Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-12-31

1881
for all purposes we have a one par
ty government. That party prop
erly labeled would be the monopoly
party. 1t is loyalty to country for
Democrats to drive Raskob and
those of his kind from control o.
their party, and for Republicans to
drive Mellon and those of his kind
from control of their party. Mo-
nopoly is character assassin
Whenever one arises to stay the
grasping head Of monopoly, he is
sure soon to find the hounds OF
greed and defamation let loose up
on him. If he cannot be reached
by economic pressure, he may ex-
pect an effort to belittle him in the
eyes of his neighbors. The common
course is to start the foul propa
ganda of the brand of radical. Once
the propaganda is let loose, the we'll
meaning too often carry it on. Even
the sainted Lincoln in his lifetime
was no exception. If Lincoln were
living today, he would denounce
monopoly because it is foe of hui
man freedom. He did so in his life
time and he was maligned as a rad
ical. In 1865 he prophesied the ef'
feet of monopoly upon the republic.
He said:
Hc
tions have been enthroned and an
era of corruption in high places will
follow, and the money power of the
country will endeavor to prolong
it's reign by working upon the
prejudices of the people until all
wealth is aggregated in few hands
and the republic is destroyed. / feel
at this moment (1865) more anx-
iety for the future security of my
country than ever befores even in
the midst of war. God grant that
my suspicious may prove ground
less" END of quotation).
Now my friends, Lincoln, in 1865,
knew what monopoly could do 20
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day fight monopoly. We now need
another Lincoln, a liberator of the
slaves to autocracy.
EDUCATION
and
GOOD ROADS TAXATION
Our present system Of Road Tax
being a sales tax on gasoline and a
tax on real estate, is unjust, it is a
tax on poverty. All taxation should
be paid by those most able to pay.
Our school tax system is the most
unjust system of taxation now in
practice; conditions have changed,
we have outgrown the age of the
little red school house, we have out.
grown the generation when sehooi
teachers taught school for SO
to SIS per month and were furnish
ed board and room at the homes in
the neighborhood. We have out
grown the day, when two-mill
levy on real estate will take care of
the county school expense. Today
we are proud of our educational
progress in our public schools, but
there is great inequality in our
public schools in some states we
build palatial school buildings
equipped with gymnasiums, well
furnished play grounds, we teach
not only the three RS (Reading.
Riting and Rithmetic as described
by our grandfathers), but we have
added Greek, Latin, German and
other languages, science, music.
manual training, business courses,
including shorthand, typewriting
and bookkeeping,-also agriculture,
art, literature and what-not. The
only study seems to have been omit
ted, is: "Public and Political Econ
omy." What is the result? Many
states and communities are taxed
beyond endurance. Some states,
the home states of our manufactur-
ing giants and financial wizards
are able to secure ample funds
through income taxation, but many
states have no Millionaire residents
and the entire cost of education
falls on the necks of the land own
er. the home owner and the labor
ing man; now here is the point I
wish to emphasize: Monopoly, cen
tralization of wealth, Capitalization
of manufacture, chain-store distri-
button, mass production at favored
points aided by legislation favorable
to the manufacturing, marketing
and financial interests and detri-
mental to the producers of the raw
materials. detrimental to both labor
and consumer, unfair profit taken
by monopoly, decreased profit to the
producer, updertaxed monopoly and
Overtaxed agriculture and labor.
makes it impossible for many states
and many sections of other states to
educate their children on the scale
and standard set by states more fa-
vorably situated. The same condi-
tion applies to road building. If
you my reader, will travel through
and over the many states of our
union as I have done, you will dis
cover the injustices of our tax sys
tenn for road building and educa-
tional purposes. Many sections are
still living in the little red school
house era, millions of our children
in our sister states do not have the
educational opportunities afforded
by the more fortunate states sup
piled with funds from income tax.
In this machine age of mass pro
duction, in this era of capitalistic
monopoly, the wealth of all the