The St. Joseph observer., 1921-10-29

Mexico, spread broadcast the allega-
tion that he had won by 5000, and
apparently has never thought II neces-
sary to correct this false impression.
The official election returns show
Senator Bursum's plurality to be
5,5O5, approximately one-half the
1900 majority for Harding last year.
1t is asserted by Senator Bursum's
supporters that he was given vote
of condolences! on this basis, out of a
total vote of 71,761 Senator Bursum's
vote of confidence" is expressed in
his majority OF 1,949. which is far
from an overwhelming vote of ap-
proval in a campaign in which the
principal Republican dependence was,
to quote the same Republican paper,
"a heavy slush- barrel"
Connecticut Towns Turn to Democrats
While the Republican press con-
spicuously published the news of
Senator Bursum's election, false fig
ures and all. there has been a painful
lack of information in tho same press
of the results OF the recent city cleo
tions in Connecticut.
At the election the first week In
this month, in New Haven, Fitzgerald,
Democratic candidate for mayor, car
ried the city by 2,4O9. Last year
Harding carried New Haven by 1O,-
692.
At the same election, in Waterbury,
Guilfoile, Democrat candidate for
mayor, carried the city by 3,O42. Last
year Harding carried Waterbury by
1,O51.
At New Haven the total presidential
vote was 37,9O2 and the total mayor
ality vote was 26,S75. a falling off Of
only 1927 votes.
At Waterbury the total presidential
vote was 1921; the total mayorality
vote was 1884, falling off of only
1897.
Still "FooIing the Farmers
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extended the Emergency Tariff bill,
approved May 81, 1921. until February
l, 1922.
This is the bill which was to bring
prosperity to the farmer by protecting
him against the pauper raised crops
of Europe, which do not exist, but
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surplus crops, which he must sell
abroad to be prosperous.
On the day before the House ex-
tended the Emergency Tariff Act,
Senator Mckinley (Rep., m.). said on
the floor of the Senate:
Il was in Illinois ten days ago and
the farmers was 2S cents, and might
go to rs cents, although the corn cost
him 5S cents to raise. 1 myself think
that 2 cents or 9 cents or s cents of
the price reduction has resulted from
the so-called farmer legislation
Emergency Tariff Act) we passed
last summer, but the price of the crop
is fixeG by the surplus we have to
sell. In normal times Europe bought
our surplus. Today Europe is under
fed and needs our grain. but Europe
has neither credit nor money, so they
starve while we burn our corn for
fuel
'As to the price in Iowa have a
report from a man in the town where
l live who owns 600 acres Of land in
Iowa, who stated that 1t would not
pay him to husk and ship his corn"
Senator Kenyon (Rep., la, said:
IT have a letter here from a farmer
in my state In which he says: Bids
for the 1921 crop of corn have just
been made public. II is IS cents a
bushel at the local elevator. The
above has cast additional gloom all
over the middle west
"Out of that IS cents a bushel husk-
ing cost cents a bushel, shelling 3
cents, delivery 6 cents, leaving about
5 cents bushei for producing a BUSH
ell OF corn. It costs the farmers in
the Middle West from SO to 60 cents
a bushel to produce It,"
The complete answer to the Emer-
gency Tariff Act is to be found in the
daily quotations of the price of farm
products. The farmers read these
quotations, but it would seem Repub-
lican congressman do not.