The Ocala evening star., 1921-07-12

no ueHand Tor LndT KIND OF legislation.
He knows perfectly well that if you
want tariff bill to raise revenue all
you have TO do is to get around the
table and in half an hour you can
write bill imposing so per cent du-
ties on coffee, cocoa, tea, silk, rubber,
ivory, precious stones and on other
things not produced in this country
and raise $500 600, 900 of revenue, if
that is what you want But no; you
want protection-protecti A great
giant here, with all the gold in the
world and all the credit in the world,
demanding protection against a weak
ly cripple on the other side of the sea
protection against a cripple, and
protection to such an extent that you
do not propose to allow that cripple
20 be strong enough to pay you what
he owes you, Everybody knows that
high protective tariff now is a hum
bug and fraud upon the American
people
'What is the use of spending time
discussing that question There is
not business man in the country
with sense enough to get out of the
way of an automobile who does not
know that there is no need and no
call for high protective duties at this
time, and yet that is insisted upon
inthe other body as the first thing on
the program.
$50 that is about what we have
accomplished thus far. AS l say, we
got the budget bill passed, and per-
haps with sufficient hell and Maria
in that we will get beyond the stage
where we are merely beating the air.
with reference to the budget
"0f course, realize that our
friends on the other side have had
their hands full attending to other
matters. The country has been suf-
fering. The people are struggling,
burdened with taxation. They want
some kind of relief as to these tax
matters. The majority does not seem
to have learned yet what is as plain
as that two plus two make four-that
the only way in which you can reduce
taxes in this country is to reduce ex-
penditures. If l pay out more money
in meeting my expenses than my in
come amounts to, it is simply a ques-
tion of time when | must either in
crease my income or lessen my expen-
ditures or go bankrupt, and the same
is true with any government.
"You can not increase your income
unless you levy more taxes on
the people. Everybody says, we will
not do that Then. you must reduce
your expenditures, if you are to les
sen the taxes upon the people. There
is no escape from that conclusion.
rs there any effort being made in
that direction? The discharge of a
few hundred government employees
does not meet the situation. You dis
charge a few of these nominally paid
] employees and call that economy. At
once you proceed to create new fed
eral judgeships all over the country
At once you increase the number of
places for high paid officials in every
department of the government, near
lily. Every committee of the Senate
has an extra allowance for clerk hire
reporters, and what not, in order that
the committee may give hearings, and
THAT sort of thing. These employees
doorkeepers, policemen, guards. and
what not-are falling over each other
in every direction. You have not re-
duced any expenses. You do not pro-
pose to reduce expenses.
"As / said. you have been much
occupied with other things. l realize
that. The fieshpots have had to be
looked after. When you have 100000
people rushing in to the pie counter
and you only have pie enough to &c
around for 1000. then you are in trou-
BILE. Let US get away from this mat
ter of the job hunters and pie eaters
and get down to the serious business
of the government. Maybe this recess
will give you a little time to do that
But, as said, think that this ques-
tion of filling government jobs, this
question of displacing democrats, put
ting republicans in their places anG
handing out pie has occupied. very
largely the attention of our friends
on the other side"
| IT, p,J Croee hos dax,olonad a die.