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OF WOM SENATE
Record of the Democrats in Last Year
and a Half—Speech Before
the Legislature.
Senator Hoke Smith’s speech before
the joint session of the Georgia legis
lature on July 18th was a very clear
statement not only of his own work in
the Senate and of his views on na
tional and international matters, but
gave an insight Into the trend of Dem
ocratic policies.
Senator Smith’s first work in the
Senate was in aiding the passage of
the bill creating the Children’s Bu
reau, the object of which is to study
the problems of child life and to help
in developing the highest type of cit
izens. He said he would rather see
the national government raise the
money by income taxes and spend it
for such causes than to leave the peo
ple indebted to men for great char
ities.
Arbitration Treaties.
He took an active part in the mod
ification of the so-called “Peace Trea
ties” measure, which was given an at
tractive name, but which had within
itself elements of grave danger. Un
der the proposed treaties foreign gov
ernments could have demanded arbi
tration of questions involving our
purely governmental policies. They
could have demanded arbitration of
our right to hold the Panama canal
zone, of questions affecting the admis
sion of aliens into the United States,
and the admission of aliens into the
educational institutions in the several
states, of questions involving the Mon
roe doctrine, and of questions involv
ing the alleged indebtedness or mon
eyed obligations of the Southern
states.
N Senator Smith said:
‘‘To bring the problem immediately
home to ourselves, they could have de
manded an arbitration of the liability
of Georgia for the bonds issued during
reconstruction times, and repudiated
by the state. Indeed, my colleague and
I were advised that pending the consid
eration of the treaty letters with refer
ence to the repudiated bonds had al
ready been presented at the state de
partment.”
Amendments advocated by Senator
Smith were adopted correcting all
these dangers.
The Japanese Question.
Senator Smith continued:
‘‘The importance of excluding ns a
question of arbitration the right of
aliens to enter our country, to enter
the schools of the states and to buy
land, has recently attracted especial
attention in connection with the deter
mined purpose of the white people of
the Pacific coast to protect themselves
against Asiatic immigration. 1 sym
pathize with them in their determina
tion to preserve the beautiful slopes
west of the Rocky mountains for the
white men who are now there, and for
those who may grow up to inhabit the
soil of their fathers.
“Chinese and Japanese already in
sufficient numbers have landed upon
their coast to teach them the diffi
culties which may come from race
problems. We may find from their sit.
uation at least one source of comfon.
From their troubles the whole country
is realizing the difficulties with which
we have had to contend, and they are
helping us make converts to the doc
trine that, wg must be left to handle
our race troubles for ourselves.
“In this connection, I wish to add
that I voted for two battleships. I
believe it essential to the peace of this
country that war vessels of the United
States shall be strong enough to pro-
P u r shores apd ouf foreign goijj
merce front pnv * oe - ' believe it Es
sential that our iilen-of-war should be
able to control the oOean west of us.
We need fear no trouble on the east.’*
J Fight on Big Pension Bill.
• Senator Smith explained fqlly hi*
opposition to the big pension bill
which it was sought to enact at the
first session in which he served. The
Sherwood bill which the House had
passed carried an increase estimated
at as high as eighty-five million dol
lars a year. Senator Smith started the
fight by attacking special pension bills,
following up with assaults upon the
general bill which was passed by a
substitute which reduced the increase
to about twenty millions.
The senator gave an account of his
fight on the bill known as the work
men’s compensation act which was re
ally designed to deprive railroad em
ployes of their rights under the Em
ployers’ Liability Act. The bill was
finally defeated by Tienator Smith on
the last day of the session. He said
he thought a perfected bill might be
passed next winter.
His Committee Assignments.
Senator Smith continued:
“In the reorganization last March
where I had the opportunity to select
somewhat for myself the committees
upon which I would serve, 1 deter
minded to remain upon the postoffice
and post roads committee of the Sen
ate and upon the committee on agri
culture, rather than to go instead up
on committees perhaps more showy,
because 1 believe that these two com
mittees furnish especial opportunity
to care in a practical way for those
questions that would affect directly the
majority of the people of the state,
and I retained my positions upon them
as a means of watching your inter
ests.
Agricultural Extension Work.
“The importance of agriculture to
our entire country is more thoroughly
appreciated at present than at any
past time. With us in Georgia it fur-
the clnef of prosperity.
HARDLY KNOW HER
But This Does Not Bother Mrs.
Burton, Under the
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When the farmer prospers every occu
pation and every line of industry in
Georgia prospers. When the farmer
fails to make a profit from his crop
money is scarce in the state and the
complaint of hard times is heard on
all sides.”
He explained his agricultural ex
tension work bill which he introduced
last year and which came within one
vote of passing. He expects to pass
it at the next session. He said:
"Under its provisions, in a short
time, we will have a trained expert
in every county in the state showing,
by demonstration, all that is worked
out at the state college of agriculture
and experiment station.”
Marketing Crops.
“Early last year, after a conference
with the president and other officers
of the Farmers’ Union, I introduced
a bill to create a market division in
the department of agriculture. The
work of this division was to investi
gate systems of marketing farm prod
ucts, co-operative and otherwise, in
practice in various sections of the
United States, to collect data with
reference to them and to distribute
the data thus collected to farmers and
farm organizations.
