The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1922-07-28
TYBINGS OUTLINES POLITICAL
POLICY
SECOND DISTRICT DEMOCRATIC
CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS-
FILES PAPERS.
The Sun of July 20, says:

Willard f. Tydings, State Senator
I from Hartford county, Yesterday filed
his papers with the Board of super
visors for Congress from the Second
! Congressional district.
| Discussing the principles on which
| ne will make his fight, Mr.. Tydings
declared he favored modification OF
the Nolstead act to permit sale Of beer
and light wines. He stands, he said.
for low tariff, which will permit
fair competition; reduction of gov
ornamental expenditures for red tape
bureaus and commissions and dcpor-
tation of aliens who become habitual
aw-breakers.
The Second district comprises Bal
timure Carroll and Hartford counties
and the Fifteenth, Sixteenth. Twenty
fifth. Twerty-siXth. Twenty
and Twenty-eighth wards of Balti-
mere city.
The United States needs market
for its surplus products and not Il
high tariff" Mr.. Tvdings said.
THE reasons for the need of high
tariff years ago do not apply today. We
make and grow more than we use in
America. If we cannot sell this sur
plus abroad the market declines and
farmers and manufacturing concerns
have to close up shop or sell below
cost because there is no market in
which to sell the things not used or
consumed here.
"A high tariff gives few moncpo-
lies the right to dictate the prices re-
CARELESS of a fair profit. 1t stifiles
fair competition and increases the
cost of living to the consumer l be
lieve the tariff commission which
seeks to place only such tariff as will
protect the home industry, but at the
same time Dermits fair compptition.
is the best method of dealing with this
subject
In the last few years Congress has
expended more than $1,000 600 600 in
the creation of boards commissions
and bureaus. some of which are red
tape factories and MANY of which are
Lnwarranted intcrfcrcnces with the
rights of the several States. What
have we t. show for that vast sum?
Here is enough money to build
100000 sChG1l houses costing $i0.000
each. or loo. 900 miles of concrete road.
Mud all Of this when cvCrv2nc is tlv-
ed SorClv tn make ends meet. | am.
II the main. opposed to this unwar
"anted Interference in the life and
business of everyone.
AS to the temperance question, ]
do not think the present solution is
either the sane, best or correct s0lu-
ton. The rObbcricS and murders ut
the various distilleries, with the high
handed practices OF the bootlegging
gangs. must cause everyone to look
with grave concern at the results of
this law. No one wants the saloon to
return | surely would support no
such course.
AT the same time | feel that the
modification of the Volstead act per
hitting the sale of light wines and
beers under proper regulations and
hiAn proof liquors for medical pur-
poses under reasonable restriction
will satisfy the bulk of the people who
are not in accord with present cundi-
tionS.
There are extremists, of course,
both wet and dry, who will not toler~
ate ANYTHING but either Il bone-dry
condition or Il wide-opcn condition rs
( the case may be. Between these two
extremes stand the great bulk OF
Americans. who know the saloon was
bad institution and should never be
permitted to return, yet vino feel that
III the massage of the Volstead act
the law went too far and that il was
founded on prejudice and not reason
Il believe unnaturaliZcd residents
of the United States who break our
laws habitually and who show a lack
of appreciation OF the advantages OF
America should be deported to the
land whence they came"
Mr. Tvdings has been carrying on
an aggressive campaign all over his
district. He plans to continue this I'M
til the primary. He served in the
House of Delegates in 1916 and 1920.
the latter year as Speaker During the
war he rose from the rank of an en-
listed man in the Twenty-ninth Divis-
ION to the grade of Northumberland