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SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1920
SOME OLD-FASHIONED “BUNK”
FROM AN OLD LINE POLITICIAN
Former Governor James E. Camp
bell, of Ohio, chairman of the Ohio ;
delegation to the Democratic nation
al convention, has issued from that
oornor of the political graveyard
which he inhabits an hysterical and
demagogical open letter urging that
the senate investigate the advance
campaign fund which had been raised
by the Republican National Chairman
Hays preliminary to the national cam
paign. Professing to be opposed to
“debauchery in politics,” Mr. Camp
bell alleges that people have been
“held up and forced to contribute to
a colosal and unheard of campaign
fund fo'r the election of 1920.” These
unwilling contributors, Governor
Campbell complains, “were told that
the very safety of their business de
pended upon the raising of enormous
sums to be at the disposition of Mr.
Will H. Hays and his lieutenants in
the Republican national committee
allied state organizations. “Not prin
ciple, not policy, but pocketbook only
was to win.” Warming up to his sub
ject as its campaign possibilities
grew upon him Mr. Campbell referred
to the Republican campaign fund as
“conspiracy fund,” and alleged that
the “corruption” involved in raising
a Republican national campaign fund
had “bred corruption.” “How unfor
tunate it is,” laments Mr. Campbell,
ready to burst into tears as he
reaches his climax, "that the faith of
the American people in their govern
ment should be blasted by the spec
tacle of a presidency upon the auction
block,” ets., etc.
This is the old-fashioned “bunk”
once so popular as campaign mater
ial, sweeping charges based upon
newspaper gossip coupled with loud
protestations of outraged virtue on
behalf of the politicians by their op
ponents to corrupt the electorate and
ruin the republic. It was another dis
tinguished Ohio Democratic states
iiici.li w iiu, uApiaiuuig ci uv
feat many years ago, exclaimed,
“-’em; they bought us!”
The truth if, of course, that the
methods employed by the Republican
national organization under Chairman
Hays for raising funds necessary for
the conduct of the national campaign,
have differed from those employed in
the past principally m their open,
above-board and thoroughly clean
and conscientious character. It is
the party in power, with its tremen
dous control over American business,
that has the chance to terrorize men
and institutions out of sympathy with
it into making contributions to the
cause. It has gone so far as to
threaten banking institutions depen
dent upon the federal system, poli
tically controlled, with the conse
quences that might follow to pay an
“assessment.’
After a disgraceful era of profiteer
ing and imposition upon the public
by contractors and others a small per
centage of whose ill gotten gains
would furnish the Democratic organ
ization with the most tremendous
campaign fund in history, it might
be wise for Democratic politicians to
maintain a discreet silence relative
to the relationship between terrorism
and corruption and campaign funds.
There is absolutely nothing to war
rant except the desire to procure
partisan advantage by the utterance
of campaign libels for the assertion
by Governor Campbell or any other
demagogic Democratic politician that
there has been anything corrupt or
irregular about the collection or dis
bursement of campaign funds under
the present Republican national or
ganization.
The Republican national organiza
tion has pursued, and will continue
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to_j>ursu.e,,3. policy with refei'ence to
campaign funds for which the most'
severe scrutiny is invited, with com
plete confidence that there is nothing
in the record or outside the record
that will reflect discredit upon the
campaign management. It may be
assumed that the outbreak of Gov
Campbell is typical of what may be
expected from a political leadership
which goes into the campaign of 1920
knowing that the people are anxious
ly awaiting an opportunity to annihi
late it at the polls, and which in the
nature of things will be unable to
say anything much unless it engages
in abuse and billingsgate in the hope
that the people may thus be fooled
into forgetting the issues.
HE KEPT US OUT OF SUGAR
THOUGH NOT OUT OF WAR
The National Sugar Equalization
Board could have bought for the
United States the entire Cuban sugar
crop in August of last year at 6%
cents a pound and sought permission
of President Wilson to do so. This
request was renewed in November of
the same year. In both cases the
president acknowledged receipt of the
letters containing the requests but
failed to give the board the reuired
authority to make the purchase.
In 1918 the price paid the producers
for Louisana sugar was nine cents a
pound. In 1919 Louisana had but a
half crop and the Attorney General
gave the Louisana cane farmers the
privilege of selling their sugar at
seventeen or eighteen cents a pound.
