The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-04-28

| economies; in many respects it is as
much of an economic joke as it was
when it came fresh from the hands of
Fordney of Saginaw and was general
ly known as Fordney's Folly.
The rates OF the Fordney-McCum-
Der bill are higher than under the
I Payne-Aldrich act against which the
people revolted in 1910 and elected
Democratic Congresses for the fol
lowing eight years.
The Senate bill apparently rejects
the Fordney American Valuation plan,
generally opposed by importers and
business men, and then gives the
President authority, in defiance of the
Constitution, to modify tariff rates
either upward or downward and to
change the basis of ad valorem duties
from the foreign to the American val
uation.
, In this bill as in the Emergency
tariff act another effort is made to
fool the farmer by placing high duties
upon agricultural products, but the
opponents of the bill contend that the
experience of the farmer following
the emergency tariff act when prices
of all his products declined to a point
at which it was improbable to ship
them and compelled him to burn his
corn while millions were starving to
death in Europe for lack of his unsafe
able products, has taught him for all
time that what he needs is not tariffs
bug markets.
Opponents of the bill also point out
that when Republican orators this fall
tell the farmer that this tariff bill is
framed in his interest, he, the farmer,
will naturally ask why the Republic
cans who have had full control of Con-
gress for three years, have waited un-
til now to offer him prosperity in the
form of tariff bill.
Although the bill itself has Just
been published and only its most glar-
ing defects are apparent at a cursory
glance, it is already manifest that OPP
position to the bill is not to be con-
fined to Democrats, but that Repub-
licans themselves are divided, and in
tense opposition may be expected not
only from large section of the Re-
publican Senators but from a large
section of the Republican press.
1t has been suggested that perhaps
one reason why Attorney General
Daugherty has not started any prose-
cution against profteers in general
was because he has been waiting to
find out whether the persons to be
prosecuted would include the Repub-
lican tariff thinkers.
Thanksgiving" Departments Injuries
Employees and Service.
In the effort to Hardingize the ex-
ecutive departments of the Govern
ment following the Newberryizing of
the Senate all manner of sensational
rumors and inunendoes against the
dismissed officials of the Bureau of
Engraving and Printing have been
given wide publicity in the press from
the finding of packages of money in
the Potomac river down to alleged in
efficiency and unfairness. These pub
locations were accompanied by others
to the effect that the same thing was
to take place in other departments,
with the result that employees of all
departments have been thrown into a
okdVC Va apprehension dilu LEAR ILtle
less than chaotic.
One by one the sensational reports
have been shown to be false. One of
these canards related to alleged I'M
fairness on the part of Director Will
meth in the discharge of certain en-
ployees last summer 1t now appears
that the protest of these discharged
employees was thoroughly investigat-
ed by special board headed by Comp
troller Of the Currency Crissinger,
which was approved by Secretary
Mellon and which completely exone-
rated the Director and his aids.
In addition to this, President Hard
ing said in letter to the National
Federation of Federal Employees that
there were no charges, and Secretary
Mellon joins him in saying that moth |
ing had been discovered to impugn
their honesty and integrity. In the