Iron County register., 1921-10-20
They Wanted a Change.
Joe H. Eagle in NY. worldly

From universal prosperity under
the Democrats they have come to
universal hard times under the Re-
publicans.
From universal employment at high
wages under the Democrats they have
come to see 100000 men idle and
the balance working atreduced wages
under the Republicans.
The people wanted a change -and
they got it.
They were promised that the army
should at once be returned from the
Rhine; but the army is still on the
Rhine.
One group voted for the Republicans
on the assurance that Italy should re-
gain Fiume, but Italy is still without
Fiume.
One group of many millions voted
for the Republicans on the promise of
peace treaty favorable to Germany;
but after the Republican Congress
passed stake" resolution of peace
the Administration must now either
submit for ratification for the Yer
sailles Treaty of Peace or Germany
will escape liability, obligation and
indemnity; and thus the Republicans
must either betray the German sympa-
thizers or the best interests Of the
United States.
The business men were promised
relief from heavy taxes. But all that
has been done is revision by the
House of Representatives by which
the very rich men and corporations
are to be relieved of their burdens at
the expense of the ordinary business
men and the masses of the people.
The people wanted change-and
they got it.
Under the Republican administra-
ton products of the field and the
range have gone far below the cost
of production. There are the things
by which one half of our people live.
And these things have happened while
the world is hungry and naked. The
net result is the ruin of producers
everywhere. But the masses of the
people, in country and city alike, pay
even yet practically the same prices
for the finished products OF meats,
food, clothing and all other of their
daily necessities. Thus the rich and
the middlemen reap their harvests of
gain, undisturbed by the Republican
administration, at the expense of the
suffering producers everywhere.
The people wanted change-and
they got it.
About the only time the Republican
President has awakened long and
alert enough to take keen interest in
the peoples concerns on Capitol Hill
was when he went in person and
killed the bills for the relief of the
soldiers who have saved the world
from slavery and ruin, and next when
he directed his partisians in Congress
to favor the Oil Trust and his Secre-
tary of the Treasury's great oil COM
pany by admitting free of duty oil
coming into this country from Mexico
by which the importers saved over
$4,000, 900 annually at the expense of
the country and the Treasury.
The people wanted change-and
they got it.
Special selfish interests in the
manufacturing centers haye written
the Tariff Bill as they pleased and in
their own interests, which will impose
burdens Of billions upon the consum-
ing public; and yet under this Repub-
lican Tariff Bill, the producers of raw
materials get practically no benefits
for their raw products of either field
or forests or mine or ranch or other
wise.
The Republican President called the
Congress together five months ago
for the express purpose Of passing
Tariff Bill and Tax Bill. But after
all this time it has done neither. 1t is
divided in counsel; it is without lead
ership, it is as ship without rud-
der. The Republican majority is split
up into many factions and its only
coherent policy SO far developed is to
turn the country over to the tender
mercies Of Wall street as it did in
former times.
The people wanted change-and
they got it.
From a condition of tranquility,
plenty and prosperity under the
Demo- they have come to strife,
adversely and distress under the Re-
publicans. Confidence in govern
ment itself has been much weakened.
Fellowship between employer and
employee, which the Democrats built
up so there was fair division of the
rewards of labor, has been destroyed
under the Republicans. Factories