The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-09-13
Big Crowds
CreetC.O.P.
Candidates
Five Towns Visited on Second
Day Of Tour-Howell
Lauds Associates on
Ticket.
Farm Bloc Is Favored

North Platte. Neb., Sept. a.
Especial Telegfam)- COM
mitters, bands and good crowds
greeted K. II. Howell, republican can
didate for United States senator. and
Charles II. Randall today, the see
ond day OF their tour. ending with a
big meeting here.
Speeches were delivered az Elm
Creek. Lexington, Cozad, Gothenburg
and North Platte. Because OF a de-
tour and limited time. a scheduled
stop at Maxwell was impossible.
Al Elm Greek the party was met
by Senator Clarence G. Bliss and
Representative w. 6. Gould. At
Lexington, Representative Jamcs
Beans. A. T.. Allen, candidate for
the state senator; !. ]. Nisley. II. G..
Bcardslee, DIR. {. III. Sheets, X. L..
Ford, w. B. Pierce, {. +. Hord and
T. J. Loutezenheim het Howell and
Randall and escorted them 10 Goth
,nburg where w. NJ. Stebbins and
ID. ID. Pierce met them. The Goth
cnburg band played for 10 minutes
before the candidates began speak
ing.
Howell devoted much OF his time
today to complimentary remarks on
candidates on the republican ticket,
especially senator o. S. Spillman.
candidate for attorney general, and
Bob Simmons, candidate for congress
in the Sixth district. He also dis
cussed national questions.
Wants Foreign Dept Paid.
In insisting on payment OF the for
oign debt TO this government, Howell
said:
When England entered the world
war she possessed one-iifth the sur
face Of the world, and when the war
was over she owned one-fourth. and
yet she feels she cannot pay us in
terest on our loans, TO say nothing OF
the principal"
His speech in part follows:
One OF the great shortcomings of
the American people in connection
with their public affairs is that they
fail TO apply the remarkable business
acumen which they possess to public
business. The people don't seem to
realize that they are the govern
mcnt, that it is they who must pay
the taxes, that is they who must suf-
fer ii public affairs are not con-
-iucted in . business-like manner,
We will often make brave start to
do so. and then balk because the in
terests OF very few will be affected
forgetting all about the interests OF
many.
Consider the Federal Land banks.
'khey are great cooperative institu-
tions that have been established by
our government for the benefit OF
the farmers; but instead OF giving
these banks every facility to do busi-
ness, congress limits the loans a CO.
operative bank can make to a max
imum of $l0000-to a sort OF retail
business. Many OF the choicer loans
afforded exceed $4,000, so that a CO.
operative bank has to torego this
class OF profitable business
He said that if the Federal banks
we're given an opportunity to handle
affairs the same as private institu-
tons are conducted that 1t will be
possible to reduce the interest rate
materially. Anything we can do to
aid the agricultural interests in this
great transmississlppi region, we
are DONG for ourselves; even though
we live in the cities and villages we
are all aQriculturalists. The farm
er's burden is our burden. lbs
prosperity is Our prosperity lhis
we have had reasons TO realize as
result OF the tremendous transporta-
ton rates to (which farm products
have been recently subjected.
Competition in Rates.
"There was time when there was
competition in railroad rates. 1t was
fhen that we rode for 2 cents a mile.
II was then that it did not cost two
cars OF corn to ship three to a sea-
port. as has recently been the case;
but the possibility OF competition IN
railroad rates came TO an end with
The enactment OF the Esch-Cummins
railroad bill, approved in February
1921.
THE Interstate Commerce COM
mission was created in 1887 and. at
that time, had merely recommended
tory powers. Later, because OF the
eNactlons oi the railroads, authority
was given the commission to iix
maximum interstate rates. beyond
which the railroads could not so, This
innovation. together with the estah-
lishment OF state railway commits
sions having control over rates with
In the respective states. vas bitterly
fought hy the railroad companies
since then a great change has eome
oyer the railroad homogeneous What
was a seeming misfortune has peeh
transform into an unthoushlsNi
advantage. the Interstate Commerce
commission, and IN lessrr degree
the state commissions. has Developer
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