The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-10-21
HARDING
IS WORRIED
OVER ELECTION
resident Says Elec-
ton Of Democratic
House This T a | /
ould Be a Calam-
ity
: BY WALLACE BAssFoRn
ESPECIAL News Correspondent

/.
The president says the election OF
y q Democratic house this fall would
I be calamity IN the Judgment
Of the Democratic leaders of the
house and senate this is correct
TO a certain degree. 1t would IN
doubtedly be calamity to the
president. to the Republican party.
and TO the special interests which
dominate The administration for
their own gain: it would be such
q calamity as befeiI Taft in 1910.
when the Democrats took posses
SION of congress and put squareiy
III, to TAFT splendid program OF
progressive legislation. They put
stan TO his favors to corporate
greed and laid the foundation for
the great Democratic victory of
1912, which itself was followed by
the greatest era OF prosperity ever
known since the seven years Of
: plenty described III the Bible. To
5 the people. suffering under war
taxes four years after the conclu-
sion Of the war and now handed a
new high tariff law. It would be i
( blessed relief, as it would be to the
treasury. facing deficit which
even the president says viii reach
7S2 millions Eut the Republicans
are not only very aPpreh ensive
that there Viii be Democratic
hoztse elected. IS siroHi, by the. fear
voiced by The president. but they
anticipate TIE reduction OF the Re-
publican majority in the senate-a
loss SO great that they expect the
Democrats. ny joining hands with
Z the PROGRESSIVE Farm Bloc RepWb-
yicans, to De able 70 control legis-
lafion in that body They can see
the loss Of F'relinghuysen in New
Jersey, Calder in New York, the
Iowa seat for which they have
nominated Broofhart. a Socialist,
Townsend III Michigan, probably.
Lodge IN aIassac ct,isetts, and 9th
ers. On the other hand. the
Democrats are expected to retain
the seats Of Reed of Missouri and
PoTaerene Of Ohio, twe OF the most
valuable Democrstic fighters il, the
senate.
It has long been a proyerb that
chickens cenas home TO roost.i In
the case OF the Fordney tariff law
ii might be more appropriate to
caal them bsizzards. for they are
birds Of EI-omen. They are al
ready coming. The Forginey law
puts a greatly increased tax on SUI
gay coming in from Cuba. thing
Fskich, increases the price OF the
commodity to every American user.
Ias.s lessons Cubass market for her
PRINCIPAL product. Naturally the
e,uhans are indignant and in q
lad frame OF mind: like the re-
mainder Of humanity. their most
seasitive nerves are those which
exserd to the pocketboek. They.
arc reta,iatirg by Placing tax Of
1,a9 per cent on all American
shoes entering the countrs-the
resssm IS SIMPLY stated mo Amer
icaa shoes viii enter. This means
tbs tbs sci,tting OF of the sale Of about
s14 90 Q ae9 worth Of shoes eaci.
ysar. affecting the shoe business
Saetory employees, and even the
tanner and producer of hides. Does
any. one think that the remainder
of the countries Of the world viii
witness this performance on tne
part cf ca,ba and not take similar,
sesrse They are all hit by eur
tariff iaw and it is only natural
that they should retaIate, they
viii do what any OF Us would do as
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. VIII buy from
those who buy from them they will
decline to purchase the wares OF
those countries which shut out
their products by high tariff walls
Ike the F'oraaey law. Their best
method Of doing this is by fighting
us with our own weapens-retal-
iatory tariffs. Does anyone suppose
that England. France, Italy. Ja-
pan, will hesitate to do the thing
.xhieh our best friend among the
nations has Just done? Cuba owes
her national existence TO the United
states. yet she has. no hesitaner
ia fighting back. Just the other
day Senator Caraway returned
from Europe with the observation
! that they are all antagonistic to us.
No one doubts this. for too many
evidences OF its truth have appear
ed in the press. If Cuba car cut
deeply into our sales of one product
by one tariff rate. what can all the
countries Of Europe do to us in their
wraths Already the great trade
which filed Thousands Of ships;
rnder the late Democratic admin
sstration has dwindled to less than
half OF what it was three years
Ego, h,indreds of great steel vessels
are swinging Idly a. their chains,
hundreds Of wooden vessels, new
a.nd cauable. have been sold for
less than one per cent. Of thei,
cost wittl the proviso that they
must l1e broken up to prevent then
sailing IL competition with the YES
sets of the shipping trust. These
ara soTae Of the buzzards that are
coming home 10 rcost on Uncle
Sens high tariff fence: