The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-08-10
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CARRAWAY A RICE CHAMPION
Washington, Aug. 7-(Special Cor
nce)-Unwittingly, no doubt,
one more Democratic Senator has tes-
titled to the interest Of the Republic
can party in the welfare of the Amer
lean farmer. Senator Carraway, Of
Arkansas, arose in the Senate few
days ago to complain that a certain
Senator had voted in favor of the pro
tective tariff on wool while that Sen
ator is declared in the Congressional
Directory to be the largest producer
of woodland mutton in the world'. Car
raway's argument was that this man
was voting to put money in his own
pocket, through the protective tariff.
He insisted that when Senator votes
in his own interest he should disclose
that fact. Without apparently realiz-
ing ii, the Democrat from Arkansas
was emphasizing the fact that the Re-
publican party had sent a practical
farmre to the Senate-it has sent sew
eral of them, in fact-and that such
farmer not only votes in his own
interests but in the interests Of large
majority of his constituents. The
democrats, in the interest of the
! American consumer, are always try
/ ing to assure the importation Of cheap
commodities. The Republicans, rep
resenting the producer, are always
trying to make sure that the foreign
producer will not be able to seize the
| American market.
The absurdity Of the position taken
| by Carraway was shown by Senator
Bursum of New Mexico, who asserted
that it would be impossible to make
up Senate of men who had no inter-
est in any industry. 1t would not on
ly be impossible but undesirable. No
man can so thoroughly understand
the needs Of an industry as one who
has engaged in it and knows by prac-
tical experience all the difficulties
that must be met and overcome.
While Carraway was making his alb
surd protest against a farmer in the
Senate voting for protection on farm
products, Senator Gooding called at
tention to the fact that Carraway had
voted for a protective duty onrice, al
; though he was opposed to protection
on everything else. Carraway has
tened to assert that neither he nor any
: of his relatives had any interest what
ever i nrice production. The ready
explanatio nof Carraway's vote is
that rice is very extensively produced
in Arkansas. Even if Mr.. Carraway
had no financial interest in rice, he
evidently had a, political interest. If
he did not vote dollars into his peck
cts, he hoped to win a few thousand
votes by the hypocritical attitude of
}, favoring protection on rice at the
same time that he opposes protection
as principle.
The Republican landslide of 1920
brought to the Senate and the House
an unusually large number of men
who are actively engaged in produc-
ton, either Of raw materials or manu-
featured articles. There are miners
cattle men, sheep men, grain grow.
ers, fruit growers, manufacturers OF
almost every line Of goods, and also
men engaged in banking, medicine
and the law. The Carraway argu.
ment, followed to it's logical conclu,
sion, would bar all these men from
voting on any question in which they
had any interest whatever, and would
therefore, deprive the country of the
best services of the men who are in 4
position to serve it best.
It should be noted, in this connec
ton, that Senator. Carraway argued
among other things, that Senator
)should disclose the interest he has IL
a question presented for vote. This
condition had been fully met by the
Senator who had voted for protection
on wool. Each Senator supplies the
information for his biography in the
:. Congressional Directory, and it wa:
from this that Carraway got the in
formation that the Republican Sena
tor is the largest producer of WOO
and mutton in the world. There hae
! been no deception or evasion.
THE LUNACY OF GREAT CITIES