Milford chronicle., 1921-09-16
SIX MONTHS OF HARDING AND WHAT IT HAS DONE


SIX MONTHS OF HARDING AND WHAT IT HAS DONE
1t is six months the present Administration in
Washington into power. The Republican cOrre-
spondents in capital have summarized the achieve
mens period and the Democratic correspondents
have called attention the things promised which
not yet been done.
President Harding in a letter to Senator Mccormick
has review the economics effected by Congress.
Postmaster General Hays has handled the situation
different manner, for in address before the Ma
Association of Life Insurance Underwriters in
week he attempted to interpret the spirit
of the present Administration with incidental discussion
of specific plans and purposes.
The temper Washington is very different today from
what it six months Mr. Hays reminds us that
President Harding took Office "he found condition
in which most of our domestic politics expressed them
selves anger, controversy and factionasm
There "bitter-enders rreconcilables" and "bat
talions of death"
These terms are longer used and it is the
country progressed toward state of normalcy The
feeling Washington has been modified by the temper
of the in the White House.
Mr. Hays insists, many will agree with him. that
have brought to the White House exactly the
sonaity needed to lead the country away from
the turbulent passions of back to the normal human
nature of peace"
If nothing else had been accomplished six months
achievement which Mr. Hays stresses by discussing
it first is enough to justify those who supported Mr.
Harding last year.
The men who must solve the national problems are
now in a to work together toward a common end. |
They stopped fighting another.
There is reinsurance in the statement by Mr. Hays of
the attitude of the Administration toward taxation He
not the warax laws, but apologies for
them explains that they drafted raise the
largest possible in the shortest time.
with the disappearance of the necessity of fnan-
cling fighting armies better way be found
The present system of interest taxes puts handicap
saving
Between the man who consumes his days work as
fast he it," said Mr. Hays "and the other
hand, the who practices sefdenial and part
of his days work and puts it in savings banks in life
insurance policies in other forms of nvestmen-be
these men, say, the business wise gov
ernment to tax the former rather than the latter
To tax the squanderer and to the burden of the
thrifty would seem to be the part of prudence
If the Internal Tax Bill be drafted in accordance
with this principle it will the to revival of
prosperity and to restoration of the capital destroyed by
the ,
There just as sanity in the Postmaster Cen
discussion of the tariff Thoughtful must hesi
draft permanent Tariff Law the present time
for the that knows the conditions abroad
which this law will have to meet. f
The basic conditions which tariff law is built
namely the cost of manufacture abroad unstable The
the European currency in which wages are paid
luctuating and predict what it will be next
month next year. n
Under the circumstances therefore, it is not sur II
prsing that the thoughtful in Congress have
cuded that is best to slow and to await develop
ments f,
Senate Finance Committee last week announced s
that would give precedence the Internal Bill and
let the tariff wait until the internal taxes had been ad-
usted to easily the business of the
country Here is evidence, if it needed of the
,uracy with which the Postmaster General described
What is going in Washington oc
kind of normalcy which Mr. Harding brought it
bout is the kind which the country needs. 1e