The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1922-05-19

| the normal ways Of peace and ulti-
mately lifting the excessive burden OF
taxation"
"Political bunk" was the retort Of
| Democratic members of congress. They
asserted the report was deceptive and
that the actual expenditures for the
routine business of the government
have increased rather than decreased.
| They called attention to deficiency APP
preparations aggregating $292,OOO,-
600, but Representative Madden chal-
lenged them to deny that only $12,-
100000 of this deficiency was attribut-
able to the activities of the present
administration.
MR.. SPENCER, the junior senator
4VA from Missouri, got into an un-
pleasant mess through his efforts to
have the senate confirm the unfOrtu-
nate appointment of Nat Goldstein to
| be internal revenue collector for the
eastern Missouri district. Mr.. GOldStein
was delegate to the Republican ma
tiOnal convention but was unseated af-
ter admitting he had accepted money
| from one of Frank o. Lowden's manag
ers. The appointment was violently at
| tackled in the senate, and Mr.. Lowden,
who was on an ocean steamer, sent a
| radiogram declaring that in his opinion
Goldstein was unfit for the job. Final
| ly, to relieve the President and Senator
Spencer from embarrassment, Gold
stein asked that the nomination be
withdrawn. This was done, but the
Democrats made it plain that they in
tended to keep the incident alive for
use in the approaching campaign.
/ T EADERS of building trade unions
IL in the Chicago district who have
been fighting the Lands wage award
appear to have overreached themselves
at last. Not content with bomb throw
ing, incendiarism and blackmail, some
of them or their hired gunner last
week killed two policemen who in
terrupted their operations, and wound
ed third. The brutal murders
aroused Chicago to the determination
to wipe out the outlaw bands. Swift
police raids caught large number of
labor leaders, including some who are
ex-convicts and others who are now
under conviction of crimes or awaiting
trial. Among the prisoners, asserted
| the police, are the men really respon-
sible for the reign of labor terrorism
which has gripped Chicago for SO
long a time.
Samuel Gompers of course always
has refused to countenance violence in
| labor disputes, but it is hard to see
how he came entirely avoid some moral
1 responsibility for these crimes in Chi
cago, in view of the open encourage
ment he recently gave the unions that
are seeking to repudiate their agree
ments to accept the verdict which
might be rendered by Judge Lands,
the arbitrator chosen by themselves.
A MERICA lost one of her most
! 4 eminent financiers in the death of
Henry P. Dawson, who passed away
at the conclusion of an operation to
remove tumor from the brain. By
his own efforts he had attained high
| position among bankers and he had al
so accumulated large fortune. Dur
ing the World war he made fine
record as head of the American Red
Cross.
A T THIS writing President Harding
has not stated which of the plans
for soldiers bonus bill-the sales
tax or the insurance-he prefers, or
whether he will accept either one. The
| prediction in Washington is that he
will veto the bill and that it will be
| passed over his veto. Leaders in con-
gress have refused to let the matter
go beyond July.
THE interallied war council, at
4 Paris. has agreed that Germany
shall manufacture Zeppelin of 10000
meters capacity to replace the one
allotted to the United States by the
Versailles treaty but destroyed in Ger
many. 1t will probably be delivered
within nine months and a German
crew is to bring it across the Atlantic.
IT HE federal railroad labor board
L issued an order last week that
may serve to avert the threatened
strike of 100000 shopmen and switch
men. This ruling places ban on the
contract system of farming out job
work under which many roads are
said to have been evading the orders
OF the board as to wages, working con
ditions and other matters.