The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1921-12-21
Farmer Gritting His Teeth and
Biding His Time"

: The regular SESSION of the Sixty
Seventh Congress opens with we'll
! defined cleavage between the Reac.
tionaric, and the Progressives. The
latter know their strength and hav,
had a fresh taste Of victory.
That the Reactionaries will con-
tinue TO dictate to them is apparent
from that part of President Hard
ing's message reprimanding them
for Joining with the Democrats in
passing the Democratic amendments
to the tax bill, and his plea for party
! harmony and party government.
But out in the West is an intelli-
gent and watchful constituency
which has been disillusioned on the
: tariff which has lost or is losing
faith in Republican promises of
lower taxes and economical govern
ment. which is beginning to realize
that the. party in power does not I'M
derstand the problems with which it
for to solve them. Above all, 1t un-
derstands now as never before that
1t has no identical interests with the
privileged and predatory classes who
finance and control the reactonary
element of the Republica party.
Just how the Western constituents
feel about it is well expressed by a
Western weekly paper, which says:
1.-The farmer is gritting his teeth
and biding his time"
Republican Savings" and De-
ficiencies
Congressman James F. Byrnes of
South Carolina, Democratic member
of the Appropriations Committee,
has again exposed the fake savings"
claimed by the reactionary Republic
cans in Congress. In a recent speech
he said:
"But I want to comment for a
minute upon the saving you were
going to make; because the gentle
man from Wyoming (Mr. MondelD
said you were going to make those
savings, and when he says so you
have to believe it. He told the Pres
ident you were going to save $780,
100000 out of the appropriations
for this year. He said that you
were going to save $100,00O,000 in
the Navy. But the Navy asked for
S27,000,000 in the way Of defici-
ency. Then they withdrew theNesti-
mate and said they would try and see
if they could not reduce it by the
time the regular session met in
December.
The gentleman from Wyoming
stated he was going to save s25,-
100000 out of the appropriations
for the Agricultural Department
when the total appropriation was
only $36,000,000. When l called
attention to that, the gentleman
from Illinois (Mr. Madden) stated
that it was to be saved out of the
road fund; but you know, and the
country ought to know, that instead
OF saving money out of the road
fund since that time we have appro-
priated $100,000,000 to be spent in
cooperation with the States in
building public roads. So that in
stead of saving s25,O00.0O0, we
have appropriated an additional
100000 since that time.
"Now as business men, how can
we reconcile those statements? The
gentleman from Wyoming said that
in the Navy Department we would
save 500, 900. The total amount
appropriated on the building con-
tracts was only S90,000,000, and If
this conference on the limitation of
armament is a success and we cancel
the contracts, we all know that we
have got to pay damages in addition
there is not a chance On earth OF
to the amounts ALREADY spent ana
saving 800 zoo, 900 in the Navy ap-
preparations. On the contrary, the
the department asked for $4,000
900 deficiency appropriations.
II call attention to this because /
make the prediction now that we will
have at least two or three more de-
fcency bills, and unless there is a
great change in the executive de-
partments the deficiency bills of this
Congress are going to amount to al
most as much as any Congress prior
to 1908 ever spent for all govern
ment purposes.
Remember Lorimer," Warns Helm
One Of the most eloquent and ex-
corciating speeches made against