The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-03-10


!. Let THESE community enIerpI i is;-:: h
encouraged, not only as a matter o
economy, but for the more impera
tive need of drawing the people bacl
to normal rural conditions, Let thi
system gradually take the place O.
monopolistic control, which has b!
questionable methods and means alb
sorbed the substance of the people
To become more specific, we woul6
have you contemplate the hauling
of our foodstuff back and forth from
market to market before it can be
put on the dining table; think Of the
millers taxing up the hedging (fu-
tures) costs on the price of the food
products; think Of the packers stor-
ing and hiding eggs and perishable
products to force market prices up
ward. All of these things are said
to be and many of them in fact are
part of the present system.
The Government needs to face
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about and change this system. Did
you know that the German people
before the war had more nearly
solved this problem than any other
people. Prussianism, the one black
spot on the face of the earth, was one
thing and German citizenship was
another. They were homogeneous,
home-loving, thrifty, domestic peo-
pie, land Germany had prospered and
become one of the greatest nations,
only to be destroyed by militarism.
What are we doing in America
Our people are leaving and deserving
the farm and home life. They have
lost interest in domestic relations be-
cause agricultural thrift and inde-
pendence is vanishing. They are
leaving the communities and small
towns. They are going to the cities
and congested centers-to the board
ing houses and hotels. They are fall
ing into the habits of idleness and
crime-r suicide. Therefore,
among other things, the great hous
ing problem.
And who is undertaking to further
this movement? Your two Herberts-
Hoover and Quick. l tell you, folks,
this system cannot continue without
disaster. No nation on the face Of
the earth can thrive unless the peo-
pie are we'll fed. Therefore the i'm
portance of agriculture and commu-
nifty building.
What are some of the more impor
tant factors in community and farm
life. One of the greatest of these is
the public highway. Some men are
as blank as statue when you talk
to them about transportation on the
public highways. They are asleep.
Why, did you know, right at the
present time, when there are compar-
atively few hard roads, espe-
cially in the South, livestock and
farm products, in some sections. are
being transported in motor truck fif-
ty and hundreds of miles to the mar
ket. Why will it be necessary, with
a general improved system of high
ways, to spend billions of dollars on
the railroads and waterways? The
demands of the future can be met
much more economically and salts
factorily with improved highways,
and with thousand times more ben
eft to the rural communities.
With improved highways there
will be no discrimination, or should
be none, between the terminals and
the rural centers, and manufacture
ing, as we'll as agricultural industry,
will spring up everywhere, whereas
it is now confined to capitalistic cen
ters. There will be community en-
terprise instead of monopoly. There
will be general prosperity instead Of
initiation and defation There will
be a healthy, normal citizenship and
growth all over the country.
Let the Government serve the peo-
pie awhile. 1t has been serving pri-
vate monopoly and capital long
enough. The Government must do
so, because the present system is false
and cannot last,