Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-10-18

I q JUST AEob'0 -
that / have m-isrepresented his atti
tude on potash. Mr.. Appleby say.
he was in favor of free potash.
have said and 1 repeat that he voted
with those who tried to jam through
the bill with a tariff of $40 a ton OF
potash. And l say that if he favored
free potash he moved in a mos
mysterious way his purpose tt
achieve. Mr.. Appleby has raised {
question. Is he right and am
wrong? There is one sure way O.
finding out without taking the WORD
of either of us. There is one au'
thority. 1t is the Congressional
Record. To it L refer anyone whC
wishes to know"
After this fashion Elmer H
Geran, Democratic candidate fol
congress-, in a speech at a Democra-
tic rally at Oakhurst last night came
back at Congressman Appleby, who
yesterday issued a statement saying
that Mr.. Geran had misrepresented
his position on the matter of a duty
on potash which has aroused farm
ers and truck growers in Monmouth,
Middlesex and Ocean, three largely
agricultural counties in the third
congressional district.
"Mr. Appleby's attempted expla-
nation of his position on the matter
of free potash is most amazing to
say the least said Mr.. Geran. HE
| says he voted against sending back
the bill carrying a tariff of $50 a ton
on potash because he knew that the
senate would take care of the potash
item. This is as ridiculous as it
would be for a Republican to say he
would vote the Democratic ticket
because he knew some other Repub-
leans wouldn't vote the Democratic
ticket, and that therefore the prin-
ciple of Republicanism would be
safeguarded. 1t is certainly the most
back hand way of going about a job
that 1 ever heard tell of.
This matter of potash is too seri-
Gus to be misunderstood. Everyone
knows that agriculture is the back
bone of our social and economic life
and hat unless the farmers of the
country are prosperous there can be
no real prosperity for the people as
a whole and everyone who reads
knows how serious just now is the
financial situation of the farmer.
Agriculture today is in need of every
legitimate assistance that the gov
eminent can lend. And yet in the
face of this serious situation the
Republican leaders of congress at
tempted to jam through a bill that
would have doubled almost the cost
of potash to the farmer. And potash
is an absolute essential. A farmer
could get along today almost as well
without a pillow as without potash.
80 I say that this is a serious
matter, and 1 am willing to give it
time. The farmers know it is seri-
Gus, but l want other folks, the peo-
pie who are in business, the people
who are t~oilers, to understand that
the success of the farmer is essen
tial to their success, and that if Mr.
Appleby and those who voted as he
did against free potash could have
had their way the last straw would
have been laid on the farmers all
ready unbearable burden.
"Mr. Appleby says that Mr.. Gar
ner made a motion to recommit
both the potash and dye schedule
and that Mr.. Gamers purpose was
to kill the whole bill by recommit-
ting 1t to the ways and means COM
mittee. Certainly, Mr.. Appleby can
not expect anyone to take this seri-
OuSlys Liz IlOlAOI ny 1hts 0aLiOI
was to send the bill back to the con-
ference committee, not to the ways
and means committee, with i%nstruc-
tions to the House members on the
conference committee to agree to
the senate amendments putting fer
tilizer potash on the free list and to
strike out the provision containing
the dye embargo
THAT was the motion. 1t affected
only potash and dyes. Nothing else
in the tariff bill could be touched.
This motion would accomplish just
what Mr.. Appleby now says he
wanted to accomplish. Yet he voted
against it. With 125 other Republi-
cans he voted against that motion,
but 1913 Republicans Joined with the
Democrats and voted for the motion,
and the bill went back to the con-
ference committee, and the tariff on
potash was removed and the embar-
go on dyes was taken out.
"That was the only way that pot
ash could have been kept on the free
list. Mr.. Appleby should nave
known that whether he did or not
Either he didn't know what ne
was voting against, or he was SUD-
Servlent TO the ledueLS u ms Pu-'
who were fighting for this mon
strous duty on potash and he was
willing to make the farmers and
truck growers of the three agricul,
tural bounties of this congressional
| district pay $40 instead of $40 a ton
for potash.
81 recommend that everyone sur
iciently interested in
whether what Mr.. Appleby says or
what / say is correct in this mater.
read the Congressional Record OF
| September 10, 1922"