The St. Joseph observer., 1922-10-21

'i'hiiS hiN ilbt billN N'lg dBBlfll'llSlNt
that there will be a Democratic House
elected, as shown by the fear voiced
by the President, but they anticipate
the reduction of the Republican ma
jorlty In the senate--a loss so great
that they expect the Democrats, by
Joining hands with the Progressive
Farm Bloc Republicans, to be able to
control legislation in that body. They
can see the loss Of Frellnghuysen in
New Jersey, Calder in New York, the
Iowa seat for which they have nomi-
mated Broolhart, Socialist, Town
send in Michigan. probably Lodge in
Massachusetts, and others on the
other hand, the Democrats are ex-
pected to retain the seats of Reed of
Missouri and Pomerene of Ohio, two
of the most valuable Democratic
fighters in the senate
Chickens Come Home to Roost
II has long been a proverb that
"chickens come home to roost." In
the case of the Fordney tariff law it
might be more appropriate to call
them buzzards, for they are birds of
ill-omen. They are already coming.
The Fordney law puts a greatly in
creased tax on sugar coming in from
Cuba, a thing which increases the
price OF the commodity to every Am
erican user. but lessons Cuba's mar
ket for her principal product. Nat
urally the Cubans are indignant and
in a. bad frame of mind; like the re-
mainder of humanity, their most sem
sitive nerves are those which extend
to the pocketbook. They are retaliat-
ing by placing tax of 100 per cent on
all American shoes entering the Coun-
try-the result is simply stated-no
American shoes will enter. This means
the cutting off of the sale Of about
$14,OO0,0OO worth of shoes each year,
affecting the shoe business. factory
employees, and even the tanner and
producer of hides. Does any one
think that the remainder OF the coun-
tries of the world will witness this
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not take similar steps? They are all
hit by our tariff law and It is only
natural that they should retaliate.
They will do what any of us would do
as individuals-they will buy from
those who buy from them, they will
decline to purchase the wares Of those
countries which shut out their pro-
ducts by high tariff walls like the
Fordney law.
Fight Us With Our Weapons
Their best method OF doing this Is
by fighting us with our own weapons
-retaliatory tariffs. Does anyone
suppose that England, France, Italy,
and Japan will hesitate to do the thing
which our best friend among the ma
tlons has just done? Cuba owes her
national existence to the United States,
yet she has no hesitancy in fighting
back Just the other day Senator
Caraway returned from Europe with
the observation that they are all an
tagonistic to US. No one doubts this,
lOI 100 man. GNlutllttS VI us lIulli
have appeared in the press. If Cuba
can cut deeply into our sales Of one
product by one tariff rate, what can
all the countries of Europe do to us
in their wrath? Already the great
trade which filled thousands of ships
under the late Democratic administra-
tion has dwindled to less than half OF
what it was three years ago, hundreds
of great steel vessels are swinging idly
at their chains, hundreds of wooden
vessels, new and capable, have been
sold for less than one per cent of their
cost with the proviso that they must
be broken up to prevent their sailing
in competition with the vessels of the
shipping trust. These are some Of the
buzzards that are coming home TO
roost on Uncle Sans high tariff fence:
First a speck and then a vulture,
Till the air is thick with pinions."
These are the first of the Fastening
ills Of Republicanism-tarif wars, idle
ships treasury deficiencies.
VIII Redeem Clark District
Democrats everywhere will be glad
TO hear that the word comes to Wash
ington that Champ Clark's old district
is going to be redeemed by his brilliant
young parliamentary expert Cannon.
He will come 10 Congress rarely and
splendidly equipped for the job. hav-
ing had more than ten years qualifying
experience around Congress. He will
possess an unusual equipment-farm-
er. lawyer, school teacher, parliamen-
tartan. 1t was he who re-wrote and
brought down to date the eight great
volumes on parliamentary law left as
heritage from the late Asher Kinds
Speaker Clark always said that man
had 10 learn TO be a congressman. just
as one has TO learn to be a doctor, a
farmer or a lawyer. If SO, Cannon