Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1920-03-18
HON. CHAS. L. CRUM
WRITES LAFAYETTE co. MAN
Oxford, Miss.
March 18th. 1920

D.. -, March 18th, 1920.
Editor, The Oxford Eagle:-
In response to an inquiry from
me to Judge Charles Lee Crum of
New Albany, Mississippi, and who is
the Leading candidate in this county
Tor Congress, as to his position up-
on what he regards as some of the
ieadlng issues of the present cam
ply: IL
"Mr. W. I. Roberts, Oxford, Miss.
My Dear SIR
replying to your favor of recent
date l take pleasure in STATING soma
OF the things which | regard of NH
Tic Importance for which shall
stand IN my campaign for congress-.
l. l shall stand for equality Of
every citizen before the law. / re-
gard this as the foundation princ;-
pie OF every true democracy as we'll
as a fundamental piincipIe of +ha
Christian religion.
z. 10 guarantee this equality of
every citizen before the law. / be-
heve 1T necessary to restrain, bv
equitable laws that class of onr
cltlzens who by more fortunate on
portunities have become immense1v
rich and powerful, so that thew as 2
class, cannot from their VANTAGE If
great wealth, unjustly and iniurio,s-
~ Cypress the poorer and more ha1n-
less members of society. Bv such
laws !! would undertake to prevent
unlawful trusts and combines. and
the "comering on the necessaries of
me-. and consequent unlawful profit
teering in the prices thereof.
8. l believe at this age of greed
and graft and general unrest the
world over, that it is Imperative
that order, contenment and conf,
dence in business be established
that there be harmony and co-onera,
ton between employer and emplovee
Merchant and Customer. Landiord
ana Tenant, Labor and Capital.
Neither of these classes can succeed
without WI the help of its opposite
mat is, the employer nor the en-
pioyee can succeed without the helm
OF the other; the merchant nor the.
customer can survive or prosner
without the help of the other; Meth
er the landowner nor the tenant can
prosper without mutual co-operation
and the same is true in a broader
sense with reference to labor and
capital. anu
a.. In order to affect this result
prejudice and factionalism must be-
forgotten or ignored. That condi-
ZION which makes the rural or farm
mstncts more prosperous will surely
bring the greatest degree of pros
perity to the towns and cities ada
cent. 1t would be very inconvenient
for the rural or farm districts to on
crate without the town and CITY
markets, and the cities could not
survive without the country to sup
port them. There should exist no
prejudice between citizens in the
country and the neighbors in towns
and cities. l am not fractional
candidate and if elected shall en-
deavor to represent every legitimate
interest and every worthy citizen in
my district without regard to fac
tionalism.
5. Having been taught from boy
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sonal experience that all honest la
Dor is honorable. l have always
loved the man or woman who per-
forms honest labor. / therefore be-
lieve that the men who work in the
mines and on railroads should be
well paid, as well paid as any other
laborers who do like hazardous and
Important work. Every laborer
should be able to earn a competence
at least for himself and family and
be able from what he thus earns to
support and educate himself and
family surrounded by healthy, So
cial, moral and religious environ
ments. But believe the nublic
good requires that after these condi-
tons have been guaranteed to the
laborer that both the railroads and
the mines on one hand, and their en-
ployes on the other, should have
their conduct SO regulated by law
that unjust freight rates and prices