The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-23
Dust Minute Men Of Privilege Or
 I'll Quit -Borah
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 ..sOust the minute men of privilege from the Committee of Education and Labor or I'll quit the chairmanship." That is the substance of an ultima tum which Senator Borah (Rep. Ida.) Has delivered to aesaberS Qf~ the Committee on Committees of ts1e Sem ate.
 What prompts Senator Borah to serve this notice on the Republican psuedo-1eaders of the Senate is the evidence of a deHbrate purpose on their part to pack the Committee on Education and Labor and keep it packed long as there is any dan ger of it's giving favorable action to any progressive legislation, present CT prospective.
 Reactionary Committee
 The men who have been assigned to this committee as so maay jailers of forward-looking measures affect ing the interests of labor are Senators ren (Wyo.). and Shortridge (CaI.)- all Republicans and all as reactionary as they are rich They are all con servators of the status quo and pro- phets of things-as-they-are
 Originally placed on the Commit tee as executioners of any progressiv- ism that might be introducer there by former Senator Kenyon of Iowa, they have remained to plague Senator yBorah. The latter has furnished a veneer of liberalism to the Commit
 
 progressive institution from the out .side-while all the time it was filled with axemen ready to slaughter any ed within its precincts.
 Senator Borah's ultimatun is the climax to good many recent sue scessful attempts on the part of his treationary confreres to obstruct and Estrangle some of his legislative off spring. For instance, when he sought "a few weeks ago to procure legisla- tive sanction for a comprehensive in :vestfgation of the coal industry, with sthe object of effecting Federal super vision Of the mines and regulation of tMembers of the Comnittee- saw that 7t was s1nothered. -
 Behind Borah's back the Republi- can leaders are pretending to regard him as suffering from a mild type of communism which they feign to re- gard as highly contagious- Only the sort of Senator who has been sue Of economic and political ailnent is thought a safe companion tor Sen ator Borah in the close quarters Of the committee room. That is why Sena- ] tors Du Pont. Phipps, Warren and Shortr1dge have been chosen as the men to be exposed. They are in no peril of 'catching'' anything of a communistic nature.
 Fear Progressives
 There is another consideration which move the bosses of the Sen ate, to save the Committee from even a chance of contagion. They fear that there is remote possibility that some near progressives like Brook heart Of Iowa, and Frazier Of North Beveridge of Indiana might be super added to Borah and spread a few germs Of communism around the country via the Congressional Record Ihat would start trouble for 124 And the Republicans now believe that suf- Ilc'ent unto the day is the evil there of--including the Fordney- Harding's indefensible appointments
 Senator Borah's close friends have peen aware for some time of his in ministration because of its wiggle at the Capitol and it's wabbIe at the Whlte House. Tn. Presidents mes sage on the rail strike and the coal strike promise to furnish Senator Eorah the opportunity and occasion TOT which he has been waiting. This atack IS Confidently expected by Sen aeor >Borah's confidants to prove a -Eeae1v significant event of the present session of Congress. If this shouIdn't De selected by him as the zero hour' be Forthcoming. It only means that his store of ammunition and the in tens1ty and duration Of his gunfire VIII be all the greater for the delay.
 Borah's plan for a Federal com mission to investigate the coal indus try was appropriated by President '; Aardlng This serves two purposes 1T depr1ves Senator Borah of any par m It's creation or credit for author : snap or the idea and at the same time It would help the President give an impression of activity in the ad- lustment of present and the obvia- slon Of future industrial upheayaIs. m default of real settlement of the strlkes a long and impressive inquiry into situation that could have been 1 1nvestlgated and cured months ago is ! tne pest the Administration has to