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PAGETWO H? -IT! OPEN FORUM Readers are invited to conti ibnte to this department- Profit may be derived from these Setters. Name of writer must accompany al! manuscript and brevity is urged. FROM A WESTERN READER jDear Editor: I leave been asked by one ol your good patrons to say something. He knows 1 used to debate things, and that disposition still stays with me. even at 73 years last spring. My ability to get peeved fstkU lives. especially when I hear or read arguments we ail know are false and those that utter them know they are false. I wilt ??egtn with the bank holiday in 1933. It was imperative that something be dene. The good needed weeding out from the bad. and it was time that some power other than the morgan power step in with some better advice than that barbaric old rule. Every man for himself and the devil take the hindmost. ' My seeing in the paper a claim that the bank holiday had started the panic, made me thick to mention it here When the money power threatened Wilson that they would create a panic. he told them to hold their horses; he would fight back to his utmost. They held off. But Hoover favored the high dollar even to the destruction of the farmers When tlig wheat growers of Montana were loading their wheal on the cars at eight cents per bushel or twelve and a half bushels for one great big H"Over honest robber dollar. Hoover was yelling at the top of his voice, "Save the honest dollar!" He really meant. "Save the robber Morgan ioliar. even if the farmer slarv.^s"' The poor-house won't hold them, and Hoover's righteous soul was vexed when the farmers did not like being sacrificed on the altar of gold. When Judge Bradiey. of Iowa, said. "SoU the farmers out." the farmers ob- : jected. Another year of Hoover in 1 Iowa would have brought on a revo- i lotion in peaceful, honest Iowa, it took ioo Such corn, wheat and hogs to buy that great big Hoover-Mor- < gaa dollar. In 1928 the banks of the country 1 got hold of a lot of securities In order to ho"'1 them they had to make credit easy. They had about ten billions v?f dollars worth, so they created credit money to That amount. The boast of the west for fifty years had been. "Go west, buy homes and farm on time; grow up with the country." A.'!-) it ha* generally worked. But with the sale of so much worthless stocks and bonds, when the order came to draw in all the money, everybody was ruined but the loan sharks. In 1928 I sold joy wheat for $1.25 per bushel, sold land at a good price; but before 1932 wheat was 18 to 22 cents in Idaho and Washington, and less in Montana five busheis cr more for the great big Hoover-Morgan robber dollar. Land went down, homes being lost Th.1 himioo mc IHC iKUCtiV Ul I the nation, bat if the money powers 1 can sell out all the homes in a few years, where is safety? Extreme wealth with extreme poverty is the father of revolution. I will compare wheat and dollars. Coolfdge wheat, 11.25: Hoover wheat, 20 cents: Roosevelt wheat 75 cents. Ooolidge oranges, 4 cents per pound; Hoover oranges. 1 cent or less: Roosevelt oranges, 2 cents. The dollar that A! Smith hooted at as a "baloney dollar," you can see, is a husky infant, but nothing to compare with the great Hoover dollar It's strange for Hoover to think that the descendants of the American farmer who fired the shot heard around the world would sink out of sight peacefully when the loan sharks grabbed up their homes under me robber dollar. The dollar was still climbing, 30 a change of presidents was voted. Hoover lost his congress, but he held to his dollar with a death grip. He holds it every time he tells endowed colleges what his dollar would bring. He says "clipped dollarB." Better clip a great big dollar than a11? *1-- J * - *.i.y uic ueeu irom nomc-oA-nera in the land. Knox and others are yell-' tng the same. Wher. Hoover got such an ovation at the Cleveland convention, 1 decided the loan sharks ii ~ ANNOU BRENOELL' % BLOCK OFF EA We arA r\ nnj* fj| pared and more cor render the same relial j| er convenience to our ALL WORK < WAT. most have had something to do with i it?the meri who tried