Show Grasping at a Straw StrawD i D CUE of or North Korth Cw iti Carolina n formerly chairman charan of the House Hous ways and means committee and still a member of it emerges fm from his seclusion and ad announces that whereas under uder a Republican administration the United Sta States Slates was wa as a debtor nation now it is a 3 creditor nation naHon in the sum sn of duo to the business ac acumen acumen acu acu- I and upward upward duo men of the tho present prent national administration I Sha Shades e of Jefferson Jackson and aud Grover Groyer Cleveland Who Vho but the author of or the Kitchin Kitchi bill hill would be the theauthor theauthor author of such an nn argument arment r Mr Kitchin forgot t to say sav that whereas foreign countries are indebted to t the te United Stales to the te theof extent of some the United States owes a debt of some owe owea most of it i to the people who bought government g erent bonds bond j jar war var savings stamps stamp and ad other evidences of debt I INow I the want Now some somo of our ou unpractical statesmen government go to buy the te railroads buy big industries is issue issue is- is is-I is sue more government bonds to pay for them and ad thus make the people rich happy and contented contente by increasing increasing II i ing g government go debt debts It doesn't take tako much o of a 3 business busi- busi ness man to figure out where such sch a program would l lead d. d The Thc p people fre of the United States were not rot born bor yesterday and ad are ae still stil possessed of a a. 1 modicum of common cornmon corn com com I mon sese sense |