The Red Cloud chief. [volume] (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923, 1921-04-21
"END TECHNICAL
WAR"--HARDINC
President in First Address to
Congress Shows Opposition
to the League.
VOICES PLEA FOR ECONOMY
C'ief Executive Of Nation Points With
Caution to After.War Efects--Aid
Demanded for Heroes OF
World Conflict.

~ ~, hlI u I-s-Ill Ills
message to congress, President War
rem q. Harding said in part
MEMBERS OF THE CONGRESS-You
nave been called IN extraordinary session
to give your consideration to national
problems far too pressing to be long me-
elected. We face our tasks of legislation
and administration amid conditions as
dihcult as our government has ever con-
templated. Under our political system
the people of the United States have
charged the new congress and the new ad-
minlstratiOn with the solution-the read
Justnents, reconstruction and restoration
which must follow in the wake of war
Ii may be regretted that We were so lily
prepared for wars aftermath, 80 little
made ready to return to the ways OF
peace. but we are not to be discouraged
Indeed. we must be the more firmly re-
solved to undertake our work with high
hope. and invite every factor In our clti-
Zenship to join in the effort to find our
normal, onward way again
The American people have appraised
the situation, and with that tolerance
and patience which go with understanding
they Will give to us the influence Of de-
Ill rate public opinion which ultimately
becomes the edict of any popular govern
ment. They are measuring some OF the
stern necessities and will join In the give
and take which is the essential to firm re-
establishment
Home Problems First.
First In mind must be the solution OF
our problems at home, even though some
phases OF them are Unexpectedly linked
with our foreign relations. The surest
procedure In every government is to put
its own house In order.
l know of no more pressing problem at
home than to restrict our national ex-
pendtures within the limits of our ma
tional income, and at the same time
measurably lift the burdens of war taxa
ton from the shoulders of the American
people.
Our current expenditures are running
ut the rate OF approximately 1000 900 900
year. and the burden is unbearablcs
There are two agencies to be employed
in correction:
One is rigid resistance In appropriation
and the other is the utmost economy in
administration.
Let US have both.
Must Readjust Taxes.
The first substantial relief from the tax
burden must come for the present from
the readjustment OF internal taxes and
the revision or repeal OF those taxes
which have become unproductive and are
so artificial and burdensome as to defeat
| their own purpose.
prompt and thoroughgoing revision
Of the internal TAX laws. made with due
| regard to the pi tecton OF the revenues,
Is In my 1udgDent requisite to the
revival of business activity in this coun-
| try.
The urgency for an instant tariff en-
actment. emergency In character and I'M
derstood by our people that 1t Is for the
| emergency only, cannot be too much en-
phasized. believe In the protection Of
| American industry, and II is our purpose
| TO prosper America first.
The maturer revision OF our tariff laws
| should be based on the policy of protec-
| ton. resisting that selflshness which turns
| to greed, but ever concerned with that
productivity at home which Is the source
of all abiding good fortune.
| A very important matter Is the estab-
lishment OF the governments business on
| q business basis.
| There can be no complete correction, of
the high living cost until government cost
| Is notably reduced.
| Let me most heartily commend the enact
ment of legislation providing for the ma
/ tional budget system.
| One condition in the business world may
well receive your inQdiry. Deflation has
been in progress, but has failed TO reach
| the mark where II can be proclaimed to
the great mass OF consumers
| Reduced cost of basic production has
| been recorded. but high cost OF living
has not yielded In like proportion.
| have asked the federal trade commits.
sion for a report OF its observations and
II attributes. In the main, the failure to
| adjust consumers cost to basic production
costs to the exchange of information by
"open-price associations" which operate
| evidently within the law, to the very
great advantage OF their members and
| equal disadvantage to the consuming
public.
Wants Helpful Probe.
without the spirit OF hostility or haste
| in accusation of profiteering, some suit
able inquiry by congress might speed the
| price readiustment TO normal relationship
| with he'pfulness to both producer ant
| consumer A measuring rod of fair prices
will satisfy the country and give us 6
business revival to end all depression and
| unemployment.
The great interest of both producer anC
consumer-indeed, all Industrial and com
mercial life, from agriculture to finance
| in the problems of transportation will fine
! It's reflex In your concern to aid re-estab
lishment, TO restore efficiency, and brinl
transportation cost into helpful relation
ship rather than continue II as hind
rance to resumed activities.
on the subject of railroads the Presi
dent said In part.
Efficient operation Eat a cost within tina
which the trac will bear. Railwa!
rates and costs OF operation must be re
duced" THE remaining obstacles
which are the heritance of capitalistic ex
ploitation must be removed and labor mus
Join management in understanding that tn
public which pays is the public to b.
served and simple justice is the right an,
will continue to be the right OF all tn
people,"
Roads Trade Arteries.
The highways are not only FEEDER
20 the railroads and afford relief from
their local burdens: they are actual!