The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1921-07-08
REPUBLICAN PRESS
HAS BEGUN TO SHOW
REBELLIOUS SIGNS

- llN IIOIlllNtNs iNt IlhhllN'''' ff''i'N
y threatening rebellion. The Akron
Ohio. Beacon journal views with
alarm" and points out that the peo-
pie will punish the party for Its
short comings. The Beacon Jour
, nal says:
This should be enough to cause
us to pause for thought. But we
, are not going to do it. We are
going to load the people down with
!, useless taxes, we are going to spend
billion and quarter for war
(nearly a billion) when the people
need bread and apparently we do
not care what they think about It,.
Such madness is almost inconceiv~
able and if the party now in power
thinks it is going to escape an
accounting at the hands of the peo-
pie it is sadly mistaken. 1t can
serve the interests of the ship
builders, the powder makers, the
armor plate manufacturers back of
the measure if it must but as sure
as God reigns the people will not
stand for it, They will not always
consent to have their faces ground
down on the stone of confiscatory
taxation, and the glib gentlemen now
in Congress who are all for economy
in their speeches and yet vote for
this thing will have to face a day
Of reckoning, for the people must
put an end to this thing before
taxes in this country.
"The issue is perfectly plain. The
Beacon Journal is Republican
newspaper, but it wants to say here
and now that it will follow no
party and no man in cause 50
plainly bad. On the other hand it
proposes to oppose to the utmost
of it's power even the Republican
party on this program and from
now on it will make war unceas-
ingly upon any man and any party
that seeks to follow this policy
which means inevitable ruin to the
people of this country if it is car
ried out as now intended"
The New York Herald on the
same subject says:
Government expenditures are in
tolerable and some big dents have
got to be made in them. The only
solution is the broadaXe."
The Philadelphia Public Ledger
and the New York Independent are
, vigorously kicking on the admin
E istration's foreign policy.
The Public Ledger says:
= "The foreign policies of the Hard
4 ing Administration retain thei
= wrappings of uncertainty and thei
: mists of vagueness. There is a wal
of silence around them. Cryptic ut
q terances are the rule. The oracl
{ when it speaks speaks as did tn
Oracle of Delphi.
"The passwords are two: wait
and hush. But what of peace
Of the limitations of armament
, OF the association of nations? Out
u side of the inner circle nobod
knows.
n at it possible the Administrative
al inner circle itself does not know
4 The Independent says:
ID "Mr. President, the time he
s. come for you to redeem your prom
Of ises. The country and the wor
r have waited long enough to kno
ed just what kind of an associate
lg of nations you have in mind.
of you delay much further people e
he erywhere will inevitably conclu'
he that either you have no concre
be plan at all or else that you propo
to put party harmony above wor
on welfare"
al The New York Tribune's Was
r. ington correspondent in Washing
NV ton, Carter Field, who of cour
We colors his letters to harmonic wi
X the policy of the Tribune, says the
Sc will be no curtailment of naval a
Ii preparations and no effort at di
L. armament will be made in the in
3D. mediate future. Mr.. Field says:
ew president Harding will not ca
*, a disarmament conference f,
I'd, Great Britain, Japan and the Uni
ed States in the immediate futur
se There will be no such call unit
be there has been a thorough undo
re, standing and very definite agre
fit ment made in secret between re-
ut resentatives of the three countrie
ng "The Tribune correspondent is
DIS position to state flatly that tn
nd is the view of President Harding
re despite the obvious satisfactc
cir which the administration has take
tie in the statement by Premier Lloy'
cir George printed today (taVorlng TT
e. conference) and in other indie;
at tions that something may be worl
nd ed out with a view to saving tt
ny tremendous armament taxation bu
den, no immediate move will
NJ made in public"
hit If the newspapers of the countl
ed would print what they really thir
ce about public affairs the administer;
so tion and congress might chang
en- their minds about many things.
NJ There never was before col
Id gress which showed such conteml
n for the will of the people as hay
ny the last two.