The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-22
Rival Statements Are Issued on
Sixty-Seventh Congress.
Put Nation on Prosperity Road,
Says Mccormick.
BILLION OFF NATIONAL DEBT
Taxation and Expenditures
Have Been SIashed.
'Tainted With Wall Street," Is
Simmons RetOrt.

Washington, Sept. 22.-With the
American people waiting to pass judg-
ment at the polls in November, SEN
atorial leaders of the two major poll
teal parties today issued statements
on the legislative record of the Sixty
seventh congress.
Senator Simmons. Democrat, of
North Carolina, speaking for the mi
gress with failure and declared it's
legislative record was tainted with
the influence of Wan street"
At the same time, Senator McCor-
mick. Republican, of Illinois, declared
the legislative achievements of this
congress have reduced the nationa,
debt 1000. 900, 900 ana lifted the ma
ton from industrial paralysis to the
path of prosperity. Their rival state
ments follow:g
Debt is Cut.
BY Senator Medill Mccormick.
Chairman Republican senatorial COM
mittee: The congress found business
dead, agriculture PROSTATE, and s.
00D,000 men out of work. 1t has writ
ten into law the Kellogg agricultural
credits act; laws for control of the
packing industry and the grain trade,
McCormick-Good budget act. Under
the budget act, it has been possible to
so drastically reduce outlay that the
national debt was reduced $1,000, 000,-
900.
The annual amount of taxation and
expenditures have been, slashed-a like
amount. In the civil, military and
naval services of the government
there has bean a curtailment of $780,
600 men, who have returned to pro-
ductive industry. The president, by
agreement and not by ruinous naval
competition, has established the
United States the equal of the great
est naval power in the world and By
treaty has substituted accord for dis
cord in the Pacific.
Aid For Farmer.
AS result, the farmer who har-
vested loss Will make a living, the
man who had lost his place will find a
job; the manufacturer whose furnace
was cold can find a market. We are
on the road to prosperity, while every
other country in the world is burdened
by debts and deficits, alarmed by
ornaments and threats of bloody
strife between rival powers.
Who would turn back to undo what
has been done. to put aside the ways
of peace to resume the ways of war
Who would put aside the security of
Af1lef1Cd To ptQHS0 Will lIG w llSOIlIdIi
Democrats into the league of nations?
Tariff a Makeshift.
BY Senator Furnifold Simmons,
Democratic finance leader in the
senate: The Republican party came
into power proclaiming its superior
constructive ability and efficiency in
enacting salutary and remedial legis-
lation. 1t proclaimed it would be in
common parlance get there quick
administration. 1t promised a tariff
bill without delay, and it was to pro-
lief of soldiers. The tariff bill which
was passed is a miserable, makeshift,
unscientific, unbalanced measure, vio>
lating every protective principle of the
Republican party. 1t is SO clearly a
purely profiteering scheme of legis-
known as the profiteers' adjusted COM
pensation bill. 1t deals a murderous
blow to our export trade upon which
the prosperity of this nation is largely
based. 1t will impose greater burdens
of taxation and enormously, increase
the cost of living.
War Veterans Betrayed.
It's treatment of world war veterans
is shameful and is marked by evasion,
hypocrisy and finally. by betrayal.
The falsity of claims of retrench
ment and reduction of expenses is con-
clusively answered by the solemn
statement of the president in vetoing
the soldiers bonus bill, that the treas
ury was confronted by a deficit of
$3.50, 900, 900 during 1923. But for the
heavy receipts from the sale of war
material, the treasury would be in a
state of practical bankruptcy at the
present time.
More than ever in our history. the
country today is in the grip of IA
vored classes, its industry controlled
by organized monopolies and its finan-
cial policy dominated by influences
centered in Wall street. 3