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Speech on Financial and industrial Problems and
the Daugherty Injunction.
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There was a difference of $10,000,000,000, and the
veriest amateur in the study of economics knows in his
mind, his heart, and his soul that it is a criipe to take
that amount of money out of circulation in so short a
period. It is bound to cause a convulsion. It is
hound to mean abandoned farms and broken homes.
It is bound to mean destitution, beggary, and suicide,
it has always been so, and always will be so.
Mr. President, 1 disclaim the very idea of being
a vengeful man, a bloodthirsty man, a vindictive man,
but 1 say that those who willfully, deliberately, per
sistently commit high crimes and misdemeanors against
a people should be punished; and if W. P. G.
and Ills associates, including the house of Morgan
Co. and the affiliated bankers who are in the conspiracy,
re~e!ved their just desert , they would spend the bal
ante of their days behind the bars.
During the reign of King llcnry the Seventh, the first
of the Tudors, he had two ministers of finance, as all
Senators will remember, named Kmpson and Dudley,
and knowing how avaricious was their master, the
King, they squeezed the people to the utmost limit t ‘
pressure could make money come. The King could do
no wrong, and while bo lived his ministers could not
be reached. But the breath was hardly out of the
body of Henry the Seventh before his son and successor,
ilenry the Eighth, brought Empson and Dudley to the
block and had their heads struck off. If Senators will
read the pages which tell of the extortions, the exac
lions, the cruelties, and the sufferings they brought
upon the people of England, and compare them with
the miseries which this Federal Reserve Board has
brought upon the American Republic, they will ob
serve that the one page is almost white while tlie
other is black as hell.
Mr. President, I have not now the time to go
this money question and trace its history. From the
time the Civil War began up to this moment there have
been vampires and harpies in every great city—Boston,
Philadelphia, New York, Chicago—who apparently have
had the appetites <>i the horse leech, and were willing
to suck the last drop of blood from the veins of the
American people. |
Those who control the volume of money are like;
those who have their hands around your throat; they
can choke off or let on the flow of blood. They ha' ■
your life in their power, The men who can expand the
currency and lift prices, or contract the currency
and depress prices, are the men whose fingers will still
be white while they are heaping up gold which they
take from the bands of those whose fingers grow rough'
and red in the fields of industry. I
That is a long chapter as familiar to me as my
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alphabet. Some day I am going to take the time lo
go into it; but 1 will not do it now. At the present’
time the Federal Government is seeking to intimidate
nol only the labor unions but the entire body of the.
American people by writs of injunction. The railroads
must he run by a life-term Federal judge, appointed,
apparently, after the Government had had a eonsulta- [
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$ion with him.
Judge Wllkers u of Chicago was not appointed be-] to j
jucceed Judge Landis until the railroad strike had
. gun. Did Daugherty have a secret consultation with
turn? Lid Daugherty know what his rulings would ho? I
Naturally those are questions which we can not answer,
kut I will say to Senators in all seriousness that the
Situation is one which calls for deep and anxious
thought.
it never was intended that life-termers should
rule this country. The very spirit of our Constitution,j
its very words, and the examples of the fathers show
that they meant that the Government should be con
ducted by representatives who often went back to the
people to he Indorsed or repudiated, to lie kept in
to be thrown out. These life-termers were never in
tended to rule this Republic, and, If they by ,the splendor of)
God, they never shall rule it. want to start a j
revolt which will spread from the labor union and the I
workshop to the farm and field, store and factory, let
Daugherty lake one more insolent step, and lie will!
hear the rumble, in the distance. The life-termers are .
not our bosses. The people are our bosses, and the |
people shall rule In spite of Daugherty and ills life-!
termer Wiikerson. I
Mr. President, reading in the New York
this morning an account of the character of evidence j
which Daugherty and his regiment of assistants were ’
putting before the court, I could not help thinking that
there is not an intelligent, justice of the peace from j
Texas to Georgia, and from Georgia to Maine, who
would not spurn that character of evidence and sa.v
that I* Iras no business in a court. There has been no
legal evidence of any conspiracy, Grimes committed
by one man have been imputed to another, and tho
Government has gone out (o settle economic questions,
which, if settled by legislation at, all, ought to be set¬
tled by the Senate and the House of Representatives.
Not for one moment would I defend a murderer, a
man who commits arson. In fact a man who deliberate -1
ly commits, without legal provocation, any sort of
crime; but in all cases I would think it rational
consider the circumstances aud the provocation,
would not try A for the crime of B. i would not try
a citizen of Oklahoma for a crime of a citizen of
banio. I would produce, if I could, the evidence
each criminal and let each criminal answer for his
crime, unless it could be shown beyond a
doubt that some other person was his accomplice
before or after the fact.
