The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1921-12-30
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DEC. 80, 1921
SAYS NEED OF NATION is DEMO-
CRATIC PARTY

Cordell Hull, of Tennessee, former
" an economic authority in the House
of Representatives and now Chairman
of the National Democratic Commit
tee, is planning an intensive campaign
of education among the voters, es
pecially the business men, that they
really need the Democratic party.
Mr. Hull is proceeding on the theo-
ry that the accumulation of war irri-
tations that beset the Democratic
party in the last national campaign is
fast wearing away, and that as it
wears away, and the intelligent voters
begin dispassionately to weigh the
records and capacities Of the two ma
jor parties, they must inevitably turn
to the Democracy.
"The voters who think carefully
and analytically of the political
events of the last decade will soon
see," Chairman Hull said, that it is
not an accident that the Republican
party has failed to meet the fiscal
needs of the county. am not speak
ing now of the promises that were
given to every discontinued element.
What l am speaking of is the failure
of the Republican party, conceded by
everyone now without regard to par
ty, to reorganize the governments
taxation system.
"ThiS failure is not an accident. 1t
is the logical fruition of the facts. The
Republicans do not know how to re-
organize the Governments fiscal sys-
tenn. They have not got the men for
it, the training for it.
eff you will stop a minute to think
you will see that the Republicans had
no training in internal revenue leg
islation up to Mr.. Wilson's first cleo
ton; they had no responsibility and
no training during the first six years
of Mr.. Wilson's service and, conSe-
quently, when they came into power
in 1918 and found a situation in which
the war had made it necessary to ga
Their great sums of internal revenue
"a situation in which their old stand |
"
ct for revenue purposes-they simply |
did not know what to do.
Cali that they could do was to tin
ker with this existing tax, and then
with that existing tax, backing $and |
filling, changing their minds, over |
turning the actions of their commit !
tees supposed to be composed of their .
experts. and finally producing meas
hot
shift. Underlying all, of course, was /
the effort of. certain elements to take
care of the special few.
'The same thing is demonstrated .
from another angle. The common, ev-
ery-day experience of every man tells |
him thai when there is too much of a |
commodity in his own little commune |
ty, the price of it says miserabIy; |
when there is too little of it, the price !
swings up. When this country gets, as
it has got, to the point where it pro-
duces too much for its own consump-
ton, it must send abroad, or the !
prices of its products will sag mis-
erably. Any man of ordinary intelli- |
gence must see that this means that
the prosperity of the United States
depends upon its foreign commerce.
when MIR. Harding became Presi-
dent, they undertook to write, under
the leadership of Mr.. Fordney, and
with the approval of President Hard
ing, an old-tfme Republican, high-wall
protective tariff, designed to keep ev-
cry thing out
AND, OF course, after they had
blindly tinkered away for months.
Onftinp Gpnnn1, inf
wasting months of the time of the
Congress which they told the people
would work great reforms, they had
to confess that they had tied them
selves uD beyond all hope of extrica-
ton. make the utterly humiliating ac-
Acknowledgement that their months of
tinkering were useless, and drop the
whole business, with a promise that
they would start all over again later
on.
ut is calamity that the Democra-
tic plans for reconstruction were not
carried out. If we had entered into
close cooperation with the other ma
lions OF the world we would have had
disarmament long ago. We would have
scientific revision of the war reye
nue. legislation necessarily unfit for
peace time. We would have had
saved S1,000,000 by this time. We
would have helped keep the world on
its feet too, and would have saved
our foreign trade. We would have had
customs adjusted sensfbly! We would
have had the Inheritance tax readjus-
ted to yield much more and we would
have had the income Tax laws re-
vamped to meet the new need and to
do away with war taxes.