Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-09-14

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But unless 1t does give the west a
square deal in the new tariff law Il
may just as well be understood
first as last that it will not receive
my support. With me it is going
to be q square deal for the west OF
a fight"
Agrees With Gooding.
I want to say to you, my friends
that / agree with every statement
made there by the senator from
Idaho. II ever there was a bill
framed for the purpose of exploit
ing the masses of the people in ia
vor of the few, in this country, II
is that bill which Is now proposed
by the republican party In the
United States congress. And not
only that, but we have tried to get
a tariff upon hides. At the present
time, as you know, you can take a
carload of hides and after you
have paid the cost of skinning the
animal and transporting the hides
to the east, you can't sell the
hides for enough profit to pay the
cost of one pair of shoes. But what
do they do? Put hides on the free
list! While we are importing
hides by the hundreds of millions
each year, we get a duty Npon the
manufactured product safely laid
away in the Fordney bill. Now do
you want that sort Of thing, my
friends? 1t is an example of how
few concerns in this country are
exploiting the people for individual
benefit. BY building up the tariffs
on the manufactured products you
practically erect stone wall about
our borders and shut off the i'm
portation of commodities, You
destroy the market for the wool
growers, for the meat growers, the
cotton growers and the copper pro-
duoers and other producers who
raise surplus of their commodi-
ties. And not only that, my
friends I ask you what the re-
publican party has done with our
affairs abroad to build up a mar
ket there for our-surplus products?
At the conclusion of this war we
found that our very best customers
were thousands of dollars in debt
Financially, almost bankrupt.
Their governments unstable. New
governments had come into exis-
tence, and those were our custom
ers. Lay aside If you will the ques-
ton of our duty to humanity and
to civilization and consider this
from a purely selfish point of view
/ ask you, II this government
of ours shouldn't have taken some
part in bringing about the peace of
the world and building up mar
ket for our surplus products. But
they didn't do 1t.
Politics Enters,
Politics for the first time In the
history of this nation entered into
our foreign affairs and because
they thought they were endorsing
a great measure promulgated by
a democratic president they felt it
was their duty to sacrifice the in
terests of this country in order to
discredit the political party. Do you
believe that they voiced the senti-
ments of the people when this was
done? Are you willing now to enc
dorse the attitude of this adminis-
tration upon our foreign relations?
You will remember that last year
from this platform / discussed with
you our cooperation with other ma
tons of the world in order to carry
out the great purposes for which
the war was fought and also to
bring about prosperity. In trav-
cling over the state at that time
not npa hTt bupIradv pf rar,,,l
licans told me they were in favor
of such an association, in fact told
me they were in favor Ut the par
ticular association which had been
negotiated by President Wilson,
but l want to say to You further,
you remember very we'll that cele-
brated letter signed by the present
secretary of state, Mr.. Hughes,
signed by the present secretary of
Commerce, Mr.. Herbert Hoover,
and twenty-nine other prominent
republicans that appealed to the
people of this country to exercise
their citizenship in favor of the
republican candidate because they
said that was the quickest way 10
get into the League of Nations, and
SO Mr.. Harding was elected. And
now they are saying that that was
the verdict of thu people of this
country against any association OF
nations and that we should isolate
ourselves from the rest of the
world. l say to you, my friends,
that those people are mistaken. l
don't believe that the great masses
of the United States are willing to
say that we will not do our share
in preserving humanity and civil
ization. | don't believe that the
great majority of our people OF this
country are going to say that we
are willing to shut of foreign
trade--going to destroy the great
surplus producing industries of this
country. Are you wiliiag TO endorse
tEat program?
We have already lost almost
three years which should have bsen
utilized in restoring our foreign
markets, but so far as we car see
at the present time, nothing Is be-
ing done. There has been called for
November 18th a conference in
Washington to consider the subject
of disarmament. You are feeling
the load of the great expense of
the army ana navy of the United
States. Last year there was spent
about one billion seven hundred
million dollars upon the army and
navy in the appropriation bills. For
this year about eight hundred mil
lion dollars have been appropri-
ated. Prior to the war one billion
paid the entire expense of the ma
ton, including the army and navy
Now, even three years after the
war, we are spending nearly that
much for our army and navy alone.
And how can a reduction of the
ornaments of the world be brought
about unless you have some sort OF
an understanding for the united
effort of the nations of the world
to preserve the peace of the world
and that means an association OF
nations? You may call 1t what you
will, but in Its final analysis II will
be a league OF nations something
similar to that advocated by Wood
row Wilson.
Revenue Law Changes.
Another thing. my friends. We
all have realized back there that
the revenue laws of this country
ought to be revised. That they
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