Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-09-22
SHOWS MORAY
AS SHADOW OF
GOODRICH IDEA
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friends?
Tie act provides for the collection of
lot OF money for licenses from every
coal concern in the State and for the
cent for every ton of coal mined. If
tbis tax law is like the last one, the next
Legislature viii legalize the commits
siops raising it ITO to cents; Who T gets
pays It? The man who sells coalf NO
ST; tine man VINO buys coal or the man
who buys anything made by a man
who uses coal That forgotten man. the
ultimate consumer. he pays this money
@ the cO----ission.
The act runs true to Goodrich form, it
expressly provides for the expenditure
II all this money. Who spends it: MI
Goodrichs commission. What forE The
act SAYS for agents, clerks, employees, at
torneys, special counsel, assistants. en-
Cineers. accountants, commiSsloners-tne
list is so long that they are not put to-
gether in one place but scattered at three
or four different places throughout the
Sct-and for travelling expenses II they
don't get enough money under the act,
there is an appropriation out OF the
propriated; and those funds are raised
under the Goodrich tax law and the
legalizatiOn of the Illegal acts of the tax
hoard The Supreme Court held that
the horizontal increases were Illegal
MAY TRAVEL
They may travel as far as Sacramento,
Cal, if Hi Johnson's machine will pro-
vide a coal commission for them to con-
fer with; and as far as Washington, ID.
g.. TO confer with the Federal Coal Com
mission. And by the way, that Federal
Coal Commission was created under the
war powers in the administration of that
terrible, horrible, awful man-sO terrible,
horrible and awful that Mr.. Goodrich
would not even mention his name during
srrrf- m
ANYTHING else-W oodrow Wilson.
Who viii these agents, clerks, engineers,
ETC. TO be hired by the commission be!
-Oenocratsi Nay, verify! VIII half of them
Progressives hired? Wait and see. Every
single one of them will be iyed-in-the-
wool Republicans. Republican politicians
who know how TO get votes. The test
win not be what they know about coal.
The commission viii hold hearings,
hearings to which any OF every coal man
q the State may be hailed with all his
private books, papers and accounts He
must come and tell everything they ask
him about his business. II he refuses
10 answer, a way is provided 10 send him
% jail
The commission may hale in Demo
cratic coal men or Republican coal men
who are on the fence because they want
to vote for Cox and McCullOeh or coal
men who will not contribute to a cam
paign fund That commission has a lot
IF power. 1t may even hale in concerns
n which Mr.. Goodrich's coal-loving fam
ly own stock or hope 10 acquire some.
Everything these coal men say at these
hearings will be taken down by a stem
oErapher. And whose ears will be hear
ing at these hearings Surely not Mr..
aOodrich's son, Pierre. He wouldn't
want to know what other coal men are
making; and as for the old boy himmself,
be gives his coal mining stock away for
birthday and wedding presents. Far be
L from him to eavesdrop at q public
hearing about private coal business.
AND ACT DOES
FEW THINGS MORE.
But the act does more; il requires all
concerns in the coal business to produce
and sell or offer for sale enough coal to
supply the domestic demands OF the
state at price to be fixed by the com
his pile and decides to quit? What IL
Inc m nerS go on a strike? Whist II a
bank wont loan money TO operate with
VIII the mines then be worked with
convict labor? Is this a felon's reform |
On many occasions Mr.. Goodrich has |
proclaimed himself the friend of good
government AMI the foe of destructive
any country nearer than Russia. will you
md q government requiring business to
produce and sell or offer for sale at a
price to be fixed by somebody else the
-RuApuL Oh the business W mere. nearer
than Russia, do you find a government
equiring men to work: Even in Russia
only political opponents are compelled to
Hear ye. Hear ye, Hear ye! Ye coal
burners of Indiana, hear!
mis- commission is going TO fix the
price Of coal. Will the expenses that
the commission incur and which must
De borne by the consumer make the
rice more or less? According to the
press the first price-fxing will take place
about Oct. l. It may be fixed very low
then and changed the second week of
November. so that Mr.. Goodrich can sag
~ himself ami his party: Look how
low l fixed the price Of coal. Forget
that we promised that the tax rate IN
der our new law would not exceed 81 80 /
a 500 and II is now $3.50. The Demo
Gratis and Independents forget that 7 ex-
rFcised the war powers on strictly
partisan basis, Forget that I appointed
the head Of the Republican party in
Of Defense which was supposed to know
no political distinctions between Ameri- |
can citizens. Forget the multitude OF
Iardons still unexplained, some OF which |
beat the prisoner TO the penitentiary. |
Forget our Partys representative in Ma
ron County who trafSicked in the pau
per dead. Forget Sheriff Miller and the |
disgrace Of the Marion County Jail. For
get the highway commission, Forget the !
TAX board. Let the entire inglorious |
record stay ever mute. Forget II all |
voters; were going to fix the price of |
roal maybe on the family mines"
GOOD REASON;
StHG NOT?
But the act does not attempt to regu.
late the price of coal moving IN Inter |
state commerce, because that power ax
Iressly resides in the Federal Govern /
ment. 1t also recognizes that the Fed /
eral constitution denies to the States 4
the passage of any law impairing the |
obligation Of 4 contract So IL any of |
the family mines have contracted RI /
sell their coal outside of the State be- /
fore the act was passed. they won't /
come within its provisions. They run I
no chance with the Federal buzz-saw
tt is true that the Federal court recent /
~ held that the act does not violate the |
constitution of the United States but is a I
power Of the State coming within tie
police powers Of the State. But as /
understand it, the court did not hold that |
The constitution Of Indiana was not VIC
lated Even if constitutional the real
question is, is it right? 1t might be
within the police powers of the State to
pass an act requiring men to wear straw
hats In the winter as a sanitation meas
ure; But what would you think of II?
Mr.. McCray stands on the Republican
platform. The Republican platform ap-
proves the Goodrich administrator
Therefore Mr.. McCray approves the folly
Of this act unless he repudiates IT Nc
how about IL?
This folly of the state Republicans is
exceeded only by the folly Of the national
Republicans wiggling around on the
League of Nations issue. And that makes
II imperative to elect Tom Taggart TO
the Senate. For in this matter alone
Watson,s boat has neither rudder nor
sail His train of political ideas is with
out an engineer to run 1t or a fagmau
TO keep the second section from run
ming into It.
GOOD SENSE OF
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