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Show JOISOIIMLS TAX REDUCTION ; ALURIO-FARGE ProgressiTe Candidate Declares De-clares That Farmer Must ' Be Aided in. Order, to Bring Prosperity - 1 Honesty in Public Office and Clarity in Foreign Policy Is Urged Among Prime Needs of Country By HIRAM W. JOH94tt, Caltod Itatoa aWtaafa fiwaa Call for.. WASHINGTON. Mar 17 Thara can b no pal "leal laaua oft raduc-tlon raduc-tlon of taxea So oea boliavea la High taxation. IGrarykodr wlabaa r low taxation and everybody bollavea I In tka reduction of taxea. I rea-tura rea-tura ta atata that If tha raductlon of taxea of am a It In cornea only war Involved, thara would ba no propa-ararvda, propa-ararvda, na pretended political laaua , about tax reduction. Our arovarn-ment arovarn-ment overtaxed It popl In tha laat year and wt find a aurplua on hand o( about 93iO.X),vU9. It la obvloua that ao government haa tha right ta overtax Ita people and It la equally plain that with a aUrpiug of t360.ooo.000 va dbould. meal aurm juat obligations, and we should reduce re-duce taxation aa much aa it cava ba reduced. W hav Barer In thla country j had anything Ilka tha propaganda' we had In behalf of tha ao called Mellon plan. It was propaganda most carefully prepared and aktU-fully aktU-fully stimulated. There are 11.66 M9 peopla In this country who pay taxes on Incomes In-comes of lens than 910.000; ther are only 310.0U0 who pay oa income over 910,000. The men who par on a a Income of 999,09 would aava under tha Mellon plan 949.000 a year. lie who pays on $300,009 will aava 991.000 a yar; tnoee who hav Incomes of 9 6 .09 will be required to par 1117.009 less, Tha fortunate onea who have an Income of $1,000,000 would aava by tha Mellon plan 1252.000. Who Is It who Indulged In this propaganda which swept ths country coun-try and filled newspapers, and at tha head of which were our banker, and the Vnlted States chamber of commerce? Do you Imagine that It waa tha man w h by reduction of taxea might save ten or thirty dollar or do you think It was tha Individual who would aava thirty, or forty, or a hundred thousand dollars? SAY GOOD PAITH 19 Itfll I would reduca tha taxes of atl tha peopla whenever It Is possibl to do so. and keep our faith at tha same time. In tha matter of taxation taxa-tion as In all .other matter I would be scrupulously Juat to men of large Incomes and of big bualneaa; but I recognlxa men of great riches and big business have a happy faculty fac-ulty of looking out for themselves. Those of small Incomes and small busltreaa must rely upon their representatives. rep-resentatives. W would not bs unjust un-just to any, but t would begin tax reduction with tha paople who are least able PX taaea. A part of .the propaganda, particularly par-ticularly among those of btg business busi-ness Interests, la directed against the bonus bill. With vary few exceptions, ex-ceptions, tha leaders of tha Republican Repub-lican party hav pledged themselves them-selves and their party to the paa-aaga paa-aaga of this act. Tha matter therefore there-fore becomes first one of good faith, and ona of keeping a definite pledge. Now. against our plighted word la the saving auggested In a 1 ; 4, taker.' sweep out of the government every single Individual who Innocently Inno-cently or ignorant lr baa been a part of the filching of the publlo domain from the people of the Tatted States. Sweep them all eut everywhere, every one guilty of negligence, contributory' negligence, guilty of wrong, guilty of fraud, guilty of bribery, or guilty of bribe taking. ftVYKEP THEM ALL OUT; evkrt one: The second vital Issue Is the question of our foreign policy. For some years X have Insisted upon definite foreign policy for America. The leaeoa of the late war written 1 lurid red la the evil of secret diplomacy. di-plomacy. I'nder European nation ths terrible leaaon haa been la vain. The aame motives, the like Inter eats, the very mode of promoting them, the age-old aecret diplomacy ) by which governments entangle j themselves and people pay the J price, atlll prevaile.. v I nat roRKroM rotter I IS VKKKOWft. I word ia tne savins ugev-u b reduction of taxes upon incomes which do not necessarily require re-, durUon. ! Certain of the great captains of , Induatry In this nation, whoae Incomes In-comes atre beyond the dream of avarice of the ordinary man, prate and prate again about commercialised commercial-ised patriotism. When these gentlemen gen-tlemen have paid back Into th Tnlted Htates treasury the profits they made during the war. they may be heard about commercialized patriotism, but until that day arrives, ar-rives, let them keep silent on the pitiful eum asked by the men who sheltered th yn and their business and enabled them to make their unholy profile. In arguments concerning taxation taxa-tion the advocates of reductions oa large Incomes often Indulge In pessimistic pes-simistic statements concerning in-dual in-dual ry and enterprise. And yet these people, when speaking generally gener-ally of success for the party of j which I am a