The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1921-12-02
FRELINGHUYSEN FLAYS DEMO-
CRATIC DEMAGOGUE.
Says Fight Against Tax Bill is One
Intended to BefOg the People as
In Free Silver Issue.


That the effort of the Democratic
members of the Senate to prove that
the Republican tax revision bill re-
moves the burden from the rich and
places it on the poor is pure dema-
pogism is the contention of Senator
] S Frelinghuysen, of New Jersey
He says:
an harmony with the platform OF
the Republican Party, with the dec
laration of the great President 1T
gave the country, and with the com
nonsense admission of the leader OF
the minority, the majority in the
House of Representatives and in the
Finance Committee of the Senate
favored a measure reducing war taxes
on business.
"But this revision, so necessary and
beneficial to all the people and not
merely to the rich, as the Senator
from Missouri (Mr Reed would
have us believe, were met with stern
objections on the parts of the Demo
cratic members of this body. In an
unfair appeal they have declared to
the country, through the medium OF
this debate, that such reduction re-
moves the burden from the rich and
places it upon the poor. They have
let it be known that as the only
genuine friends of the people in this
body they will protect them from
such an outrage. With a congression-
al election in the offing and realiza-
ton on their part that the people
reward their most loyal servants,
thew beat their manly breasts and
point with pride to the fact that at
last the country is safe from the
effort of the wealthy to escape the
duty of giving up the greater part OF
their incomes to support the Govern
ment that made their success pos
sible. Lincoln said that God must
have loved the common people be-
cause he made so many of them.
Some of those here would have us
believe that God hates the rich be-
cause he made 50 few of them. Any
way, there are more poor than rich
voters on election day, and it seems
to be much more profitable from a
political point Of view to tell the
poor who are already heavily taxed
to support a great war waged to pro-
tect the Nations honor that the
burden Of that war should be borne
by the rich. The inference is fire.
uuently made that all the rich are
profiteers, which makes the argument
seem all the more politically profit
able.
"This is not the first time that a
demagogic appeal has been made by
the Democratic Party. Apparently
its sole hope Of victory lies in such
an appeal. The country has not for
gotten its slogan Of Thank God, he
kent US out of war There was no
sincerity in IL. but il was clever, and
foisted the Wilson administration up
on US a second time. In 1910 the
partv captured Congress upon the
declaration that il would bring the
cost Of living down TO within reach
If the market basket Of the average
hou-ev-ife. II declared that the pro-
tective tariff and the reactionaries in
Congress, the tools Of the big in
terests. were alone responsible for
soaring prices and that Il would re-
deem its pledge to reduce them,
Time went on and under its adj
Of the government
r-;ccs doubled. But that made nc
difference. Burcombe paid. II was
not so long before that that tn"
Democratic Party. headed by Bryan
unreservedly for fat monev and the
repudiation Of the credit Of the "
ton. II did 50 on the Ground thaf
in that way only could the grip Of
the money power upon the country
be broken. And in the previou-
generation Il had espoused the cause
If preenharkisrn. So now we see the
Democrats IN this Chamber present
ing views in accord with the tradi-
t'n~s f their partv in the past"
THE OPINION PRESS.