Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-02-18
Trimming Their SuilS

MINE Democrats joined thir;y-four Re.
~ pubiicans in passing the Fordney
emergency tariff bill in tho Senate. while
four New England Republicans Joined
twehty-siN Democrats i'll voting against it.
rs moro than a score OF amendments were
lacked onto the bill as passed by the House.
II now goes to conference in an attempt 10
iron out the differences. Since there is lit
Tie, II any, sincerity OF belief that the bill
VIII afford the emergency relief TO the
farmers which supplied the excuse for its
support. the chances are that these diff
terchces viii he reconciled and the measure
sent TO :he White House. where il is GER
tain to meet with executive disapproval. IL
any doubt existed as to this expectation
there is a faint possibility that the measure
might be held up in committees. since the
Senators and Congressman who voted for
II already have accomplished their purpose
of demonstrating to tho farmer vote their
sollcitlde for its welfare i'm the applicatiOn
OF principles long since abandoned i'm the
arrangement of the tariff schedules.
for one thing, the support which the bill
received from certain Democratic Senators
evidences political foresightedness in trim
ming their sails to catch a breeze which ia
setting up strongly among the constituencies
represented by them. Take Senator Morris
Sheppard. of Texas, as an instance, OF such
sail-trimining. Sentiment i'm Texas when
IT has had ii fair opportunity to express
itself in an untranmclcd way. always has
opposed the doctrine Of FREQ raw materials
produced on the farms, while extending all
the benefits OF protection, for protection's
s"h"' 10 inc manufactured products of the
East. II has always stood for a tariff
framed FOR strictly rcvenue-p producing pur-
poses with the incidence uf protection so
distributed in its benefits as to include all
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the country. But Senator Sheppard. as q
follower OF the teachings of William lon
hIrsG Bryan and a supporter OF the tariff
views put over by tn" present Democratic
administration has not consistently repre-
Schtcd th'S sentiment of his state, which.
temporarily thrust in tho background bv
other and more exciting issues. is now he.
ginning To rcasscrt itself, not alone in
Texas. but in other States OF the South and
tremendously so In the agricultural West.
Even If the Fordney bin were to become
a law, il would be Il tremendous disa ppoint-
'noht to the farmers in that II would bring
no immediate or direct relief TO them
while az the same ;lme it would increase
'h"Ir burdens along with the rest OF the
country consumers through the higher
cost oil commodities Tor which there ia no
outside competition in our nome markets.
i-ohoon reports "i.and!ords are due for
haFd times and there will bc no BUSINESS
Of tears when that happy condition reaches
Richmond.
mother mans savings have gone up IN
smoke But al present prices Of alleged
tobacco there seems 10 be no helm for /,
Harding regards the Jap controversy "a
po!','cai question in California. Well.
'hank heaven. that's settled at last
Wedding following courtship OF nearly
seventy years emphasizes the fact tina, ago
""akcns resistance.
'!"Si"e over easy courses down in r,.,ta,
nov gong to condition Harding for tho
,. '"pF ""d hazards he .ui encounter
II '"'s thing keeps ur. soon ,he,e VIM he
D.moer.. pT'a" for each Individual