The copper era and Morenci leader., 1922-10-20
ASHURST OFFERS ACHIEVEMENTS IF DEMOCRACY AS RELIEF FROM OVERDUE
 PROMISES OF REPUBLICAN PARTY

tor Ashurst emphasized not what he epected to accomplish in the future. but what he has already done in the past
 He cited his advocacy of woman suffrage, of the federal farm loan bureau, of the war finance corpora- tion and loans to aid agriculture and stock-raising, his insistence that a farmer be named on the federal re- serve board, his bitter fight against senatorial indifference to the needs of disabled ex-service men for hos pltalization, his battle for the child labor law. the pure food law, the truth-in-fabric law, the Clayton anti , trust law which declares that the labor of human being is not a com modity or an article of commerce, the eight hour law, the Sterling-Towner bill for a department of education, the Sheppard-Towner maternity bill, the anti-lynching bill, and his long and consistent struggle for the main tenance of freedom of speech and press in both war and peace.
 He cited also a few of the meas ures he opposed, such as, for instance. the seating of Senator Newberry.
 III iClCiiA Au6 lO IulS HiStOIlC COl- troversy Senator Ashurst found it difficult to restrain the bitterness of his denunciation of a partisan act that condoned an outrage because it was committed by partisan.
 '-This is what the Republican sen ators said when they seated Senator Newberry after abundant proof that he had violated the law against ex- n --it frrr, are the words:
 We declare that we deplore these expenditures as unnecessary ! and unlawful, but we recommend the seating of the Senator
 "In other words, what they said in effect was:
 We find the man guilty, | THEREFORE we let him go,-
 Senator Ashurst's enunciation of his stand on the soldiers compensatioe
 bill, which he voted to pass over President Harding's veto, brought enthusiastic applause from the audi ence.
 Citing first the three billions of dollars paid as adjusted compensa- tion to contractors who lost oppor- tunities to make millions when the war ended, the three quarters of a billion obtained by the railroads. the i quarter million given to government employees in bonuses, and other claims ! for adjusted compensation" paid by 1 the government, he said: "In the light of these facts how ' could I do otherwise than advocate , the payment of adjusted compensation , to ex-soldiers?
 1 "I tell you I could never look a l soldier or a soldiers mother in the : eye if, after witnessing the granting
 ot these enormous sums to war con 1 u actors and others. had dared te. i oppose the payment of adjusted com i pensation to the men who fought the ! war, who worked for s1 day while their jobs were being taken by for | eigners at $6 a day"
 l How he terrified recalcitrant sen i ators into ceasing their stubborn op- i position to capitalization approprt : ations proved to be an interesting i narrative.
 1 One appropriation after anOthec ] was side-tracked by these senators.
 he explained. while disabled eN ser vice men waited in vain. Finally. after a particularly fragrant refusal |
 Senator Ashurst lost his temper. Hs stood up in the senate and made his ' threat.
 ! q told those senators who had
 blocked the appropriations" he said. i ''that if they dared to persist in thsir i shameless conduct in a single other | instance I would leave the Senate
 floor and I would go out into the
 states of those senators and de
 nounce them to their own cOnstitu- ency, telling the people of their own
 states what they had done to prevent
 the disqualification of disabled eN-
 soldiers.
 i That threat worked. Opposition to disqualification appropriations ! melted away"
 ! Plays Republican Record
 The senator flayed the record ei
 the republican congress and admin Is T tration. and scored particularly the repeal of the excess profits tax The excess profits tax, which was introduced and passed by the demo crats. taking it from the men weS could best afford it. It was exactly what its name indicates-a tax upos , men, who had taken more than theil , legitimate profits.
 Republicans Tax the Poor , "But what do the republicans do l They repeal the tax, and the lev, which had been laid upon these pre r fiteers was placed upon the rest e ! (Continued on Page EighO