The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1922-03-22
CAPITOL cuLLrscs

its FIRST year; the President says that
it's great accomplishments speak
for themselves" II they do, their
voice remains unheard by the great
majority Of the people. who are
practically agreed that It has been
year OF wasted and misspent time,
and that the people who voted Har-
ding into the White House have not
even had a run for their money"
To hear the voice Of these wonder
full but unlisted accomplishments,
the ear Of the public would have to
be equipped with Mr.. Edison's new
invention, which is said to be so
capable OF multiplying sound that 1t
can hear a molecule when it turns
over for another nap.
The President may have thought
the list of achievements so tedious
that he had no time to eneumerate
every great blessing flowing forth
to gladden. the happy and prosperous
toilers who make the welkin ring
with their shouts of approval as they
cast their sweaty caps in air. Or
could 1t be that the list is like the
short and simple annals Of the poor
and would remind the public that
the administration has been trying
to dip away with teaspoon the
ocean of our difficulties?
What is the answer? Here 1t is.
here is the list OF accomplishments
completed to date:
1. The appropriation of twenty
million dollars from the grain
corporations funds (profits made
off the wheat growers) to relieve
starving in section of Russia,
while starving at home is overlooked
2. The passage of the maternity
bill with most of the good features
left out.
3. A good roads bill.
a. The Alaska bill, turning over
all of Alaska's resources to the Sec
rotary of the Interior, so he can re-
ward the friends of the Administra-
ton to his hearts content.
S. Buying a Senate seat for
Newberry at 100000 per.
To list the failures would require
columns. The tariff bill is dead
locked; the e-apportionment bill
failed in the House because the Re-
publican caucus could not agree on
it. The soldier-bonus bill has been
dead-locked repeatedly and no
prophet is so bold as to predict the
outcome. But the ship-bonus Tin
this case the money would go to the
rich and powerful ship-owners) is
being energetically pushed by the
President. Git all depends on who
gets the bonus,) The treaties made
by the Disarmament Conference are
held up in the Senate. This confer
ence, by the way, was provided for
six years ago in the Naval Appro-
priation Act of 1915, in Democra-
tic Congress and the law was signed
by a Democratic President. Even
the money to cover the expenses was
then appropriated; all Harding had
to do was obey the law and call 1t.
On foreign immigration there has
been an utter failure to legislate.
The taxation laws have been revised
with measures which even the Re-
publicans admit are unsatisfactory
compromises. Taxation has been
reduced very slightly and the ex-
penses of the government not at all.
The Irrigation and Reclamation Bill
has been lost in the Committee-no
action of any sort. Budget reform
a failure. Almost every Member OF
the House who has spoken on the
subject has attacked it. And so on
through the list-many thousands
of bills introduced, billions of dol
lars appropriated in excess OF pre-
war appropriations, but relief af-
IOTueu u dHyOhc any "hOiS' ""s
has risen In price-but 1t is all out
of the hands of the farmers; they
get none OF the benefit, but all of
the people have to pay more for
their -four and their bread. In only
this one thing has the Administra-
ton kept its promise, and this prom
Use has been kept to the ear only,
for the increase at this time is an
vii instead of good.
The Washington News appeared
the other day., on the anniversary
of Harding's Inauguration, with
group OF ten pictures of the Presi-
dent on the front page, pictures TAX
en- at different times when he was
engaged in various occupations; Curl
ously enough. only one represented
him sitting at his desk, at work; in
the others he was fishing, gOling,