The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-09-07
HARDING ANSWERS
DEMOCRATS ATTACK
Republicans Working Way
Out of Welter of Waste
and Spending
HOPES FOR TARIFF
!! AND TAX REFORMS
Males Defense Of Administration
Work In Letter 20 Senator Meteor
mick - Party Makes Record In Cut
ting Expenses.

Harding, in a letter reviewing the
achievements to date of the Republican
administration, particularly with ref
erence to congress, declares that "sur-
yeying the national situation, as a
whole, it is plain that we are working
our way out of a welter of waste and
prodigal spending at a most impressive
rate
The letter, made public yesterday, was
written by the President under the date
of Aug. %, to Senator Mccormick of
Illinois, and, it Is understood. viii be
used in the campaign in New Mexico,
where Senator Bursum, appointed to I'LL
out the unexPired term OF Secretary or
Interior Fall, is a candidate for cleo
ton The letter, it also is understood, Is
considered by Republican leaders as a
reply to attacks on the legislative rec
ord of the Republican congress by
Chairman White of the Democratic ma
tional committee and other leading
Democrats.
owe have made much progress to-
ward retrenchment and greatly in
creased efficiency, the President as
umental accomplishment which has
marked the work Of the extraordinary
session down to the time of its recess.
Hopes for Tariff and Tax Bills
Looking to the future, Mr.. Harding
in his letter expresses the confident
hope that congress, after the recess
and before the end of the extraordinary
session. will adopt both the tariff and
taxation measures and that along with
these it will pass the bill to permit
funding the debt owed US by foreign
governments. - -.-e- --r ...
"This, | hope the President adds,
will shortly be followed by arrange
ments under which the debtor countries
viii begin paying interest on their OBJ
legations. Likewise, | am confident that
the bill facilitating the funding of the
debt of the railways TO the United
States will become law during the eX
tTaordinary session. thus insurlng a
large and immediate demand for en-
ployment of men now idle
Thanks Senator Mccormick
The President, in beginning his letter.
expressed thanks to Senator Mccormick
for the Illinois senator : congTatula
tions on the accomplishments of the
administration, as expressed in a letter
addressed to the President under date
The Republican, congress- - preceding the
advent of the present administration Is
credited by NJ. Harding with having
patiently and assiduouslv labored to re-
duce expenditures with results (Which
I'VE can summarize in the statement
that the appropriations for the current
fiscal year will aggregate 1880 00000O
and that this is three quarters of a bill
lion less than the expenditures for the
previous fiscal yea.
The President. after reciting as "ex-
travagances incident to the war; the
expenditure of $500. 900 bv the ship
ping board; between $5,0O0,O 100000 and
S80G00 900 900 for aircraft, artillery and
ammunition, and between one and a
quarter and one and a half billion dol
lars for the railroad administration
adds:
Record in Cutting Expenses
cit is gratifying to be able to say
therefore, that probably TO other gov
eminent in the world has during a sim
liar period so drastically reduced expert
ditures as has the government of the
United States during the past two years
on the msistence of the Republican
congress Moreover, l am happy to as
sure You that the administrative de-
partments are now in full sympathy
with the program of rigorous and unre-
hitting economy, through which, | be-
lieve, we will be able during the next
year to cove back into the treasury so
large a sum that the aggregate of taxa
ton may be reduced to $500 100000 q
year.
Half the present total expenditures
of the government arises from wars of
the past. Similar burdens are imposed
uUon the taxpayers of other countries,
and a well-niQh universal protest
against a possible repetition of gigan-
tic conflict aives rise to the common
hope that tho conference in November
may Tighten the burdens of both arma-
ntent aud taxation, not only for this,
but for OIL her lands.
Budget Law. Wholly Republican
''Almost without exception the gov
ernments of other countries are faced
with great deficits We must not over
estimate our good fortune and the pru-
dence of our congress, which permits us
to balance revenue and expenditure at
time when deficits are the rule
throughout the world. We shall be
greatly aided i'm policy of progressively
reducing expenditure by the budget law,
Repubican ia origin. design. enactment
and execution. | do not hesitate to say
that in ordinary times it alone would
have been considered a highly creditabe
chief product of a years legislative pro
gram. Yet in a time of such legislative
Gctivity as the present it is only one
among many measures of the first i'm
rortanee to be enacted 1t was quickly
followed hy the enactment of the immi
ration law. calculated both to limit
the inflow of population during a period
of depression and to hasten the day
when we nav effect the true American.
izatioh of. all newcomers to our shores
Benefits To Agriculture
E'TBe seres of measures looking tc
the anelioratiou of conditions ins the
great agricultural industries would II
other II fnes have constituted strikins
legislative. product of year 5 session
These include The law for control O
the hacking industry. the act for TIN
regulation of grain exchanges and thu
LAWS for the extension of credits t.
farmers through the war finance cornor
alton to enable therr to carry thei
crops until the markets will Absorb
them
1.-THE establishment of a veterans bu
resu insures contamination of thOs
reforms in, caring for our disabled me-
which were inaugurated by eXeeutiv
order We have established peace an
arc seeking to establish the qenerou
r.Indnel ION and nrnlitahle exchange o