The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1922-10-27
WASHINGTON LETTER
Bv Wallace BasSfOrd.
Special News Correspondent.

Special News Correspondent.
Washington, ID. C.. Oct 23.-''Of two
evils, ALWAYS choose the lesser" That
maxim is as old as humanity. The
Republican chieftains are basinS thciE
Congressional campaign upon that
principle: OF all the issues which
might be brought to the front, they
are compelled to choose between
those which are bad for them AMI
those which are worse. So it is that,
rather than rest the issue upon tbs
merits and dement's OF this Repubi-
can Congress. they choose rather Il
fight upun the issue OF standing b.
the President" Small and shrinking
as is his popularity, they think ii bet
ter to take Il chance on that than t.
rest their case on the G0-nothing rec
Grd Ci The Congress. SO now the Pres
id"nt has been induced to write let
IL. to Monde!l praising the record ui
a Congress which even Republican
leaders have repudiatcd III language
almost Toe strong TO print. Weeks, 4
member ~ Harding = own cabinet. de
c!arcd thai Congress had sunk to i
new low record Tor achievement.
Wood. Republican Congressman from.
Indiana and chairman of the Congress
SiUnal Campaign Committee, sand on
The floor of the House in speech
that the people everywhere are CIV
in@ us hell" With testimony of that
sort coming from the inner circle 0f
rcactiuniaSm. is il any wonder that
the campaign leaders would try 70
hide the Congress behind the skirts
of the President, even though the
skirts bc beth short and narrow? Tn
Presidents own record is one Of
weakness. vacillation and broken
promises. bul that OF the Congress is
worse. II has broken every successive
pledge tor relief from high taxes and
nigh living costs. it has done nothing
To protect the public from the coal
proritccr and all OF the lesser pirates,
Ii was as helpless as the President IN
bringing about an end OF the strikes
which were distressing both the strlE-
erS and the consumers. it has prevent
ed To cnt the costs OF government,
but even the President himself =
forced to admit that there will be i
deficiency OF three quarters OF oil
lion by June 50 next. Of course this
is Secretary Melons estimate, and oi
course he sIade it as modest rs pos
sible 1t vii, probably be round bill
lion before that time comes. As tor
constructive legislation, the record
is Il blank Practically the only piece
put thru was the tariff bill; ii that had
not been passed at the behest OF the
biS campaign contributors the nar.E
could nos have h0ued Tor campaign
contributions fCr the election ii lev
DAYS ahead. The people are just be
ginning to note its effect in the rising
costs OF sugar, wOolcns, cotton goods
and an intending procession Of other
manufactured articles. while the ar
IicIes which the farmers have 10 sell
fail lower and lower. II is tarlu
which operates like the poisond knit
which Dr. Warren described in Il IA
NOUS novel. In the story the blade
was poisoned on one side, so that
when il was used 10 divide the loaf, il
dealt out health and strength to on2.
while dealing sickness ana death 10
the other. Is il any wonder that tn"
Republican campaign managers wou'd
rather the voters should think only
of the pasy-going 9olf player OF the
White House rather than the WELD
crs of the poisoned knife that shaped
the unfair and Ubiquitous tariff law?
/ The President, in his letter in Mon
dell. which was handed out to every
newspaper correspondent in Washing
ton asks for the election of Il Repub-
lican Congress. 1t will he remembered
that President Wilson wrote Il letter
'of this kind in 1918, while we were
/ in war and he desired-a Congress
which he knew would cooperate in
winning lhat war, and the Renubli-
cans everywhere denounced him for
it, Will they be equally ready ID de-
EGunce the present incumbent OF the
White House for interfering in the
campaign within 4 week after his
public announcement that he would
not do so?
ANY increase in the cost OF dyes to
the manufacturer OF cotton goods,
wooden goods. millinery. etc, has 10
be added to the selling price OF the
article. The Dye Combine, headed By
! the DuPOnts OF Delaware. spent a
million dollars trying to get The high
rates of the emergency tariff bill
continued. but were defeated by the
solid Democratic vote and that OF {;
Jew Republicans. Before the embargo
or prohibition against the importa-
ton of dyes went into effect, dyes
were cheap in America. shall Civ
here Il comparison on the cost OF GER
tain important dyes before and dur
ing the embargo period:
Before Durin@
embargo embargo
Direct Yellow r, PC lb. $500 ID
TartraZinc 2Sc H. 100 H.
Nntanil yallOW oic III 90 III