Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-07-22
KENYON ATTACKS
extravaganza
IcWAN SCORES PUBLIC VAST
AND DEMANDS LOWER COST
OF LIVING.

Washington, ID. ", july -
,ravaeance in public and private lif'
VAS scored In a speech Senator Ken
Won OF Iowa made in the senate yester
day afternoon. He thought 1t wal
time congress did something to de
crease the cost of living.
The wool duty should be reduced
he said, for that would give cheaper
clothing. He proposed a bill which
would scale the duty but preserve re
publican protection Of the wool indus
try, and asserted that congress hat
sufficient information to carry ou'
such revision without awaiting the re-
port OF the tariff board.
The senator said he was going ia
vote against the reciprocity bill, 81 81,
though he is not convinced that 1t VIII
injure the farmer.
s'But. inasmuch as there is doubt
in my mind on that question, ne
said. have deemed it my duty as q
representative OF great agricultural
state. whose prosperity Is entirely de-
pendent on agriculture to cast my vote
against the bill.
Assails Expensive Commissions.
Mr. Kenyon said there was no doubt
that the cost OF living is increasing
that the extravaganza Of the rich Is
becoming scandalous, and that econ
omy must be practiced. He thought
the government ought to set an exam
pie in retrenchment by reducing the
number of expensive commissions
many CT which are maintained by con-
gress merely to pension political vet
Grams repudiated by the people at the
polls.
I'VE must get back to more simple
living in this country he said. we
have forgotten how to practice econ
omy have forgotten it in the govern
ment. ] have thought the senate might
well commence to teach the country
lesson in economy by abolishing a lot
of useless commissions We are sur
rounded en- every hand by commits
sions commissions to right of us,
commissions to left Of us. Canadian
boundary commission. Mexican boun-
Diary commission. monetary commits
sion-flled, for the most part, by
those who have been repudiated by
their constituencies.
Draws Parallel Of Rich and Poor.
I'VE are living in an extravagant
age. We are money mad and racing
through life at a neck breaking pace,
piling up fortune on fortune, men
worth millions striving for more,
never stopping to think there is no
pocket in the shroud.
The rich are Haunting their riches
in the faces Of the poor. We see q
$4,000 organ at the opening OF mil
lionaires home in New York and
long line of hungry men al midnight in
the, same city, constituting the bread
line. Girls working in stores for IS
week, and the proprietor of such
stores dying and leaving millions to
museums,
lis 1t any wonder that the people OF
the country are restless? The prob
lem of the control of great wealth 10
the most important problem Of the
hour and the one that should receive
our attention
Refuses Free Barber and Baths.
1t is related OF Senator Kenyon that
he practices what he breaches. His
friends say when he entered the SEN
ate he was shocked by the waste OF
the peoples money on frivolities by
the members Of the upper house. he
heard of senators sending out for per-
fumery. mineral waters, and innumer-
able accessories, and charging the
cost to the contingent fund of the
senate. He found that a barber shop
and Turkish bath rooms were main
tanned in which senators were shaved,
shorn, manicured, and massaged free
of cost to themselves but at extrava-
CANT cost to the people.
According to one story current, the
young Iowa senator Indignantly refus-
ed to patronize either the free barber
shop or the free baths, although he
was informed that one Of the BARRIERS
held his position as a political ap-
pointee charged to the Junior sena.
tor from Iowa" It was explained that
the barber dated back to an age when
Senator Allison was the junior sena-
tor from Iowa. &
It also has come to notice that the
office of Senator Kenyon is almost the
only nook Of the capitol in which or
binary drinking water 10 served. He
declined to permit expensive drinking
waters provided by the senate to -
dispensed in his once.
Honest Medicines Versus Fakss
Presid snt Tafts recent messas &c