member, exultantly 1 deacrlbe our great prosperity, and expreag their optimism for business conditions for th coming year. I believe In our nation and Its future, and I am certaia of its destiny. p at trn'O nni.l.ia KIW PA PL. I The prosperity aad the safety or ur republic must rest In a differ) ent' policy. Our Internatlossl relations, rela-tions, our foreign policy ar of transcendent Importance. Yet th people today do not kaow what is " the foreign policy of our government. govern-ment. It mar be that w do not kaow our foreign policy because we hav none. A forelga policy which In words, sccording to tn laat presidential message, save "vV e attend to our own affairs," and which In ded attends to tba at-falra at-falra not only of our neighboring nations, but the nations ef Europe . as well; a forelga policy toward . Russia which In the presidential meaaage holds out a welcoming hand and through th secretary of state turn Its back; a forelga policy pol-icy that- denies activity upoa the reparations commission and then directly participates In that com-mission: com-mission: a foreign policy which eay the league of nation Is a cloeed Incident, and then attempts to take us 1ntoa part of that league: a. foreign policy which speaks against permanent political alllaacaa and B thea practically allies us te ex fating fat-ing powers oa this continent, constitute con-stitute a record of forelga policy which needa the obscuring shoes of a tsx reduction scheme. I abhor war. 1 will go to say length and make any sacrifice to preclude future wars. I will Join , with any association In this land, with any club or organisation, wttn any league of organisation, to pro r 4 teet against and to endeavor to prevent as American policy which makes us. becauae we furnish arm and munitions, in reality s party to war. This country hss never been and sever will be Isolated from the rest of the world. Is business. In finance, socially? commercially, w are not Isolated from Europe at it. There la Just one edrt ef Isolation A, 4 which has been pura aad oa which we must Insist. It la isolation from the quarrels snd rontrovereiee, the selflahneee. sad the. Intrigue, the exploiting and the wars of Ku rope-No rope-No other isolation has era Veen thought of. none could ever occur, and thla aele form ef -Isolation should continue not alone for our benefit, but for the benefit of all humanity. We cannot aid weitom peoplea by- becoming a party to A jgV their wars. We csn only play oar part aad aid humanity hy being ourselves end remaining free, unfettered un-fettered snd Independent. ' (Copyright. 1934. In Tnlted States' end Great Britain by North American Amer-ican Newspaper Alluace, A4l . rights reserved-) FARMER DOLLAR BKLOW PAR. Ona section of our country alone 1 in distress, and becauae of the general prosperity elsewhere, -more acutely do we feel that distress and mora readily would we relieve It. The farmer today not only suffers suf-fers from low prices, but from the high cost of productlds. What be sells Is low snd what he buys ta high. His dollar la below par. Tyverproductlol. has sdded greatly to the farmer's difficulties. Conditions Condi-tions to him sr not sormal so long ss he Is not a hie to exchange hi day s labor with all other kinda "f labor. He Is entitled to a fair wage and a reasonable return or bla capital. cap-ital. He ie not getting It. Credit achemes alone will not save him from bankruptcy. He must hav a market for hie products prod-ucts at a fair price. Cooperation, of course, would aid him, but cooperation co-operation of millions is a difficult thing, after all. There should be effective cooperation ef the government gov-ernment with the farmer. It la not sufffcient to eay to the farmer that he must lift-himself by hi boot strsp from th terrible predicament In which he finds himself him-self Th governmeat must obtain for him lower freight rales It must In effective fashion scrutinise th spread between production and consumption. It must not only promote pro-mote cooperation among the farmers farm-ers themselves, but It must al sympathetically cooperate . with thTmere are two other leaue confronting con-fronting the American people which I believe to be vital In certain cer-tain ways. The first relates to honesty tn pnblle office, or, as One of our presidents put It: "Public office I s public trust. We sre confronted with conditions sphlch rock the foundatloaa of oar government gov-ernment and which deatroy faith In public service, and we, caa eot lightly light-ly pasa them by. -COTRA7TS TAIJ9TBD WITH raVAl D." We are faced with ron tracts tainted with fraud. Here era men proven bribe glvere. Here tha evidence evi-dence shows Is bribe taking. I do not laclude former Secretary Do by Hi tbia category. But he. too. la a part of thla part lea tar episode, a part. Innocently If you will, but a part, aevertheleae. What thla government aught te do without a moment's heattatioa, what ought to be done la this particular par-ticular set of affs Irs preeent ra this country new. la to sweep out of the government every . bribe |