The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1921-05-04
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SPEAKSE0R PEACE
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Washington, May Z.-1>ePA
tive Fulner Of the Seventh dls'i1o'
nsa5e his maiden speech in congress
Thursday last, when he strongly sup
norted an amendment. to, the naVai
appropriation bill which would nave
made the appropriations for: naval ex-
mansion unavailable until the presi7
dent had called a meeting OF the
nations with the purpose of taking
steps looking towards general dis
armament.
!: Representative Fulmer cited figures
to show that 92.S, per cent. Of the
,total appropriations OF $5,6Se,o05,-
705.97 was for the payment Of war
past, present and prospective. He be-
lieyed that it was time for a people
over-burdened by taxation to have
some relief from the load which they
were, carrying. He denounced as a
failacy the idea, Of preparing for war
in time of peace, and made a strong
plea for a REDUCTION Of the enormous
expenditures Of the hard-earned
money. Of the people in ambitious v "a ar
mament, schemes which were er! calcu- Al
lated only. to lead the world into AZ an
other shambles from which the people
would emerge deeinlated,: rimpover-
q. -, :. Dr..
ished, III want and fear.
@fIoWss va do 70; You know, Mr.. Speaker
ana gentlemen" Sitl 81" SAID Mr. Fulmer,
that the = nations ii Of the earth may
not now be praying that the United
States, the leading country Of all the
world, VIII send out a. note in her
good. way. asking them to come. to-
gether and understand each other in
a peace-loving way? It is not fact
that the, rest Of, the nations did: join
in some kind Of an. understanding and
expected the United States to join
therein, forever to Danish war from
the face Of the earth ?, Is it not also
a fact that the sixty-sixth Congress-
on account of politics, sat down on
these arrangements and at. once COM
lmenced to increase our Navy and
keep up the pace set in 1867?
/. Why. Of course, gentlemen, the rest
Of. the world wonders why the United
States talks about disarmament and
then opens the throttle and drives
full speed ahead to create the largest
navy On the face Of the earth! 80
"As new Member, am fresh
from my section, and I know that the
people as a whole are tired of being
taxed to the vanishing point Of their
means without receiving comparative
benefits in return. Their boys, the
young manhood of America, were
snat..hed up and deployed into no
mans land, many Of them being of
the 'unreiurning braves. While our
boys shed their blood for world
freedom, the returned soldiers and
the crying mothers and the home
loving farmers and the solid business
men of the country can not under
stand this program for a larger Navy,
but they can see that if we, the Rep
resentatives Of the people: Of these
United States, keep, up the pace of
providing for and enlargins the in
struments of horrid war, instead of
slowing down or. quitting along these
lines, we are going: to have within the
next few years a world-encircllng,
world war that will leave
a decimated, Impoverished popula-
ton existing in want and in fear
In; closing Mr.. Fulmer took rap at
> congress for having neglected the
vital interests of the country and al
lowed.profiteering to run rampant, to
the detriment Of the best interests of
the great majority. He said:
II want to ask, Mr.. Speaker and
gentlemen, what have you done in
the past for the cattle grower Of the
West and the. grain grower and cotton
farmer OF the South and the laboring
man, who has been the tool in the
hands of the ,canitalist? Nothing!
Nothing! But you have allowed cap
ital to reap huge dividends by means
Of inadequate legislation and the loop
holes Of the law and you have made
it possible for the speculator, un-
molested, to mop up millions at the
expense of the producer and the con-
sumer. ..: F..
"I hope this amendment will be
adopted, and until you retrench and
cut down the big program that you
purpose carrying on in the building