Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-07-07
8. @, FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1922.

the SIS added, but If they ship the
cloth to England or Brazil or Cuba or
other foreign country they draw back
SASS from the government and thus
are able to sch to the foreigner for
s14S5 less than to us.
The president insists that we shall
pay ship subsidy to all ships carry
ing the American flag in proportion to
cargo carried. They tax the people TO
pay that $5O,OOO,OOO. They propose
TO sell all ships costing three billion
dollars at war prices and worth one
and one half billions now to private
companies for 5000, 100000 and to loan
the purchasers s50,OOO,OOO to 100000
900 at 2 per cent interest to condition
them and then pay them a bounty on
all cargo carried. The farmers and
ordinary folks pay to per cent. on
money they get; but these favorites
buy property at Is per cent. of it's
value, borrow to fix it up at per cent.
and then be paid to operate. Two of
the big trusts of this country will get
the lions share Of this bounty as the
bill Is proposed-the United States
Steel Com. any and the Standard Oil
company. They run a great fleet of
ships to carry their own products and
do not carry for the public; and yet
tley will pull down more than 80 per
cent. of this bonus for carrying their
own goods to tmarket in their own
ships under the flag and they serve
nobody but themselves.
This is but q glimpse of what is
proposed. l favor encouraging and
building up n merchant marine but
not taxing the people to pay the trust
TO haul their own goods as this does.
In their tariff bill they provide that a
shipbuilder can buy his materials
abroad and pay tariff on them and If
he sells his ship to a foreigner he can
draw back the tariff paid but not If
he sells to an American. The tariff on
the material for a million dollar ship
is easily 100000 so the foreigner can
buy it for 100000 while the American
must pay $1,00c,0O0 and then tax the
American people to help the Ameri-
can ship owner operate a ship profit
ably in competition with the foreigner
whose ships cost 90 per cent. less than
his by virtue of legislation by the ad-
ministration. This is indefensible.
Bonus for Soldiers.
They are going along merrily pay
ing off the railroads, having paid them
$500,000,000 or thereabouts because
they found their business shrunk after
the war and win pay them 14O million
more on this account and are loaning
the $S00,000,000 to finance them until
they can revive from business depres-
sion. They have paid contractors
more than s5OO,0OOOO0 on adjustments
of their alleged losses incident to can
collation. of their contracts when the
war ended and l expect 1t to reach a
billion. Yet they say they are too poor
to adjust the compensation of the
men who did the fighting for them on
losses incident to the war. The pres
ident says they must put a sales tax on
to pay it if it is paid. This will make
every man who buys pair of socks or
pound Of coffee abuse the soldier be-
Cause tax tag goes on it. Those who
remember the nerve wearing days of
March, April and May, 1918 when
every morning we shuddered to look
vances by the Germans were scored
toward Paris, the Channel ports and
ultimate victory and how America and
the waiting breathless world was
thrilled when the Americans came in
contact with the Germans and hurled
them back in confusion and astonish-
ed the military wiseacres of the world
with their steady relentless drive
wherever they found an enemy, will
say that America can not afford to
deal generously with those boys and
it will not be shame if she nourish-
es and subsidies the railroads, the
contractors and the ship owners and
turns her back on the boys who
fought or who were in the ranks ready
to fight.
Now to the American Legion in
South Carolina I want to point to the
proud record of your fathers who
came back from the Civil war, ragged,
starved, impoverished and disfran-
chised, while the recent slaves were
placed in power over them and in
eleven years reclaimed this fair state,
made it again the domain of the white
man and have built n great common
wealth on the ruins. The younger SOL
diers can carry on the development.
You never showed your backs to the
Germans. See that you face the civic
problems as you faced the Germans.
Write your record on the pages of the
history of this state and the next fifty
years will be as glorious as the fifty
years of history written by your
fathers and grandfathers.
- In the republican primary in Surry