Mr. President, It is not niv purpose to go into
merits of this particular railroad strike, but 1 remind
tho Senate and the country that tho railway owners, as
they call themselves, ha\e tlnio and again dolled the
decision of the Labor Board and no injunction or
mandamus has been issued against those railroad ow.t
ers and operators to compel them to bend their
haughty heads to the mandates of the Labor Board.
But when the Labor Board made a drastic cut of
something like 40 per cent, as I remember, in tkr
wages of those who work then the l^thor Board be-|
t ame at once clothed with the powers of omnipotence, <
and Its orders had to lie obeyed if it took every sol
dier in the Army. At one time this Attorney General,
who can not find time to prosecute and punish such
criminals ar. C harles W, Morse and J. U Phillips, said] the]
tbat he would string tile United States Army along
railroads and have the railroads run by the Army.
THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL, THOMSON,
i remember that it was always legal for the men
of money—the employers—to organize their union
t 0 deliberate upon their plans, to fix the hours of labor,
to dictate the scale of wages. I remember that it was
scarcely 100 years ago that the laboring people of
England wrested from the Crown the right to organize
themselves in self-defense. It is the history of re
form, civil and legal, that the Government never has
listened to the pica of right simply because it was
right, but the Government has always given way when
those who were wronged showed that they were de
termined not to submit any longer,
Did the English Government grant Catholic eman
for Ireland of its own free will? It did not.
It was not until, under the leadership of Daniel O
Connell, the Government of Great Britain, headed by
the Iron Duke of Wellington, saw that they were drift
ing into civil war that the Government backed down
and repealed the code which denied the rights of man
to Catholics in Ireland and in England,
So with tlie Chartists, who were hounded down
and whose public meetings were broken up by cavalry
charges, men on horseback with sabers in their hands
riding down men, women, and children because they
met at. Manchester in the open field to discuss their
condition, their grievances, and to petition the Govern
ment for redress. What did the Chartists demand?
The annual Parliament, manhood suffrage, representa
lion for great ( ilies like Leeds, Bristol and Manchester,
the abolition of rotten boroughs, where an old chimney,
as at old Saruin, was represented in Parliament by two
members, and whore the Duke e: Norfolk had the
right to sell 11 seats in the House of Commons, and
other peers had almost equal numbers for sale, and
they were sold just as a horse was sold at a fair. Did
the Government give way to argument? It did not.
It gave way only when it saw that even Wellington’s
orders to his troops, “Sharp grind your sabers a 3 ai
Waterloo,'’ had no effect at all upon the people and
that there would be a bloody civil war unless man
was recognized as the image of his God whether he
wore the “hodden gray" or whether he wore the
broadcloth.
Ho we not all remember the time so late as that
of the reign of Queen Elizabeth when the laboring man
"as under obligation to work for the first man that
asked him to work, and to accept whatever pay the
man offered him, else he was a criminal? Do we not
all remember that under the same Queen and her pre
decessors, if a tnan was a third time hungry and a third
time asked for something to eat, he forfeited his life
and went to the gibbet like a felon who had raped •<
woman or murdered a man?
How have the laboring men lifted themselves? Not
always without wrongdoing, not. at all; not always
without committing crime, not at all. They are hu
man, just as the capitalists are. When they have too
much power they will abuse it, just as the capitalists
do. But every thinker, every reader, knows that or
sanitation, concert of action, which is now penalized
as a conspiracy, is the thing to which tho under dog
owes the fact that he is no longer to be trampled upon
with impunity.
M here did tho railroad owners get the railroads?
From whom did they steal them? Y/o know who the
robbers were, but who were robbed? Let me give you
one instance, and 1 can prove every word of it. The
people of Georgia with their own money built the Cen¬
tral Railroad, which connected the seaport of Savannah
with the great city of Atlanta. It cost $7,500,000.
The Legislature of Georgia encouraged guardians, trus :
lees, r.ml administrators to put their estate funds in the
stock of that road. Those investments were virtually
guaranteed by the State of Georgia, A hand of spec
saw in the Central Railroad, with its small
capitalization and splendid territory, an opportunity
for exploitation, and they sent Pat Calhoun, of noto
cions Pan Francisco and Cleveland memory, to Hetty
Green, aleo somewhat celebrated, who owned the ma
jority stock of the Central Railroad. Pat Calhoun,
with bis smooth tongue, persuaded Hetty Green to sell
to this syndicate, the West Point Terminal crowd, a
controlling interest in the. Central Railroad of Georgia,
As soon as they had bought control they put a mort
gage of $23,000,000 upon the road which had cost our
$7,500,000. Then they let the roadbed run
down and the depots become dilapidated, and the
business was neglected until the receipts fell off and
the management could not pay the interest on the
mortgage. What then happened? They asked a life
termer Federal judge for a receivership and got it, and
the receiver sold that railroad at public outcry as one
would sell a cow. It was bought in by the robbers
who had put the mortgage on it. it, was turned over
to the elder J. P. Morgan to he reorganized in the
most approved New York style. By the time he got
through reorganizing it tho road was burdened with
$35,000,000 of indebtedness, and upon that sum the
shippers and passengers, whether in Georgia or out of
it, have been taxed ever since. Between $7,500,000
and $56,000,000, what is there but robbery and the
action of a band robbers,
The same tiling is true of the transcontinental
railroads, I.ook at tho report of Patterson, of Cali
and learn from that oiiicial report that the
Union Pacific and the Central Pacific never cost those
live exploiters one single penny. T«he money of towns
and cities, the money of counties and States, tho
money of individuals, and the guaranty of the Federal
Government built every mile of that railroad, and after
( he Government and the people had built it it belonged
to the robbers, just as it does now.
