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Show THE CITIZEN 4 situation as depicted by the high salaried publicity men in their employ. not necessary to review the pitiful tales told by the railroads. The persistency with which they are put over by the individual roads and also in combination through the Association of Railway Executives has formed one of the chief news sections of all our big daily papers for upwards, of two years with which all are familiar. This campaign to gain the sympathy of the public has been such a long and consistent campaign that it has resulted in slow buying of railroad securities in the open marked To offset this effect the tirade against the government and all other conceivable agencies that might have contributed to the impoverishment of the carriers has been modified by the gentlemen purveyors of the railroad securities to glowing accounts of huge profits, efficient administration and gen- It is , nation, no resigning of our free supremacy and independence ceeded. It drew the teeth of the dragon of war. If the Republican party, in all its history, had done nothing this alone would merit the lasting gratitude of the women of An We women, who proudly gave our men to our country, a pacifists but' young Colonel Roosevelt says, not We would not see America resign aught headed peace-lover- s. sovereignty but we do abhor war. We are grateful for a party big enough to find an honora practical and an American way of working toward world pea j soft-head- ed . .. party who rejected an alliance for war, and substituted anas tion for peace. KING IGNORES FACTS. eral prosperity. 4 Statistical information furnished by the bond selling agencies disclose that the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe made a net profit of something like $39,331,662 in 1921. The New York Central in the same year cleaned up a profit of $22,295,686 and the Northern Pacific got away with a profit of $22,965,339. Sure, freight rates ought to be. raised with such mediocre profit showing and fares kited! Railroad bookkeeping is a subject we are not familiar with and perhaps it is easy to make white appear black when necessary; but stript of all befuddling and specious argument the outstanding facts seems to be about as follows regarding the carriers listed below : For the year 1921 Profit : Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, Senator William King, Democrat of Utah, in the closing da his career as a senator, has been making a number of stater which do not agree with the facts. Some time ago he sail Republican tariff policy was for a large measure of protectioi for a small amount of customs revenues, while the Democraticp was for large customs revenues with no protection to America dustries. A study of the official statistics made for the purpo checking up on that statement shows that under eight years o inclusive, our customs houses gan publican tariff laws, 1906-1- 3 nearly $2,500,000,000 of revenues on less than $12,000,000,000 wor foreign imports, while under eight years of the Simmons-Unde- r Atlantic Coast; Line, $1,790,569; Chespeake & Ohio, $4,192,-60- 1 law, 1914-2inclusive, on more .than $24,000,000,000 of import ; Chicago & Rock Island, $5,780,259 ; Illinois Central, $9,700,794 ; received less than $2,000,000,000 in revenues. That disposed of Missouri Pacific; $3,537,016; New York Central, $22,295,686; Norfolk ator Kings statement. & Western, $10,043,181 ; Northern Pacific, $22,965,399; Southern PaciRecently he made this one : The Democratic party has al fic, $30,618,778; Union Pacific, $31301,075. contended for the inviolability of the states and their maintei ' While the financial condition of many of the railroads is admitin all their vigor and power. That issue can not be obscured, a tedly bad and some have found it convenient to go into the hands of a is presented in an acute form to the American people today, receiver, yet the condition of all the roads is not reflected truthfully the states be preserved? Shall the right of local in the wild publicity campaign with which the public has been regailed maintained? Shall the rights of individuals be respected? Ini for more than two years, and which has left the suspicion in the words, shall we have a Democratic government rather than a bui minds of many that they are fast becoming deplorable streaks of rust. cratic and paternalistic one? Senator King ignores recent history. It is true that one ol ancient and cardinal tenets of the Democratic party was states ri ONE WOMANS VIEW. From the time of John Marshall up to the Civil war they conte for this principle to a point which threatened the paramountcy o Will war come again? .We; cannot foresee, but this we know the limitation of arms federal government and to substitute a confederation of states conference is the beginning of the end of war. It was a stroke of national entity. The position of the Democrats was crystallized S the most brilliant diplomacy; it was engineered by our Republican a creed by John C. Calhoun in his Address to the People of nullificatii administration; it was the greatest step of all the ages in the cause Carolina in 1831. Calhoun set forth the doctrine of the right of a state to declare null and void any act of the fe of peace so great and yet so simple! of the constitutional Brushing aside the customary platitudes, Secretary Hughes at government which it considered a breach once laid before the conference a plan so lucid, so forceful and so pact; if the other states insisted on upholding the act, the aggni Webster dci Union. from the had the withdraw states to conthe ran a right tense excitement that through immediately practical & ished this argument in his celebrated debate with Hayne of ferenced Something was actually to be done. be Carolina, when he pointed out that nullification could only .And it was done. This was the result : Naval armaments were so limited as to be state anarchy. There is no gainsaying the fact that there has been a pronoui sufficient only for defense not for aggressive warfare. The nine drift toward centralization during the past few years to a degree" disfuture when word nations their that gave great participating now threatens the integrity of the States. It is to be noted thata would first should flew before to arms, arise, they they agreements so mai movement time Civil since centralization the this was war take counsel together and see if it could be peacefully settled. as during the eight years under Democratic control, 1913 to in world The limitation of arms conference struck a new note The remonstrance of the champions of states rights was not diplomacy new frankness, new sincerity, new business methods that period. Indeed they have been accused of ceptible during the Republican way. ing states rights for federal appropriations. It was a Republican victory throughout in conception, in call, The party which had championed the right of nullification it in program, in direction, in ratification. It was done brilliantly and to the Civil war, maintaining that each state should retain with dispatch. Wor sovereign character, veered to an extreme following the Democratic diplomacy went to Europe and brought back a league which threatened the life of national sovereignty in the other founded on arms and police force and entangling alliance with the tibn, for that party demanded we relinquish that so' ercign)e and nations of Europe for mutual war. It failed. European institution known as the league of nations, t Republican diplomacy brought Europe to America. With no King was one of the foremost champions of that surrender. As for bureaucracy, never in the history of the country "as entangling alliance, no subserviency, no repudiating of our Monroe doctrine; ho compulsion to raise an armed force to protect any other such an exhibition of it as during the 1913-2- 1 period, when $39,-331,66- 2; 1, self-governm- ei f . c H : P a . |