The Washington herald., 1922-09-25
Campaign textbook
Praises Governmental
Retrenchment.
.LAUDS REDUCTION
IN FREIGHT RATES
Scores Previous Admins
tration for Ignorant
Arrogance"

in another national campaign.
The major parties will contest
elections for the Senate in thirty
States. In more than forty States
there will be vigorous battles for
election Of members of the House
of Representatives.
Republican leaders enter the
campaign with much more confi-
dence than was admitted a month
ago. For a time the party leaders
were beginning to be worried but
now they believe the tide has turn
ed and that the people will support
the President and Congress which
has been making an earnest effort
to cure the ills of war and get
the country back to normal.
Magnitude Of Tnsk.
The party textbook has just
been prepared by the Republican
Senatorial, Congressional and Ma
tional committees.
The document contains a preface
taken from speech by Senator
Medill Mccormick. OF Illinois. chair
man of the Senatorial Campaign
Committee. which seeks to drive
home to the voter the magnitude
of the task which confronted the
Republican party when it took hold
of the government in March, 1921
democratic speakers" says Sem
ator Mccormick. have made IL
n
their Issue in the economic
distress which has fallen upon
America. no less than upon all
the rest of the world. or
course. We of the majority must
expect to be held to our tasks by
the criticism of able opponents. II
We were to weary IN our labors tn
make good the waste of war. II
We were to tire in our efforts 70
repair the injury to industry. ag-
! riculturc and public credit wrought
| in ignorant arrogance by Demo-
cratic dictators, we should be prick
ed to put forth new energies by
| those leaders on the other side
who search for imrertections
which lie in all human measures
| and who will express those differ
ences Of policy which must exist
| in every free assembly"
Praise. Retrepchment.
The textbook points out pri-
mariIy that the appropriations by
| the present Congress afford the
most striking illustration of re-
| trenchment achieved by the Re-
| publican regime, which. il is argued
! has had much to do with the eco
| nomic recovery of the coun'
try since the Democratic admins
tration ceased to function.
In considering these appropria'
tions the party leaders ask the pun
lie to bear in mind that Of tht
total appropriation for each OF the
fiscal years 1920 to 1928 inclusive
interest on the debt. pensions and
care of the disabled cost $1,000.
| 600. 900 a year.
| Revision of the revenue act. the
tariff and other accomplishments
are reviewed, but particular at
tention is called 10 the efforts OF
the party at freight rate reduction
Here is what the Republicans say
Freight Rate Reductions.
1T mas Deen IdEN VI tiit ANSPHD
| ncan reconstruction effort to re
| duce freight rates. the Increase OF
which has threatened to crush ou
the life of many a western farming
community. Most important au
thorities in Washington have esti'
mated that by Democratic taxation
by action of the Interstate Com
| merce Commission at the instance
of President Wilson. but above all
by Presidential decree to fulfill th'
| fiat of William Gibbs McAeoo, th'
| transportation charges of the coup
try were increased under Mr.. WI
son by $4,000. .GOo.OG0 year
"Wilson and McAdoo increased
the cost of railroad carriage ant
railroad travel in the United State
every year by three times the an
nual cost of the whole government
of the United States before the war
In so doing they struck at the vaiu'
of farm land inevery State in th
Union: they diminished the earn
ings of every farmer: they handi
capped him in his competition will
the farmers of Australia, Argen
tina and India; they increased tn
cost of living to every customer il
the United States.