The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-10-07
They Wanted
a Chance


sal hard times under the Republicans
From universal employment at hlgn
wages under the Democrats they nave
come to see 100000 men idle and the
balance working at reduced wages un-
der the Republicans. /
The people wanted change-and
they got it.
They were promised that the army
should at once be returned from the
Rhine; but the army is still on the
Rhine.
One large group voted for the Re
nuhl;cans on the assurance that Italy
should regain Fiume; but Italy is stlii
without Fiume. 4
One group of many millions voted
for the Republicans on the assurance
of a peace and treaty favorable to
Germany; but after the Republican
Congress passed a "fake" resolution
of peace the Administration must now
either submit for ratification the Ver-
sailles Treaty of Peace or Germany
will escape liability, obligation and in
demnity; and thus the Republicans
must either betray the German syni-
pathizers or the best interests OF the
United States.
The business men were promised re-
lief from heavy taxes. But all that
has been done is a revision by the
House of Representatives by which
the very rich men and corporations
are to be relieved of their burdens at
the expense of the ordinary business
men and the masses of the people.
The people wanted change-and
they got it.
Under the Republican administra-
tion products of the field and the
range have gone far below the cost of
production. These are the things by
which one-half of our people live. And
these things have happened while the
world is hungry and naked. The net
result is tie ruin of producers every
where. But the masses of the people
in country and city alike, pay even
vet practically the same prices for the
finished products of meats, food
clothing and all other of their daily
necessities. Thus the rich and the
middlemen reap their harvests oil
gain. undisturbed by the Republican
administration, at the expense of thu
suffering producers everywhere.
The people wanted a change-ant
they got it. 49,.
About the only time the Republi
can President has awakened long ant
alert enough to take keen interest IL
the peoples concerns on Capitol Hill
was when he went in person and kille'
the bills for the relief of the soldier
who had saved the world from SLAYER
and ruin, and the next when he direct
ed his partisans in Congress to favo
the Oil Trust and his Secretary of tn
Treasury's great oil company by ac
mitting free of duty oil coming int
this country from Mexico-by whic
the importers saved over s15,O0O,0O
annually at the expense of the countr
and the Treasury.
The people wanted a change-an
they got it.
Special, selfish interests in the maj
ufacturing centers have written tn
tariff bill as they pleased and in the
own interests, which will impose bu
dens of billions upon the consumin
public; and yet under this Republics
tariff bill, the producers Of raw mi
terial get practically no benefits Il
their raw products of either field
forest or mine or ranch or otherwis
The Republican President called Il
Congress together five months ago Il
the express purpose of passing ia
iff bill and tax bill. But after
this time it has done neither. 1t is
vided in counsel; it is without leade
ship; it is ship without a ruddt
The Republican majority is split
into many factions and its only cohe
ent policy so far developed is to tu
the country over to the tender me
cies of Wall Street as it did in fori
er times.
The people wanted change-a
they got it.
From a condition of tranquili'
plenty and prosperity under the De-
ocrats they have come to strife,
vversity and distress under the Repu
licans. Confidence is government
self has been much weakened. r
lowship between employer and g
ployee, which the Democrats built
50 that there was fair division
the rewards Of labor. las been
stroyed under the Republicans. II
tories are idle everywhere. Credit
withered up. Capital is in hiding
4;,,,;d ecared Millions walk