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Show K GRASPING AT A STRAW M, Representative Claude Kitchen of twm' North Carolina, foormerly chairman of l5 ant' s a me,UDCr of it, eepges from his J " " seclusion and announces that "'whereas, t ;' under a Republican administration the V , United States was a debtor nation, now I ' it is a creitor nation in the sum of $11, i y . 000,000,000 and upward due to the busi- l & ncss acumen of the present national ad- jl ministration." I ? Shades of Jeffeiraon, Jackson and Gro- '; Y jver Cleveland! Who but the author of . ' tkt "ihfe iKithen bill would be the author of m such an argument? Mr. Kitchen forgot m to say that whereas, foreign countries W are indebted to the Unite States to the ' f?" extent of some $11,000,000,000, the Uni- t ,. led States owes a debt of some $26,000.- , ' f ' . , "1 I - .... 000,000 most of it to the people who bought government bonds, war saving, stamps and other evidences of debt. Now some of our unpractical statesmen states-men want the government to buy the railroads, buy big industries, issue move government bonds to pay for them and make the people rich, happy and content ed by increasing government debts. It doesn't take much of a business man to figure out where such a program would lead. The people of the United States were? are not born yesterday and ai;e still possessed of a modicum of common' sense Salt Lake Herald. - to ft |