believed they
could support themselves and their
Government, and you are teaching
them hour by hour and day by day to
expect that their Government shall
support them. Instead Of telling our
magnificent Army, when the boys are
coming back from France and are be
ing demobilized. TO go back to their
Jobs and engage in their former in
dustries. you are leading them to be-
lieve that the Government shall take
it upon itself as a duty to support
them.
My friends, you are tearing down
the greatest Government, the great
est democracy. the world has ever seen
and you are building up in its stead
the poorest fabric Of socialism that
history can record.
Governments Sole Duty.
Is it your intention to help the peo-
Pile? No. You will not help the peo-
Pile unless you tell them that the Gov
ernment has but one duty to the citi-
zen, and that is to protect his life and
property and give him an equal and
fair race in this world. (Applause.)
And you are teaching him that the
duty of the Government is TO help him.
My beloved country! ! do not know;
we are losing the greatest Republic
the world has ever seen. Talk about
international democracies! 1t is being
swamped amidst nebulous phrases and
unintellgible jargon. Would to God
the President Of the United States
would get on the Tennessee" and
come home and preserve this Republic
(applause) rather than meddle long
err with the politics Of Europe. We are
casting the lot of the people of Ameri-
ca, the peace and destinies of our
country into what? Into the Hotch
potch of the quarrels and poverty and
woe and destruction of Europe.
There is not anything new to be said.
Human nature is just the same as it
was when our fathers made this Re
public. The President of the United
States, representing what has been the
greatest Republic the world has ever
seen, may speak of justice, and of the
league of nations, and the end of the
sorrows of mankind; but the best hope
of this Republic and of this people is
upon our own shores, defending the
Constitution of our fathers, protect
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