The Cordova daily times., 1921-07-22
FAVoRITE INDoORE SPORT

George B. Lockwood, editor of the National Republican, hit the nail on the head recently when he explained the tendency to criticise congress. Mr.. Lockwood said:
 'Abuse of congress seems to be the favorite indoor sport at present of most of those who feel called upon to abuse somebody Congress iS cursed because it failed, within a three months session to rchabitatc an economics political and mdustriay structure well nigh wrecked bv an administration recently retired from power. The noiscst of the dcnomcrrs of the slow progress made by the wrccIling crew are the very politicians who caused the wreck. They are seconded by numerous thoughtlcss taIlicIs and writers who do not stop to give con sidoratiou either to tho size of the task before congress or the difficulties of finding immediate remedies for the evils and abuses to be cured.
 ''Con@rrs~ k also being denounced by tcdrr- al rmcionaIics who do not get all they want hy way of appropriations or authorization to pad present payroIIs or create new ones. The custom of d,nnciation of the legislative branch of government bv administrative office holders was one which rIourishcd under the Wilson ad- muiStIaton. II was phase of that reckless and irresponsible spirit of autocracy which has cost the American people so much in recent years, and which the voters by an impressive majority, rcbuIicd in November last.
 ''The greatest disScrvcc that can be rond- cred th" American people at this time IS thou%htlcSs dcnmciaton of the national lrgis- Iaturc. which has even been bitterly criticised because, as the appropriatng power, it per formed sworn duty in Investigating the crim- inaI waste of the peoples money by executive agents under the last national administration.
 ''lt is to be expected of Democratic poti- cians and newspapers that they will pick every possible flaw in the Republican record. Let those who have no partisan interest in the cam. paign to discredit the administration, particu- larly the legislative branch, remember that the violent and unreasonable attacks now being made upon congress will have the effect of fan ming the flames of revolutionary radicaism that is very likely to be the alternative to which the people of this country will turn if they be- come convinced that the attacks made upon congress have justification.
 Congress has halted the legislative and ad- minlstrativc program which had put this coun. try on the high road to bankruptcy and state socialism. It has thwarted the attempt to in volve this country in the political system of Europe, and thereby prevented the visitation upon America of financial, political and eco homie disaster and probable permanent change in the very character of our institutions m harmony with the executive branch of govern mcnt it is doing its very best to reduce eXpcn- ditures, decrease taxes and so safe guard the future of American industry that the condition of depression and unemployment inherited from the Wilson era may be corrected at the earliest possible moment. For all this it is entitled to- tlre cOmmendatiOn and assistance of all those honestly interested in the welfare of the admin. istration and of the American people
 ''Those who are trying to throw monkey wrenches into the machinery and are adding their voices to the camor being raised by those who wish the Harding administration to fail, ought to be covered by the thought that what they are really doing is helping to push this country down the hell-bent road of state social ism, with all its attendant features of confisca- ton, appropriation and complete ruin of every