The St. Joseph observer., 1922-09-30

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2S.--(special
! News Correspondence)- I'm this col
umn, under date of July 81, the state
ment was made that when Congress
would adjourn, sometime along in the
fall, there would be no bonus legisla-
tion, and that Republican members
who were voting for 1t were doing so
with their fingers crossed, knowing
the President would veto the bill This
writer went Srther and gave the en-
tire plan which would be followed
that the bill would pass both Houses
would be vetoed by the President, and
that the effort to pass it over his veto
would succeed in the House and fail
in the Senate. This was not prophesy
it was written from knowledge OF
the Republican plan to hold the soldier
vote in line for the Republican mem
| bers and those Republican senator's
/ who have to go before the people in
/ November. When they voted for It
and made fearful appeals for other
/ votes they knew their votes would not
| make the measure into law, for they
knew it would fail in just the manner
! stated in the letter above mentioned,
which appeared I'm hundreds of news
papers throughout the country.
The Cost OF the Bill
/
would have cost the taxpayers about
| four billions, scattered over a genera
tion or more. The administration can
not see how the people could pay the
price. but it has no hcsitancy in ap-
| proving the new tariff bill, which will
| take from the peoples pockets. in in
| creases in the cost of manufactured
articles, almost four billions each
single year until the awakened and
outraged public drives the law and it's
makers out into the cold. Mellon him
self will be the greatest beneficiary,
in all likelihood. of all the men who
will fatten their present wealth off Of
the needs of the people. He controls,
as merely a part Of his great wealth,
all Of the aluminium manufacturing In
the land. His Influence has raised
the tariff rates on imported aluminium
wares TO such high point that there
viii be no importations; his companies
will have no competition and the
/ prices can be lifted to double the pres
cnt figures and the public will simply
have to pay. There is no escape. Un-
der the new law. with the help of a
little Joker. the import duty on alumi-
mum wares Is II per cent, while under
the Underwood law IT was 90 per cent.
The latter rate protected the American
aluminium worker and put much reve-
NDrimary day are working the hardest
4 assure the election of Mrs. St. Clair
floss who will have the honor of be-
ing the first congress woman ever
elected from Missouri. From Boone
county comes the stirring information
that all democrats there will vote the
ticket straight from top to bottom on
election day.
Thirteenth, DR.. j. Scott Wolff
Information from the Thirteenth
CONG .sssiUnal district which includes
Jefferson. Ste. Genevieve. Perry, St
Francois, Bollinger, Wayne. Carter
Madison, Iron and Washington coun-
ties, is to the effect that everyone Of
these bailiwicks, regardless Of past
performances. will go democratic from
100 to 1900. When 1t comes to Perry
county this may seem an oxaggeration
but the dissatisfaction which exists
there among the farmers and others
Is very marked, and so many former
republicans are freely proclaiming
that they are now democratic, that 1t
} seems a certainty that Senator Reed
and DIR, Wolff the "Only Reliable
Party" congressional nominee, will
sweep that former "gop" stronghold.
If Judges Walker, Ragland and White,
: the democratic nominees, do not carry
the county they will not lose it by
over 200. The county is solid against
) the county unit for public schools
: proposition, fact which will give Lee,
; the democratic nominee for superln-
. tendent of public schools. this baliwicl1
by not less than 200. It can safely be
announced that similar conditions ex-
lists In all other congressional districts
. In Missouri. outside OF st. Louis. Kan
: sas City and st. Joseph. The indica
4 tions also are that Springfield will go
t democratic. Railroad men there, half
, OF whom were Republicans In 1920.
will vote democratic at the coming
. election.