The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-04
should reduce just as much as pos. sible.

should reduce just as much as pos- sible.
 eve have never in this country had anything like the propaganda we have in behalf of the so-called Mellon plan," said the senator. Tt was propa,ganda most carefully pre- pared and stimulated. Under the Mellon plan the men who pay s250,- 900 will save $49.Oo0 a year; he who pays on $300,000 will save $63,000; those wte have incomes of $500,000 will $117,000; the fortunate one who has an income of a million will save s252,00o and the few who pay on S5. .000,000 will save $1,43 ,000.
 Who is it that is indulging in this propaganda? Do you imagine it is the man who, by a reduction, will save $10 or $30 or $50 or $10o. or do you think it the individuals who save in the thousands?
 Would Reduce Ta1es.
 q would not have you misunder- stand me at all. I would reduce the taxes of the people whenever 1t is possible to do so, and keep faith at the same time. I would be scrupulous- ly just to men of large incomes and of big business. but I recognize that men of great riches have a happy faculty of looking out for
 
 and small business must rely upon their representatives"
 In speaking on the bonus. Sena- tor Johnson said that with few ex- captions the bonus had been promised by the leaders of the republican party and cited various times when the promise had been made.
 The matter comes first as one of good faith and one of keeping a defi- mite pledge" said the senator. We adopted the principles of adjusted compensation for the railroads and for the mining interests. Business would now deny the same principle to the man who dared his body ;o shot and shell across the sea. And remember this adjusted compensa- tion bill can be passed and the sums due under it paid by the government and taxes reduced too."
 Help for the farmers, particularly the wheat farmers was advocated by the senator who said that this could be effected by reduction in freight rates and the forming of co-opera- : tive societies.
 Bitter Attack On Court Advoc.t..
 In concluding. Senator Johnson brought forth his heaviest guns on those who advocate the world court. We cannot enter this creature of the league without ultimately being entangled with the league itself" he said. Tt is not a world court we of Nations court. It is a mistake to call it a world court and a mis- homer to call it court at all. The Presidents description of it is: The court Is merely convenient instru- ment to which we could go but to which we could not be brought
 Tt is a confession that it can do nothing except by consent It can not right wrong committed by one of the most powerful nations of Eu- rope, because the offending nation can refuse to come, and then the matter is ended. Imagine such a court in your own community.
 be, in the slightest degree affected by it except in so far as nations themselves agree. It is a terrible thing to tell our people that entry into this court will bring peace to a war-torn."
 There is just one reason for our entry into the league court and this is our entry will finally take us into the league. This country never has and never will be isolated from the rest of the world. In business, in finance, socially and commercially we are not isolated from Europe. There is just one sort of isolation which has been ours and upon which we are not isolated from Europe from the quarrels, controversies, the selfishness, the intrigue and the wars of Europe. No other isolation was ever thought of and none could ever occur"
 The. senator also commended the work of General Allen and his col women and children of Germany.