The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, February 11, 1918, Page 25

- House Kills Social Insurance Congressmen Vote Not to Get Facts in Regard to Measure Europe Found Profitable T Washington Bureau, Nonpartisan Leader HAT happens to the farmer, or the farmer’s widow, or to the farm laborer or his ) widow, or to the wage worker or his widow, when they grow old with- out having been able to save enough to support them in their sunset years? An American poet once wrote “Over the Hills to the Poorhouse,” to express . the horror of dependent old age that haunted the farm household. . Disguisg it in' one way or another —the fear of the poorhouse, or of a condition of dependence that brings the sameépumluation, is still with the average gtruggling farmer. That is why he fights so hard for a square deal from the grain buyer and the beef trust. He wants to save himself and his wife from ever having to ask any- body for a cent. Of course it is worse with the tenant farmer, and the farm laborer, and the town wage-worker. Charity is. sup- posed to look after them, somehow. But charity,r when you come to meet it from the side of the man or woman wanting help, is a cold machine. If it does feed you, it lets you know that you have lost. your right to run your own affairs, its authority. INVEQTIGATORS ASK FAVORABLE REPORT That is why the modern govern- ments, everywhere outside the United States, have taken up old age pen- sions, and insurance against sickness and lack of work. They had to meet the fact that only a small part of the people who get sick are able to afford more than ‘a few days’ sickness, or more thanf a few days without earning bread and meat and potatoes for their families. They had to meet the heart- breaking fact that less than half of the old couples have enough money laid by, so that they can quit work and quit - worrying. A resolution was introduced in the house two years ago, providing that a report should be made by a special commission of five persons, on the need for this “social insurance” in the United States. The house committee on labor heard testimony from State Insurance Commissioner Potts of Illi- nois, Insurance Commissioner Nesbit of the District of Columbia, now ad- ministering the soldiers’ and sailors’ You are a child, under insurance act, and other big men in the public’'s side of the insurance game. They agreed that a social in- surance was needed, and they asked that the investigation and report be ordered. The committee on labor made a favorable report on the resolution by unanimous vote. The same resolu- tion was again unanimously urged by the committee in this session. It came up to a rollcall on January 16. But here is the pity of it. Meyer London, a Socialist, had intro- duced the resolution. Rainey of Illinois, one of the loudest reactionaries in the house, had set up a cry that “this is pure socialism,” and also that “while making the world safe for democracy, we must not make it safe for socialism.” THE CONGRESSMEN WHO KNIFED BILL Sherley of Kentucky, chairman of the house committee on appropriations, complained that the proposed investi- gation was to cost $50,000. He argued that the country could not afford to spend $50,000 on this information on old-age pensions and sickness insur- ance. McCormick of Illinois, who has just come back from Europe, said that it would be dangerous for congress to put off this job. But most of the Re- publicans and all of the reactionary southern Democrats voted against get- ting the facts. . Here are some of the names of the members of the house who see no use of finding out, now, how to make old age and sickness less terrible for a million households in this country. Look them over: There are Miller of Minnesota, and Steenerson and Ellsworth; there are Norton of North Dakota, and Welling of Utah, and Timberlake of Colorado, and Hadley and Johnson of Washing- ton, and McArthur of Oregon. There are Lenroot* and Esch and Classon and Stafford of Wisconsin; . there are Haugen, Green, Good, Sweet, Towner and Kennedy of Iowa; there are Anthony and Campbell and Shouse of Kansas. ; In Nebraska the lines of “Over the Hills to the Poorhouse” meant nothing of tragedy’ to Sloan, or Lobeck, or Stephens; in Oklahoma the need” for “saving” the cost of this inquiry was asserted by the vote of McClintic. As for Missouri and Illinois and Texas, their delegations were divided almost half and half. = “City Men” Vilify Farmers Geddes, S. D. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: You will find enclosed a marked clipping from a sheet I sent you, the Davenport, (Iowa) Democrat, and re- copied in- the Sioux City Journal. Now the Sioux City Journal likes to discharge its rapid fire guns at. the Nonpartisan league—in its editorial page anyway. There are several of my neighbor farmers who belong to the League. I am myself a member, - and it will be goodbye to the Journal as soon as our time expires. If the Journal editor thinks that he can use his influence in his columns by firing at the League, very well, but we farmers of the League will remember him when our time expires. . JOHN W. VOGEL, The clipping sent by Mr. Vogel is an attack upon the farmers’ organiza- tion given out by the Greéater Iowa association—an organization of busi- ness men banded together to premote their own interests—in which the business men plainly show they are . both scared and angry. They state that 100 automobiles have recently been purchased by the National Non- partisan league and that a house to house canvass of Iowa’s 99 counties is to bhe made by organizers this spring. 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