This permission then left the way
open for producers of other grades
of sugar, or rather speculators in
other kinds of sugar to charge large
ly what they please, and these two
circumstnaces now are responsible
for the fact that the American pub
lic is paying about thirty cents a
pound for sugar that it should be
buying for something like eleven or
twleve cents.
It is estimated that as a result of
[ this bungling of handling the sugar
situation the American people will
be mulcted of a sum of money var
iously figured at $800,000,000 to $1,
000.000,000.
No excuse has been advanced so
far as we are aware, for the pres
ident’s failure to allow the Equaliza
tion board to buy the Cuban crop.
Of the Louisana deal, Representative
Louis W. Fairbield says:
“Thus the government undertook to
compensate the sugar dealers of
Louisana for their crop failure by
permitting them to fix the price at
18 cents when at the same time the
government knew perfectly well that
Louisana produces but a tithe of the
sugar used in the country. In the
same reasoning, if any state had
raised but half its usual crop of
wheat the government might have
justified itself in permitting the farm
er to charge $4 per bushel for wheat
and thus have raised that necessary
of life by 100 per cent. The govern
ment has no excuse for the bung
ling manner in which this sugar sit
uation has been handled. The Amer
ican people are paying the bill. Even
now if the Department of Justice
would act as it is empowered by law
to act, the upward movement of sugar
could be arrester) The unfortunate
long-continued absence of the Chief
Executive in Europe, coupled with
his unfortunate and most lamentable
sickness, has deprived the American
people of the service of their chief
executive in full power and strength
for 14 months of the time since
December of 1918. In other words, for
14 months out of 17 the chief execu
tive of the nation has been unable be
cause of absence or illness to pro
perly attend to the domestic affairs
of a nation of 110,000,000 people.”
THERE ARE OTHERS
What Nome needs most in the line
of improvement measures, points
out the plain-spoken editor of the
Nome Nugget, is a dose of “pep”—
a little of the real get-up-and-get, put
your shoulder to the wheel and shove
her along with a jump spirit.
The principal trouble with us is
that we are suffering with the jaun
lice of pessimism. Everything we
look at is either colored a dark blue
or tinged with yellow.
Another thing is that we have too
many citizens who are convinced
they alone are endowed with ca
pacity to run things right and who
believe that no one should even dare
to think differently for themselves.
Self-esteem is a fine thing, we’ll
admit, but when it gets a crust on
it, its possession is not conducive to
good team work. And good team work
is the thing that rescues debilitated'
towns from the slough of despond
and converts them into thriving
communities- Once in a while an
individual appears who is able to
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accomplish such things alone, but
not often. It is morally certain that
there are none in Nome who possess
such ability, although there are some
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who seem to think they have it. The '
fact that they are here, however
proves that their cabapilities are not
much larger than those of the aver
age person. Men with extraordinary
capabilities don’t linger around vil
lages like Nome.
As we said before, Nome needs
team work, not egotism and self
conceit, if it is to make progress.
Leaving it to George to do ail the
boosting- won’t bring the district to
the desired state of prosperity. If
it is to be accomplished at all, it
must be done by everyone pulling
|and working together with one view
and aim. Instead of cultivating fac
tions and fostering petty enmities,
we should take our coats off and go
to work on a sensible plan to attract
attention to what we have to offer to
the capitalist and the settler.
COLUMBIA, WONDROUS ROSE OF
BROTHERHOOD
Like twin stars are your dear eyes
of blue
And they glory with the light of
Spirit as true
In all this wide world nothing like
you grows
You’re the blend of all nations
Dear Brotherhood Rose.
Yes, blended so true by a wise Mas
ter hand,
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every fair land.
A life-giving stream in the ocean
that flows.
Thus in you blooms His purpose,
Dear Brotherhood Rose.
Oh Columbia, to you every nation
it’s gift will bring;
May each one add to your beauty
‘till peerless it blows.
And our voices all blend through the
years in one tongue as we sing:
It is my Soul that gives Soul to you,
Brotherhood Rose.
Hearts speak from all lands through
your prophetic eyes;
Some from Boreal shores, and from
soft southern skies.
They tell of a world free of war and
its woes,
‘Tis the world that you herald,
Dear Brotherhood Rose.
You come newly crowned by your
fight-for-right stars,
Like the dawn that is crowned by
sun-glorified bars.
True symbol of friendship, though
fearing no foes,
We will bear out your symbol,
Dear Brotherhood Rose.
Written for Columbia’s birthday, .
by Mrs. James Gilmour, Cordova,
Alaska.
(Copyright Pending).
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