Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-07
AS SEEN IN THE EAST
THE Boston Herald is a repul

THE Boston Herald is a repub-
, l. Iican newspaper and of course
strongly in favor of the ship sub
sidy, but it throws up its hands
over the action of the lover house
of congress on the ship subsidy bill.
The house passed the bill and sent
it up to the senate, but III a badly
battered and mutilated condition.
The Boston newspaper thinks it IS
now a hopeless cause. It says:
with sixty-nine republicans
voting against the subsidy bill
emitting the small number of pairs
and the still smaller number of nom
participants-and only four demo-
Gratis supporting it, the case is
hopeless. So serious a detection
as this will encourage the obstruct-
ing members of the senate to do
their worst, and they need to do
very little in that body in a con-
gress which expires on March 4,
to accomplish their purpose.
mo such bill can pass the next
congress. The detection is too
serious. The republican margin in
the next house will not stand it.
So we may as well take for granted
that the United States will not
adopt the subsidy, for which Pres
ident Harding has worked siren
uously, and to which our eastern
representatives have been, as a
rule, warmly committed. We note,
incidentally, that Mr.. A. Piatt An
drew of the Essex district and Mr..
Robert S. Maloney of Lawrence,
two Massachusetts, republicans,
were among the sizty-nlne who
voted against the bill"
This Boston newspaper also puts
the blame for the defeat of the
subsidy bill on the west, and rather
bitterly upbraids western taxpay-
ers and voters for not being will
ing to go down in their pockets to
support a losing eastern industry
when the west had received SO
much from the eastern taxpayer.
It calls for an eastern combination
in congress against the west to
teach us the lesson that if we don't
scratch their back they will not
scratch ours. The feeling express
ed bv this eastern newspaper ought
to be interesting to the western
reader. It says:
The chief significance of the
s~ubsidy's defeat lies in the passing
Of power to the great middle west,
and that sections assertion of it.
We Of the EAST are being outvoted.
The democrats of the south and
the republicans of the upper waters
of the great valley are in an alli-
I arce to do US They are making
us pay an overwhelming fraction Of
the expense of government, and
they are giving very little to us in
return. They will not give us the
Cape Cod canal, while they want
US to spend $500, 100000 on a St.
Lawrence waterway project, which
is quite devoid Of common sense.
They will not give us a merchant
marine, while they want tax-exempt
none for all their farmers, and
thew want our industries to stand
the cost Of building their roads,
and educating their children, and
ninistering, through federal bu-
reaus, to the popular health. We
are the donkey, they have got on
our backs to ride, and we do not,
as a rule, have sense enough to
make our protest felt. We have
great organizations even here who
are working for the ucces of the
western point Of view, or for those
causes which the south and the
rural west have united in charging
to IL account.
This western dominance is con-
sciously pacifistic. In spite of the
! reiterated emphasis of the Chicago
Tribune, with its monumental cir
culation, on various forms of pre-
paredness, the western congressman
60 ahead at every opportunity to
strike at the army and navy, and to
trim these branches down to levels
which are neither good M nor
good strategy. No n need feel
that this country will be two mill
taristic, when the democrats are
led by the south and the repub-