The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1922-03-15
cies of legislation about as popular

The President being one OF the
shrewdest politicians that ever came
out Of Marion, Ohio, naturally would
feel that he had performed his part
when he passed that sales tax buck
to the Republican Congress, but for
the second time the fiscal proposals
personally made by the President
have been almost instantly rejected
by his own party Congress, which
let It be known emphatically that 1t
was overwhelmingly against the
sales tax. The other personal re-
pudiation of President Harding was
when he pleaded in a letter for 80
per cent maximum surtax, and Con-
gress at once passed a bill providing
for so per cent.
The Soldiers Bonus is peculiarly a
Republican party problem. The Dem
ocratic programme of reconstruction
legislation provided for a settlement
of the bonus matter without making
it a political question, but the Re-
publicans defeated this programme
and dragged the subject into poll
tics. And now that they have got
it into politics they don't know any
more what to do about it than they
know what to do about the tariff or
the ship subsidy, or the carrying-on
of the agricultural bloc"
Ambassador Harvey and the 18th
Amendment
It seems impossible for Ambassa-
dor Harvey to make a speech of late
without arousing suspicion that he is
violating the principle of the Eigh-
teenth Amendment. His recent Lon
don speech at the dinner of the Pill
grims' Society drew from Senator
Reed (Dem.. Mo-, a withdrawal OF
a speech made by the Senator de-
Tending the appointment of Harvey,
with a plea for forgiveness. There
were paragraphs in the Harvey
speech which the Missouri Senator
could not interpret except in con-
junction with some verses quoted
from the London Morning Post be-
ginning:
Sing a song of six-pence
A bottle full of rye,
Four and twenty Yankees
Sitting parched and dry.
When the rye was opened
The Yanks began to sing,
We won't go home to the U. s. A.,
God Save the King"
Senator Pat Harrison in a speech
full of delightful irony and humor
thought he saw significance in AM
bassador Harvey's description of
Senator Underwood, the Democratic
leader, as "a happy blend of the fine
spirit of the old South and the high
spirit of the new" The Senator
thought the Ambassador. using the
word "blend," was inadvertently or
from force of expression, thinking of
offending the high spirits of the Old
South with the fine spirits of the
new"
When Senator Harrison suggested
that Ambassador Harvey be enjoined
from talking, and to be told if he
knows state secrets to keep them to
himself, Senator Norris (Rep., NebO,
made this pertinent interjection:
81 want to remind the Senator that
that will not stop Harvey from talk
ing. You cannot send word from a
country where the Eighteenth Amend
ment Is in force to a country that
does not have any prohibitive law,
and stop Harvey from talking"
Many patriotic societies, including
American Legion posts and organiza-
lions of various kinds as well as pa
triotic individual citizens have de-
manded George Harvey's recall as
ambassador at the court of St. James,
but so far the demands have been flu
tile. In the light of Ambassador Har-
vey's most recent speech and the
comments thereon II would seem that
the only hope of success for Ambassa-
dor Harvey's recall is to refer the
whole matter to the Anti-Saloon
League.
A Typical Republican FalsehoOd
Refuted
nczpite the misrepresentation OF
Republican reactionary leaders and
press in the last national campaign,
both with respect to the issues and
the candidates, and particularly the
falsehoods directed at President VIII
son. many of which have been thor
oughly exposed and their falsity now
understood by the public, some men,
bers of the Republican reactionary
press keep right on with the campaign
of falsehood and especially those
malignant falsehood directed at
President Wilson.