The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1920-07-01

After this bill was introduced there
was some talk that the piau Of taxa
tion for which it provided would be
used to finance the soldiers bonus
proposition. The guns of the Ameri-
can Federation of Farm Bureaus and
the National Grange were at, once
turned on the proposition and it did
not materialiZe. As an index OF rural
sentiment regarding this proposal the
Farm Bureau Federation took a ref
erendum vote. of some three thou
sand meetings at which the PROPOSE
zion was submitted. sentiment favor
able to the bill was recorded in only
three instances. With such united
sentiment. backed up by powerful or
should be easily possible. even N the
face of strong support from business
interests
To what extent this Chicago com
mittee represents the sentiment of the
business interests of the country re-
mains to be determined One signif-
-icant fact stands clearly revealed by
its personnel as shown on the liter
head. J. II. RaIston. the Washington
labor attorney. who wrote the bill, is
general counsel fer the committee.
,trcently Mr.. Ralston occupied an un-
ens liable position in the public lime
light as me defendant, before the
House immigration Committee, of
Louis F. Post, assistant secretary of
labor, who Is charged with being re-
-ponsible for the cancellation of 1898
warrants secured by the Department
OF Justice for the deportation OF dan
serous aliens. only 1923 having been
deported under the law. which has
been in force more than three years.
hi sattitude toward radicalism appears
to he Indicated by a statement made
to the committee to the effect that
We in America have sunk to the
level OF the police government in
Russia under the czarist regime. a
statement which at the demand of six
members OF the committee he later
modified 20 exclude "a large part of
the American people and the mem.
bers OF the rules committee of the
house"
Whether the manufacturers and
merchants OF the country will rally 10
his banner and contribute to the pro
posed halfmiliioR dollar slush fund
for propaganda purposes to burden an
industry with a huge tax which it has
no possible chance of passing on, while
farmers are compelled, as large ulti'
mate consumers. to pay as large pro
portion OF the tax levied on business
remains to be seen. We believe the
rank and file of the business men OF
the country are too intelligent and
far-seeing to make such mistake un
der present conditions. But in the
syent that they are persuaded 10 dc
so, the advantage to be derived from
a strong organization, such. as the
Farm Bureau movement has devel
oped, is plainly apparent
In view OF this development the
Michigan Farmer at once wired Con
gressman Fordney. who is chairman
OF the House Ways and Means Com
mittee, and who has sometimes beer
charged as representing big business
as to the status of the bill and the at
titude OF the committee toward it He
replied as follows:
Washington. n. C.. May 81.
The Michigan Farmer,
Detroit, Michigan.
AS yet no action by committee on
Nolan land tax bill and considera
iton not likely at this session OF con
gress. l am opposed to this measure
]. w. FORDNEY.
o. These. in brief. are the develop
ments in proposition in whicn the
farmers of Michigan and the country
are vitally interested and OF which
they will be further advised through
these columns as new developments
occur