The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-04-09
HOW REPUBLICAN RULE WORKS /
ONLY TO ASSIST CAPITALIST |

Washington, d. c., April 3.--Repre-
sentative William L. Nelson has made
public letter he wrote to constit-
uent who complained to him that he
was dissatisfied with the present ad-
son, explaining in detail reasons for
dissatisfaction and placing the blame
where it belongs, follows in part:
81 am mighty glad to have your
letter. When good Democrat like
you writes as you have, know either
that there is something wrong with
our party, or that there is some mis-
understanding somewhere. If you
had never written me would not have
known how you and the other good
Democrats, of whom you speak, felt,
so would never have had chance to
tell you of some Of the things actu-
ally happening here and which are
never told by the average Republican
or so-called independent daily papers.
GAS to your first question. What
is the matter with Congress, are they
going to put the farmer out of bust
ness? Now, the truth is that there
are a lot of things the matter with
Congress, just as you suspect. The
big thing, though, that | see right now
is that both House and Senate are
Republican-the Republican majority
in the House being nearly so. You
may recall chat Congressman Gillett,
millionaire Republican from Massa-
chusetts, said in the last campaign
that he was tired of the West and
South running things in Congress, and
that he believed that that part of
the country having the wealth and
population land by this he meant New
England and the East) should have
the say as to legislation. do not re-
call his exact words, but this is what
they meant. AS you know, the coun-
try elected Republican Congress last
year. This same Mr.. Gillett is now
Speaker, and he and his organization
are in the saddle. AS a result, there
is Republican Steering Committee
which has absolute say 'as to what can
be or cannot be considered. / am told
that, with possibly one exception, ev-
cry member of the "Steering% Com
mittee is a millionaire; and not one is
from the country. One of these mil
lionaires lives in Chicago, another in
Cincinnati, another in New York City,
and so on. So you will see that your
question as to whether or not this
Congress is going to put the farmer
out of business is a good one.
Democrats Fight for Farmer.
an answer to it, | would say that
are fighting the farmers fight, per-
haps successfully because SO few in
number, the present House organiza-
ton would go long way toward put
ting US out of business. For example,
when the Agricultural Bill was up,
and this is the bill in which farmers
are most directly interested, almost
the entire Republican machine tried
to cut down the appropriation. One
item calculated to help hog breeders
was knocked out on an amendment Of
fered by another Republican member
from the little State Of Connecticut;
and, by the way, there are just two
States in the Union that raise fewer
hogs than Connecticut, and only two
that raise more than Missouri. Then
we had in this same bill an item of
! $4,000 to help our cattle and hog
breeders develop a trade on pure-bred
animals with residents of South Amer
lea. This was knocked out by Re-
publican from Chicago. Of course,
these members are mighty economi-
cal when it-comes to helping the farm
err, but if the proposition had been to
build big plant or a shipyard in New
England, it would have been dicerent.
81 am glad you referred to the fact
that the present Congress has done
nothing to reduce the high cost of liv-