The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-06-16
Self Help.

World as follows:
Washington, D. Cit was learned
yesterday on extremely high author
ity that the Republican National
Committee has agreed upon the text
of an apology to be issued to the vot-
ers in the campaign next fall. The
message is still in code. Neverthe-
less a translation is here made avail
able to our readers.
1t will be noted that the explana-
tions are unusually frank for polit-
ical manifesto. This is due to the
combined influence, we are informed,
of Senator Newberry and Attorney
General Daugherty, both of whom
have a passion for publicity.
The full text follows:
"The Republican Party is as al
ways the party of Lincoln, Roosevelt
and others. The others are for the
moment more important. They con-
sist of any organized minority that
controls votes in State consistently
loyal to the Republican Party or in
State that is doubtful. They con-
sist also of those individuals who may
be expected to donate large campaign
contributions.
"Our motto is self-help now and al
ways. We live up to our motto, be-
lieying in deeds rather than words.
Therefore we present to the voters
number of exhibits to illustrate the
theory of self-help.
"We point to Truman II. Newberry
and defy any one to challenge our
claim that he helped himself to the
Senatorship from Michigan.
eve point to Harry NJ Daugherty
and defy any one to challenge our
claim that he helped himself by an
amazing display of legal acumen at
2 a. m. in the Blackstone Hotel in the
city of Chicago to nomination
which has made him the first lawyer
in the land. We assert that this
more than atones for any def
cheney in his career, such as securing
bonus for clients who neglected to
pay for service rendered.
1--WE point with more than usual
assurance to our legislative record.
We assert that our bonus is a mas
terpiece of self-help. 1t helps the
ex-seryice men to imagine that they |
are to receive money; it helps the
taxpayer to imagine he won't have
to pay out any money; it helps Con-
gressmen and Senators coming up for
election to think they will be re
elected.
1--WE assert that our ship-subsldy
are the essence of self-help,
but the matter is complicated and we
are willing, if necessary, not to press
the point. We merely state as self
evident fact that the merchant ma
rine. supported by a subsidy, is an
example of how an interest properly
can help itself out OF the
United States Treasury.
But those are trifles. Mr.. New ;
berry is a trife. Mr.. Daugherty is s
trife. The bonus and the ship sub
sidy are trifes. The greatest achieve
nent of self-help is the Fordney- Nc
Cumber tariff. We pause to explain E
it. {
"The loyal citizenry of this coun-
nv must have noticed with some sur l
prise that the Republican representa- q
ives from the backbone States, that '
S from the farmer States, are voting c
with the Republican manufacturers.
This is unusual, and we point with
bride to the way in which the trick
was turned. It was turned by ap- t
living the principle of self-help to V
he farmers. We give them a duty a
which will not do them any good for d
he things they sell, on condition that O
hey pay cheerfully through the nose v
or the duties on things which they e
)uy.
Having accomplished that, we are 4
rec to let the industrial lobbyists S
lelp themselves to their hearts con- a
ent. They have done so. We can i
assure the voters that if once they r
understood this Tariff Law, which s
hey do not, and, be it said, which g
We ourselves do not wholly under i
tand because we did not write all 0
# the bill ourselves, they would find h
hat nobody who came to lobby need b
ID very long to pray. There is, there a
ore, scarcely product used by the t
american people which we have not il
helped somebody to tax. And so $
ven those who withhold their APP a
,lause must admire our thorough n
less. b
1--WE turn now to our vast achieve s.
nents in the realm of foreign affairs.
20 a certain extent the same princi- c.