“Investigation has disclosed the fact
that an alarming waste takes place be
tween the producer and consumer of
farm products. Where the farmer re
ceives a dollar the average consumer
pays two dollars for the farm product.
To learn how to stop waste, and
to divide the saving between the farm
er and the consumer is the great
problem of the market bureau of the
agricultural department.
“I succeeded in having attached to
the agricultural appropriation bill a
provision under which this division
has already Been started in the agri
cultural department, and I belief?
will grow to be of great service to the
farmers and to the people generally.”
Tariff Revision.
Senator Smith spoVe of the reor
ganization of the senate last March
under a plan that has made the com
mittees hiore responsive to the senti
ments of the country and as a conse
quence the tariff bill is more Demo
cratic than when it passed the House.
He said:
“The finance committee organized
under this new practice has reported
U> the Senate the House tariff bill
P’ith a number of amendments. For
the first time in fifty years legislation
intended to take the burdens off the
masses of the people has found no
resistance in the Democratic Senate. It
must be conceded by all that the Sen
ate Democrats have made the tariff
bill more Democratic than it was
when it reached the Senate. I will
say for my associate Democrats on
the finance committee of the Senate,
after working with them an average of
ten hours a day for more than two
months, I have never known nine men
to show more entire freedom from im
proper influence or more devoted pur
pose in everything they did to serve
the great body of their fellow-citizens.
“Nearly all the time for half a cen
tury the Republican party has main
tained a protective tariff so high that
foreign competition in many lines of
industries was prevented. Then under
a system which it fostered combina
tions destroyed domestic competition.
The consumers of the country were
forced to pay largely more for what
they used than would have been charg
ed them under fair competition among
sellers. The Republican party has
gone further. It has made favorites
out of particular classes. It has re
ceived from them the funds with which
to carry on their campaigns and in
return has paid them back ten fold
by the money which it has aided them
to unjustly take from the pockets of
the people.
Plan of Tariff Reduction.
“The Democratic party has under
taken to reform the tariff downward
in - .'eieu uiuncuC y.Ojj-’
osltions.
“First, the raising of revenues.
“Second, the production of legiti
mate competition, to the end that fair
prices shall be charged consumers.
“Third, no taxes, or the lowest pos
sible taxes, upon the necessaries of
life and those things used by the great
body of the people.
“Fourth, high taxes upon luxuries.
“Each of these propositions has en
tered into the construction of the new
tariff bill. For the work of the Demo
crats of the House, shown by the tar
iff bill which they sent us, I accord the
highest praise, but I declare without
fear of dispute, the Democrats of the
Senate have improved the bill, and
have made it more completely con
form to the four purposes which I have
mentioned.
“Both the House and Senate Demo
crats placed jute bagging and cotton
ties on the free list. Both placed wire
fencing on the free list. Both placed
agricultural implements on the free
list, and what has been known as the
farmers’ free list, so much discussed
two years ago, when passed by the
House and rejected by the Senate, is
now contained in the tariff bill which
passed the House and which has been
approved by the Democratic caucus of
the Senate without a dissenting vote.
And what I wish to say to you today
Is we have the votes in the Senate
to pass the bill.”
The Currency Bill.
On the currency bill Senator Smith
said he was opposed to substituting
three per cent, bonds for the two per
cents, now used as a basis for the na
tional bank currency, but favored pay
ing off the bonds with treasury notes.
He saijd: ,
“We have now $985,500,000 of gold
coin deposited in the treasury, and
gold certificates issued for it. These
gold certificates circulate as money all
over the United States. We have $150,-
000,000 reserve gold held against $346,-
600,000 of what is commonly called
greenbacks. We have $103,500,000 of
unapplied gold in the treasury. Our
gold coin in the treasury amounts to
$1,237,000,000.
“We couid Easily substitute treasury
botes for the gold certificates and for
the greenbacks. If we then further
more substituted treasury notes for the
national bank notes, we could place
the $750,000,000 of bonds now bear
ing interest against the government
in the treasury to be used if neces
sary to increase our supply of gold,
making really a reserve amounting in
gold to $1,237,000,000 and, in bonds, to
$750,000,000 against an issue of treas
ury notes amounting to $2,084,000,000.
“The most cautious would concede
that this condition -would be safe and
T vastly prefer such a course to the
issue of bonds bearing 3 per cent, in
terest, or even to the continuation of
the outsanding 2 per cent, bonds.
“No currency system would be com
plete that did not take into considera
tion the importance of farm credits.
Thorough study is now being given to
this subject, and 1 believe in the near
future action will be had by which
rates of interest charged to farmers
may be reduced and increased facil
ities given for farm loans.
"Without discussing further in detail
what has been taking place during the
past two years in Washington, I wish
to say that if every day had forty
eight hours and there was nothing to
do but to work, every hour would
furnish there an opportunity to serve
you.”
In closing, the senator paid a high
tribute to President Wilson, and sev
eral times during the speech he spoke
of the good work of Senator Bacon.
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A1 so we have farms of all
sizes located in all parts of the
state including several near
Winder and in the Piedmont
belt.
Also a good deal of city
property located in Winder,
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