Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-12-20
People Column

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Pocomoke City, Md.
Dear Sir:
I am writing this letter for publ
cation in your Peoples Column, to
my many friends in Worcester coun-
ty, especially to those who were
friends of my boyhood days in my
birthplace, Snow Hill, Md, and my
home town, Pocomoke City or old
Newtown.
am, as you know, a Democrat.
My grandfather, my father, my uncle
Saunders, my two brothers, Riley and
Marion, were lifelong Democrats.
Perhaps DR.. Paul Jones remembers
this. My Uncle Saunders, during the
Civil War, in talking one day said
he did not intend to shave his beard
until Jeff Davis gained the war.
Jack LeCompte and Dave Straughn
had him arrested by the soldiers, the
day the Eureka was launched in Snow
Hill, who carried him to Baltimore,
where he was kept in prison for six
months before his trial. The judge
said it was not treason for man to
keep his beard on his face if he want
ed to do so. My uncle never shaved
afterwards; wore his beard until he
died.
Now, perhaps what write sur
prises you. I am going to quote Abb
raham Lincoln.
We rebel boys used to sing in Snow
Hill during the Civil War: "Hang Abe
Lincoln up a sour apple tree" to the
tune of "John Browns body lies a
Wondering in the grave", and we
had many a royal battle during the
Civil War with the Republican boys
in Snow Hill. Honest Abe, yes, l
know now that he was honest, said:
81 see in the future crisis approach
| ing, which unnerves me and causes
me to tremble for the safety of my
country. Corporations have been
enthroned, an era of corruption in high
places will follow and the money pow
er of the country will endeavor to
prolong the reign by working on the
prejudice of the people, until the
wealth is aggregated in the hands of
few people and the Republic is de-
stroyed."
The wealth of this country has &C
cumulated in the hands of few. l
am not fighting the millionaires OF
this country who have honestly and
legitimately won their riches. I give
them credit and wish them happiness
and joy in their possessions.
One of the slogans of the o. A. r.
P. is "Old age for leisure" Three of
the richest men in this country, a few
years ago, met in balmy pleasant
Florida resort. Each had made con-
tributions to the modern day. They
had made vast fortunes. But they
had also changed life and the habits
, of living. They had forgotten even
the sight Of money, for they handled
little Of it themselves. Their necces
sites came to them and secretaries
signed the checks. They talked OF
new ways to produce rubber, of new
uses of natural resources, of ways in
which a comfortable home could be
produced by mass production, of how
education of children could be advan-
ced through vision as well as thru
the spoken and written word. They
turned over to younger men the task
of making their dreams into reality.
Thus carrying out another slogan
of the o. A. R. P. "Youth for Work. ="
The Old Age Revolving Pension
retires all persons 60. years and older
giving them two hundred dollars per
month provided they retire from bust
ness and spend the full amount given
to them thus putting the money again
Immediately into circulation and CIV
ing work to the young.
Money in circulation means plenty.
Money in vaults is boarded, stagnant;
want and distress in the richest coun-
ry in the world in food, clothing
land, houses and in material things.
If you were shipwrecked on an is
land that had nothing but gold, silver,
copper, diamonds, rock, sand and peb-
bles, no food on this island of any
kind anywhere and could not get away
from it to some place where food was
plentiful, you would starve. But you
are living in a land of plenty of food
of all kinds. But the government is
boarding up gold; they are even now
building vaults, flooding them with
water in secret places, guarding them
with death dealing electric currents,
while men and women willing to work
are walking streets, hungry, home
less and starving in the midst of plen-
ty for the lack of money in circula-
t;on Tho TnunSond n A r has