Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1928-07-20

our civilization. Millions Of farms have
been abandoned. Two million men have
been driven from the psternaI acres by
economic necessity within the year. The
hammer of the auctiOneer knocking down
farm lands has sounded like the cOntinu-
Gus bombardment of a major battle in the
West Does the ruling caste want figures
Then take this-in five years of this ad-
minstration there has been a deprecia-
ton in the value Of farm lands and equip
ment of $3O.OOO,O0O,OOOl
WHAT DOES G. O. p PROPOSE!
And what does the ruling caste say to
this 2 1t calls it temporary depression.
And what does it propose' II proposes
that the farmers shall become better bust
ness men.
Now when it suits the pleasure of the
privileged to legislate money into its
Golfers it is applauded by the claquers as
patriotic craftsmanship but when the
farmer demands his share in the unhappy
game Of paternalism they denounce him
as a radical and a crank
One day the head of the state by
scratch Of the pen increased the tariff loot
Of the pig iron industry by so per cent. and
the next day he delivered a homiy to the
farmers on the wickedness Of expecting
profit from governmental act.
One day Mr.. Mellon offered an argument
against farm relief bill and the next
day a Republican Senator by substituting
tariff for farm relief" and duties for
equalization fee" converted the Mellon
argument into a devastating denunciation
Of the very processes through which much
OF the Mellon fortune has been made.
One month ago the President bitterly
denounced with contemptuous phrasing the
revolving fund of farm relief bill and
the next day he heartily approved the
revolving fund for the favored shipping
interest.
And then, with millions of producers on
the verge of bankruptcy and despair, they
contemptuously kicked their case from
court and adjourned the Congress with
cheer. Thus for eight long years they
have stood in the midst of the wreckage
Of the farms and have done nothing TO
decrease the cost of transporting the farm
ers' produce to the marts nothing to re-
habltate his lost markets across the sea
but they have added billion year to
the cost Of the things the farmer has to
buy.
Now we do not ask paternalstic priv-
lege for the farmer. but we do demand
that the hand of privilege shall be taken
out Of the farmers pockets and off the
farmers throat. We propose TO tear down
the system of privilege and put the farmer
on an absolute equality with every other
industry-that is JeffersOnian democracy
We do not propose that the most basic of
all our industries shall longer be door
mat for all the others to wipe their feet
upon as they enter the Temple Of Privilege
All. but when we protest against the
commercialiZation Of government they say
we are enemies of business Well history
refutes them. Thomas Jefferson was not
an enemy OF business. He merely objected
TO the use of the instEumentalities of the
state to make it possible for few men to
pick the pockets of their fellow men under
the protection of the police.
JACKsoN's BUSINESS Views.
Andrew jackson was not an enemy of
business. He Disseminated between bust
ness and brigandage; and he was so much
the friend OF honest business that he
fought to make it free.
Woodrow Wilson was not an enemy of
business. Ia the eight years of his ad-
ministratiOns we gave more intelligent
legislative service to honest business than
had been given II in generation before.
We defy them to name a Democratic
President who was an enemy of business
But we differ from those to whom Mr.
Mellon is sacrosanct in our definition of a
business man. In every tax reduction
measure of the last eight years the Demo
cratic minority in Congress has fought the
battle Of IS per cent of the American
business men against his per cent.
] We hold that the owner Of little shop
the proprietor of store in a little town, is
as much business man as the barons OF
iron and steel. The man who owns and
operates a ranch in Texas or Montana il
as much Of business man as the banker
in New York. The men who till the sol
and feed the Nation are better bushes:
men to the JeffersOnan than the mos
successful Spectator in stocks and bonds
We cannot understand the regime in power
for we are interested in the Rabbits, anC
they in the Bulls and the Bears.
No WAR On BIC BUSINESS
We wage no war on big business if il b,
honest business; we find no fault with for
tunes, however large. provided they are no
accumulated through the misuse of govern
mental power But we do wage war upor
the commercialization OF government thai
makes for corruption and crime.
Privilege and pillage are the Gold Dus
twins Of normally. The Wilson admins
tratiOn is green spot bounded on on,
side by the Mulhall mess and on the othe
by an oil tanker flying pirates flag.
The last seven and half years have
been putrid beyond precedent. We make
no charge follow the official record.
We have seen a governmental depart
ment designed for the legal protection o
the people converted into a rendezvous fol
the barterers Of illegal permits.
We have seen the agents of the Depart.
ment of Justice sent forth at the. Nation :,
cost and with the administration sane.
tion on the infamous mission of framing
United States Senator who had dare1
expose the criminality of its proceedings
Nothing more dissraceful blackened tn,
days of the Federalist sedition law. A
baser and more dastardly prostitution Of
the judicial processes has not shamed the
story of a civilized nation since the un
speakable Jeffries sat upon the bench
And he died. deservedly, like miserable
felon in the tower