The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1921-08-20
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five months of st.-,''""r horseback rid
ing In the morning. golf In the after
noon and week ends on the MayflOwcr
and I.,hdie Boy IN .-'. ry eclipse
Uncle Joe Fortlncy. chairman OF tn"
Ways and Means Committee Of the
House. is furnishing the principal sum.
mcr diversion In the Capital making
II tux revision bill.
ont of IA truly wonderful lag of
tricks Chairman Fordney has Just pro
duccd one so unique and ingenious nS
TO arouse Tho "'-~ 80 '.''"- 'trnlt'lica''
statesmen engaged in the diverting act
described by Congress Man. CRep''
Ill MS 'foOling the ptanDlc.
Chairman Fortlncy In other words
proposes to reduce internnltaxes. al
though by reduction they would not
furnish """"~', '~-'"''"" =" meet rstim
atcd Government expenditures. thus
creating IL deficit which could Ike ti,lcd
over, he says. by temporary loans. amt
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too. that this would prevent demands
for funds from the departments AMI
hold Congress down In appropriations.
In ohcr words. to make show OF
economy now - ---~.'Id "ns' ''"''" ''" "
ycnr the collection of revenue he knows
is needed. piling up nn indebtedness
and borrowing money to pay II.
1t may he inferred, of course. thai
this will fool lot Of people.
More Taxes for the Average Man
II would he idle to discuss the TaN
I.cYision hill mt this time beyond the
General trend Of effort to shift soiiir
of the faxes FROM H." '."".' ''"h tn I'll
of others. because the Tax
Revision hill will not I've reported before
the last week In August or first fifSi
of September, based on the stntcilents
Of its frnmers. SsE
At this writing itessek shisAlG .o''-
able tb4esse pronse e ion
.usse y freely " HAs1s es "th'r
tWQ0NliCHn SIHkeSincii III INV '"H' '"'''
paign will apply only to persons wh"S"
incomes are In the millions or wis"
profits are so much in excess OF nyrnn'
as to l,e monopolistic. Other probab'l'.
ties are an automobile fnt tax OF ten
dollars. thrcc-crnt letter postage ath
heavily increased taxes on tobacco. n
-. LII Il IL lplf
average man will pny more and the
favored few will pay less.
Nelson Compares Fordney
Bill To a Kicking Gun.
Disipprovnl of the For,lney Tariff
hill was voiced by Senator Nelson 'Rep
Miun.) along the same line of Demo
cratic opposition that IN order t" h''y
our goods Europe must have II chance
to sell her own. Among other things IN"
veteran Republican chairman of the
Senate Judiciary Committee said:
We are anxious to build mp trade
and commerce with Europe. We ar"
nlI anxious to have a market for our
products and to get paid Tor
those products either IN cash or in valid
securities. But. Mr. President. here Is
one question that stnrrs me In the face
With those devastated countries of
Europe rendered almost helpless by III"
Grent Wnr. nfinncially embarrassed
and seeking gradually to rchahiliiatc
tl,nt tbnsp
people will have any money to buy onr
goods unless we give them little
chance to sell their own products In
this country? To my mind. there never
was n more critical time for preparing
II tariff bill IN this country than there
Is now.
nomic md financial conditions in En-
rope never have been as they are to-
day: and If you proceed with a tariff
bill along the old lines ns the sitlnllon
was when everything was booming anh
in good order In Europe. ! fear 1t viii
he like n kicking gun.
III NVN VI ii"S' i"'''''
think the Committee on Finance. in
framing the tariff bill. ought to take
in'n consideration the question ! have
in this brief manner suggested. | think
II is very important that they shonl
bear In mind when they frame the tar
iT bill. that they must leave an open
ing, door. for the farmers of this
country to get In and obtain some pro-
tcction.'
Most Vicious and Dangerous, Senator
Gooding utep) Calls Fortlncy Tariff
senator Gooding (Itcp. Idnho). Il sue
ccssful retired stock-grower. made n
caustic attack upon the wool schedule
of the Fordney bill. dcnouncing it ms
worse than Schedule X of infamous
memory md declaring thnt the FOrtlnpy