The Washington times., 1935-09-02
Distinction for the Parasites

For the good of the country he must cleanse
his hide of parasites.
For the good of the country he must teach the
voters that the politicians are living upon
THEM that the politicians are eating the sub
stance which should make for prosperity; that
they are costing the country millions of dollars a
year which should go into wealth. producing and
Iabor-creatlng industry; that all the energies of
the nation nowadays are going to the support of
useless unconStructlve, uncreative politicians;
that the politicians not only do no good but do
lot of actual harm.
They are for the most part ignorant and in
competent.
They have been for the most part failures in
the varieties of activities which they have pre-
vlously pursued, and if they had to go back to
work would be failures again.
Still, the politicians feel that they must do
something to justify their existence and their
position on the public payroll, so they meddle
and muddle and hinder and hamper and iniure
and interfere and put burdens on business and
drop monkey wrenches in the machinery of in
dustry and plumber and blunder and prevent pro-
gress and prolong the depression and keep pro-
ductlon from increasing and unemployment from
decreasing.
All the time the politicians are assuring the
people that they are doing all this damage in the
public interest, when they are not even thinking
of the public interest," when they are thinking of
nothing but the interest of the politicians and the
reelection of the politicians to office and the re-
tention of the families of the politicians and the
friends of the politicians and the supporters of
the DOlificianS on the nuh1ic navro11e
The politician is always thinking of HIM.
SELF.
The politician taxes everybody but HIM.
SELF.
No burden of taxation is allowed to fall on his
Carefree shoulders.
His income is always tax-free.
His income is always free of curtailment.
His secretaries, his personal organization, te
free.
His business quarters are free.
His travel expenses to and fro are free
Even his mail is free.
And his Congressional speeches. those windy
wordy speeches. most of which are not even de-
ivered are distributed free all over the United
States at cost to the TAXPAYERS, to the use
full, productive element of the community, of
over seven thousand dollars A DAY.
The parasite politician is free talker, free
liver and freebooter.
He rides free, and he rides on the bowed back
of the burdened taxpayer.
What are the taxpayers going TO do aboutite
Senator Norris, of Nebraska, splendid ex-
ample of the honest, patriotic type of politician
has shown how to get rid of the parasites.
Hehas, by popular referendum, created law
which abolshes one house of the State Legis-
lature.
Many other eliminations of useless politicians
and reductions in the cost of government can be
accomplished in the same way.
The public is ready for the reform.
In States where there is no referendum there is
another means available.
The taxpayers can organize closely and simply
refuse to pay taxes to be disspated in rlotous ex-
travagance.
The public will soon find that the ancient Con-
fucan motto, mo tickee, no shirtee," still pre-
walls.
The public will find that where there is no
plumber there are no parasites.