The Monett times., 1922-07-21
SPEECH DELIVERED BY I.v.
MCPHERSON AT VERONA


i Ladies and Gentlemen. am a
candidate for denomination for Con-
gress. In the Congress to which you
elected me in 1920, have consistently
4 supported the administration of Presi-
dent Harding and have performed my
full part in the work Of legislation in
the House of Representatives and if
reelected | shall continue to aid the
President in carrying out the platform
upon which we were elected and in
taking the country back to normal
ways.
The extent to which / have won the
confidence of my associates in the
House, is shown by the fact that
was unanimously chosen by them to
represent Missouri on the Republican
Congressional Committee.
As a member of the last Congress
/ | voted for the Volstead act, and aided
in passing the same over President
Wilson's veto. shall oppose all eff
forts to repeal or undermine the 18th
amendment in the event of my re-elec-
tion.
i The Congress and the administra-
tion elected in 1920, inherited prob
lens more complicated and difficult
than those with which any other Con-
gress and administration has had to
deal in the Nations history.
We found the country iii state of
war, although all fighting had ended
and our army had been brought home
and disbanded more than two years
before; we found the war taxes still
being collected and the war laws I'M
repealed; we found all the Depart
ments of Government swarming with
useless and unnecessary employees; we
found no effort had been or was be-
ing made to collect any part of the
: principal or interest due US from the
/ foreign governments on the loans Mr..
! Wilson had made our Allies in the
| Wal, we lOuIlN liic laws lol liC ACllCL
of our disabled soldiers in state of
chaos and anarchy and graft and
dishonesty on the part of those charg-
ed with the administration of such
law; we found waste and eXtrava-
gance amounting to a vast scandal
with no budget system OF other hus!-
ness methods for making appropria-
tions.
We found legacy or debt the sum
total of which exceeded the entire
cost of the government FROM the date
of it's organization to the outbreak
Of the war, the annual interest on
which equalled the yearly cost of the
government prior to the war; we
found the prosperity Of which Mr..
Wilson'S admirers boast, had disap-
peared when the World War which
had produced it, ended; we found
every basic industry in the throes OF
depression; we found agriculture
PROSTATE and the country burdened
with railroad rates so high as to an
initiate agriculture and prevent re-
storation of all industry; we found the
transportation system so vital to all
business, threatened with bankruptcy;
millions of working men out of en-
ployment; Government bonds which
were paid for by the people at par
to enable the government to win the
war; selling for SIS cents on the dollar;
we found the Canadian farmer
occupying our markets with his pro-
duce to the exclusion of our own farm
products.
During our first year the Republi-
can Congress and administration has
ended the state of war and brought
an honorable peace with all our late
enemies; we repealed the war taxes
and war laws; we passed laws fund
ing the debts due us from the foreign
governments and the eleven billions
Of dollars owing, near three billions of
which was loaned the Allies by Mr..
Wilson after the war was over, are
now in progress of being adjusted;
we repealed the laws relating to our,
disabled service men and enacted
others in their stead by which all the
work of providing compensation,
Vocational education and cure for our
wounded soldiers, is concentrated in
one responsible head
The Budget system for economy
enacted by the last Republican Con
gress and vetoed by President Wilson,
has been passed and is now in success
full operation and has displaced waste
with economy and method; we passed
an Emergency Tariff Bill for the re-
lief Of our farmers until a permanent
law could be enacted; we passed laws
to regulate the packers to protect our
farmers; we caused more than sixty
thousand of the useless employees kept
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