The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-02-18
SOLID SENSE
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You are responsible, not the presi-
dent in Paris; you under the consti-
tuition as the coordinate branch of
government, are clothed by the con-
stitution with the power to originate
revenue legislation. And every men,
Ter of this body has hiseown respon-
sibility, and you ought to ask your
selves and give yourselves an intelli-
gent answer. Where are the billions
to come from to pay these colossal Elk
psnses? Mark you. gentlemen of this
Congress, you are doing more than
expending billions. You are teaching
the American people doctrine of pa
ternalism that will curse them and
their generations yet unborn In this
country. If you only threw away and
wasted and squandered the billions
of money taken from taxation and
business, If you only brought on in
drstrial panic, the people could re-
cover from that. Poverty and panic
are not the worst things in the world,
hut you are spending billions taken
from every eleventh man In away to
teach the American laboring man, the
farmer, and the railroad owner, and
the telephone owner that the govern
ment owes them a duty to support
them, and to lend them money, and
finance their operations. and take
j charge of them.
The government consists of moth
ing except the people in the aggre-
gate. The government is pauper-
has not a dollar except it takes it
from the people.
We see a strange tragedy here to-
day: DR.. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde. DR..
Jekyn demands the people to lend
him money, and Mr.. Hyde is telling
the people that he isp going to give
them money to help them out Of want
ard poverty. DIR. Jekyll says to the
! people of the United States: BUY
liberty bonds and war saving stamps,
and if you do not you will have to sign
yellow card that you are not a true
patriot" And Mr.. Hyde says: 1--WE
are going to build homes for the
farmer, buy railroads, telephones"
and so forth. Wonderful consistency
|: Do you know we need two political
parties in this country. Mr.. Chair
man? We need one party that
stands for the constitution and liberty
by law; that stands for America and
for representative democracy and for
a conservative government. Let the
radicals get to themselves. The mis-
cry of this situation is, the pitifull
! tragedy of politics in America today
Is, that we have two political parties
yying with the other as to which can
offer the most to the radical vote and
terQf in he lox- Thnl
. republicans proceed to enact radical
Legislation, and we democrats 60 you
one better and advocate more radical
Legislation. There comes a time In
this country, with bills like this,
where we appropriate money that no
sensible man knows where it comes
from, bills threatening the industrial
: safety of this republic. You have to
have conservative party to run the
government and hold in check the
radical party.
+ Voice i'm the Wilderness
Mr.. Chairman, ] wish some voice
: might cry out in the wilderness to tell
the people of this country that it is
their duty to support the government
and not the governments duty to
! support them. The first two funda-
mental principles of government. and
they are worth more than all the bal
ance combined, are the protection of
: life and the protection of property.
. Protection of life is worthless with
cut protection of property, be-
cause, in the language of the Mer-
: chant of Venice, "you may as well
. take my life as to take the means
whereby i do sustain it."
They have more liberty in socialis-
! tic Russia today than they know what
to do with. A man can absolutely yell
at the top of his voice in a meeting
house; he can shoot, he can do any
thing on earth except to retire to his
home castle and say: "This is my cita-
del, and / and my wife and children
are safe" He can not do that. He can
do anything on earth in Russia except
10 make a crop with the assurance
that he can gather his own crop. He
has all the liberty that a wild ass on
the prairie has without the mules Sc
curity.
What we need In this country is for
the laboring man. the farmer. the
banker, the people OF the United
States, to return to the old-time re-
ligion of Lincoln, of Jefferson, Of
Grover Cleveland and the real democ-
racy of the country. Why do we not
tell the people honestly and fairly
that it is none of the governments
business whether they have farm or
not, it is the business of the individual
to depend on himself. Do you know
we are binding the hands and the
arms of the people to their sides by
the socialistic enactments? If you
want a mans arm to wither, bind it
by his side and give him no use Of it.
think the most hateful doctrine in
the world is the doctrine of socialism.