The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-08
TESS SAYS TAX CUT
is G. 0. P.'S BIG TASK
War Laws Will Be Discon-
tinued With Formal Peace
Reestablished.
HARDING VOTE ANALYZED
Republicans Succeed in Seven
OF Their Fifteen Attempts
to Break Solid South.

VI IHcIr f1ICeen Attempts
to Break Solid South.
| WARRINGTON, Nov. 7.-Representative
s. d. Fess (Ohio), chairman of the Re-
publican Congressional Committee, and
one OF the Republican leaders In the
House. issued tonight an analysis Of
the meaning of the overwhelming Har-
ding vote and the big majority given to
the Republicans In the Senate and
House Mr.. Tess also pointed out some
of the high spots of what the Republican
Administration in all It's branches must
do to justify and to hold this support.
One significant thing pointed out by
Mr.. Fess Is the invasion Of the solid
South This Disregard Of the Mason
and Dixon line. 1t was shown. was at
tempted by the Republicans in only If
teen districts. in seven of which the Re-
publicans were successful in electing
their candidates to Congress. The old
lines drawn by the bitter aftermath of
the civil war must be taken as gradually
fading, 1t was pointed OUT. This disre-
CARDS the border States of Delaware.
Maryland. Kentucky. Tennessee and
Missouri, OF which Senator Harding car
ried all but Kentucky, and parrowly
missed that
These invasions of the South were
merely tests. Mr.. Fess said, to ascertain
the feasibility Of attempting to break
the solid South"
1.-THE results demonstrate the posi-
bility Of disintegrating a minority rule
in the Southland. which would not only
be valued result to the nation. but a
good thing for the South as WELL" Mr..
Tess said.
Few Democrats Win in North.
Mr.. Fess pointed out that in the terri
tory north Of the Ohio and west of the
Mississippi, except only in Texas, the
Democrats elected fewer than a score
of House members and not a single Sem
ator. They hold only two members on
the Pacific coast" he pointed out, First
and Second districts of California; not a
member on the Canadian border. save
four in New York: only two in New
England, the Tenth and Twelfth in Bos-
ton. The Republicans won solid delega-
tons in States west of the Mississippi
and north Of Oklahoma, except in Cali
fornia."
For one thing. Mr.. Tess said. the cleo
ton spells terrific rebuke to Wilson
and wisconsin: the Wilson efforts to
grasp whole blocks of class votes, for
the Adamson law. 1t demonstrates the
keenness OF the American voter to the
dangers of the attempt to democratize
industry through such wild schemes as
the Plumb plan of railroad control.
The strong support women gave the
Republican party was not due entirely
to Republican policy toward suffrage and
progressive measures that would appeal
to the women's sense of right. Mr.. Tess
said. In part 1t demonstrated the dis
gust Of women with tho Cox campaign
methods.
Part of the big vote given to the Re-
publican party was due to convictions of
American business men. Mr.. Fess said,
who have become properly alarmed over
the fateful disintegration of American
enterprise and to an official suspicion
that every man who succeeds must be
more or less dishonest" The vote in
cluded also a proportion of labor which
knows that the best insurance against
unemployment and low wages Is sound
business methods
|. Problems of New officials.
Pointing out that the electorate is not
committed to any party. but above all to
the welfare of the nation. Mr.. Tess out
lined some of the main problems the new
Administration will face. as follows:
"Our first duty is to secure relief from
war taxation. This can be done only by
getting away from war conditions. For
NAL peace must be established at the
earliest moment and war laws discon-
tinued.
THE persistency of the frightful Gov
eminent expenditures, which are at least
seven or eight times what they were be-
fore the war. demands immediate atten-
tion and reorganization. If we succeed
in saving in the short session what was
saved in earlier sessions of this Con-
gress we can most probably repeal the
excess profits tax and may be able to re-
duce the upper ranges of the surtax. It
is to be hoped this can be done without
the substitution of any new form of tax
steps will most likely be taken at an
early moment to create a commission
composed of members of Congress. to-
gether with we'll known experts on the
taxation question. not members of either
House. to investigate and report on the
needs and possibilities OF tax revision.
Ono of the earliest measures to be
enacted and inaugurated In practice is
the budget system. which was vetoed by
the President at the close Of the last
session.
THE flood of imports of recent months
suggests the necessity of q revision of
the revenue laws. not only for the sake
of revenue, but for the protection of
American industry, in the interest OF the
employment OF American labor. at an
American scale of wages. to insure our
standard of living. The seductive argu-
ment that European imports must not
be impeded so that Europe may be able
to pay her debts due the United States
must not lead to disruption OF American
business enterprise
f,,,pNrfopf prnhiar, focir.
Federal Reserve Board Is the necessity
of appreciating the purchasing power OF
the American dollar. which under war
imitation has been reduced TO about one
half of what II was before the war This
is not for legislation, but is an admin
istrative function.
These problems demand the country's
best leadership. The electorate will be
impatient for Immediate results