Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-05-23
READ WHAT SOME OF OUR
CONGRESSMEN THINK

Congressman Byrnes, of South Car
olina: "Of course, it may be only a
coincidence that within a week after
the appointment of committee to in
vestigate the Shipping Board, Mr..
Schwab confers with the President to
advise him that the Investigations are
causing hysteria and are retarding
Instead of getting away with $13,-
100000 Of the money of the people
he is being called upon to return S11,-
100000 he has already got away with.
This S11 100000 has not yet been col
lected. Daugherty has stalled on the
Job . m . go Are you surprised at
Schwab opposing Investigations"
Senator Henrik Shipstead, of Min
nesota: II do not like the idea that
has been so often reiterated that the
American flag follows the dollar,
because that implies that the dollar
controls the flag; that the owner of
the dollar will then control our for
eign policy. | would rather have it
said that the American flag follows
American principles and American
IDEALS and then see to it that these
principles and ideals are of such
character that an American need not
be ashamed to have his flag follow
them.
81 am aware, however, that there
are citizens who hold that the other
L L14% 90 hot
the American flag follow the Ameri-
can dollar People who apparently
hold that view have had control of the
government, and therefore our for
eign policy, for some time, and the
American flag has followed the dollar
into Haiti, Santo Domingo, Salvador,
Honduras, Mexico and France.
There is an ever-increasing number
of people in America, however, who
are beginning to realize that the
American dollar represents the cry
stallized sweat of American labor.
Therefore, they are very much con-
cerned as to where these American
dollars, wrung by toll out of the
bodies of the American people, are
going, and for what purpose they are
being used. Forty billions of these
American dollars were spent with
reckless abandon on an experiment
called "a war to end war; "a war to
end militarism,' and a war that was
fought for the purpose of establishing
a peace of Justice The experiment,
of course, was a failure, although
some people evidently found it so in
teresting and so profitable that they
have forgotten the expense and the
sacrifices that it entailed."
Congressman Larsen, of Georgia:
Judas as a man was far better than
some of those we have trusted in pub
lie positions because he had enough
decency to commit suicide. Some of
try have not even that much dec
ency."
Congressman Dickinson, of Miss
ouri: "Wars will cease when wealth
and property are conscripted as man
hood has been in the past"
Congressman Davey, of Ohio:
NEARLY every great fortune in Amer
ica--I suppose, in the last analysis,
every great fortune-goes back to
the foundation of an exploitation of
the natural resources of the country,
directly or indirectly m :. =. -. | have
no disposition to tax these fortunes
out of existence . . - - But | believe
that these fortunes which found their
inception and their possibility in the
exploitation of the natural resources
of the American people ought to pay
a generous share for the conduct of
the government which makes them
possible and which keeps them in ex-
istence."