Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-09-10

all for record of economy 80 that he
could be named as candidate for presi-
dent. The state has showed the relief
burden off on the federal government
and the counties. It is nearly two
years behind in the old-age pension
Legislation which would senable the
state to participate in federal funts
for this purpose"
| Nobody can question the justice of
the Kansas EDITORS censure when he
continues: "The best way to judge a
mans actions in the future is by his
record in the past. If, by the widest
stretch of the imagination, Landop
were to be elected president, judging
from his past record, we could look
for balanced budget, but without
heed to further recovery or to suffer
ing humanity. His entire political car
eer has been built around his frugality,
his pitiful penny-pinching demand for
balanced budget without regard to
the need for restoration Of normal
conditions in industry and on the
farm
Obviously, Landon, one Of Kansas
wealthiest citizens, has considered on
ly the interests of his own class in adj
ministering the affairs of his state.
No wonder he has been chosen by the
| reactionaries to break down the new
application Of the democratic princi-
pie that this is government for peo-
pie of every class, Of every walk and
station In life.
For a generation the theory of the
American royaists has been that prop
erty rights should take precedence ov-
er human rights; that all questions Of
legislation, taxation and administra-
ton concern the interests of those
who have, and that the federal gov
eminent should ignore the unhappy
plight of those who have not.
The Roosevelt theory is that the
country should provide living for ev-
cry man and woman willing and able
to work for it. The Old Guard says:
tLet the devil take the hindmost. /"
The lords of business and industry
built up a system whereby there was
no means Of livelihood for at least
100000 willing American work.
ers. When Roosevelt said: "The gov
eminent will find them work, and for
those who are unable to work, the
government will provide food and
shelter,'' the royalists replied: "We
will refuse to foot the bill.''
That's what taxes mean-the pay
ment Of bill incurred by dislocated
social order. 1t is the price of its own
4 delinquencies. The poor can It pay the
bill. Accordingly, within the law and
under The Constitution, the president
has proclaimed that the rich must pay.
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If anybody doubts that they are
able to pay. we refer him to the Wall
Street Journal Of June 20, 1886:
"The aggregate corporation income.
preliminary figures indicate, amounts
to about s7,o0O.0OO.000. These same
corporations in 1882 reported a def
cit of $1,676.229,650."
Here's spread Of more than
EIGHT AND A HALF BILLIONS i'll
corporate earnings between the last
year Of Hoover and the third year OF
Roosevelt. yet we hear from .Landon
that t'the Roosevelt administration
impedes progress and recovery at ev-
cry turn" and the the country is "go-
ing bankrupt with taxation"
The Roosevelt taxing system cuts
deep into the profits of the rich and
it all depends upon whose OK ic gored.
As President Roosevelt himself has
said: Gin the working out of a great
national program which seeks the pri-
mary good of the greater number. it
is true that the toes Of some people
are being stepped on. But these toes
belong to the comparative few who
seek to retain or regain position OF
riches or both by some short cut which
is harmful to the greater good"
When toes are stepped on there Is
bound to be some squealing. Frank
lin Roosevelt has stepped on the toes
of the Hearsts. the Morgans, the Du
Points and the MELONS, and only the
quaint humor Of the ironic gods would
contrive that Wall Streets squealing
be done by man whose sole distinc-
|tion is the rare talent of silence.
Strange role for the grass-roots states
man from the great open spaces Of the
sunflower state.