to seixc iivr ! property of the country at one-sixth I of the Coolidge price. Sonic Repub- J Hcans feel the same way. He made I j ine think of the turtle and the Irish- i man. Somebody cut the turtle'3 i r -.1 orr hr.t hp stf?i crawled around. \ When the Irishman saw him he re- j marked. "That baste is dead but don't know it." All the farmers j don't lose, forget and like it; but j some make me think of Job. They j say. "The republican party giveth, s the Republican party taketh away, j and Messed be the name of Herbert ( Hoover" I Abe Lincoln said that Goci must | r have liked the poor people because | c He made so many of them. Jeffcr-ic son was a commoner. When the I c country came out from under George j; HI. people were so used to kings jc that some of them still wanted aj king, and some wanted the rich and| educated to rule. Jefferson saw to} it that all the people ruled. All Smith and his clique claim to be Jeffersoniar. when they are no more like Jeffcrc;cn than some of those lich fellows are like Abe Lincoln. One of our worst pests here in Cali- j, forma is Bermuda grass, commonly called devil grass. When the Republicans m their patriotism went back to get grass roots. I'm afraid they got devil grass roots. Some people s. are inclined to cannonize sonic old ? timers when they really don't know = what they arc doing. j; We see lets of objecting to the; s reciprocity treaties with other cour.- = tries. We remember that President 2 Tnff 1 Ho.i 11\ mftirrt I I ? treat.ben'. with Canada; we might ? examine that treaty to determine if E it was any more favorable to the E United States than the present one. E Here is a story a Washington E newspaper man tells about Hoover: E Vice President Curtis had an old E friend in Kansas that baud a govern- =j merit loan, and they were about to E close nim out. Curtis went to E Hoover rid asked llim to slop UtC E sale. Hoover wouldn't do it. At last E lie went back . Hoover and told E liim he was going to buy it himself E and make pub:io his reason for do- s ing it that Hoover had refused to = act. Then Hoove 1 stopped the sale r when he feared that he would be [i exposed E There was another bit of money jjthat we never heard the fate of. It E was about 90 Millions, and it was to E have been turned over' to the care of E Charlie Dawes. Some people say E Hoover tried to stop the depression E with government money, too. Well. == this loan of 90 millions to Dawes' E Chicago bank is a typical instance. E The bank got the money arid nobody S else got a look at >t The unpaid E Chicago teachers continued to lose E their homes ov foreclosure, and the E Chicago industrial machinery con- E tinued to rust. And that's the way E .t was all over the country in those E days. IE We all know that the IfiSmers and 1 - all productive industries were in ; awful shape, the farmers just about ~ to be sold for nearly nothing, the s iand sharks thinking of getting land for one-sixth of the iy'28 price. I said to a man, "It's hard for a lifetime's savings to go for so little." His answer. "I have !o look after my children." But Roosevelt stepped in and he got only his money. No wonder men iike that yelled, "We want Hoover." And Knox is just as bad. Landon remembers Roosevelt's help to Kajisas, and speaks more quietly. But Knox was for years general manager of Hearst's newspapers, and Landon is a product of a Hearst build-up. Both would be willing tools of the Hearst plutocracy. I will note in passing the great spell-binder of Oregon, Steiwar. To (1.50 PACKAGE, now (1.00 (1.00 PACKAGE, now -60c j BOONE DRUG CO. The KEXAIJL Store INCING I VTION OF S GARAGE ST MAIN STREET E CLEANERS sw garage, tetter prenpletely equipped to sle service, with greatcustomers. elding and Service GUARANTEED J FM^TiiiffiTITTiifl iHH WinMIHilWl1 ^ II'illI nm " . AUG A DEMOCRAT?EVERY ' >e admitted to the platform, he had o rvpuuMiic Uin Uat tkingc, the he nane tiunga, which Roosevelt had lclped to do for his people. To resent thus his good deeds, and eat tumble p?e, must indeed have been lard But he seems to gulp it down vith a relish. He ought to get his vward. When the farmer got a living for lis work, he passed it on. When the aborer got his share ai! the manufacturers, including the automobile nakcra, got their share Everything s moving: again. Ail labor can cut town in production, it is called good msiness. But the farmer is a crimilal if he tried to regulate supply and lemand. The farmer would be tickld if he could get a fair price for his ibuudance. Six bushels of wheat and !0U pounds of oranges for a dollar inly take him to the poor house. 