Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-12-24
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Copyrighted 1881 by H. Ewing, Ohio Rambler Malta Ohio
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they need your support and your
backing, letters of encouragement
from you, from the lodge, the bust
ness and agricultural association.
Endorsements and petitions from
your neighbors. You are the man
to start those petitions. You are
the man to bring up this matter at
your lodge, at your business meet
ings, at your agricultural and
grange meetings. If you do not
make any effort to do any of these
things then it is your fault. You
are to blame if your country goes
to hell. God Almighty has done all
in his power through nature to pro-
vide for all our needs, bountiful
crops, and constitution under
which all your prayers will be an
swered, provided you will use the
brains with which you are endowed
and are willing to work for what
you pray.
Some of our representatives may
belong to the $50 army, others may
be bought by the $50 army. Some
are too yellow to even offend the
army of conspirators, but thank
God we have few representatives
who are fighting your cause. They
are known as Radicals or Inde-
pendents. They are in both our
major parties. Both parties are SO
filled with corruption and the in
breeding of the cancerous growths
of autocracy that we must ignore
party and vote for the man.
A Hoover, Coolidge or Mellon
nomination on the Republican tick
'et, and Tammany, Smith or Ras-
kob nomination on the Democrat
ticket will mean the loss of the first
battle by our army.
We want a president from the
south or west that will put the fear
of God in the ranks of autocracy.
Unless you instruct your represen-
tatives to pick a dark horse from
the open country, it is possible your
civil war within the next four years.
1t is up to you Mr.. Reader, of these
lines, to help save your country for
democracy. For Gods sake do not
lay down on the job Get busy,
talk to your neighbors, wire and
write to your congressman, do
something, get out petition nam
ing your presidential choice, and
when the time arrives place it in
the hands of your representative al
the national convention. Unless the
leadership of this nation is taken
out of the hands of autocratic
bureaucracy we are doomed for an
early collapse. We want presi.
dent that will fight for the over
throw of monopoly. A man that
will protect the people against
slavery and autocracy. A man that
will favor legislation to tax excess
wealth A man that has the in
terests of the American people in
his heart and mind, not an Inter
nationalist, not puppet of wealth.
My dear readers, have voted the
Republican ticket more often than
the Democratic, as l have believed
in tariff protection for labor, but
the Republican leaders have not
been satisfied with protection. They
insist on monopoly. The past three
terms of Republican administration
is not only betrayal of the Repub-
lican party, it has been conspiracy
against God and man. The past
three administrations have done
this nation far more damagS than
did the World war. Our farmers,
home owners and bread winners
have had their lifetime savings TAX
en- from them through taxation,
class legislation, monopoly and the
greed of that army composed of $50
of our population bearing an armor
of GOLD. An army which dissipates
our national wealth and the pro-
ceeds of our labor in an orgy of
in foreign lands. Can
you blame the laborer and the home
owner for turning Bolshevic when
he is taxed beyond his ability to
pay? Can you blame the 820,715
citizens who were evicted
from their homes last year on ac-
count of their inability to pay, if
they become Bolshevic? If you have
a neighbor owning wealth in ex-
cess of 100000, he will tell you
that Andrew Mellon has saved the
nation millions of dollars by hold
ing down the government expenses
and by side-tracking legislation for
soldier and widow pensions, bonus
bills and drought relief bills; also
some millions of dollars he and
Coolidge saved for the national gov
ernment, by refusing to accept for
the Red Cross the needed relief
practically offered by congress, and
this money was collected from the
POOR. What your neighbor had
in mind, when he said Mellon had
saved the nation millions of dol
lars, was that he had saved millions
for 800 of our nation at the expense
Of 97% of our population. The
first thing with no exception) that
congress should do in it's next ses-
sion should be to enact a heavy ex-
port duty on wealth, with no loop
holes and plenty of penalties. Such
an export tax enacted some years
back and we would not today have
fifteen billion dollars invested in