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Suppose, as a test of national issues, we take the chief issues presented to Congress by the President in his last two messages. Those issues are: 1. Tax reduction. 2. Water power, as represented at Muscle Shoals and Boulder Dam. 3. National defense. 4. Tariff. 5. Industrial relations. 6. Prohibition. 7. Farm relief. 8. Reorganization of the Government. 9. Foreign policy...
...power plant would furnish electricity to at least twelve states and should be operated by the government rather than private individuals or corporations, for the dam has direct influence on flood control and navigation. Moreover the government already owns the site and therefore would not have to incur the expense and the consequent higher rates that an outsider would be forced to charge...
Anna Putriuniate, 17, native of Lithuania, dressmaker in Montreal, Canada, wanted to become a resident of the U. S. She paid a man $50 to show her how. He took her one Sunday night to the gorge dam at Niagara Falls, lowered her by a rope to the trestle of the Michigan Central Railroad. With little, cautious steps she walked along the cold steel girders, while the Whirlpool Rapids 250 feet below howled at her. She was shrewd enough to put her legs in trousers instead of flapping, treacherous skirts. She reached U. S. soil. Last week she was arrested...
...present indications, Governor Smith will be nominated for president by the Democrats at Houston next summer. And after that, if the dam does not break before will come the deluge, a deluge to throw religion into relief, and overflow a hundred volumes of Americana, or Heffliana. Prohibition has been a sufficient bone of contention, but it may readily be seen that man can never be aroused to battle over his right to indulgance or his desire to forbid it, as he can be harried into charging blindly when an ingrained and unreasoning religious prejudice is invoked...
...gives a tinker's dam whether or not a pig in Shelby, N. C., slobbers on James Ledbetter...