1 will illustrate. Say in 1928 a nan had a grove that he has been >ffered 8100,000 for. That grove ays him twelve per cent on that noney. A tine home situated just ight. Me does not want to scii, has nough coming from the outside to ay aii his debts. But before 1932, ic tries to sell for $30,000 and can1 LES Do you remember E All over North C; E there was fear. Hung E "The banks are g to each other. = "No help wanted,'1 E children were crying : E "No more credit, I chant to the farmer ir EE Terror gripped the EE ed policemen rode am dren who were riotin E units were ordered to E eral Government was E ticly for a leader. E Do you remember Housekeepers wer Men worked fevei E what money they had EE Banks crashed, ch Credit was wiped E nor his bond was wor E Movie theatres w< filled with vacant stor and gaunt against a s EE idle and rusting. An nation of 120.000,000 f From the depths EE cried: "Save us!" E VOICE Then, from the C EE voice that spoke in thi EE lanes to the firesides EE ring permeated every EE Calm, confident, {= Roosevelt spoke to thi EE Here, at last, was Here, at last, was the 1 for. EE No president, or EE faced a more fateful c most dreadful form. I For C I N | VOTE HI For H?us >, .. -i'ETvK vi. rpv-Ttj; W&Cv -MrJnfr =t FHUBSDAY-jBOONB, M. C. I not do tt. It seems that the grove ! mi%p* go sifi.sntv Then the New i' Deal steps in and says, "We will give you e loan with a low rate of : | interest and long time to repay."" i i They dec'are that tlie government i i meddeis in private business, but priII vaie capital would net touch it. Pri j vate capita! did neip a Iittie, but tcit cheateo at 125 per cent tor two and a halt years' interest. That shows what Roosevelt did for the poor i farmer Hoover with his "honest" doliar dug up the roots of prosperity and threw them in the fire. They accuse the Democrats of promoting class war, but look at what the Republicans did it; the Maine election. The very rich flooded the state with campaign money. Then they said. "As Maine goes, so goes the nation." How much is it worth? In 1?S2 Iloovor carried Maine, but not the nation It seems that people arc always in r. fight. The nobles and great barons fought against King .!oh:i at Runnymerle and got the Great Charter. A; long time after that Charles I tried i to establish unlimited power Crom-j I well, Hampdon, and others stopped j j him. It was their heads or his. so PAID POLITICAL / >T WE February, 1933? iroliria. all through the Nation, ;er was alsmost as widespread, oing to close," men whispered ' was the answer to men whose for food. 'm broke myself," said the merl his "Hooverrnrt " entire Nation. In cities mountvn men. women and even chilig for food. National Guard stand by for trouble. The Fedparaiyzed. America looked fr?.nthe first of March, 1933? e hoarding food, ishly in the darkness to bury ecks bounced, away. Neither a man's word th anything. ;re vacant. The streets were es. Towering stacks stood grim smokeless sky. Machinery stood ominous silence spread over a Tightened people, of their dire agony Americans OF THE NIGHT litv of Washington, came the i night. It sped through the air of a million homes. Its vibrant section of a broken nation, courageous, Franklin Delano s people of the United States! ; the leader who could lead, man America had been waiting king, or emperor, or czar, ever hallenge. Here was chaos in its Here was blinding and paralyzContinued F a lion. State THE DEM< DEMOCRATIC C r State Senate BYT. GREER e of Representatives . F. MILLER For Sheriff I EDMINSTEN egister of Deeds UNDERDOWN iili(i!iiSiHiii!Si!!ISiiH!!Siliili!!lllillllif{ilii!ISj &&3K7J K3ra28M**W? \r3rtxxr* - " ' . . It was his. Charles JI learned noth- i < ina. and