The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1922-04-10
XVIII.
REMEDY IN YOUR HANDS

have been asked many times. and
particularly since this series oesah'
what Is tho remedy for the cohol'i0n
and situation OF government business
that you have described? what can
We. tina average man or woman WIN
out influence. and with no knowledge
OF polItics, what can we do about ieF
Well, the answer Is that you can DO
everything about II. The remedy hee
wholly within your own hands as l
have tried 70 point out IN each one
~ the articles that have preceded this
one. Il is remedy easy to prescribe
but, 7 confess. difficult to pu: Into
effect.
Difficult. 7 mean. In the sense that
YOU will have TO give up tme from
NSour own engrosslnE private affairs 70
pay some attention 10 what you prob
ably think OF as public atrairs and. as
such. not concerning you. The whole
point have to mako IS that public
affairs are your affairs.
do not suggest that you so into
politics do not suggest that you
attend political meetings. I do sug-
Eest that YOU take an interest, a direct
personal interest. IN the business OF
government as distinguished from tho
politics OF government.
A part Of the remedy you ask for
the conduct OF the business OF govern
rnent has been applied when tho facts
and the conditions are spread broad
cast and made known TO every tax
payer. Rad conditions are In q way to
be remedied when they become known.
Bat some hundreds OF you have writ
ten me and asked: How can we help?
What can We do?" Let's take concrete
case.
Congress- has committed Itself to tho
policy OF building twenty first-class
hattleshipB In tho next few years.
Armed and equipped. those battleships
will cost in the neighborhood OF S46.-
900 900 each That will make total
cost OF 1900. 100000; that is, Just short
Of billion dollars.
Do you approve that expenditure:
Do you think II wise and necessary?
Do you think we ought TO spend our
money that way? Do you think We
ought to spend 80 or 30 per cent OF our
total national income for wars. past.
present and prospective? That IS what
We are dolnK. II you approve OF II
you have only 70 sit still and say moth
ing. II you disapproye OF II. let your
congressman know.
You 1.-Two In a congressional district
and every two years you send a man
public business. DO you know him?
Do you know what he Is doing here?
Your state has two senator's, who also
represent you here. II they do not
represent you fairly. you can keep them
at home Whatever a majority OF you
want you can have.
To this moment n majority have ap-
proved. at least by silence, the great
military expenditures that have been
made from the money you have paid
in taxes II now you have come TO
the conclusion that Il Is too much. you
have only to say so.
Do you realize that this conference
on the limitation Of armament which
President Harding called arose tunda-
mentally out OF the circumstance that
all OF the so-called big nations are pay
ing more than they can afford TO pay
by way OF preparation for war?
The sndeavor to find a formula 70
limit arrna nents r. another way % say
inr that The nations are trying 10 find a
yay 10 save money. since the war tho
k-sst powers ara all living hevond their
means All OF Them are IN debt. All OK
Them, except ourssl"ea. owe more than
they can pay. In all OF them. including
the United states. government eIpen SIS