The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1921-07-08
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met by reception committee at tn,
Palace Hotel. After the grand pa
rade he was escorted to the platform
at the park and introduced by Gen
Thos. o. Morris.
1t was indeed one of the hotties
days of the season, but the larg'
crowd gathered around the platform
to hear the Senator, who appeared t.
be pleased to be back in Union City
Expressing his fluctuations upoI
this occasion Senator McKellar be
gan by saying the greatest celebra
tion of all is the Christmastide, IL
honor of the Man of Galilee. Th'
next great celebration is the Fourth
of July in honor of American indie
pendence, the religious and politica
liberty of the colonies. The Senator
then reviewed the progress of the
United States from the first thirteer
colonies, or States, the extension Of
territory acquired from the Indians
the Louisiana Purchase from France
by Thos. Jefferson, the purchase OF
Florida, the ceding of Louisiana
Texas al A the great West to Califor-
mia and finally the admission of all
this territory into Statehood.
The Senator traced the history OF
the nation, whose liberty is beacon
light to the world, and then he came
on down to the administration of
President Wilson, whom he lauded as
one of the greatest of all Americans,
whose statesms nship has crossed the
seas, whose courage and wisdom has
leveled thrones and whose democracy
enlightens the world.
The administration of President
Wilson has marked one of the great
est periods in American history, in
striking contrast to the present Re-
publican administration, which finds
people unemployed, impoverished and
restless, and agricultural depression
and discomfort.
The Senator proceeded from the
low order of the present administra-
tion to the delinquency of Repub-
lican Congress.
Taxation was an issue in thealast
The war had left us bur-
dened with taxes Ninety-three per
cent of all our taxes are assessed for
the payment of war claims, the bal
ance (seven per cent? is for civil
government. In the campaign the
party promised relief in
The way of reducing administrative
operations and Congressional appro-
priations. This pledge has been ig-
1ored entirely and<fhe expenses, not
the fact that we are
advancing from the period of war,
ire steadily increasing. The tax for
he military establishment alone is
'even dollars per capita. The Repub-
lean party has broken its pledges to
'educe taxation and is increasing
That party was pledged
o the reduction of the army and ma
" programs and these pledges have
'een broken.
And now the Republican party
proposes sales tax, which transfers
he burden of taxation from the cap
talist to the people of small means.
enator McKellar said he would new
r agree to this measure.
Senator, McKellar stated that he
the Borah resolution for |
isarmament, that this was one of |
he greatest principles of the League
f Nations, which itself was one of |
he greatest documents ever written.
lie also voted to reduce the army
nd navy appropriations. The big ma
y program he opposed simply be-
ause is was subsidy to the steel
rust and burden upon the agricul-
lral classes.
The Senator elaborated on world
isarmament and declared that Amer
"a should force other nations to
isarm. England should also be
to pay her war debt. A
esolution was offered in the Senate
, exchange English bonds for Ger
ian reparations bonds, and thus re-
eve England while she .s spending
reat sums for foreign territory. The
anator voted against this resolution
nd he was vehement in his denun-
alton of the measure offered by Sem
.or Penrose. The United States had
aned England money for war pur-
oses at BIZ to per cent when she
as paying J. P. Morgan & Co. ten