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...overtime wages (and salaries above a certain figure) in war bonds. (Senator Brown's plan is dear to the heart of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt.) The President was confident that Congress would give him the kind of controls he wants. One reason for his confidence was a Gallup poll last week which showed that 66% of the people polled approve an over-all ceiling on wages and prices (including farm prices...
Today, in the midst of our titanic struggle to preserve such hard won rights as the right to vote, we look on while millions of Americans are denied this privilege. Eight Southern States require the payment of a poll tax before a vote can be cast, which is the same thing as withholding the right from millions of poor farmers and workers who can't afford such a levy no matter how small the amount may seem to outsiders. It is not part of democracy that people should be billed for their votes. The free, unrestricted use of that privilege...
...each of the eight Southern States sanctioning the poll tax, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Arkansas, Virginia, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas, a small, self-perpetuating group or class holds political control, nominating their candidates for public office while the other two-thirds of the voters have no say in the matter. This minority has entrenched itself in power in each of these States and will go to almost any extreme to maintain the status quo--their present jobs and their unchallenged political supremacy. To have the poor farmer and laborer get the vote would be to sign away their power...
...stand silent beside those who dislike our system of democratic government, or who are crippling it because of their selfishness, is not only shortsighted, but dangerous. It is still not a choice between winning the war or maintaining our democracy. We can do both. We can pass the anti-poll tax bill in Congress and not be any further from victory. We'll be nearer the double victory that America needs...
...people are already willing. A Gallup poll showed 66% in favor of an over-all ceiling, only 24% opposed. Farmers disowned the greedy Congressional farm bloc by approving 64%; labor disowned its Congressional friends by voting...