Connecticut western news., 1922-11-02
INTERESTING REMARKS
 BY VICE-PRES. COOLIDGE

NSOuLlLueu rom page v thing in the United States exactly as 1t should be, and if our congress has
 done nothing, it must be in the same
 state at the present time. I do not
 admit, however, that that was the
 condition in which we found the
 affairs of this nation; I do not admit
 that it has been a do-nothing Con-
 gress. I know that it is better to
 weigh legislation rather than att
 tempt to measure it, yet perhaps
 you can get some idea of what has
 been going on, when I tell you that
 the Senate has passed since the 11th
 day of April in the nineteen months
 of its session, over 750 joint bills
 and resolutions, besides ten or
 fifteen treaties, some of them of
 more importance to America and
 humanity than any treaty that has
 been ratified by the American people since Benjamin Franklin negotiated that treaty at Paris that recognized the independence of the United States of America"
 Somebody at Washington has done something. In the House 700 joint bills and resolutions were passed. I have mentioned some of them to you. cannot go over them in detail, for even if Congress were a do-nothing body, anyone that undertakes to discuss all of those questions with an audience would soon get the reputation of not being a do-nothing speaker"
 "What has been the result of this, because if it has not had a practical result it does not interest you, it does not interest the American pub lie. In the first place, we undertook to reduce taxation and the expendi- lures of government for the purpose of reducing the cost of living, and it has had that result. That cost had mounted from what we might call | the 100 mark, 1913, up to 216- more than double-and by 1920 has receded until it stands at the present time at about 166.
 An era of prosperity has come to 1 America. You can find it if you examine the records of the railroads, where carloading is. almost as large as it was at the peak times of 1920. You can find it if you examine the reports, the reports of their great consump- ion of raw materials, of iron, of steel, of copper, of cotton and wool, hat have reached almost the peak 1t which they stood two years ago; md prices of those commodities have come back to a reasonable level. The wages of working people of Ameri- "a, the reduction of which was because of unemploy- nent and the impossibility of mar zeting the production of our indus ,ries, are about at the level that hey were in most enterprises, and hey are actually increasing in some. The great basic industry of iron and steel raised its wages 20 per cent. within about six weeks, and l think
 saw in the paper within a day or wo that they were proposing an other ten per cent. raise for the ordinary labor of that great indus ry." |
 ''Now, unless there is an era of prosperity, these things do not exist, md you have but to look at the .ecord to see what the result has ,een. Our export trade is twice as much as it was before, while every other country of the world, every other great power has seen its eX- port trade actually decline, except x,yhila O,1rG haC gqInpd -OO9o, hers has gained but A."
 "That is what the statesmanshlp ot America has done for the American people, and you are back now in an ra of prosperity where it is possible or every intelligent, industrious American to earn a fair rate ot wages and maintain himself accord ng to the American standard of liv- ng."
 Interest rates that were so high ave come down, and in their wake -ou will find that the price of rent will be receding in the near future, or all around you now you can see uildings going up on every hand; ,he building industry is thriving, and mployment in that great industry 5 plenty. That is key industry. Whenever there is good building .oing on, there is great activity in Il allied industries"
 'Tf they tell you that this is an administration of no accomplishment, oint them, if you will, to the budget i'll, point them to the economy that as been put into effect at Washing
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