The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1921-02-18

Vow. however. the conditions have.
eI1angasi: over 80 per cent of the.
American people are living N towns.
There are, in fact, more than that Iiv-
ing IN towns MIR President. because
the census counts as towns only those
places over 5000 pe0ple. or. perhaps.
the number may be 5000. and under
that figure are numherfess towns the
residents Of which are not agricuItur4
lists. and yer they are counted as
part of the less than fifty-efid per
cent living in the towns as part of
the agricultural population
The Senator is riding TO a fail, he
is riding exactIv to the same fall, and
ne Is repeating the very arguments
that were used by the landlord inter
esfs oil Great Britain in supporting the
corn laws, until things had reached
such q point. under seIni-revoIution.
which was known then as .ChaIrism, "a
accompanied bv aayrick burning, gem
eraI disorder, and Generalization up
ON the part of the Iaboring men in the
great factory towns and the little fac
tory villages. that even Sir Robert
Peel, arch conservative that he was,
was forced to repeal the corn laws.
If the Senator thinks that he can es-
tabIish as permanent institution in
America a system of corn laws. he IS
doomed to go through the same ex
perience that the conservatives under
the reluctant leadership OF Sir Robert
Peel went through with
So. when the Senator undertakes to-
indemnity farmers for the mannfact-
urers robbery OF the agricuIturists.
which has been going ON for century
by a new-found Legislative tax-law
robbery by the agricnturists OF the
manufacturing Iabsring class. then he
is galIGping to meet Disappointment
sooner or later And he ought to-
meet with it.
T am perhaps the only man in this
body whose post-afffce address is out
IN the country Z live there; every
dollar Z have in the world is idenfi-
fled with agriculture excep1 a few dol
lars which E put in to heIp the Cow
ernTnent our during the war and in
vested IN its bonds. Trey strained me
ike the mischief. and then the Cow
eminent. in very dishonest way.
after giving its note to me and var
ious other people, proceeded TO tax
hack part of the note so as to rum
the marker vaue of its own paper
down below par, which an honest man
would not have done: but an aIIegedly
honest Government has dome It.
Mr President, there is no getting
away from the facts. The Senator
from Tennessee (IIr. McKeIlarl ON
yesterday. with Scotch persistence,
drove the argument home- What is
your object? What is vour purpose
It Is TO increase the price OF bread
and meat to the people.
e you can not do that, you can nor
raise their prices TO the producer,
wficn is your avowed object. r. YOU
do raise the prices to the producer.
you have increased them to the ueo-l
pie. Why not quit this nonsense, and.
instead of getting even with the mani
ufacturer by perpefrating upon him
reciprocal ruhbery. deprive dim OF
the rohnery THAI he is now perpefrat-
ing upon YOU IL You viii decrease
the price of my agricultural impie-
menrs and everything which { must
buv IN order to carry ON farming pro-
cesses In the state OF Mississippi. ri
snail demand no favors at the hands
OF the United States Government Ell
can meet all Corners in the cotton
field. win men lp0n the quarterdeck
and Negro Iab0rers in the field. al
though paying them four times what
is Maid to the fellaheen OF Egyuf and
six times what is paid to the peasants
OF India. and heat Egyur and India ar |.
tfreir own game; but in order that
may do 50. r ask sinlpIy to be lett UNI
narnpered and unraxed- excepr in So
far as tine Government shall levy a
rax for revenue purposes alone for the
naynenr or governmental necessities
THAT Is air ask. and i ask m0re r
ASK something that hive 10 right To-
ask
II y0u could demonstrate 10 me TO-
day that tax upon long ssapie cotton
xonId PM from Sc TO SO bale in
ny pocket our OF my next years crnp
ana saan aak me to snppart the du1y
npan rhaI ground my response would
Be- In the words az Scripture IS thy