The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-11-13
our RESPECTS no SENATOR OWEN.


Even though It nocessItatcs further disous.
sion Of political Issues a subject with which It
feels tho public Is surfci,ed for The time being,
Tho World feels It must pay its reepocts to the
signed Interview by senator owen, ascribing the
causes Of tho republican defeat
one Of the most amazing tendencies Of the
times is the competition evinced between gen.
tlemen Of intellectual attainment and arlsto.
cratic practices as to which can become tho
most radical and domagogo, a competition In
which Senator owen Is fast gaining on all rivals
II Indeed he is not already In the lead,
senator owen continues TO prate about the
wlckcdncss OF seating Newberry, Newberry
his friends. spent kings ransom TO win n seat
In the senate But at least half Of the senator's
who voted against Nowberry and who have
since held up their hands IA holy horror OF the
things Newherry did to win scat IN the Amer
lean house OF lords. were equally guilty with
Newberry. II would be interesting to have the
total cost Of Senator ovens last election placed
against all Of the money spent for Newherry's
seat.
Senator owen crtcizes the federal reserve
system and It's responsibility for the deflatlon
movement which followed tho war, Well, the
oklahoma senator for many, many months
claimed to bc the father Of the federal reserve
act. a statement later disputed. It's true. but
still persisted In by him. IL the thing loaned
itself to outrageous manipulation by the so
called money interests. surely he cannot escape
responsibility As to tho deflation movement.
senator owen plays tho blatant demagogue.
Whether his essays finance are grounded IN
absolute knowledge concerning that subject, or
are merely superficial he knows enough to thor
oughly understand that IL the defaton move
ment had not been precipltated, initiation would
have speedily gone on until the fabric burst,
which would have cntailed consequences com
pared to which the enforced defaton was mere
chlds play,
The senator's observations concerning the
tariff are academic and OF no force whatever
His position is the proverbal democratic posi-
ton. Nothing that can be said either side.
offers anything new or changes any opinions.
lie charges tho republicans with cutting Off
foreign demand for American goods, with I'm
two years running tho great foreign trade which
A democratic administration had built up"
Here again the damagogue completely eclipses
all signs OF the statesmanA For Senator owen
knows that the war. not democratic adminls-
tration established that great foreign trade"
and that Il could only be preserved by either
keeping up the war or starting another, that
tho great foreign trade" was created on Amer
lean credits, lie also knows that tho record
shows that but for the war IN lsi4 demo-
cratic administration by reason Of It's tariff poll
ley would have wrecked completely the prosper
ous commerce OF this republic.
Senator owen charges that the republicans
viunod Woodrow Wilson. We'll, the republicans
beat him. to the tune OF somo million majority,
80 his construction on that point can be ac-
cepted,
He SAYS the republican, showed a dotermina-
tion TO give away ten million tons OF steel ships
built by the sweat of tho American people"
That was bad But the first chapter OF in
iquity I'm that work was the sweating OF the
American people by democratic war admins
tratlon for tho benefit Of wastrols, grafteTs and
profiteers. The democratic administration vast
ed ten times more money In building
those ships than the republicans did in
selling thom--than the republicans would have
IN Elying them away. And in addition, the DEM
ocratc administration wasted additional bill
lions Of dollars because It did not have the
courage to counsel selling them and stopping
the ceaseleEl drain on the sweat OF Americana
"rho republicans save gigantic bonuses 20
railroads and passed the ch.Cummlngs act"
shouts the Oklahoma senator And the demo.
Gratis gave gigantic bonuses to the labor oil
garchy, headed by sam Gompers, tho secret
member OF the Wilson cabinet, created the enor-
nous and sou-trying transportation problem
inherited by the republicans, then refused to
either confess error or attempt remedy.
"The republican party has sheltered monopoly
and profteering," says Senator owen, But Will
the gentleman point to a single Instance whore
the republican party authorized tho purchase
OF a million currycombs to make the toilet OF
only half that number OF horses In the military
establishment of the United states7 The DEM
ocratc war administration did this and hun
dreds OF similar scandalous acts. And It was a
democratic administration that so sheltered
profteers, that sugar went 20 80 cents pound
while the country was full Of it. while the farm
sr's wheat was cut in price, as was his pork and