The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-01-15

cial legislation in favor of the classes
against the masses and the consuming
public.
Take our great Treasurer, A. w.
Mellon, reported to be the greatest
treasurer since the days of Hamilton.
l would like to know what he has
done, only to help the mutli-million-
air in his own class. In the past ten
years he has given back to large in
corporations many millions of dollars
to help business-after the people
had earned the money by inflated val
ues by high tariff, and the money
should have been used to pay off the
war debt or kept in the treasury. At
this time when millions of our people
are out of work and starving that
money should be used to relieve them,
and it would help business. 1t did not
help business to give it back to his
class of people and never will. 1t only
goes to show that the last three ad-
ministrations believe in this system
of government and are to blame for
the conditions as they exist.
We have several representatives in
Congress doing all in their power to
put stop to class legislation. l be-
lieve in two years more the people
will be able to elect Congress and
President that will stop this class leg
islation. Such men as Joe Grundy
and A. w. Mellon will not hold the
reins of government. l believe in the
system Of government as our fore
fathers intended it to be and am ready
to give my all to help maintain such
cxycfo o. WI Int f10
ers that rule today only make a cloak
to hide behind of the great govern
ment that our forefathers gave us. 1t
is up to the voters of our nation to
drop party lines and see that men
are nominated and elected that will
stand for honest government. If the
people fail to do this, this country will
go Socialistic or Bolsheviki. The pow
ers that rule today hold up their
hands in holy horror at the Russian
red flag, but they are to blame for the
condition, and if the good people do
not throw them out of Office the Rus
sian system will gain in this country
thousands daily and the end will be
revolution, which we hope will never
come to pass, but the American peo-
pie will never bow their heads to the
yoke that is set for them.
No nation has a right to legislate
in favor of a manufacturer against
consumer, and a manufacturer has an
equal right to buy what he needs in an
open market. These should be mali
enable God-given rights to the hu-
man family. Take the graft out of
politics and out of business. Give
every man an equal right to make
living. That is all honest people want
and honest people are in the great
majority if they have chance to be
honest, and by hard work make their
living.
Under these conditions there would
be no necessity for labor unions, but
when people are robbed legally and
loose their homes as millions are suf-
fering today, is it any wonder we
have bootleggers, bank robbers, muir
derers and outlaws generally? Ninety
per cent of these very people would be
good citizens if they had chance to
make a living by honest toll.
If the nations of the world would
adopt these principles we would have
no use for standing armies and battle
ships, and the people of the world
would treat one another as human be-
ing, and the world would be better
and safer place in which to live.
J. w. MCCULLOUGH.
Friendsville, January 5, 1881.