The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-30
RAISING BUCA400
/ TO BEAT CUM|N|Ns
Hue and Cry About the cummins-Escb
Measure is for This Purpose, J.
m. Grimes of Montezuma
Declared.
DEMOCRATS AIDING TT
TWO Were on Committee That Drew
Up Bill and Democratic Attorney
General Approved Of the
Measure.

The hue and cry being raised
about the Esch-Cum1nins bill is
democratic bugaboo being built up
for the purpose OF defeating repub-
lican senator and giving the demo
Gratis control of the senate, 1t was
charged by ]. M. Grimes, of Monte
yuma, who made an address before
republican voters last night at the
county court house. Mr.. Grimes said
that the most charitable thing to say
about the democrats who are charg-
ing that the law prevents strikes is
that the speakers have not read the
bill He pointed out that the bill
was simply an enabling act, written
by a committee of which two were
democrats, approved by the demo
cratic attorney generals office.
"Why elect Harding for president
and then tie his hands with demo-
cratic majority in the senator" the
speaker challenged. He declared
that the democrats were trying to
make the bill appear hostile to labor
and then to the farmer. He declared
that there was not one guaranty that
says the government should pay any
money out of the treasury to rail-
roads. The bill restricts the earnings
to 5h per cent. He declared that II
was the policy of the supreme court
to hold that railroads were entitled
to fair returns on investments.
The bill provides for board OF ar
bitration, which labor has repeatedly
asked for and the person who claims
that it pevents strikes has not read
it carefully, Mr.. Grimes charged.
He indicted the democratic party
for extravaganza and claimed that
their policy of free trade was Sec
tfonalism. He declared that during
the war Hoover urged the northern
farmer to raise wheat and sell 1t at
fixed price, while an assistant sec
rotary of the department OF agricul-
ture told cotton growers of the south
to market their cotton In Install
ments and to reduce the crop a Sec
ond wear if there was an overproduc-
tion in 1918. He declared that they
were virtually told to profiteer IN
cotton, (which is used in munitions
and in the bandages to bind the SOL
diers' wounds"
Mr. Grimes declared that there
would be nothing sectional about the
republican tariff measures.
Attacks Extravaganza.
The speaker attacked the demo
cratic administration for its conduct
of the war and it's extravaganza. he
declared that had the administration
had the backbone to stand behind It's
Mexican demands Germany would not
have sunk our ships in the ocean.
eve sent Pershing into Mexico 10
get Villa and then let the long
whiskered president of that country
saw that we couldn't use the rail-
roads. We sent men to Vera Cruz
to make two greaser corporals salute
the flag and lost score of men and
then didn't accomplish the mission
Germany knew we had the colonel
from Nebraska in the chair OF secre-
tary of state and that the notes were
for home consumption only"
He spoke of the plans of the air
craft board and how Baker had
named this body without single ex-
pert on it. He repeated Rickenback.
er's charge of flaming collins" and
told how, instead of 10000 planes. we
had only 1856, and they had unpro-
tected tanks. Four billions was ap-
| propriated for ordnance and we had