Too Late To Classify

Too Late To Classify

By Rhm*1I Kay—(From the Crotcoat

City, Flo., Journal)

Standing on the fringe of the crowd while Claude Pepper waa making a speech in which be prom* ised more money for the old folks, more pay for labor, new hospitals and free medical care for the sick, more schools, more roads, and unlimited prosperity, I over* heard a farmer ask a friend where ' he was going to get the money.

"Why," his friend replied, “he’s gonna get it from big business, from the Wall Street crowd and . the bankers, the filthy rich.*’

"Oh," said the fanner, “that’s all right, I was afraid he was gonna tax ufc for it.”

This is a typical example of the thinking a lot of folks practice. They think of themselves as the “poor working man,” the "little man” and assume that money for government comes from the socalled rich, the corporations, the banks and industry.

They do not realise that as citizens of the United States they are - hea’ily in debt now and going deeper in debt every day. They do not realise that all of the socalled socialistic blessings of government are costing them plenty.

If you walked up to that farmer who thought it was tall right to tax big business for more-money for government spenders and tried to show him that he is the poor sap who is going to pay -for it, be would call you a liar. •

Yet that poor dumb cluck, -if he still has a dollar bill in his pocket has a piece of paper that is only worth in actual buying power about 80 cents. If govern-, ment expenditures continue - at their present rate and Mr. Pepper brings all the blessings he so glibly talks about, that dollar will buy much less.

Everything that farmer buys is taxed. Business, big and little, passes the tax on to the customer. It has to or it could not' stay id __ business. His clothes, his food,' everything -Kte” buys is taxied arid' taxed and taxed and- as a con-' sumer he pays he tax.

Congress, ’if it were to go stark staring mad, and it might, could pass a law giving the old folks 8500 a month, provide free medical care and hospitalization for every bodv and raise waecg to tSan hour for common labor/ Fine you say. That would be wonderful. ••••• '

All right. When that happens the old folks f500 per lriorith’ wouldn’t buy as much as f 50 buys today. The laborer’s |5 per hour ; wouldn’t feed or clothe his family half as well as a dollar an' hour does today. We would all be far worse off, and with the nation bankrupt the "working man” and"