The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1919-10-04

ing compelled to sell it to assist a
sick mother was forced to discount
it at sixteen per cent.
Frank ". Vanderlip, head of the
War Savings Stamp campaign, was
characterized as piutocratic thief
and was declared to have been in
strumental in exploitin. the govern
ment and the people - me Hog
Island ship building plai.tss He said
that he and Senator Johnson had
made matters so that the President
had caused his little attorney
general to investigate and that when
lawyers from the department of JUS
tice had investigated that they had
reported nothing could be found on
which to base criminal prosecution
but that thirty million dollars of the
peoples money was missing.
Advocates Government Ownership
For Railroads.
Mr. Vardaman advocated the gov
ernment ownership Of railroads, but
IN this Connection said that President
Wilson had selected the most incom-
petent man in the whole country in
the person of McAdoo as director
general of the railroads with the re-
suit that affairs had become so mud
Iled that it would perhaps be gen.
ration before such action could be-
;ome effective. He said that many
plans of railroad operation had bee.
advanced and that practically all of
chem embody government regulation.
He declared that<if the government
:ould regulate it could own the roads.
lie added that no one had right to
make money out of the railroads ex-
;ept the public and the men at the
hrottle and said that the day of
starvation wages had passed.
The ex-senator denounced the
spirit of "fiunkeyism" which he de
Jared to exist and spoke of one man
having stopped the subscription to
the paper which he cited on the
grounds that he didn't want a paper
that criticized the President.
Favors Woman's Suffrage.
The speaker gave unqualified en-
iorsement to woman suffrage and
paid high tribute to the woman
mood of the country. He said that
the opponents Of woman suffrage
who claim that it will inject the
negro question are the ones that
heretofore nave claimed that there is
10 negro question.
Mr. .Vardaman spo.se at some
length on the negro problem, dis
cussing the recommendation of
PRESIDENT Wilson Of negro for
Judge of the District of Columbia
and how he rad pointed out the far
seaching and harmful effects. He
Ieplored the fact that the negroes
had been allowed to bear arms and
pointed out how England had only
permitted them to be in the labor
battalions. He declared that to his
mind thes pps4-ssa ) y l0f the negro
problem will be the repeal of the
fourteenth and fifteenth amendments
DR. deporta.i on.
In the latter part of his address
the speaker said that he had been
Ilsgusted by the way in which the
Soviets of Russia had been treated
Ieorge He claims that the Soviets
oy Wilson, Clemenceau and Lloyd
represent a government something
on the order of the old Greek de-
nocracy and that while President
Wilson had claimed that the purpose
of the war was to make the world
,afe for democracy that no effort
aad been made to assist Russia be-
.ause of the fact that Morgan and
Company, and French and English
syndicates held the Russian war bonds
and wanted bit placed in the hands
Of a receiver.
The speaker also expressed strong
OPPOSITION to universal military
craining. He said he objected to any
system that would take young men
away from their work three or four
months out of year, and also to
putting khaki on negroes. With re-
gardtotaertht -s7oi ;osu- I'D
gard to the latter he said that it
would "put ideas into their heads,
spoil good plow hands and possibly
lead to result that might cause
you to hang them.
In closing his address the speaker
paid high tribute to the Rev. Father
prendergast, who he said was con-
.lected with his regiment during the
5panish-American war.