The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-08-12
NEVADA LETTER OF
WASHINGTON NEWS

VAoIlllN1 YIN, L. W, aug. -.
There are just about the same num-
Der of county" newspapers in
Maryland as are published in Ne
vada. Maryland is a small state,
and the really great newspapers of
Baltimore dominate it. The senior
Senator from Maryland, Joseph l.
France (Republican) is not in the
good graces of the big newspapers.
He is too much in sympathy, per-
haps, with Gooding of Idaho, who
has introduced a resolution mo.
$500 providing for Senatorial in
vestigation of Frank A. Munsey
and many of what are known COM
monty as the Herst publications.
The Idaho Senator thinks he knows
why the Munsey publications are
against high tariff on wool, and
he wants the world to know it.
Senator France is out for re-
nomination now, and, lacking news
paper support, he has evolved what
is believed to be unique plan OF
publicity. He is circulating thou
sands of free Victor monograph
records, with 1.-THE Star-Spangled
Banner" and columbia" played by
the United States Marine Band, on
one side, and short history Of his
life on the other to correct misstate-
ments made by an opposition press.
There being at least mild inter-
est in a Senatorial election in Ne
vada just now, the idea is given for
what it is worth. There is no copy
right on it. Movie picture method
of electioneering is somewhat taboo
since the Newberry episode.
Fighting Gooding and his resolu-
ton is the task of Senator Hitch
cock (Democrat) Of Nebraska, who
will be remembered as Woodrow
Wilson's right-hand man in the last
national convention and campaign.
Mr.. Hitchcock publishes the Omaha
Morning, Evening, and Sunday
World-H Herald. Saturday afternoon
he introduced the following rhyming
drivel in the United States Senate
that august body which is sup
posed to be made up of statesmen.
Hitchcock acknowledged author
ship. The title given may be
found on page 1885 of the Con-
gressional record. 1t is fine
sample of the piffling politics in
the Senate. If you look for it,
just glance at the roll-call imme-
diately above and see who was
present and who was not:
Gooding has eight thousand sheep.
Their fleece as white as snow,
And everywhere that Gooding went,
The sheep were sure to go.
They followed him by night and day,
Which was against the rule.
They filled the statesman with dismay,
Tossed high the wool schedule.
And when the people found 1t out
Their rage began a-waxing;
They knew the presence OF those sheep
Meant heavy tariff taxing.
But II the wool on Goodings sheep,
To make the cloth for those who
Won't grow unless we tax our folks,
Then they must grin and bear 1t.
But Gooding's case Is only one
OF many like abuses,
or taxes that the tariff lays
For private, not pubic uses.
To illustrate the different senti-
ments of those who grow wool and
those who manufacture it, it may be
notice further on, in the same Re-
cord, that Senator Smoot of Utah,
a wool manufacturer, objected on
behalf of Calder of New York to
consideration of Goodin's resolu-
ton. The grower wants a protec-
tive tariff on wool, for one reason
because all American warehouses
are now bullying with imported
foreign wool awaiting the lower
tariff which Eastern manufacturers
land newspapers) are working for.
The Western man would like to
have a high tariff on the raw wool
he produces; and in the case OF the
Senator from Idaho this is called
a crime. Gooding says he is ready
to rseign if it is SO.
In all the propaganda about
higher cost of clothing to "the
American people" the blame is laid
on the high cost Of "wool'-of
which, 1t has been estimated, about
seventy-eight cents worth goes into
an average suit Of clothes. Western
growers are but fesbly represented
lin point of numbers) In putting
forth the proposition that it is the
high duty on manufactures of wool
that the dear public pays. There
is some difference to the poor man
between so per cent on a pound
and a quarter Of wool and SO per
cent of $50 suit Of clothes.