Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-06-22

men now.
The Republican, House has muddled
the proposal TO reduce ornaments.
which. ii was pointed out both by Re
publican progressiyes and Demo-
Gratis. was the only way in which
material reduction in taxation could
l be made. substituting impossible con-.
diiions by providing for conference
OF all nations TO consider reduction in
land as well as in sea forces. in place
OF Senator Borah's plan for a naval
conference of the United Sites. Great
/ Britain and Japan--a practical plan
In the mudoling OF peace. in hos
4, tility to- disarmament, in failure to
keep election promises and in con-
| tinuing the deception and false pre-
fences of the last campaign. the
| Democrats charge that the Republi-
can party has shown itself as bank
rupt in principles as it is in policy.
Arrangement of the Republican rec
ord is not confined 10 Democrats
alone. Republican progressiyes in
| both houses of Congress have warned
and censured their Republican coll
leagues. especially in the matter OF
| The New York Herald leading Re-
publican organ. has attacked the
taxation record of its party both in
! its news and editorial columns. The
| Philadelphia Public Ledger recently
! contained this solemn warning
against the Republican attitude on re-
auction OF armament:
we are drifting now. We will con-
tinue to drift unless some outstand-
ing hgure cotnpelse the attention of
checked currents carry us towards
misunderstanding and trouble that
may fare redly at any time. We
drift towards greater navies, greater
burdens on already tax-burdened peo-
plies, as the race for ornaments
gathers speed and determination.
I'VE are all drifting as the world
drifted before 1914 $ The thun-
der head of the next storm is blue on
| the horizon. Ii is his (the
President's) duty and it should be his
high privilege to summon the men of
Japan and of Britain TO grave coun-
| Gil Without faltering or delay.
President Harding should call con-
terence on armament
While many influential Republican
papers are apologizing for the admin
istration. the official mouthpiece of
! the President. the Washington Post,
is still true to Mr. Micawber
In an editorial enumerating what
| it calls 1.-THE accomplishments of the
| administration" in the first three
months it credits the Republicans
with the following:
The enactment of the Emergency
Tariff bill; passage of the Immigra-
ton bill; passage of appropriation
bills which failed in the last Con-
gress: the passage of the Peace Reso-
luton by the Senate; the drafting of
permanent tariff bill; work on a
ment for a conference on armament:
programme for funding the public
debt: planning revision of the trans
portation system: improvement in tho
disqualification of sick and wounded
soldires. and the appointment of q
new Shipping Board.
In a speech in the Senate, June IA.
Senator Pat" Harrison. The Demo-
cratic d Artagnan of that body. in pre-
else detail showed that the Republi-
cans rejected every amendment TO the
Emergency Tariff bill which would
have benefited the farmer; that he
himself offered the amendment re-
ducing the percentage of immigration
from five percent. to three which was
adopted: that neither the army OF the
navy appropriation bill has yet been
passed: that the peace resolution has
not been agreed on; that the perman-
ent tariff bill has not been drafted;
that the initiation of "A movement for
an armament conference was by
Senator Borah and not by President
Harding; that the proposed revision
of the transportation system would be
revision of the Cummins-Esch Rail-
road bill pronounced by Mr.. Harding
as the greatest forward step in all
the history of railroad legislation:
that plans for funding the public debt
may be announced just before the
next election; that the hospitaliza-
ton of sick and wounded soldiers is
SO bad that Democratic Senator. Mr..
Walsh tMass.l sponsored a resolution
for an investigation to give relief. and
that the new head of the Shipping
Board has had no connection with
shipping beyond the shipping of the
campaign poster "Wiggle and Wob-
ble." of which he is the reputed de-
signer
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