The Washington times., 1924-06-21

mindful Of the needs Of business,
start further and also with the
idea that it Is. a bad thing socially
for an individual to have large
mounds Of money all Of his own
and they think that the. govern
ment's taxing power should be used
to shrink those mounds.
The La Follettites go a step far.
Their. They would not wait until
a rich man got his money in divi-
dends from his corporations. They
would lay graduated taxes on his
money even while 1t was still in
the treasures Of his corporations.
They would not only shrink his
personal income by taxation but
they would also shrink his bust.
ness profits before his business
profits had been taken out Of his
corporations and turned into per.
gonal income.
Thus while the Republicans would
tax In such a way as to induce the
rich man to invest in business, the
Democrats would tax additionally in
such q way as to make any very
rich man less rich and the La Fol.
lettes would tax further in such a
way as to make profiteers feel bad.
Yet the Republicans and the
Democrats and the La Follettites all
tend to fail into one another's arms
and to behave like brethren when
certain sort Of expenditure Of Gov.
ernmental revenue is considered.
The Northwestern outrightly radi.
cal elements. together with a Ger.
tain considerable fringe Of North.
western conservative elements, have
been heavily in favor of taking the
United States Government into the
buying and selling Of farm prod
ucts. They expressed this view and
this demand spectacularly and In.
sistently in the late McNary- Haugen
bill.
Almost all Fasteners, and many
Westerners. regarding the McNary.
Haugen bill as a radical" bill, as
sumo at once that the La Follettites
must be for 1t.
Facts in the Case.
The assumption is contrary to
fact. The elements invited to the
st. Paul convention Of last Tuesday
and Wednesday would for the most
part hesitate little in taking the
Government into almost any kind
OF business. The La Follettites
easily contemplate Governmental
ownership Of public utilities like
railroads, but when 1t comes 10
taking the Government into the
sort Of business which is custom.
arily and properly called "competi.
tive" businessmen as trading in
farm products-they begin to get
chilly and to recoil.
They amusingly illustrated this
Characteristic of theirs at the
Cleveland Republican Convention,
The representatives of farm or.
CARNATIONS In the hotel Hobbies at
that convention were demanding
that the convention commit itself
to the underlying philosophy OF
the McNary-Haugen bill.
They said that IL the Republican
party would not so commit itself,
why, then, they would take their
cause to "any and every other
party"
This was frank allusion to the
Presidential candidacy
Of Robert Marion La Toilette.
It could not nave been, and II
was not, an allusion to the Demo.
cratic party. The majority Of tho
Democrats In Congress- had already
voted against the McNary. Haugen
bill. In fact. the Democratic ma.
Jority against the McNary. Haugen
bill in Congress- was overwhelming.
II Is reasonable to believe that the
majority against all such ideas in
the Democratic convention in New
York will be equally overwhelming
II the convention Is sincere.
The farmers representatives at
Cleveland were. therefore. abiding
to the La Toilette candidacy and
were squirting toward the La Fol-
lette Wisconsin headquarters in the
Winton Hotel. 4.
No Support There.
A few hours later this La Toilette
Wisconsin headquarters issued it's
proposed platform, There was not
one word in 1t in any way sup.
porting the philosophy Of the Nc.
Nary.HauRen bill.
For the relief OF agriculture the
La Follettites proposed, and now
propose, the following absolutely
conventional standard stock rene.
dies:
The prohibiting Of gambling by
spectators and prOfiteers in agri.
cultural products. CThe RepubIi.
can regular platform was for
this, tool
The promotion Of cooperative
marketing enterprises. (The Re