Mr. President, if any Senator should introduce a
resolution looking to a perpetual lease or to the sale
of the Potomac River, the Ohio River, tlio Mississippi
River, or the Tennessee River to a private corporation
lie would he howled put of the Chamber with shouts
of derision, scorn, and contempt. And yet without a
thought we have given to private corporations immense¬
ly more power over transportation, and therefore over
va ' ues a,1( * therefore over the welfare of the people,
than if we were to lease every navigable stream of
" s,fr in the Republic.
Some days ago a western Senator introduced a
mild-mannered resolution to make inquiry as to the ad
vigabiltty of having the Government, that is, all the peo
pie, own the coal mines. There is a vast difference be
tween the coal deposit which nature put there when it
put the soil on top of it and the harvest of wheat or of
corn or of cotton which depends every year upon indi¬
vidual labor and the chance of the season. I voted tor
that resolution, and if it ever goes a step further and
proposes to have the Government pxereise its power of
eminent domain and take in charge the coal fields, th?
express companies, the telegraph companies, the tele¬
phone companies, and the railroad companies, 1 shall
be found fighting in the front ranks for it.
People say the Government can not run railroads;
but it runs the post offices; it runs the parcel post; it
runs the Rural Free Delivery Service, of the credit for
which the Government is so anxious to deprive me, I
having introduced the first mandatory resolution for
it some 30 years ago, when my head was red and ray
heart was much younger'than it is today.
It seems to me anomalous, monstrous, that 5 men
or 5,000 men or 500,000 should have the right to say
whether or not my fireplace shall be Warmed at night
during the cold winter and whether or not I shall ride:
on a train or ship any freight at reasonable rates that
wil! allow me a chance to live off my farm. A few days
ago a Nebraska shipper sent: a car load of corn to
Atlanta. After the railroads had modestly taken but
what they claimed for freight the Nebraska shipper—
and I wish the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Ashurst) to
hear the figures.—got 52 cents, The Georgia
will pay that much and a half more to get 1 bushel of
that edrn.
Mr. President, we dare to call ourselves a pro¬
gressive Nation. As a matter of fact, in some respects
we are, while in others we are the most backward peo¬
ple in the civilized world. Ever since 1868 the English 1
Government has owned its telegraphs; it now owns its!
telephones; and one can go into any English post of- j
lice and either write a letter or a card or send a tele¬
gram or hold a telephone conversation with anyone in
the United Kingdom at a nominal cost. Here, how¬
ever, we are in 1922 still bound hand and foot to the
express companies, to the telegraph companies, to the
telephone companies, and to the railroad companies.
I say, and will defend It in any form whatsoever,
that my sympathies are with the great public and with
the laboring people, without whose toil these men of
the office would never ride into the harbor down here
on the Potomac and east the anchor of imperial yachts
so magnificent that one almost inquires what king it is
who lias come to visit Washington City. Mr. President,
the men of whom I- speak never created any wealth.
The brokers, the bankers, the railroad executives never
’reated any wealth; the mine’operators never did. It is
■he men who take hold with their hands or the men
who invent with their brains who create wealth. I for
one stand with Robert Burns and Thomas Jefferson,
and say—
“A man’s a man for a’ that."
l.et its have laws that will do justice to high and
low, to black and white, to town and country; but we
(hall never have them so long as we allow the money
of the country to be held in the hands of the unscru¬
pulous few, and the transportation companies to be
ruled by an unscrupulous few, nor any of the public
utilities to be exploited for private gain.
DR. LYMES H. CRAWFORD, MARTIN, STEPHENS
COUNTY, THANKS FRIENDS FOR SUPPORT.
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I wish to thank my thousands of friends—many of
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And to those who did not support me in this race,
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namely, that of supporting the person of my choice.
Thanking you all for the goodness and kindness
shown me, I am,
Sincerely,
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