The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1922-04-21

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The people of the nation will elect their Representatives to Con-
gress again this year. They should remedy, as much as possible, the
mistakes hey have made in the past. We have stood idly by and seen
the last trace of States Rights swept ava. while the Federal Gov
eminent at Washington has grown more centralized and powerful.
We have seen Congress feed the trusts with the peoples money.
We have seen Congress gather money from the masses and give it
to the Railroad Companies by the hundreds of millions of dollars,
and then permit the Railroads to rob the people by freight rates that
are $ high our farmers cannot ship their cattle, corn and other
products to market and have anything left after paying freight
charges. We have seen Congress squander millions on the Shipping
Board, and permit other millions to be given over to predatory
wealth through its reckless appropriations. We have seen Congress
sit IDLY by and permit the Meat Packers Trust to Organize and get
control of the food products of the Nation.
We have seen Congress increase the national debt until now it
is $4,000 for every nan woman and child in the United States
and still Congress is spending more than $4,000 a year for every
person in the Nation. We have seen Congress place burdens Of
taxation on the masses of IL people until they re bowed down to
the Earth and their groanS are heard throughout the land.
Will the same bunch of long term professional politicians be
permitted to longer run the affairs of our government by their
fruits We shall know them. is as true now a it ever was. Will the
people longer submit to the outrages of selfish politicians who seek
honor. glory and profit for themselves. and ae unminaful of the
burdens of those who elect them. This question can only be an
swered at the polls. by the ballot.
Our Representative boasts that he is a member of the Appropri-
atims Committee. He ought to apologize to his constituents for
being a member of a committee that has fooHshly thrown away so
many billions of the peoples money. since the War.
He is either no friend to the taxpayers " he has no power on
this committee. In either event he is of poor service and should be
taken off, He was a better servant Of the people ten years ago
th0n he is today. When he wa first seeking election against the
man who had befriended him most. he told you it wa almost a
crime for a man to want to remain in Congress longer than six
years: since then he has had a change of heart and is asking You to
continue him there sixteen years. He has drawn $12000OO0 i'll
salary and still he says more yet" He was a strong advocate Of
"give the young man a chance.' His ears m now deaf to this call.
One Of the Surest ways to make a n oigarchy out Of our government
- government ruled by a few men for their selfish ends and profit
is 70 keep them in office for life, and this is what Thomas Jeffer-
sol feared when he fought for the provision in the Constitution
making Congressman elective every two years, sc they would come
fresh from the body of the people and have the peoples interest st
heart. s4xuA.~ Atst~~x9nfr
last election. When a man has served II years in Congress and
cannot carry his home county there is something dead wrong with
him, and his homefolks know what it is They know him best. Hon.
jeff Busby was chosen for Congress by the good people of Mont
gomery County, and was defeated by only a few votes in the district.
Every man in Chickasaw County knows that as prosecuting
attorney Jeff Busby made the county on Of the best officers the
county has ever had, and every taxpayer knows that his efforts were
always to reduce taxation by every reasonable means.
p MI Busby is a man of ability and character. He grew up on a
farm, where his people now live. He knows the problems of our
farmers and is their friend. He had his hard knocks to obtain an
education, like many other boys who are raised on the farm. He
worked at saw mills, made cross ties, taught school and did any
honest work that came to hand to make money and educate himself.
He worked his way through some of our best colleges, including the
University of Mississippi. He is not discouraged by obstacles. Mr..
Busbv has made two clean races for Congress. His friends should
ioin shoulder to shoulder with him in this fight for election against
the organized political machine that you know is opposing him. Tie
, %e should ehrt him TO Congress, then they would truly have a
.ualat e who has their welfare at heart. Houston Timcslos.