The New York herald., 1922-06-12
Continued from First Page.

Democratic papers have been
read into the Record by Democratic
Senators. Editorials appearing in
THE New YORK HERALD pointing out
the unwisdom of the pending tariff
legislation have been frequently cited
by Republican sld Democratic Sena-
tors.
McCumber's Standpat Speeches.
There has been one marked point
of difference between the Republican
and Democratic speeches for and
against the tariff bill. Mr.. Nc
Cumber has made many speeches.
Leaders of long experience in both
parties agree he has won for himself
a place in the hall of tariff fame In at
least one way. They credit him with
having resurrected all the ancient
standpat arguments ever employed in
previous tariff debates.
Some of his speeches have been
strongly reminiscent Of those with
which Republican high tariff spell
binders made the popular welkin ring
the campaigns of the early eighties
or which were delivered on the floors
of Congress during discussions OF the
Mckinley bill
Mr.. McCumber is credited with not
having overlooked a single trick or
argument that the old timers employed
in holding UP the ogre of foreign
competition, "the empty dinner pail"
and "other undesirable consequences
Of Chinese cheap labor" inferior for
eign goods" and all that sort of thing.
If Mr.. McCumber has mentally ad-
vanced beyond the archaic reasoning
of the most confirmed standpatters Of
the eighties his speeches have not in
dicated II.
On the contrary, some OF the
speeches made by Republican as well
as Democratic opponents of the Nc
Cumber bill have displayed breadth OF
economic conditions which, in their
judgment. should point toward -eman-
cipation from political Influences in
the making Of tariff.
Genuine Oratory Exhibited.
There have been flashes Of genuine
oratory. exhibitions of keen analysis
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during the tariff debates. These have
come almost entirely from the oppo-
sition because it is a fact that the atti-
tude of most of the Republicans who
have indicated their support of the
tariff measure has been that OF sullen
acquiesence to party obligation" for
which they have little liking. They
have swallowed many bitter doses in
order to win the accompanying orange
for themselves.
The record Of the tariff debates does
not disclose the fact that aside from
Mr. McCumber any of the leaders Of
his party have manifested more than
passing concern in the result for
which the majority are striving-the
passage Of the McCumber bill with as
hteic uSioy as poSSiDit. HIS IL IlOt
true of the opposition. Republicans
as well as Democratic critics of the
measure have been and are taking a
keen and earnest interest in exposing
the defects of the bill.
Some Republican Senators praise
their Democratic colleagues for both
fairness and sincerity of motive in
training their oral guns on the Nc
Cumber bill. One of the best i'm
promptu speeches made on the tariff
was contributed on Thursday by Sem
ator John Sharp Williams, Democrat.
Of agricultural Mississippi
The Mississippi Senator, who is
shortly to retire from Congress be-
cause Of his disgust with political con-
ditions. will leave behind him a record
of which almost any man might be
proud. While he is an ardent Demo-
crat. his Judgment and utterances are
not always influenced by partisan con-
siderations. He has literally risen
above his party" many times.
He indorsed and voted for the
treaties negotiated by the Arms Con-
ference convened by President Har-
ding. He is unalterably opposed to
the s5.000,000,000 bonus raid for pa
triotic reasons. He has described that
enterprise as "a catch penny affair
| designed to attract votes for Con-
gressmen."