Americus times-recorder., 1920-06-24
BY H. G. BISHOP
Gin The Dearborn independently

that state three times is unquestion-
ably the one man who can easily lead
the Democratic i.arty to presiden-
tial victory next November.
That man, of course, is James NJ
Cox, present governor of the Buck
eye State.
1t is asserted in many sections of
the country that the rapidly growing
popularity of Governor Cox as a
contender for nomination honors at
the San Francisco convention is
causing deep anxiety at the cam
paign headquarters of William
Gibbs Meade, Alexander Mitchell
Palmer and Robert Latham Owen,
the other three seekers for Demo-
cratic presidential honors.
If Cox can scale the ladder OF
political success as rapidly in the
next few months as he has in the past
few vears, he ought to be able to
leave the McAdoo- -Palmer-Ow
bunch at the pole and lope home with
the nomination.
Cox has been making constant
progress ever since he started wearing
pants He has had wide experience
in various lines of endeavor, which
gives him a keen insight into human
nature and enables him to get the
viewpoint of citizens from the lowest
to the highest.
There IS nothing singletrackish
about his thinking or his accomplish
ments. He possesses breadth of
mentally that makes it possible for
him at all time to size up and under
stand single tracks, double tracks,
four tracks, terminals, way stations,
and, in fact, the whole general scheme
of things. He sees the whole gov
ernmental picture at glance, not
merely a shadow or high spot here
and there. For instance, he knows
the needs of the farmers of America,
because he was born on a farm and
performed every conceivable KIND OF
farm work until he had picked up
enough education to engage IN the
laudable work of country school
teaching. His next job was that of
newspaper reporter, then, in success
sion, editor, secretary to congress
man, owner of a newspaper, a mem
her of Congress for two terms, and
governor of Ohio for three terms
the only Democrat ever able to ac-
complish that triple feat. =,
With a past record like that, is it
anv wonder that his friends are so
dead certain that he will be the doml-
mating figure at Frisco from start to
finish? ,,e
Mr.. Cox recently reached the hall
century, milestone of his career. he
is as strong and healthy as buck
nriyate and farm hand combined. IN
case he gets the nomination ne VIII
have the stamina to make red-hoI
campaign from coast to coast anc
from the Canadian line to the Gulf
coast.
Here is the way this husky and
hustling Democrat speaks of the big
national problems of the day.
"We must give immediate atten-
tion to matters of domestic concern.
Onr whole economic status seems to
he natural. Prices are high and they
will remain so until we seriously dedl-
cate our efforts to the wiping away
of things that came with the war. ,
"A considerable factor in the high
cost of living is the. continuance. OF
the excess profits tax. In establlsn-
ino the sellinp rrice of its product,
every business establishment sets
aside a reasonable profit and then
adds to it the amount that must De
paid to the government. Ihls IN turn
is done by the manufacturer, the Joo-
her. the retailer, the inevu able re-
suit being a staggering cost to the
consumer. =,
approximately four billion dol
lars will be necessary to CONDUCT the
department of government and to
meet sinking fund and interest
charges, Almost half of thic ould
be derived by applying tax of from
one to one and one-half per cent on
fbo volume of business done by any
going concern.
ut would be a simple matter to
collect the tax; the taxpayer would
not be confused by it, and 1t would
he neither cause nor alibi for eXces-
sive prices. ,.,, A..
federal inheritance tax just as soon SOC
as we can get along without 1t. rms
method of taxation should be left TO
the states. Tax on inheritance is
based on the prlnclple Oh governments
being compensated for service rem
dered in conveying property from one
generation to another. A man makes
a will and it has definite force and
effect because the law legalized 1t.
The right is given to him by the state
and the process of the distribution of
his estate is through the agency OF
local government. The Federal au-
thority has nething to do with 1t.
Therefore, the compensation for ser
vices rendered should be to the states.
"There is some hysteria over the
subiect of active elments in tins
country that are menacing to the
government. There is no danger IN
the situation, although it might be
aggravated easily if the governmental
policy of restraint and common sense
That has endured through the years
were to become one of free and ter
rorism. There must be no compro-
mise with treason, but the surest
death to Bolshivism is exposure OF
the germ of the disease itself 20 the
sunlight of public view. In the old
days' the treatment of scarlet fever
, :L.d 1F on Intensive attack on