Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1922-09-14
OHIO DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM OF 1922

people and not for the personal ben
eft of the few.
In each succeeding campaign the
taxpayer is promisel reduced taxes,
but Vic Donahey's public record is
the only pledge the Ohio voter needs
to believe that at last he has a can
didate who will reduce his taxes and
economic in public expenditures.
The largest expenditure and the
most costly constructive work in Ohio
is the building and maintenance of
roads Common honesty applied to
highways will not only give the pub
lie graft-free materials and better
construction, but will greatly reduce
taxation by lessened costs. Every
home is on some road and the Demo
cratic party pledges itself that the
corruption and inefficiency of the
present regime now visible from the
doorstep of many a householder
shall stop.
We are unalterably opposed to the
Fordney-M -McCumber tariff bill, now in
progress of passage by Republican
congress.
Under the false statement that this
bill! is designed to protect American
industry and American labor, it Will
filch from the people Of Ohio hun
dreds Of millions OF dollars, the major
part of which will be paid over by
! increased prices on manufactured
goods to the profiteers and protected
monopolies, who contributed uncount-
ed millions to the Republican fund IN
1920.
The fallacy of the claim made by
the Republican party that protection
helps the farmer is shown by the
working of the present emergency
tariff, which placed duty OF 80 cents
a bushel on wheat and under Wnlcn
wheat is selling for much less today
than when that tariff was passed, and
all other products in like proportion.
In contrast to the selling price OF all
his products, which for the past two
years has been below the cost or pro-
duction, the farmer is not only being
taxed the present high cost OF every
thing he has to buy, largely due 10
the mistaken policies and mishandllng
of public affairs by the Republican
national administration, but he is now
asked to bear a further burden IN
the way of increased prices on all
manufactured goods that he consumes,
to further swell the profits OF the
tariff barons and trusts, who are more
than amply protected already through
Republican policy.
The duties exacted by the proposed
tariff are so admittedly outrageous
as to raise a rebellion within the bet
ter element Of Republicans every
where. Every Democratic congress
man elected from Ohio is pledged to
vote to repeal this iniquitous and in
defensible bill.
The Republican claim of tax reduc-
ton in the nation we challenge as
false by mere recital of facts. We
remind the voters of Ohio that by
the revenue law they attempted to
relieve all the swollen incomes from
surtaxes and at the same time con-
tinue the supertaxes on lesser IN
comes substantially as they were dur
ing the period of the war. They re-
duced the taxes upon all corporations
of high earning power and increased
them on corporations of low earning
power.
The Democratic party believes i'm
plicitly in the reduction of war taxes
and loaned its efforts to that end, but
holds that those citizens of more mod
est incomes should have been the
first to be cared for.
We condemn the Republican lead
ers in congress- for their attempted
deception and trickery in the passage
of legislation pretending to care for
the World war veterans. The men
who served their country in its hour
of need are entitled to something bet
ter than promises. Therefore, we en-
dorse and recommend to congress for
it's favorable consideration the right
Of the veterans of the World war for
proper recognition of their serv
ices.
With this declaration Of principles,
adopted as a platform, we submit our
cause to the people.