Evening star., 1922-04-20
SCARE CONGRESS,
: ADVICE BY MOSES
:,
Senator, in New York Speech,
! Advises Women to Act for
l Country's Good.

:. NEW YORK. April 20-TheSTime
Says; Nothing short of a thorough re-
vision of our system of taxation will
,-enable this country TO return to
| "normalcy" and American business
I to prosper anew. United States Sen
l ator George II. Moses of New Hamp-
shire told some three hundred women
! who assembled yesterday afternoon
/ at the residence of MIR. and Mrs. Otto
! II. Kahn. 100 5th avenue. They had
| come at the invitation of the COM
! mittee OF American Business Men.
! Senator Moses. follower of the late
Col. Roosevelt, urged his feminine
! audience TO throw big scare into
/, Congress in the interest Of necessary
/ reform.
! senator Moses denounced Congress
as cowardly. lie insisted that far
! too large a proportion kept their eyes
! constantly on the ballot box: AS a
result. Senator Moses said. this couh-
f: try was now ruled by well organized
aggressive and noisy minorities, OF
4 which he singled out As the noisiest
\ and consequently most powerful the
so-called farm bloc"
Farm Bloc's Power.
THAT bloc. composed of nineteen
lawyers. one editor. one well driver
and one manufacturer of sewer pipes"
Senator Moses said, lis now-through
sheer terrorization of cowardiy mem
bers of Congress-able to control the
economic destiny of the United
States"
In pointing his object lessoR. Seii-
ator Moses made passing reference to
the republican Senate caucus held in
Washington yesterday.
EVERY senator who comes up Tor
.rH-electioa this year and attended
1hat caucus voted in favor OF the
bonus bill. which will saddle more
4han $4,000. 100000 in taxes on the
hlready overburdened taxpayer. he
bald II was one OF the nine repub-
outrage. All these things take place
because of the cowardice of men in
public life in America at this mo-
tnent" He then appealed to his wom-
Is many cowardiy congressman as
have been terrorfzed by any other
group. And implore you to SO out
fnd try ii for the good Of Your coun-
/ The women spplauded this appeal
with unwonted Vixor. Then one
Toman arose and asked a h.I.s ts,M-
1dly:
will frightened congressman be
tetter than congressman who is not
frightened"
X On the contrary" Senator Moses
prefer the other kind. But Ii we
fnust have the kind we now have in
3,ongress i would rather have them
Scared into doing the right than into do
ing the wrong thing"
b. "ReGi~n u the Regulated"
There was time when this was
FsS land of the free; now it is the re-
SEion OF the regulated said Senator
vMoses. with Congress meddling in
ilthe business of the states more and
fnore the House of Representatives
has become as parochial as the house
tfcf commons ever was. Nothing is left
no the Initiative or the determine tien
s;pf the individual any longer
NJ "A man goes TO work. The fare he
cpays on the trolley car is fixed by a
Hcommissiou. When he gets to the
FACTORY his hours are fixed by the
I8tatute and his wages and the amount
sRf work he is permitted to produce
IIby the even more dictatorial rules Of
IA labor union, If he goes to the
hlovies in the evening the picture. he
Xees has been censored by 4 commits.
isfon whose good taste generally is in
,t1oubt. And the chances are he sleeps
IN bed made up according to direc-
if1ons in pamphlet issued by some
department of the federal govern
s5nent." 50 =, 20
4. Senator Moses criticised "the so-
icxlled dollarf for dollar system under
(which the federal government con-
t1ri butes one dollar for some state
lpurpose-such as road huildinR-fef
lsvery dollar raised by the state it
Self