The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-18

able or unwilling to fulfill them. Tn concrete legislation the republicans have achieved nothing. They have admitted that they cannot reduce the cost of government or relieve the burden of taxation.
 The Finished Product
 The republicans have enacted two bills, the emergency tariff and the immigration bills. The hypocrisy in the former was illustrated when they were forced to defeat democrat ic amendments under which all fer tilizers and agricultural implements would have been admitted free of duty. The hypocrisy in the latter was illustrated when they were forced to defeat democratic amend ments under which the tide of i'm migration would have been com pIetely shut off.
 In the former. the republicans. pretending to legislaSe for the farm CT. protected New England manu- lecturers by refusing to admit free of duty farm tools and fertilizers; in the latter. the republicans pretend ing to stand against cheap foreign labor. refused to close the gates be- cause German, Irish and Italian na- tionals in the United States threat ened by their ballots.
 The democrats feel that they have made the record even though it is a negative record. In view of the .ap- proach of the Congressional elections, they intend making it possible for the people of Nthe country to know the facts and reach their own con clusions.
 Underwood nt Helm
 The democratic procedure has been along two lines, one digpified and statesmanlike; the other partisan. Tn the former, Senator Underwood of Alabama has displayed rare skill. In the latter, Senator Harrison of Mis- sissippi has been thorn in the flesh
 Senator Underwood engineered the strategy which resulted in the sur render of administration republicans in the naval disarmament fight. In the beginning the old guard, to- gether with the President. stood against the Borah amendment. When it was demonstrated, however, that a solid democratic vote, added to the progressive vote would carry the amendment over the opposition pf the old guard. Senator Underwood determined to throw the entire demo- cratic vote. The old guard, reading the handwriting on the wall quickly surrendered, and the amendment went through unanimously. It was chiefly Senator Underwood who ex- posed<the republican sham in the emergency tariff fight and in the struggles for the enactment of 8 peace resolution. He will likewise be the main democratic dependence in the fight against the permanent tariff bill.
 Role of Harrison The fireworks, in the meantime, have been furnished by Senator liar rison. He has played this role in splendid manner. He has hung Am bassador Harvey and Admiral Sims about the necks of the republicans until they are sick of both. He has taken up every claim and every pre- tention, and accepted every chal- lenge.
 l Invariably he has been correct. No | republicans indorse Harvey's utter ance that the United States went into the war solely to save it's own skin. No republicans indorse the conten- tion of Sims that the Irish in the United States constitute national menace. And yet the republicans can only grin and bear it." For both Harvey and Sims are parts and parcels of the administration. On Harvey's head the President has put his hands. And Sims, in the pre- ceding administration, was extolled by republican partisans to so great an extent that they cannot ruthlessly shake him in the present.
 The G. 0. F. Plight
 The most embarrassing situation facing the republicans is based or the fact that they promised to econo 'mize and reduce taxation, whereas il