Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1922-10-25
Register County, KY, Wednesday,

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to ratify the trearies. and there
has not been a single battle ship
strapped under the provisions of
the Washington conference. The
whole thing has been the most
miserable failure. And here is
England the other day came out
and said she didn't intend to
scrap a. single battle ship under
that conference, because condi-
tions in Europe would not per-
NIT her to do so.
All! my friends, had we had a
League of Nations there would
not have been that condition i'll
Europe today, and there would
not have been that war now go
ing on. There would have been
an end of war under the policy
of the Woodrow Wilson admin
'istratiOn, and let me make the
appeal to you, because every
man wants tot see the peace of
the world maintained and wants
to see peace and happiness, the
only way we can bring that
about is to put the Democratic
Party back in power and let us
get back to bed rock, so this
great Nation of ours can take
! ifs place at the head of the
Peace Conference and the Lea
que of Nations.
Now, just one word, and | am
through: You noticed in thte pa
per the other day that President
Harding announced that he was
going to call Congress together
i'll extra session on the 10th day
of November to pass the Ship
Subsidy Bill. Ny fellow citi-
.zcns, what is the Ship Subsidy
Bill? Now, listen! During the
war you people in Maids o n
County, and the people all oyer
the Nation were taxed to the eX-
tent Of three million. of dollars
to build a merchant marine.
war experts has said that the
war in Europe would last two
or three years longer than it
actually did last, and the result
was, that we had to make prep
arattion in order to carry food to
our own armies overseas, and in
older to feed the armies of the
Allies, and the American people
were taxed three millions of dol
lars and over a thousand great
ships were built in order to car
ry the merchandise of this coun-
try. Under this Republican adj
miniseration those thousand
ships have been tied up in the
ports and not a single one of
them sailing the seas, rotting
out.
Under the Democratic admin
lStration those thousand ships
would have been loaded down
with the surplus of Our manu-
factories, and the surplus of Gus
farms. and there would not have
been a surplus of anything here
and those thousand ships would
have been sailing every sea O.
the world with the flag and stars
and stripes on every ship, an(
the American people would have
had the greatest prosperity in al
history, but the Republican Par
ty with It's policy of isolation
kept those thousand ships tiec
up i'll the ports of this country
and the other day they sold puitt
a number of those ships to pri
vate ship owners, and they solt
them at ten cents on the dolla,
tC what they cost the American
people. Three billion of dollar:
that you were taxed, going; to b,
sold to private ship owners fol
three hundred million Of dollars
and then on top Of that, under
the policy as drawn by the, Com:
nittee in Congress and undeJ
President HardingS direction
! they are going to tax the. Ameri,
can people $75,O00,00O a year anf
/ give that bonus to the private
ship owners who bought youl
Ships at ten cents on the dollar
1t is the greatest steal-that
is all there is to 1.-THE greatest
steal in the history of this coun-
try. 1t is exactly what the Re
publican Party is going to put
over on the American people, be-
cause the bill is all drawn, and
it is exactly as | have outlined
it. More than that the inconcei-
vable thing is, they are going to
permit the men who buy your
ships to pay for them not in cash
ten cents on the dollar, but they
are going to permit them to pay
| for them out of the bonus OF