The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-03-06
NASH SEES ERA OF
PROSPERITY AHEAD
Federal Reserve System Will Save Country from
Usual Presidential Year" Depression,
He Tells Mems Club.
WISCONSIN NEEDS LESS POLITICS
EDIT alton Mr. Nash Says, is the Key to the States
Salvation - Characterizes Present Policies
as Short-Sighted.

the industries for which they work.
| do not speak in any boastful spirit
when l take the Nash Company for an
example. We employed on an aver
age of 1000 men in Kenosha and Mil
waukee last year. In addition we own
at least so per cent of the Seaman
Body Co., and take their entire output.
| n addition to this we purchase sup
plies from $50 Wisconsin concerns,
thereby indirectly giving employment
to many more thousands. But just
suppose that we were to move out.
Figuring three to a family for our
company alone, that would mean loss
to the state of $1,000 persons, each of
whom help to pay the taxes. If these
people were out of the state the bur-
den would fall on those who are left
Need Double Population.
"Were it possible, l would suggest
that the population of the state be
doubled in the next two years. Take
Michigan for instance. There is prac-
| tically no little town in Michigan that
is not the home of some sort of a
manufacturing concern. These COM
Germs each support number of men
who live in the towns where they
purchase the farm supplies of the sur
rounding country.
| eff the farmers in Wisconsin could
only come to realize that such a con-
dition can prevail in Wisconsin, where
manufacturing conditions are ideal,
providing they drive from office poll
ticians who seek to saddle the entire
burden of taxation upon industry, the
state would grow by leaps and bounds.
and bounds.
81 for one am thankful that the
workmen are getting to a place where
! they read and think for themselves.
Now if we can only educate the farm
ers along the same lines, things will
begin to move.
Where Real Interest Lies.
Mr.. Nash then contrasted his own
position with that of the governor.
''Now take Governor Blaine and my
self and see who has the interests of
the state most at heart But first, /
want to say that ! have absolutely
no political ambitions. Who has the
most at stake. The governor wants
to be governor for the salary which
goes with the office-I don't think they
ever paid enough salary to get really
good governor-while have heavy
investments here, and thousands of
persons dependent on my company.
sit wouldn't make any difference to
me if the governor and all the folks
from Madison were right here. These
things which | am stating are eco
~ IL Tbaro ~ xYo,xv 49, n
percentage of the people in the state
who are willfully wrong. The trouble
is that at every farmers picnic one
of the minority orators appears and
takes them up on the mountain and
shows them how the taxes can be
saddled on wealthy industries. Then
there is no one to show them the other
side of the question, and the result
is told at the polls.
"But l doubt that we will ever get
men of sufficiently altruistic habits
to debate with the minority orators,
for what is everybody's business is
nobody's business.
Kenosha County Right.
81 am not worrying about Kenosha
county. The people here think
!
trouble is that the educated people
of the state have just sat by while
the other fellow ran away with the
spoils."
w. H. Afford, president. of the COM
mon council, which had adjourned its
regular session so that the council
men could hear Mr.. Nash, then told
of the battle which is facing the peo-
pie at the polls. Practically all of the
conservative men in the legislature,
who were instrumental in defeating
the radical tax program at the last
session, will go out of office if the
people fail to send them back with
the ballot, he said.
The Nash company is perfectly sat
isfed with the present, tax scale
whereby Kenosha receives 70 per cent
of the income tax paid by the COM
pany. Mr.. Afford pointed out that
the company realizes that the children
of the employees, who compose large
percentage of the children in the
city, must have. schools built for
them, and be given all other posi-
bic advantages.
But under the radical tax bills, this
10 per cent which Kenosha now re
ceives would be reduced between 80
and So per cent. This money would
go to other parts of the state.
The surtax of the company amount
ed to S1S5,000 last year alone, in addi-
tion to 10 per cent of the income tax
This went to the state.
i The narrow margin by which these
radical measures were defeated was
shown by Mr.. Afford when he showed
how they were defeated by only one
vote. The people, he said, must awake
to the dangers which they are facing
Rev. NJ. J. Van Zandt, who took the
chair in the absence of George s.
Whyte, president, announced the of
fcers of the club for the coming year
as, J. H. Trowbridge, president, and as
vice presidents, A. ] Palica, J. F
Kitzrow, S. M. Jones, Alvin Hansen
and Robert Whitaker; while Charles
IBorkenhagen was named secretary
treasurer, with Leroy Todd as as
sistant.