The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1920-07-21

NNiilS IL I'Oulu 10 cNtINDOuN.
Our government refused to buy A.
100000 tons of sugar from Cuba at
& l-2 cents 4 pound. Rcsult-thc Wall
street bankers, spectators and pro-
fitecrs used federal reserve bank notes
to buy il. are making Il profit of 20 to
% cents a pound and retailers are told
that If they add more than two cents
a pound they will be prosecuted for
iprofitGcrng.
Public Debt.
| believe the public debt should be
made circulating medium by ex-
change OF government legal tender
notes for the outstanding war debt
bonds with provision for retirement of
one or two per cent each year.
This would relieve millions who,
through loyalty TO their government
purchased bonds, are unable to hold
them, and arc prey to Spectators.
1t would create undrcamed develop
mcnt Of our resources by forcing
large bondhodcrs to extra effort at in
vcstmcnt in order to obtain an in
come.
II would relieve the people from
hcavN taxation to pay interest on in
active bonds. 1t would make The GOV
crnmcnt debt an active agency Of dc
u.
If We require Europe to pay us in
icfcSt on what we lent them, it would
retire these notes in aboct fifty years
without any tax on the people and the
principal OF the debt Europe owes us
would be NET PROFIT.
Railroads.
The Cummings-lISc railroad law is
a surrender of the rights OF The pco-
/ iF,t I'd.
iattcmpt to cnslavc tho railway on
,ploycos but will add billions of dol
ars to the cost OF living by excessive
freight rates based on fraudulent and
hclilious stocks and should be repeal
ca 1t guarantees them about $780,
! ooo,ooO profits for first months after
thcir return to owners. Some railroad
oillcialS arc paid 100000 to $12O, 600 n
year. Regardless of high salaries
: etc, II the roads lose a half billion
dollars, the secretary of the treasury
must pay them out of the United
states treasury about 81 900 600 600
Ihe more corruptly they are opcr-
atcd the deeper they ram their hands
into the peoples treasury.
IT requires a freight rate to mako
them S25O,000,O00 more profits than
Ithcy nave ever made in their most
prosperous years. 1t guarantees them
per cent. on at least $S,O00,00O 900
worth OF paper stock, while, records
III my possession show, was simply
printed and divided among themselves
wilhout paying dollar for it. They
uehahd an increase OF $l,0l7, ,O00. 600
III lrclSht rates, which will add at
lcaSt S4,06S,OOO, 600 to the cost of living
when the manufacturers, etc. have
added their profits.
me railroads are dominated BY the
Morgans and Rockcfellers. viii mo
people submit to the conspiracy OF
railroad lawyers thc Office bows OF
me Morgans and Rockefcllers) to re-
dncc them to scanty fodder living
by laws giving their masters controI
Iof transportation. distribution and
markets Of their products.
While | will support any measure
10 curn this gigantic monopoly, facts
In my possession convince me that
| government ownership and democratic
| operation Is the only ultimate sOlu-
'Ion of the transportation problem.
am opposed to compulsory milf
tary training.
am opposed to life terms OF fed
eral Judges and believe they should be
Icicctcd Dy the people.
Labor.
| am opposed to the use of inulnc.
ions IN settlement OF industrial dis
putcS. Labor should be protected NOT
only in its right to collective bargain
me but also in collective action TO en-
forcc It, In fact close study OF the
AIMS and principles OF unionism Will
convince any reasonable man that
complete organization of all classes
of workers for educational and coon
craliVc purposes is the only hone of
mankind against the establishment Of
an industrial dcSpotism in this colIn-
try.
Merchant Marine.
| Inc United states merchant. marine
MADE profit last year of $33 600 900
and cannot sec why congress was in
such hurry to sell it, unless ii gas
so "crvilc to the railroads that i. was
Idotermincd to do anything they de-
! mandcd
| believe a government owned NOR
chant marine sufficient to carry our
/ commerce. with navy sufficient to
protect it, is the surest means of
I keeping us out Of war with Enropcan
nations. America must police the
ocean highways OF her commerce. It
would be rs scnSclcsS for her 10 fail
to do so. rs it would for our large
cities to remove their police from their
streets.
| space will not permit me to dis
cuss more fully these questions.
! When cotton mills are making pro-
iits sufficient to buy their plants from
one to ten times in one year. when