The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-19
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
Especial Despatch To The Reforms

During War.
I BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
| Especial Despatch To The Reformer.)
Copyright 1921.
| WASHINGTON, Feb 10. = George
| White, chairman of the Democratic ma
tional committee who has been retained
| in power by unanimous vote of the ex-
ecutive committee of the party. said to-
| day that he hoped President elect Hard
ing would find an early solution of the
many economic problems facing the
country and that Democrats everywhere
should lay aside partisan feeling and
cooperate
Il have taken the position all along"
declared MIR. " hite III an exclusive IN
tervIew, that this was not the time for
excessive organization work and be-
leye the opposition to me which has re
Gently arisen, was partly due to the
tact that favored doing nothing for
the present anyway that would seem as
II we were more Interested in party
success than the nations welfare
- felt that III the face of very ser
lous economic situation it was lncum-
bent on every good citizen irrespective
or pohtlcaI aEl1atiOns to wish the in
coming administration success. As
chairman OF the Democratic national
NhlitAliLNtt L SHdAi, OF course, nOIu the
new administration to strict account
ability tor all Its acts. | am planning
, the closest kind of cooperation be-
tween the Democratic national commit
tee and the leaders of the Democratic
minority in both houses of congress
with the objective of helping frame
constructive legislation on great issues
as they arse and with the object OF re-
ferrlng TO the country in 1922 and 1921
all the suggestions OF constructive poi
icy that VIII have been made, so that the
nation may compare them with what
has actually been done
Il hope Mr.. Harding viii be able to
give us definite and constructive for
elgn policy, because the chaotic condi-
tlon now is a direct result OF the mega
tive attitude which the Republicans I'M
fortunately took since they secured con-
tTUl OF both the house and senate in the
1918 elections. For instance, IN the oil
business it has been known by those
who study statistics that we are depend
ent on our expectation of crude oil and
byproducts. lhe fallacy of the cry OF
America Tor Americans or political is
oiatlon has been rapidly developed by
the fall III the price OF crude oil and in
the decline OF the purchasing ability OF
the pipe line companies.
+ Foreign countries Me not buying be-
cause thgy cannot afford to pay the dit
ference iii international exchange and
that difference is due TO unstable con
dltlOns ana the apparent return OF the
United States to a policy of political is
olation which | fear may become eco
homie isolation. OF course it Is simply
following along the same lines as wheat.
cotton, corn and raw products except
that oil was caught later than other
commodities. / sincerely hope Mr..
Harding will evolve some solution for
these problems and he viii have in his
task the patriotic cooperation of Demo
Gratis everywhere.
Mr.. White talked about the oil bus
mess because he IS engaged in it him
self but he added that it was simply an
illustration of the need that America
has for foreign markets. The Demo-
cratic chairman states emphatically,
that If America had entered the league
of nations. confidence would 1ave been
substituted i'm Europe for the present
era of uncertainty. However. he in
sisted that everything was now III Mir.
Harding's hands and that the nation
would surely approve any solution that
brought America back To the position
of friendship which she had with other
powers during the war and one that
would assist in improving economic con
about the necessity of cooperating with
the incoming administration instead of
organizing politica drive for 1922 or
cratic committee members in town. For
the next few months at least. the Dem
ocrats will endeavor to assume an at
titude of digniied acuuiescence rattle
than partisan complaint.