Iron County register., 1922-02-23
Washington Correspondence.
BY WALLACE BAssFoRD.

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the backs of the overburdened, tax
payers. Incidentally it gives him an
opportunity to take thirteen mem
bers of the Agricultural Bloc from the
Senate and place them where he put
Kenyon. Away back there when the
world was young, the Emperor Tam
erlane found that petty sultan nam
ed Bajazet was in his way at times SO
he threw the sultan into cage and
hauled him around the country for
exhibition purposes, The President
will soon have thirteen cages ready
for the Senators who have annoyed
him by standing up for the interests
of the farmers. Curiously enough,
there are just thirteen of these Sena-
tors still remaining in the Agricul-
tural Bloc who can be depended upon
to stand by the people on most oc-
casions- except when there is soft
Lifetime job to be had.
Abe Martin says that his friend Ike
Lark has bought new pair of shoes
with some money he had left over
from the Wilson administration.
Perhaps few of the farmers in the
country realize that the twenty mill
lion dollars which the Republican
Congress SO generously voted for the
aid of comparatively small section
of Russia came ont Of the pockets of
the wheat growers, many of whom
are in real need of aid themselves.
In other words, it was appropriated
from the funds of the United States
Grain Corporation and not from the
United States Treasury and the funds
of the Grain Corporation represent
profits made off the wheat growers.
These profits amount to more than
thirty million dollars. Another phase
of the matter is the fact that Con-
gress set precedent in this case, for
charity of this kind in the past has
been by private subscription. In1S45
the country was SO moved by the dis
tress of Ireland, where the potato
crop had failed under the burden of
furnishing the principal support for
eight millions of people In the island
at that time, that millions were raised
by private subscription. but even
then the Congress was not asked to
make an appropriation. In the case
of Russia there was plenty of food in
the country, but communism does
not run true to its name, and the
parts of Russia where food was abund-
ant would not furnish it to the famine
region without price, and the price
could not be raised by the sufferers.
It must give the wheat farmer, who
finds it hard to make ends meet, a
pleasant thrill to think that he is help
ing to feed the Russians, while his
own children may be in need of the
ordinary necessities of life. The
Bible says that he who does not look
after his own household first is worse
than heathen.
The American Red Gross has an
nounced that it has. just spent $780,
600 to relieve some of the urgent
cases OF actual distress among the
people of certain parts of Montana
and North Dakota. Congress took
two hundred times that amount OF
money from the grain growers for
the Russian relief. The Farmers
Council in this city has received q
letter from Y. @. Mansfield Of Sunny
side, Washington. telling of condi-
tions in several of the Northwestern
States. He writes: "Many farmers
are compelled to go to the bankers
and beg for money to buy sack OF
-four. Their crops we're all mort
gagged and taken from them. There
are great many who were unable
last fall to seed their summer fallow-
ed ground, and there is no hope OF
their being able to do 80 in the
spring. The most of the metro
politan newspapers do not print these
stories, for they are members OF the
cabal of publishers who have agreed
to print only news indicating that the
administration is success, and to
throw on the floor all Of the news de-
picting the tremendous amount OF
distress in the land.
The Republican National head
quarters in Washington is already be-
ginning to play the baby. Theirlates'
screed sent out from here begins with
these words: "It is the manifest in
tention OF leaders Of the Democratic
party not to be fair In the coming
campaign.'' Then they proceed tt
refer to the minority report on the
tariff bill away back last spring
most year ago. When one thinks
of ali the sharp attacks that Demo
Gratis have made in the last few
months, it is a remarkable testimonia
to their fairness that the high salariet
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