The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-06-22

AL dSl al bullCllLl vi aug.
entitled The Agricultural Situa
ton" shows the business situation il
the U. s., for the last 10 years
among other things how wages wer,
being cut to adjust them to lowe.
level. This unjust situation has beer
brought about and will destroy TIT
purchasing power and cripple bust
ness. On the other hand, all fixeo
incomes are tax exempt and viii
therefore be of no value in the pro.
motion of better times. All these
earnings will be rcinvested in tax ex-
empt securities.
Congressman Cornell Hull of Colo
RADIO states that we have about S8,000,-
100000 invested in federal tax exempt
securities and $4,000 100000 addi-
tional are found in the various states
The income from these $4,000 900 ,00C
has under our present conditions
doubled in purchasing power and the
expression of soaking the rich" is
absolutely unwarranted and mislead-
ing. In 1890, the latest report avail
able to the writer, we had 504 men
with a yearly income of $3.50 600
each, while 100000 workers aver
aged an income of S625 each. Fur
thermore, SO men each had an in
come of over 100000. From these
figures it Will appear that the work
ers are being soaked their homes
sold for mortgages and taxes, and
their jobs gone. Destitution has be-
come rampant in our land of plenty
I may ask in all candor: When are
the people going TO wake up?
The state commissioner of labor of
Connecticut reports on the slavery
conditions existing throughout the
industrial east as follows: AT Shell
ton, Conn, shirt factories, girls are
working So hours per week for the
magnificent sum of SLOT Some of
them have parents, and other rela-
tiveS that they must help for exist
ence. At Willamette girls employed
as learners work So hours per week
for just 10 cents, but he adds that
they can after three months, if quail
fled. earn SO to SIS per week This.
he says, seldom happens, as a new
learner will take the place. AT New
Haven factories girls were told to
work right through noon hours and
when they stopped to eat their lunch
they were discharged for this dis
obedience OF rules.
VIM. Green, president of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor. states that
he can see no early improvement
ahead
Soaking" the rich is a wall by our
nations eXploiters, operating the two
political parties. and they are get
ting closer together daily in their
huddle to get away from the wrath
Of our people.
Legislation for the betterment of
conditions of our people is therefore
next to impossible, although con-
stantly fought for by that little pro-
gressive group Of senator's and con-
gresSmen, but with Hoover having the
veto power not much can be had for
our agricultural west. In 1924, as
secretary Of commerce, Hoover wrote
letter to Representative John j.
McSwain during a hearing of the
house committee on military affairs
advocating a blanket authority to the
president to fix prices. transportation,
compensation, embargoes, etc. To
suspend habeaS corpus and giving
him absolute authority in all rami-
fications over our civilian life. The
letter shows plainly the Hoover COL
ors. He was, in fact, used to the
exercise of autocratic control as Sec
1etary Of commerce. AS former food
administrator he had absolute con-
troll Employed as an engineer for
English companies in China he had
d.ctatorial power. AS secretary of |
commerce he was thrown in contact |
with the big guns financially and in
and became their servant. |
This position he has successfully held |
ever since, through his administra-
ton.
Our civil liberties have become en-
dangered and as the writer sees it.
we are rapidly approaching auto
cratic rule. Noted men, including |
Gen. John J. Pershing, are sounding
warning voices. but it seems that the |
american public will not heed them.
At a recent convention of the
of the American Revolu-
ton speeches were made advocating
the Acknowledgement of all citizens of I
foreign birth. These American women
are descendants from i'm
migrants from Europe who came !
here to galn freedom from tyranny.
1t can be said that their methods
IRE disgrace to our very life. All
that I can say is that in this con-
Fention and in its experimenting
ne utmost ignorance was displayed
and old Glory" trampled upon. But
I simply shows how enlightenment
and common decency is being thrown
% the wind for the desire of money.
If this is to continue the time will
come when a revolution will become
necessary to clear the atmosphere.
In 1890 one per cent of our popu-
alton controlled 80 per cent of the
;ountry's wealth, bringing SO per cent
u the people down to practical Serf-
ION. In the late European war
about 100000 of your youth were
irafted to serve overseas. They had
10 choice and the writer remembers
yell how cheerfully they entered into
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Walk of life, except that the rich were
lot represented, they being turned
Iown by the examining board as un-
1t. Hence they escaped the carnage
rom explosive shells and machine
un fire. Thus being exempt, they,
Nth their wealth, entered into the
usiness OF coming as much addition
! wealth as possible, and SO founda-
ions were being laid for additional
ortunes. Being at peace at home in
he pursuit OF more money, which
hey acquired, they. first Of all. should
e more than willing to pay the in
ebtedness of the war and in a meas
ire reward those boys who endured
he tortures Of hell in the trenches
1 France. Many of them never re-
urned. Others came back manned
or life and there are instances where