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Show THE CITIZEN 5 want the government to raise the crops, provide a market for them and do all the work connected with farming. If the government once gets into the farming business, there is no reason why it should not get into the retail grocery business to provide a market for groceries, canned goods, etc. And what about the poor laboring man. Millions of them are born every year. Should not the government provide jobs for these millions! It is the cause of bringing them into the world and it really should take care of them. If we all depend upon the government to provide a living for us, we must not forget that we are drifting towards bolshevism. The latter is a dream that Socialists have preached for many years. Russia is now reaping the fruits of that dream and the people there are getting nowhere. The state owns everything. There is no incentive to create wealth and, where such conditions exist, progression stops and the people become indolent with no ambition for the morrow. All nations have a class of citizens Sty. jlash.; le soi who are too lazy to work and who are always looking for help ked POLITICAL CON from one source or another, and no government can long exist that endeavors to keep and support the people. Who will support the government? eirm Prof. Irving Fisher, the economist, presents in the New lonsai York Times an ingenious argument to prove that in our settleAlready we have about one in every ten or eleven people ron si ment of the European debts the United States has been a harder supported by our government and this is not a good condition to ity. creditor than might appear on the surface. He calls attention have. d sine fo the fact that when France borrowed from the United States This nation grew to its present prominence because the peor sou the value of the dollar was much less than it is today, and that ple were all workers. They willingly contributed, each their the France will therefore have to pay whatever she may decide to share, to maintenance of the government, hence our great suchast! pay, if anything, more than the face of the obligation would make cess, but now we have with us some internationalists who would findfi it appear. What Professor Fisher chooses to overlook is that change the order of the day, and columns of propaganda are emblii these foreign borrowings were provided for by bond issues of daily published of big interests that are trying to work the govthe United States, for which the American people must pay, too, ernment for special favors, evidently not realizing that all benein dollars of appreciated value. He fits the government accords the people must come from the peocity, principal and interest, t inti thooses, also, to overlook the fact that a given amount of money ple in the first place, and the overhead is the present cause of ler Cc borrowed to save a business institution or a country from deour excessive taxes. We have boards, bureaus, and commissions is short struction, worth more than a dollar borrowed for an ordinary that have no more business in our government than we have in uitye jommercial purpose. France is paying the interest on her dodictating as to how a Chinaman shall live in his native country. mestic debt in greatly depreciated francs, and thus by the mutatLet us forget federal aid and get back to work ! oad,s ions of money value is effecting an enormous saving. During the ten year period from 1912 to 1922 the national wealth of France ENVIABLE POSITION increased at far greater speed than during the pre-wiintyn period, ofti in of in wealth the United real t dollars, as States, None of these Old World schemes which propose to make everyjhile growth shown ?avei by a recent report of the Federal Trade Commission, was body rich by making everybody poor has been successful. None bests jnly sixteen per cent during that period, while it was more than ever can succeed. Without exception they do violence to human nali at i seventy per cent in dollars of practically equal value during the ture and fly in the face of economic law. They are based upon the leriea eight year period from 1904 to 1912. There seems to be a good delusion that you can by some magic of legislation get more meat out deal of con in a good deal of political economy, especially of an egg than there is in it. They ignore the fundamental truth that in the processes of profitable industrial production there is no subms,t dien it is invoked in behalf of the doctrine of repudiation. e to stitute for sweat. Those who preach the grandiose doctrines of EuFEDERAL CHARITY date I ropean socialism in any of its forms are blind leaders of the blind. n of The net result of their efforts is that both leaders and led eventually It is to be deeply regretted that political activities have scenen , fall into the ditch. The cure is worse than the disease and both are roads ?one so liberal a top dressing on the agricultural problems of the bad. Ration. Without pporfc In brilliant and almost startling contrast to all this stands. Amany attempt to impeach the profundity of Congressional thought, it must be admitted that the votes cast for erica. For a hundred and fifty years we have functioned as a people and of our own choosing and our own creaagainst the agriculural bills are largely influenced by politic- under free al conditions. tion. We hae failed often and we are still far irom the millenIt is unfortunate that a matter so vital reaches Congress nium. But it is sober liulh to say that at this moment our economic-worswort jjhen the is better than the economic best of any Old World commupromise of adjournment is in the nostrils of the and they are in a state of political doldrums. There never nity. Charles Aubrey Eaton. in his eek fr ?as a time when the call for exact impartial information on this estaft Sreat subject such as a real commission would TOURISTS report, was as general rule is that the more wealth men amass, the arder they work and the more they want. But if it were posable for one of them to. return and see the legal fight that gen-all- y follow death for the deceased gold, they would not be so irtic ilar in wasting so much there is in life in grinding out onev instead of spending a few hours with the family, or going t fiViiing or hunting, or on the links, or taking up any one of em. ny other outdoor recreations that make life worth while. Ford was a workingman himself one day and he has never his-lf- y rgotien the hard row he had to hoe. He will go down in as a man of the poor and for the poor, his great wealth as iever having changed his course. He is one of the richest men jji the world today, whereas but a few years ago he was but a s nun s wages, poor machinist working for day cany; j Hrre is a lesson for financial men to study, especially for foii those '.vho only live to make money and grind the poor under the 11 The I ar Zi v self-governme- nt I t great as now. The desire of the President for some form of farm king ds in rtunf, the ; woih oiWnsteai Some indication of the prosperity of the American people may s t and has not been controverted. His position be had through the reports from Europe to the effect that the capitals js that inasmuch as hundreds of millions have been spend eduand resorts of the old world are fairly teeming with visitors from cating he farmers to produce a surplus, that some millions the Western Hemisphere. The influx of the Americans is especially ? be spent at least in endeavoring to aid him in the market-in- S noticeable, it is said, in France and Great Britain. Paris as usual of he same. gets the most American money, and tourists are having an especially of both parties have been publicly catcr- - good time there on account of the present lowly condition of the ; politicians ng to lulls c favoring the farmer. No doubt the farmers are sup- franc. But London, too, is getting its share of those porting hig lobby at Washington. Pretty soon the farmer will visitors. In fact, one British newspaper recently printed a cartoon elf-evide- - legisla-.l0- n nt, 1 ; trans-oceani- i I |