The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-17
First Year Of Administration
Reviewed Before Republican
County Committee.
FLAWS IN CURRENCY LAWS
unparalleled Audacity" l.
Charged in the Selection Of
Cities for Reserve Banks.

Administrations first year from IN.
standpoint OF Republican was road ~,
Ogden l.. Mills last night before the
Republican county committee in the Nu,
ray Hill Lyceum. Mr.. Mills said his
facts might be tnged with a little par.
tisan prejudice land the indignation OF
one who disagrees utterly with Demo.
cratic policies and methods" but he he.
lieved they furnish ground for an un
answerable appeal to the country next
fall"
He said that thus far the Democrat
had been singularly free from criticism
but must now give an account of thoir
stewardship. He conceded that the party
had kept its platform pledges in n"
mere making of laws but declared the
results were deplorable. or the curren,y
law he said:
During the debate on the bill the
possibility of a political reserve board
was Indignantly rejected by the Demo.
Gratis. Politics in the administration Of
the currency measure? Perish the
thought! Men appointed by Woodrow
Wilson play politics? Impossible But
alas, the very first act of the organiza-
ton committee was not only partisan
but narrow and vindictive.
Audacity Unparalleled.
"The audacity Of the three commits
sioners in selecting their home towns as
reserve cities Is unparalleled, while in the
selection OF fourth the influence OF n,
unofficial and Invisible adviser from Texas
10 plainly evident. Oh. no there was no
politics in the selection OF Richmond. At
lanta, Kansas city. st. Louis and Dallas
no more politics than when Gov. Glynn
appointed Packy McCabe. no mu-.
politics than when five Federal banks
we're assigned to the favored South. VIII
the great commercial and industrial
centre OF Pittsburg was ignored no more
politics than there was vlndctive preJu-
dice in separating Jersey City. northern
New Jersey and Connecticut from New
York in order TO pander to the sup
posedly popular anti-Wall street crf
though In New Jersey l22 out ~ 1874
banks and in Connecticut Ga out Of -
banks consulted had requested to b.
Joined to New York.
"Oh, no. my friends. they did not pay
politics they just sat down and made
business OF H."
The income tax amendment he de-
scribed as zone of the worst drawn
laws ever passed in this or any otr'r
country" He said that to this dtN
probably no man knows tho eXa,i mrdr-
ing of some of the clauses. " Nils
went on.
1.-THE efforts OF the yreasurs Depart
ment to solve the riddle only made am
biguity more ambiguous. To md anything
equal to their interpretations We have u
r.trace the centuries and listen once NOR.
to the advice OF the pclphic Oracle. ana
in fairness to the latter it must be- "a
that her two faced advice was not. a
least. the result of Incompetence.
Furthermore. with questionable ft'--
ness and in violation OF n practic" "
| established by the decisions of the C.H =
/ l..s- t,t,g
of the many doubtful clauses in ~ f3r'
and against the taxpayer. in som, cases
| with ridiculous results. As. for insta1''
the decision whereby husbands and WV
| living together are penalzed post
| immortality which puts premium
$4,000 per annum on conjugal infei CITY
Views ON TariT Laws.
| The GROWING achievement of the NO
| freedom, Mr. Mills said was the ta'
! law. The Democracy made "a d'r1t
promise to reduce the cost Of living
| had broken its pledge. Vie quoted COM
parative table from Brddstrcc''S ~ Ma
! IA show ing that Of the foods listed i'n
| teen were higher in price than before {
| law was passed. five the SANE, s"-'
| lower and Of the other articles rtrl-
hve went higher two the sam, and q
| lower.
But worse than their broken p'' les
| Mr. MlIlS tpnlllutu, AllfN nav
our most dismal fears and mad" ~ ?
prophets at the expense of the count
| During the first four months Of IT, t'
tar;ff there were imported Si'."'
| less OF raw material FOR uduufI .'i''
purposes and s9.0OO.0o0. or r,. ct'
more Of finished articles, showing r'
! ClusiVely that the much adN ,rt'~'I Hi.'
tagc which our manufactures N''
derive from free raw material '..'
/ basis in fact when they were sul''c'' .
/ the same time to free compel on ' I
/ finished product In Wool Auuo if
crease in manufactured arii.,'~ A'- h.
$4,000. 000 and in wool cloths "'.i d''
$1,000. 0OO. or the prodVD Of; 'i
! II. 600 wage earncrs And y'i We W'o
at tn, number Of unemployed.
During the same period in' 'hH'
! of farm products have i've ea~'d
| 200. 900 without reducing the cuei o' d.
ing but diminishing t. that oNi'W
purchasing power Of tn" Amer
farmer.
What OF the glowing p'owisc- 20
business men of the country m'"'
! President Wilson with rt'r'""
amendment of the Shcrmr Ia"
cryptic uttcrauccs on the doctr'n" o.
new freedom"