The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1921-04-08

Government is very simple thing.
after ALL remarked Mr.. Harding dur.
ing the campaign, but Mr.. Harding az
President of the United States is not
finding government very simple
thing. after ALL
For campaign purposes all that was
necessary to put the country on its
feet after the most devastating war
known to human history was to elect
Republican President and a Republi-
can Congress. Then everything would
automatically be for the best in the
best possible of words. It is quite
different story, however. when CAM
paign rhetoric is subjected to the acid
test Of responsible administration.
Although the Harding Administra-
ton IS not yet three weeks old. Mr..
Seibcld, The Worlds political cores
pondent, reports from Washington
that "a pronounced note of pessimism.,
regarding the outlook for economic
and industrial relief is always pre-
valent in the discussion between high
officials of the Administration and the
newspaper representatives. There Is
plenty of ground for pessimism, but
the Republican Party, or to put it
more precisely, the Republican Party
in Congress, is the architect of its own
misfortunes. Having Systematically
blocked peace and reconstruction for
two years, it is now confronted with
oil the consequences of its folly and
mendacity
The Harding Administration is on
its way, but it does not know where
it is going. 1t has no foreign policy
that it can define, and it has no do
nestle policy that is worthy of the
name The peace of the world that
was won at such colossal expenditure
in blood and treasure is slowly dis
integrating, largely because the Unit
ed States Senate. :;nder the leadership
of Henri Cabot Lodge, refused TO rati-
fly the Treaty of Versailles and assist
in stabilizing the. victory. With this
disintegration has come an economic
depression that has modified an army
of 100000 unemployed in the United
States. brought about wholesale reduc-
tons in wages and has left American
agriculture PROSTATE. The Govern
ment is facing an enormous deficit in
its revenues and it has no programme.
Mr.. Harding is promising the Ameri-
can farmer tariff. that would amount
to an embargo on imports of food, as
If this could be of any value in solving
of Europe to buy American food pre-
ducts. for the lack of which millions
are on the verge of starvation. There
can be no reduction in taxation be-
cause the present sources of revenue
no longer provide the money that the
Government is spending. All that can
be done is to shift taxation and devise
new expedients for obtaining add
tional revenue The one constructive
piece of legislation enacted by me
Sixty-sixth Congress, the Esch-C Cum
Minis Railroad Law, has already brols-
en- down and is doomed to the Junk.
heap
Government may be very simple
thing on the Marion front porch, but
1t is very complicated thing in the
White House; vet most of the diff
culties with which the Harding Admin
istration is coEtending might have
been avoided if the Sixty-sixth Con-
gress had not wontonly sacrificed the
welfare of the country in order to
manufacture partisan issues for the
1920 campaign. craftsmanship would
have ratified the treaty of peace. re-
yised taxation and taken up the press
ing work of reconstruction, but there
was no craftsmanship in CONGRESS-
There was only a degraded and de-
based partisanship.
Mr.. Harding need look no further
than the record OF his party to find
the origin of his troubles about which
ne and his advisors are so pessimistic
World
Senator LaF'Ollette has anno,, I,