The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-10-19
THURSDAY. OCTOBER 10. 1922.
Rotten Politics.

he NEW 1ORk HERALD is quite as
ready to smite lie issuing from Re-
publican sources as it is to smite a
lie issuing from Democratic sources.
1t has no use for lies wherever they
are found.
Deliberate Misrepresentation Of
facts intended to mislead voters is
indecent and downright dishonest.
1t is plain, deliberate villainy and
any political body countenancing
such villainy is rotten to the core.
Let us examine a circular letter
sent out by the Democratic State
Finance Committee of New York ap-
pealing for campaign funds. 1t says:
I'VE were promised lower taxes, but
taxes have risen" II this statement
means national taxes, the truth Is
that our national taxes have been cut
down by the Harding Administrative
more than eight hundred millions of
dollars year from the taxes of the
Democratic Administration immedi-
ately preceding it. II 1t means taxes
in the State of New York, Governor
MILLER has cut down State taxes
twenty-three million five hundred
thousand dollars from the taxes Of
the last Democratic Administration.
In view Of these facts there is no
escape from the conclusion that the
purpose of the Democratic State
Finance Committee in this statement
about taxes is to mislead and deceive
the voters of the State. There not
only is no truth in the utterance, but
there isn't even a shadow of truth in
the utterance.
The circular says: Our foreign
trade has practically been destroyed"
This statement is wholly misleading,
for the fact is that considered apart
from the expectation of foodstuffs
we have had no. normal foreign trade
since the close Of the war. We did
have an abnormal foreign trade in
the months Immediately following
the war, due to the urgent and
imperative necessities of nations
pumped dry by four years OF war.
Again, the measure of our exports
at the lower prices of to-day cannot
be determined in dollars alone. Our
exports are governed by the ability
of foreign nations to buy, governed
by the ability of foreign nations to
produce for themselves and governed
by our own cost of production. After
the war all Europe was disorganized
and incapable of producing either
foodstuffs or manufactured goods for
itself. 1t had no other recourse than to
turn to America to meet its necessi-
ties. And as to our cost Of production,
that is governed by our high wage
and will continue to be governed by
the wage whether high or low.
In this indictment of the Republi-
can Administration does the Demo-
cratic State Finance Committee ad-
yocate lower wage for our workers?
1t is fact that labor cost hasn't
been liquidated, but this is not due
&c the Republican party. II is due in
large measure to the restriction put on
immigration at the close of the war.
The circular further says. I'VE
were promised prosperity; we have
industrial unrest and chaos" The
truth is that this is footless, ire
sponsible and wholly false utteranc..
AS concerns the promise of prosper
ity, we have more prosperity than is
good for us with our cost of produc-
tion still up in the air. And with the
active prosperity we have, obviously
,rrustrial chaos is impossible.
The circular says: LESS unem-
ployment was promised, yet the num-
Der Of unemployed has greatly in
creased" The truth is that there
we're five TO six millions Of workers
ir the ranks OF the unemployed a
year and half ago, and to-day there