The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-10-08
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BY WILLIAM HARD.
Who owns the Government

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That seems to be one Of the
main questions Of this campaign
rs Of every. campaign.
The theory seems to be that
somebody has to own the Gov.
eminent.
There must be somebody, OF
something, that has crept in and
occupied the Government and
made it do all the bad things
that it does like preventing the
honest man from having every
thing that is coming to him while
many wicked man, basing him
self on the Bible, insists upon
nourishing like a green bay tree.
X The La Follettites- most Of
them-say it is "Wall Street"
Wall Street" owns the Gov
eminent.
That is why the wicked are
where they are and the honest
hre less rewarded than they
should be for the beauties of their
characters.
Other Sides Views.
"WalI Street" however, thinks
that the Government is owned by
the farm bloc"
According to "WalI Street." IL one
takes the trouble not merely to
talk about it and to write about
It but to listen to it, the fellow
who really has the Government OF
the United States by the throat is
Senator Arthur Capper Of Kansas.
Wall Street prints advertise
ments in newspapers calling upon
the common people to rally together
Ind dethrone that special inter-
est," the farm bloc" as led by Mr..
Capper.
Mr.. Capper. according to 'sWan
Street just has his own way
about everything.
Meanwhile Mr.. Capper, in all his
numerous influential periodicals. with
enormous calculations, assures his
headers that the people who have
their own way in this country and
who can safely defy a Government
Bubservient to their will are the
people who sell things to the farm
ers-namely, to be more specific,
"the profiteers."
It is ''the profiteers," according to
Mr.. Capper, who essentially own
the Government and are able to
prevent 1t from preventing them
from plundering Mr.. Capper's read
krs.
General Charles a. Dawes, how.
ever, thinks that the Government
IL extremely owned and operated
by a special clas Of neurr.l pirates
called "demagogues" who neutrality
and impartially plumber the readers
Of the wall Street Journal az
well as the readers Of 'Capperss
Weekly
Agree on One Point
All agree that the ordinary man
has no show and that the Govern
Inent is owned by somebody else.
It accordingly occurs to this
writer that in this emergency a
II few observations may be In order
from mere political reporter who,
with no allegiance to anything
except the Press Gallery, has to go
about all the time observing the
Government being owned" by who
ever it is that owns It.
This writer has to begin by say
ing that, whoever 1t is that owns
the Government, 1t certainly is not,
within his observation, wall Street"
This writer boldly declares that in
the course OF many years in Wash
ington he never yet has seen "Wall
Street" have its way against any
thing that really could be called
the popular WILL"
The legislation in recent years
which most closely has affected
sWaIl Street" was the Federal
Reserve Act.
The historic fact IL that wall
Street" did not want 1t. 1t op.
posed It.
1t nevertheless got it.
Then "Wall Street''-most Of It,
wanted the League Of Nations. 1t
did not get it.
Then ''Wall Street'--most Of it,
<wanted the cancellation Of the debts
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the United States Government. It
did not get IT..
Then wall Street" wanted the
Mellon taxation plan with It's re.
duction Of the highest surtax to
161 per cent. 1t did not get II.
Then wall Street" wanted the
killing OF the bonus. It did not
get 1t.
If wall Street" can be said to
have got the recent Esch- Cummins
Transportation Law and the recent
Fordney-M cCumber Tariff Law, II
got them only through the support
OF Southern and Western Senator's
who are emphatically opposed to
'the interests" and who wanted
those laws for their own purposes
and for the purposes Of their con.
gtituents.
In the case Of the tariff law.
Tor instance, Senator johnson OF
California. who certainly is nc
friend to wall Street." grabbed OF
more for his constituents than any
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