The Idaho recorder., 1921-11-04
"BLOCINC" THE OLD
GUARD REPUBLICANS
BLYTHE THE PROPHET ON PRES
ENT DAY DOINGS AT WASH
INGTON.


Samuel G. Blythe has for man,
years figured largely in politica
prophysing, pointing with unerrini
certainty which way the wind is blow
ing. II was Blythe who first saw the
drift in the three last presidential
elections. Now after the last two con
gressional elections with their over
whelming reversals for the democrat.
Blythe's weather vane points unmis
takably the other way. He writes il
the last Saturday Evening Post:
"Mister Speaker" said the late
John Dalzell, of Pittsburgh, who
was the nurse, guardian and pro-
tector of the infant industries of
that incubator of American in
dustry, and who continued to
nurse, guard and protect those in
fants after they had deep bass
voices and heavy black boards,
rising in his place in the House
of Representatives, Mister
Speaker, move that the pending
amendments to the bill be adopt
ed en- bloc"
A tariff bill was under discus
sion and the sacred Republican
policy of protection was being
held inviolable by Mr.. Dalzell and
others, but by none in so cultured
a manner as by Mr.. Dalzell.
The Speaker, puzzled, leaned
forward.
THE gentleman from Pennsyl-
vania,' he announced, "moves that
the pending amendments be
adopted-how did the gentleman
say.
I'm bloc" Mr.. Dalzell repeat
ed, with an air that showed an
easy familiarity with the Lam
guage he was using.
"Wait a minutew shouted
member from the West. "What is
this en- bloc business? What does
he mean by that ?"
"The chair refers the question
to the gentleman from Pennsyl-
vania," said the Speaker. "Will
the gentleman explain ?"
"En bloc" repeated Dalzell.
LAS whole-all together"
WELL" snorted the Western
member, "why didn't you say so
then instead of gummAig thing,
up rith stuff we don't under
stand ?"
Mr. Dalzell smiled superior
smile. 81 renew my notion" he
said: and thus was the term
bloc" introduced for the first
time into the legislative halls and
usages Of the United States, when
the Paync-Aldrich tariff was be-
ing made.
inasmuch as the Democrats
made a tariff when they were in
power 1t is politically incumbent
on The Republicans to make one
now. They have started on the
JOB. The emergency tariff was
gesture, but the Fordney tariff is
a contortion. The Senate leaders,
handed the House idea of what
the new tariff should be, have, laid
the Fordney Bin away in the hope
that it will catch some fatal dis
ease, die thereof, and allow them
to mourn it in public and cheer
1t in private. But it won't. The
tariff bill is there, a hodgepodge
Of eXpediencies, and sooner or la
er the Senate must tackle it; and
whatever they do with il they
won't help themselves any politi-
cally, and they may hurt them
lot.
What" asked a Republican
leader, twas the idea of all this
prediction stuff about reducing
taxes and cutting down expenses,
and so on? ..s. os
1T would have been all right"
he replied, "if the times had kept
good. When things are prosper
Gus and the people are happy, we
can get away with murder; but
when business is bad, people be-
come dissatisfied and censorious,
and naturally they blame their
misfortunes on u.s."
But" / said, "you knew times
were going to be bad, and that
you couldn't reduce taxes much,
and so on, didn't you?"
Yes, ] suppose we did sup
pose we did. Still, we had TO
take the chance and talk that way.
And now we're in world Of trou-
BILE"
He stopped and smoked a little.
Did ! ever tell you Of the time
Tommy O'Malley set out on his
great adventure back in my home
town." he asked.
Not yet"
"Tommy's finish and ours are
comparable. Ee went out on the
street one afternoon and announc-
ed that he was a bear. a woody
bear. and he could whip any man
within sound Of his voice Nobody
PAID much attention 10 him lie
made the further announcement
that he was the toughest man in
those part and supplemented
that with a grand burst Of self
landation in which he aid that he
was 80 tough that he could strip
hin=c naked, put p bobcat under
each arm. climb 90 the top OF
shagbark hickey tree and never
get q scratch.
Just about then p big Swede
lumhfrjack came along. listened
attc4 ively 70 Tommy's resume Of
his tupenor qualifications. and
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