Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-08-14

permanent prosperity depends not
upon the decrease through crop
shortages OF the quantity he has to
sell, but upon the restoration and eX-
pansion of the markets to which his
goods must go.
TO End Tariff Discrimination
when he faces as many do to-
day, impending bankruptcy and
ruin. 1t is small comfort to be told
by those who are SO solicitous TO
protect other industry from all pos
sible competition that the farmers
salvation lies wholly with himself.
THE courageous and intelligent
deflation of credits which the Re
publican party promised in it's plat
form four years ago, would have
| come with better grace and have
proven more acceptable in its results
| if there had been at the same time
any effort to narrow instead OF
widen the gulf between the prices
which the farmer receives and those
which he is compelled to pay, and
to assist him in finding market
for the things he has to sell.
I'VE propose to see to ii that the
determinations which the tariff
makes against him shall be re-
moved; that his government by doing
! its share toward a European settle
ment shall help TO revive and enlarge
| his foreign markets; that instead of
| lip service to the principle of CO.
operative marketing the forces OF
! the government shall be put active
ly at work to lend assistance to these
endeavors; that the farmer shall be
supplied not only with information
on problems of production, but with
information such as the dealer now
receives concerning the probable use
and demand for his product, SO that
he may be enabled to think as intel
! ligently as the dealer in terms of
consumption and demand; and that
in times when general and wide
spread distress has overtaken him,
every power which the government
enjoys under the constitution shall
| be exerted in his aid.
He is entitled. too, to demand an
adequate service of transportation at
reasonable rates. In spite of the
failures and shortcomings of exist
ing laws, this is an ideal which I
can not believe to be beyond the
reach of attainment. If the seasonal
production of the farmers crops is
the pulsation of the nations heart,
the railroads of the country are the
veins and arteries through which its
| lifeblood flows.
Joint Work Essential
Neither can hope TO function
without the others aid; and it is
quite as important to the railroads
that the farmer should prosper as it
is to the farmer that the railroads
should be adequately paid for che
service that they render.
Believing that no people are truly
free who are unjustly taxed, we
promise to the people of America not
only revision and reform but a furth-
er reduction in the taxes that weigh
them down and sap the vigor of
their productive energy.
The exorbitant rates and discrim-
inatOry provisions of the present tar
if law must be wiped out, and in
their place must be written, with
fairness to all and favors to none, a
statute designed primarily to raise
revenue for the support of the gov
eminent and framed on a truly COM
petitive basis
I'VE have no hostile design toward
any legitimate industry: we propose
no action that would tear down or
destroy. But we are resolved that
the laying and collecting Of taxes
shall remain a public id not a pri-
Vate business and that monopoly
shall find no section of the law be-
hind which to hide itself. The rates
of the income tax should be further
lowered. Unnecessary taxation IS
unjust taxation no matter on whom
the burden falls.
II m ready to agree that there is
no right in government to tax any
man beyond its needs solely because
he is rich; and yet L stoutly hold that
every dictate of reason and morality
supports the rule that those who de.
rive from the common effort of So
city a greater share of its earnings
than their fellows must contribute TO
the support of the state a proportion
ately larger share of that which they
have received.
Nor will we overlook the sound
distiction which exists in principle
between those incomes gathered
without effort from invested CAPT
ital, and those which are the product
of exertion day by day.
Economy Pledged
And with reduction, indeed as
condition precedent to it, there must
be economy in every part of the
governmental establishment.
Il shall if elected welcome the OPP
portunity to support and strengthen
the beginnings which nave been
made in the. direction of a national
budget and to cooperate with con-
gress to that end
I'VE must have, in addition, an
Nf.,l1 al,
in securing dollars worth for every
dollar spent, but that far less popu-
las form of economy which initiates
the prudent householder i'll doing
without the things one wishes but
cannot at the time afford.
Economy, however, begins at the
wrong end when it attacks the pay
of government employees, who are
justly entitled to pay equal to that
they would receive from private en-
ployers for similar work. Every
business executive knows that under
paid service is the dearest Of all.
ITO the enforcement of the law,
and all the law, We stand definitely
pledged. We shall enforce it as fear
lessly against wealth that endeaVors
to restrain trade and create monop-
oily, as against poverty that counter
feits the currency; as vigorously
against ambition which seeks to
climb to office through the corrupt
use of money as against the lesser
greed that robs the mails.
For no reason that is apparent
to me the question has been asked
as perhaps it will continue to be
aSLa1 until If has heen definitely an
swered, what views I hold concern
ing the enforcement of the Eight
zenith amendment and the statutes
passed to put it into effect. Why
the question; is it not the law?
would hold in contempt any public
official who took with uplifted hand