Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-08-30
SEES MENACE IN
REACTION AS WELL
AS IN RAD|CAL|SM
Men Who Oppose Any Change
Are as Dangerous as
Reds, Says Cox.
CANDIDATE TALKS OF
COUNTRY'S PROBLEMS


the philosophy which prompts n man to
tear up his potato vines IN order to Kill
the potato bugs And the reactionary
radical saws We Will make no change.
The American people must subscribe 10
the doctrine of evolution, making the
government of and for the people in fact
rs we'll rs in name. or prepare To merit a
revolution II we keep the fires of evolu-
tion burning we vii! never have revolu
tion IN this country.
The foregoing is the tribute of Cover
nor James NJ. Cox of Ohio. Democratic
candidate for President of the United
States. 10 men of reactionary tenden-
cies, in an authorized interview with
the editor of the Old Colony Magazine
on Americas Business Problems Gov
ernor Cox is n member of the Old Colony
Club, of which the Old Colony Magazine
is the official publication. Senator War
ren c. Harding. Republican candidate for
President. also is a member of the club.
The three main problems which the
business men of America are confront
INC TODAY" saws Governor Cox, are
those Of labor unrest, high prices and
high taxes. They all have their origin
in conditions resulting from the exigen--
cics of war. The restoration OF normal
conditions, were It possible to bring tins
about overnight, would solve these and
most of our other serious problems.
MUST RESTORE NORMAL CONDITIONS.
',The duty OF America today, the pco
ple as well as the government is to use
an of their efforts TO bring conditiors
back rs nearly 10 normal as 1T Is possible
to bring them.
"If business man took hold of n
great business and found that its oper-
atiur expenses had been multiplied as a
result OF special exigencies and emer-
gencies that man of business, Just rs soon
a. the crisis had passed, would prob
ably make up the budget or payroll and
po back TO the normal day. II the
budget system were adopted in this
country as in some Statps-OhiO, for in
stance-the government ought to begin
with the payroll as 1t was before the
war. the expense rs II was before the
war. and permit no dollar to be added
except upon full confidence and infor-
nation that would abundantly justify
Il Then, | believe, we would be APP
preaching normal basis.
The high cost Of living will be affected
favorablv TO all of us as the government
expense is reduced. We may just as well
understand that we are going TO have
more or less initiation as long rs the gov
ernment debt remains large. The debt
was incurred as a result Of our response
e. the call of civilization, but | am per
slladed that in very short time the ex-
orbitant taxes can be abandoned. Suffi-
cient revenue can be derived from the
ordinary methods Of taxation, including
the income tax.
THE ExcESs PROFITS TAX.
A considerable factor in the high cost
Of living Is the continuance of the excess
profits tax In establishing the selling
price Of its product every business. es-
tabhshment sets aside a reasonable prof
il and then adds TO II the amount that
must be paid 10 the government. This
is done in turn by the manufacturer, the
iobber the distributor and the retailer,
the inevitable result being stagger-
ing cost 20 the consumer.
Approximately 81 900, 100000 a year
viii be needed for while TO conduct
the departments of government and
meet the sinking fund and interest charges.
Almost half of this could be derived from
a tax of / To / y per cent on the volume of.
business done by every going concern
III would be a simple matter 10 collect
the tax: the taxpayer would not be con-
fused by il and Il would be neither cause |
nor abb for excessive prices.
"The government cannot do 1t al, |
however The people of this country |
must. first, all Of them, go to work, |
and those who are responsible must cor |
tinue creation and production. The re- |
striction Of production must be charac- |
terized as producing q form and type |
of savagory, nothing more and nothing /
less, and the sooner We have an under /
standing on that point the Better. But /
IL I.,esros- ,vor az Ar,aorioa mus. Of /
least share with the government the I
work and the responsibility of bringing /
about conditions under which men viii /
be willing and glad TO work in America
MUST PRESERVE THE REPUBLIC
at matters not how much we are in
t.res, ed in the success of our busiress.
II matters not how often we are told
that the material things of life come as
the result of application Of each Of us to
the particular task that constitutes his
profession. There Is within us all an
interest in the preservation of this re-
rrblc and in the maintenance of the
civilization that has made life in Amer !
lea delightful, and / wonder whether
those of YOU who have come In contact
with government realize the measure
and the character Of the things else
where in the world that snenace the civ
ilization of the present day.
s"TiIne was when II mattered not what |
took place overseas. Ii did not seem to
concern US We were free in this land
from war. They might have adversitv
and depression, with the sinking of value
In the national symbols of value as we
them, yet America has gone
along. As the result Of that we seem
10 have become possessed of the philoso
phv. unsound and fallacious as it as. that
God took care of imbeciles, children and
Americans, and that as He preserved the
stars in their fixed places in the heavens
He would always preserve for us the in
stitutions of government given us by our
fathers.
Now the truth of the matter is that
ON institutions are not as changless
a. the stars. They were given us bv the
of God, of course, but they will
be kept for us just as long as our bigi-
liant. patriotic support Of them iustifes,
and no longer. For hundreds of years the
rest of the earth lived within their own
lorna ins, In the main. They had troubles,
their controversies and some wars: but
n the first instance there were only three
races of people in all Europe, and now per-
laps there are hundred or more. In
tlme those three were split up. The loca-
ION of rivers, of mountain the varying
clements Of climate. determ ned the home
md the abode of gwen groups of people
And throughout the wears they develop