Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-11-03
WORDS WITHOUT WORKS.

Senator Jones' position becomes more
indefensible as the campaign advances
and as the election draws near.
In spite of the fact that it has been
repeatedly shown that under the new
tariff law the protection on wool is twice
as high as the protection afforded to the
wool growers under the Emergency
Tariff, Senator Jones persists in his asser-
ton that 'the Emergency Tariff on wool
afforded better protection for wool
than the new tariff" Nevertheless he
voted for the wool schedule and voted
against the law which made that sched-
ule effective. His defense of his position
consists in having voted against the bill as
a whole on the ground that it was dictated
by the manufacturing interests of the East
and as if this did not suffice, Senator
Jones seeks to excuse his failure to pro-
tect the interests of New Mexico on the
ground that he was in favor of the con-
tinuance of the Emergency Tariff law and
the adoption of "some method based upon
full information and scientific principles
rather than to take a leap in the
dark. 4" In other words he took the
position that the tariff should be taken
out of politics. If the wool schedule was
nothing more than "a leap in the dark
why did Senator Jones vote for it and if
the other schedules were the result of the
same procedure which gave us the
wool schedule. Senator Jones' Failure
to vote for the law as whole is utterly
indefensible; and when he voted for one
schedule and voted to defeat the btll as
whole, he voted with his party, and in
stead of taking the tariff out of politics
he put politics into the tariff. Neither
the tariff, nor any other political issue,
can be taken out of politics; it is only
when politics is taken out of the tariff
and out of every other issue that effective
laws will be enacted.
Senator Jones' position with reference
to the bonus is in keeping with his stand
on the tariff. Since all that he has said
on the tariff has been exploded, the bur-
den of his campaign has been that he
served the ex-service men faithfully in
the Senate. If this were true we should
be glad to concede it. 1t would have
been better for all concerned had the
discussion of an adjusted compensation
bill been left out of the campaign rather
than TO have been capitalized as it has
been for political purposes, to the detri-
ment of other issues seriously affecting
the welfare of the whole country. But
Senator Jones has sought to make adj
justed compensation political issue. The
factthat some of the most prominent Dem
ocratic Senators, notably Senator Under
wood, the minority leader, voted against
the bill, disposes of it as a Democratic
asset.
Had Senator Jones been a real friend"
of the ex-service men he would not have
voted against the Hardwick Amendment
to the Revenue Bill providing free post
age for the soldiers while they were still
engaged in battle; he would not have
voted against the three amendments to
the War Risk Insurance Bill providing a
general increase in pension rates for
widows, an increase in pension rates for
widows of the Civil, Spanish and Philip
pine wars and an increase in pension rates
for the widows of the World war; he
would not have voted against an amehd-
ment to the Army and Navy Pay Bill
providing an increase for the army and
navy marine corps; and he would not
have voted against the amendment IN tho
Post Office Appropriation bill providing
the same pay to soldiers as civilians were
receiving for work on road construction;
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and had he been friend" of the eX-
service men he would have proposed that
the soldiers should receive the same
monthly bonus as was being paid to the
civilian employees of the government. And
If Senator Jones had the same interest in
securing adjusted compenSatiOn for the