The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1921-09-02
HARDING AND THE
REPUBLICAN PARTY
Voters QUESTIONABLE to Republican
Congressman.

Voters QUESTIONABLE to Republca
Congressman.
Washington, Aug. 80. - HON
Sweet Home" will have few charm
for many Republican members o
Congress during the present reces
until September 21, because thos
who have had the courage to go hom
know that they must face large mum
bers of irate constituents (and gosh
how they dread IT'D who will demant
explanations concerning the yote'
they have cast during the first par
of the extra session.
Anticipating in measure some oi
the questions sure to be asked them
and including others by way of sug.
gestion, the following is submitted as
a pertinent and just form of ques-
to their respective Republican Con-
gressmen:
WI GItO QOEiO AO4N4NhALtG.
Why did you vote for the hodge
podge Fordney Tariff Bill which pro-
tects only the manufacturers and the
profiteering manufacturers most of
all, at the expense of agriculture and
all other natural Industries.
Why did you vote to relieve 10000
persons, mostly war profiteers, of ex-
cess profits tax and individual income
surtaxes amounting to an average
tax of $4,000 year, and add an av-
erage tax of $500 year to 10000
small producing corporations?
Why did you vote to take $17,-
100000 taxes off the express COM
panies and not relieve the parcels
post from the same sort of tax?
Why did you, after the Soldiers
Bonus Bill had been killed in the
Senate at the dictation Of President
Harding on the statement that the
Government could not afford it, then
vote 100000 to the railroads
which already owed the Government
s731, 100000?
Why did you vote to cut down the
appropriations for good roads in all
the States from 100000, 900 to $751;
100000 with 5,735,000 persons out
of work, and then vote appropria-
tions of nearly billion dollars for
Army and Navy with disarmament
conference practically assured?
Why did you pretend to be in fa-
vor of economy and then vote $48,-
100000 to tho Shipping Board out
of which to pay officials employed or
invited to be employed, at salaries of
$4,000 year each, $25,000. $780,
600, $4,000 and $4,000, among
them attorneys alleged to be members
of firms with claims against the
Shipping Board?
Why do you blame the alleged mis-
management in the Shipping Board
upon Democrats when the chairmen
of the Shipping Board during its
period of greatest activity were Chas.
M. Schwab, a Republican, and Chas.
Piez, also a Republican, and J. H.
Rosseter, Director of Operations, al
so Republican, and all three con-
tributors to Republican campaign
funds?
Why did you vote for the gag rule ,
and steam roller methods under ,
which you passed the tariff and tax Z
bills, cutting off debate and prevent j.,
ing amendments except by members :
of the committee?
Why did you vote to enable the
Secretary of the Treasury to increase ;
certificates of indebtedness $780, .
100000 to provide for deficit in !,
revenue from the tariff and tax bills, !,
while pretending that the bills !,
would supply the needed revenue? !
: What single vote have you cast
that has resulted in any relief to bus .
mess men, to farmers, to labor, to g
any industry except protected man :
to the Improvement of >
conditions of living among your fell :,
or that rebounds to the :,
honor of your country? ),
What has Congress accomplished :
n the four months and two weeks it :
has been in session? Do you know :,
If any one thing completed from
which any one has derived any ben
fit as result of Congressional ac- =
ion?
THE LASKER SHIPPING BOARD !,
SCANDAL. :.
The Shipping Board scandal got a :,
,Ood airing in the Senate just prior n,
O the recess djournment-not the =,
Id charges of extravaganza and ).
waste while the war was on, war it -
elf being extravaganza and waste -
f everything-but the new scandal
( the Lasker administration, which
} seeking to employ two men at N
$4,000 each and one at $25,000 in p;