, 1922-04-20
Reoiewing Republican Deeds

UIHE MAINE CAMPAIGN which eliminates in the
l. election in September, is already under way, and
in every congressional district from now until the
close public speakers will be heard in discussion of the
issues arising out of the first year of Republican ma
tional administration. Senator Willis of Ohio opened
In Bangor the other day and, among other things, said:
"The government of the United States is the great
est business in the world and the administration of
President Harding has insisted that the best buaiuess
methods should be established. For decades business
men and thoughtful citizens generally have been urg-
ing the establishment of a federal budget system.
This is the application of just common business sense
10 a great public corporation. Accordingly the Re-
publican Congress at its special session promptly re-
enacted a budget law like unto that which the previous
Republican Congress had enacted, but which President
Wilson voiced. This budget law was promptly signed
by President H'rding and it has been in operation
under the efficient management of General Dawes less
than a year. In that time it has saved the taxpayers
of this country more than $1,000, 000, 000-or more
than 100000 every day. Theories do not count for
much, but actual facts do. Economy after a Demo
cratic administration is not a theory; it is a necessity.
Democratic administrations do not solve problems.
They make them. Democratic administrations do not
pay debts; they create them. Republicans solve prob
lens and pay debts, and that is what we are doing to-
day.
Reviewing legislation to assist agricultural interests.
the immigration law which has proved IF incalculable
value to the laboring people, the assistance rendered
e1-service men, the new revenue bills and the passage
of tn maternity act. He said, during the c~onsidera-
ton and passage of an this legislation, Democratic
tactics have been to delay and hamper, but they have
not been and will not be able to prevent full compile
ton of the Republican program before Congress ad-
journs.
The baneful effects Of the Democratic tariff in the
days Immediately preceding the world war were re-
viewed. He showed how the European war virtually
suspended the operations of the Democratic tariff
and gave to America a temporary, even though it were
a feverish, prosperity. But now all is changed. Eu-I
rope is not able to buy, but she is able to produce.
Her ratio of wages is only a fraction of ours, there
fore, she can produce more cheaply than we can. An
ounce of gold pays wages for 20 hours of work in
the United States, so hours in Great Britain, 90 hours
in Japan, 100 hours in France and 200 hours in Ger
many.
American markets are being flooded with Euro
pean-made goods offered for sale in this country at
prices of only n fraction of what American labor
costs. If American working men are to be employed
and if American industry is to thrive, we must write
on the statute book at the earliest possible moment a
protective tariff law. If there is unnecessary delay in
the Senate after full discussion, I am IN favor of
amending the rules of the Senate so as to make it
possible for the majority to function properly and to
do business promptly.