The Washington times., 1922-08-04
COOD|NC RAPS
FRANK MUMSEY
" AS TAR|FFFOE
international Bankers Trying
to Liquidate Huge Estate,
Says Senator.
BY International News Service.

bitterly conueinninB FRANK A.
Munsey, New York publisher, and
a number Of great metropolitan
newspapers. Senator Gooding Of
Idaho. chairman of the Senate
tariff bloc" today charged opposi.
ton to the McCumber tariff bill was
caused principally by attempts of
American international bankers to
nquldate the $400. 0.000, 900 estate Of
Arch Duke Frederick Of Austria.
Cites Several Papers.
Gooding charged the New York
Herald. the Boston Herald, the Chi.
cago Tribune. the Cleveland Plain
Dealer. the st. Louis Globe Demo.
crat. the New York Times, the New
York Post. and the Minneapolis Tri.
bune were attempting to "sell Amer.
lea to European manufacturers and
merchants" He declared those
papers were interested in the de.
feated of a protective tariff"
Gooding charged Munsey with be.
ing back OF propaganda circulated
against the McCumber bill and de-
clared II would be easy to under
stand why Munsey turned Democrat
when the mask is torn off his foreign
connections" The bloc" chairman
contended Democvatic opposition TO
the bill was fair and just" and ex-
pressed high regard" for the
American press as q whole"
II have no quarrel with Demo
cratic newspapers who believe pro-
lection is unconstitutional" Gooding
began. They have q right to con.
denim the tariff bill as long as they
tell the truth. There are crooks,
however. in every lire Of trade and
am convinced journalism Is no ex.
ception. In our press, however,
crooks are found only to a limited
extent and the American people can
be thankful for that.
Tears off Munsey MASK"
There are some papers which
have shown a willingness to destroy
a Senator's good name to further
their own interests. Mr.. Munsey At.
tackled me and other Senators in the
columns OF his New York Herald.
This viciousness excited my curios-
ity and I proposed to investigate this
man Munsey. who posed as a great
for years.
Mr.. Munsey's attitude toward the
party and the present
traiff bill and the agricultural bloc
is easily understood when his great
interests in foreign countries are Nm
masked. II will. be easy for the Re
publicans In this country to under.
stand why Mr.. Munsey has turned a
Democrat and a free trader. when
the mask Is torn off his foreign con-
nections."
Gooding then declared q general
real estate and trust company had
been organized in Paris last sep
tember to take over ana nquioate
the 100000, 900 estate of Arch
Duke Frederick OF Austria. He
diroctly charged Munsey with now
owning "one of the greatest steel
plants In the world" glass fac
tories, pottery plants. woolen mills.
sugar factories, all located In FOR
eign lands.
Says Propaganda Desperate.
The tariff bloc" leader also
charged Munsey and the "interna.
tional bankers" with having waged
so desperate a propaganda that
the tariff "bloc" alone was able TO
save the McCumber bill " from de-
feat"
with Mr.. Munsey's interest In
one Of the greatest steel plants In
the world, employing from 10000 10
10000 men, owning its own iron
mines, it's own coal mines, and all
OF the rest Of the by.products that
20 into the making OF steel, his In
terest> in glass factories, pottery
plants and woolen mills. sixteen
sugar beet factories, and other indus
trial institutions all in foreign lands
4 Is not hard to understand why Mr..
Munsey has turned his hounds loose
on these Senators who are trying to
protect American industries and
American labor" Gooding continued.
Nor Is it strange that he has sin
gled out members Of the tariff bloc,
for without the steadying influence
Of the tariff bloc this propaganda
that has been carried on by Munsey
and the international bankers and
their kind would have defeated any
attempt to pass protective tariff
measure at this session.
Gives Other Facts.
while we are investigating Mr..
Munsey, we should also investigate
the financial interests Of other news
papers, such as, the Boston Herald
and those which It advertises as its
associates in the plan to sell
America to European manufacturers
and merchants" Gooding continued
"The newspapers which 1t lists as
enga ged in selling America to for.
eign manufacturers and merchants
compose those which have been most
critical in condemning the pending
protective tariff bill, namely, the
Chicago Tribune, the New York
Times, the Cleveland Plain Dealer,
tho st. Louis Globe-Democrat, and
the Minneapolis Tribune. Let US
ascertain why these publications are
so interested In the defeat OF n pro.
tective tariff"
Gooding demanded to know
whether certain Senators had voted
against protective rates because
they were stockholders in corpora.
tions which wished to defeat the Nc.
Cumber BILL"
'If It is a crime for a United
States Senator to vote for protec.
ton because he might safeguard his