The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-10


lican party came into power some
OF the conditions at Washington in
the various departments were I'm
doubtedly due to the war: others,
on the contrary, were the result
or waste, extravaganza and inefii-
cheney, he asserted.
He praised President Harding
for his wonderful patience, his
common sense and his spirit of un-
derstanding and comradeship. He
Is not q superman," he exclaimed.
Il do not believe there are any su-
permen. Some folks Just think
they are supermen- But we can
thank the Lord for President Hard
ing"
He deprecated the sentiment
which he said existed in many parts
OF the country, that congress was
not accomplishing things fast
enough.
Prices are no longer fairly ex-
pressed in money, excerpt in this
country" the secretary claimed.
Few men are wise enough to know
just what sort of tariff is best
under these conditions For one,
|
congress studies the question. A
good tariff bill is worth waiting
for. We cannot hope to get back
to a prosperity basis over night"
He said that in no like period
in the country's history had any
congress ever achieved so many
things for the agricultural inter
ests as had the present congress
during the past year.
He praised the congress for hay-
ing sent men overseas to seek new
markets for staple farm crops, for
increasing the credit machinery
which had tided many farmers over
a serious crisis, and for the emer-
gency tariff bill.
Wool was almost unSaleable in
this country" he remarked. in
the meantime it was being shipped
into this country at the rate of
10000, 600 pounds a month and was
sold for less than our own wool
could be sold for. Shrewd specu-
lators picked it up for a rising
market. We stopped all that sort
of thing with the emergency tariff
bill"
Secretary Wallace concluded his
address by an eloquent reference
to John Ericsson 1t was possible,
he said, that the Confederates might
have won the war with their navy,
had it not been for EricSsOn's in
genuity and patriotism.
The secretary's address was OPP
timistic in tone and expressed his
convictions that through the Re
publican party the country was
gradually getting back to normal.
However, it was made equally plain
that he regarded the future with
more or less of doubt and one re-
ceived the impression that he be
lieved it was filled with many pos
sibilities which will constitute a
challenge to the thinking men of
the nation, especially the food
problem.
Rev. P. Arthur Johnson offered
! the invocation, c. A Samuelson,
league president, introduced DR.. c..
A. Andreen, president of Augustana
college, as the POSTMASTER.
1t had been Is years. DR.. Andreen
! said, since the John Ericsson Re-
publican league had met at Angus
| tana, and he welcomed the dele
gates most cordially. He read teie-
grams from Senator Medill McCor-
mick, Attorney General Edward ].
Brundage, and Congressman Carl
R. Chindblom, regretting their in
ability to be present Congressman
Chindblom was to have delivered
an address on John Ericsson.
A. ]. Lindstrom of Chicago, in
behalf of the league, presented to
Augustana college an autograph
letter sent by King Gustave Of
Sweden to the league in 1912 at
its meeting in Chicago when the
session was attended by President
Taft.
The letter is as follows:
ITO the Swedish committee: