Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1922-05-05

they are not under government
conrM. Take the automobile in
duStry. No business in the his
tory CT the world. has ever pros
pcrcd like the automobile industry
in The United States. If You want
TO Kill the automobile business; if
YOU want to bankrupt Ford and
make "ilivcrS" worth two thousand
dollars Il piece and put the coun-
try . walking again. just do with
the automobile business like YOU
did with the railroad business and
the wafer works of the towns and
the electric business.
Now, Mr.. Hallahan. | wish to SAY
this in regard to your Republican
party and my Democratic party.
They are both down and out at the
present. Group politics and social
ism have them both by the napc
of the neck. Neither one of them.
under the present political sychol-
agy can bring prosperity. Social
ism and group politics have to 90
that means that your ofiee,-if
Americanism comes back, will have
to go. There will be no change
Of taccS-,thcrc will never be Il
Democratic Tax Commissioner or
member of the Public Service
Commission in this state if | can
help it. But the socialism and pa
ternalism must continue its damn
ing blight on our country | want
The same gang that have the Of
fees now to have them for life. We
have enough bad people now with
out spelling more. SO you can see,
Hallanan. that do not want your
job and | do not want any other
Democrat to have it. The fault
that l find is in the system, Mr..
Hallanhan, not in you. My war is
with the cOmmuniStic tendencies Of
the times and not with individuals.
| have no fault to find with you.
The moths and bats, and the abom-
inatioin of deSolation is what
would fill your office and all other
such offices with and not with
Democrats as you seem to suppose.
| am for the restoration of Amcri-
ism and all that Amcricanism i'm
plies one hundred per cent with all
its prosperity, its ease and its free
dom. AS long as group politics
and socialism run this country
am wholly unintcrcsted, but what
name the fellows that are reSpon-
Slblc for it fool the people, whether
they fool them by calling them
selves Democrats. Republicans. In
dependents Or what-not. nor do I
care anything about the sort Of ma
tcrial with which they operate the
system. the ''honricr and crooked
err the better should think. but
my heart Is set on a change of SyS-
tens. of conditions and not of poll
ticianS.
But do not fancy that one hun
drcd per cent AmcricaniSm con-
templates Il Supinc or jobIcsS gov
eminent. Far frcm it. 1t would
have more MajCr-GcncralS and Ad-
miralS in it and fewer crooks and
Supcr-crookS, more big sticks and
less stuffed clubs than his back
homeless socialism that is running
the country. 1t is a pretty big job
to coin money and run the money
system that real AmericaniSm con-
templates instead of having it done
by the Invisible Empire of Inter
national Bankers. There would be
some real big jobs there to reward
the Faithful. Then another big job
that could with profit be turned
over to real American govern
mcnt is this: Our ancient breth-
nr fnsinE,t hot
into Il fight with one of the I'M
pcrial Gods that the result was
never i'll doubt. that the battle
would last just as long as the man
a'tcd. Now. BacChuS. is one Of
the Immortal Gods. and the result
'of the battle. twiXt him and Jack
NoiStrau. PuSSyfoot Johnson. W.
Wheeler. and Billy Bryan is not
for moment in doubt. The bette
will last just as long as the folks
will put up the long }rccn for
Jack. Wayne. PuSSyfoot and Billy.
would not say anything now to
disc otIragc these boys but when
the last head is bald and the last
shoulder is peeled and the last
shckci paid in and they have been
gathered together with the auci-
cnt Chinese and Indian, and Syri-
an and Arab prohibitioniStS that
bacChuS slew Il thousand years be
fore Christ. | would make his
w0rshipcrS pay tribute to the gov
crnmcnt instead of to the bootleg
&urS which would mean about five
billion dollars in The treasury per
year. | would suppIant at least a
million Of the JnoonShinc stills with
Il few legal stills and the bootleg
ger with the diSpcnsary. You see