James II learned less. And j 1 now wc have the money powers and! ' L.a*idon vellinc. "Wa?t<? inpffi-! e'.ency!" When? did Grant come In? I He almost let Jay Gould and Jim j Fisk get a corner on gold, and Harding was no model. Witness the Teapot Dome and the other scandals of his administration. It looks like money bags to see L-andon's sup- 1 porters. I am not like Vice President Marshall; I do not need a five- i cent cigar. But. I want a dollar that buys one bushel of wheat from the I producer; the price should not fall i below GO cents per bushel at any i time. Oranges should be four cents 1 per pound at the highest and two J cents at the lowest, to the producer. 1 Alsout the Towns- nd plan pension.; It seems that no man would be Idiot | enough to want to pay more tnan ao- j tuui needs for anyone. 1 would like : to see how much work the.v all -do. whether their laying off would make much difference ir. unemployment or not. I believe we would see a lot of lazy old boys in the lot. I bet u rotten apple that I-an.lon doesn't give them very much. 1 want not Hoover but Franklin D. Roosevelt for prestk nVFRTI.^FMF WT iiiiiiii'iiiM FORC ing fear. Here was a place w would be fatal. And yet the de at ion cried for action?instant., Franklin Roosevelt gave / greatest hour of need. With ir inspired wisdom, he hushed thi people. Within one week afte guration hope returned to the The "hard beginning" was THREE YEARS Now look at America as v 1936: The great American indus rning an old-time tune. Farm for the present but have a futu time in our history. These Ui back. Confidence and optimis for a new and greater happine A large number of unemp alive a bitter memory and to n the job is not completed yet. brought us far along the wayThere are no food riots i money hoarding and paralyzin This is America of the N Day. This is an America pun fearless for the future. This rapidly toward a higher conc< and social responsibility. This priceless progress for a nomin DEBTS VS. HI Better a debt and a people no debt and hunger?no debt How have the New Deal They have been invested in tb ?the rugged stock of Americ this a waste of money is to ca a failure and to hold the futur A desperate and beaten p dent and conquering people ir What driving force brougb The answer?FRANKLIN k ? 'rosperity 1 and Coun >CRATIC 1 :OUNTY TICKET RICHARD KE For Survey W. R. VINE l or Commiss ELLER Mcf COY L BILL IRA EDMIN' For Congress, Nin ROBERT L. DO! Mi' V.,;-,; , , . i OCTOBER 22, 1926 lent, and my old friend Farmer Eob Doughton for congress. Hurrah for SIC DenKlvlTtuu uuact; Sincerely, L C. MI LI .EE ftoute 1, Box 300. Redlands, Calif. October, 1930. * FKUU A WESTERN?GAL, TWO FAVORS DOUGHTON Wr. Editor: It appeals to my mind that time xrill be too 3hort for our beloved 'Old North State" ever again to be '.he mother of a grand or noble conn-CMms', as the Hon. R. I.. Dougli:on, has made: so let's rally to the 'ront end give him the grandest majority that he has ever had and not 'crget the entire Democratic ticket. A SINCERE LIKE-DONG DEMOCRAT Your Credit Is Good at High Land Furniture Company "Everything for the Home" Depot St. Boone, N. C. )l!lilll!!lllilii!liii!ll!!i!lllll!ll!liillllllg TH/ JL | here one false move spcrateness of the situ- 55 clean-cut action. imerica action in its ~ icredible swiftness, and 5= 2 hysteria of a panicky 5E i uu juuiuuraoje mau- zz: United States! == hard, indeed. * * * ?== LATER H re find it ill the fall of ;trial machine is hum- =E icrs net only are safe re brighter than at any f== rited States have come =E m are paving the way :ss. =E _ - mm c _. idiU^-vJK'.v L. ployed remain to keep == smind this country that =E Franklin Roosevelt has -and victory is in sight. =2: ?nd hank crashes and g fear now. ew Deal and the New ??= ished for its sins and is an America moving ;ption of human rights =j i is an America buying =E al fee. j? [JNGER ~ restored to pay it than == and revolution. 2= millions been spent? le safest stock on earth S :an manhood. To call 5E? ill the American j eople HO UWjJtiCCVkl. ?? ieople in 1933, a confi- S i 1936. E= it all this? ?E D. 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