Norwich bulletin., 1922-11-01

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 sary expenditures, the burden wauld
 not have been So irritating and veXati- ouS: had that vast mountain or gold been appropriated in the efficient prosecution of the war, there would he no ground | today for complaints but such was not the case. Billions of dollars were | literally thrown away: some IA billion l for ships which were never sailed; for , flying machines which never flew. for cannon. shells, powder acids. grenades, ! tanks. automobiles. ammunitions and | munitions. which never reached Europe We found ourselves in the position of
 the old Jew pawnbroser on 4he Bowery
 who accidcntly swallowed a dollar aud i
 throwing up his hands said Mine Got Mine Got, I am a dollar in and a dollar ! out and ] cannot balance my books,'' so | we were billions in and billions out and | for year and half we have been at
 work on the books of the democratic mal- |
 administration and are still unable 10
 balance them.
 Sales of War Material in France.
 All sorts of embarrassing and perplex
 ing problems arose out of this war be- cause cs ths 9ailuse of the democratic
 administration to observe even reason
 able care to secure our national rights.
 A better example cannot be cited than
 the sale of surplus war material to
 France. We had over two billion dol
 lars worth of such material in France when the war closed and scores of mill lions of dollars worth of this was ship ped to France after the armistice such , as 30,000 automobiles When We talk , ed of moving this material home or sell
 ing it at retail, France informed us if , we did we must pay s150,o00,000 in inn l ]port tariffs. No one of that administration l apparently had judgment enough to have I l it understood that we were not to be sub
 ject to such exactions; that the Amer F ican people would not stand for such un- r. just and outrageous discrimination, and
 Iso We sold this material to France on . 10-year deferred payments for S400,- . 900, ,000, then France arranged a sale of : 1part of it to jobbers and they shipped 1t to the United States without any customs duty, thus undermining our . home market destroying our purchasing power, adding to the army of unemploy-
 ed and enlarging the industrial crisis
 (which confronted the republican party . on the very threshold of its return to . power.
 It was thus that over 14 billion dol
 lars of the peoples money, raised in the
 ] name of liberty and for the alleged pro-
 lection of civilization, was wasted in + an orgy of extravaganza without a % comparison in the history of the world 70 And as though the pandemonium oi ia prodigality were not enough to fully is overflow the cup Of American humilia ,s ton and disgrace, the democratic ad v ministration, mad with power, added tC il the financial holocaust II billion dol l. lars in loans to foreign countries fol P, l which there was no written evidence O. " indebtedness, much less any business O. is legal agreement as to when or where O is how these loans to our allies were to b, is paid
 c. Democratic Pes to Return. a. This is a brief survey of the chaoti of condition of the country when Warrel of G. Harding was called to tine Whit d. House and today the democratic part 'y is insistent upon its return to powe O. upon the ground that the Harding ad or ministration has failed, that is becaus nd the Harding administration has not UT tn done in one year and 8 half the wor nt of destruction whck was gradual. u wrought through eight long years ( T democratic mal-administration. Thi o plea of the democratic party for rei l s toration to power reminds me of th ol boy who killed his father and motht Gs y and when arraigned in court, plea
 with the judge to have mercy upon hi ff because he was an orphan.
 n I have taken the time to elapora
 a the confused and chaotic condition il nr herited by the republican party becaui or, no adequate measurement of the Hercl ot lean achievement of the Harding al ,a ministration is possible without cle; of understanding Of the perils and prol on lems inherited.
 a Republican Reconstructive Work.
 And today in the face of democrat NV taunts and jeers and denunciation u
 on the ground that the republican pa
 ty has not succeeded in undoing Il in wreck bequeathed it, the statistic Iti- story of the achievements of the repu ib- lican party at this critical and epoch all, period in American history reads lii tu- chapter from the Arabian Nights. th- is story of the greatest censtrueti 'ly, and re-constructive administration ev nd written in American history.
 aa- We found the doors of our count 'ri- open to the cheap labor of the worl ty. We closed them by temporary tari lu- and will keep them closed by the For ed ney tariff bill which provides tar
 IS representing the difference in the co lds of production at home and abroad a Ind means protection for the American pr rty ducer and consumer. We found t der farmers of the country driven to t % %oN- verge of bankruptcy as the result the democratic waste and imitation; III aided them not only by the emergen yen ssa tariff act closing our doors to Americ
 .e imports from the outside world but
 I timely legislation through the fedeI ';d farm loan system and the war finar iat. Corporation, until today prosperity ;Ss returning to the American farmer. ' s+is found a state of war with Germany a tha ended it. We found an entangli ned league of nations and refused to stri ,th- our colors to it's flag. and through ion Harding limited disarmament confe sti- ence, have brought to pass dream
 peace never before realized iD the h
 tory of the world, peace on the Pac and peace everywhere so far as Anne on ca Is involved We found Aneric 'aI,, prestige at it's lowest ebb; we restol .9 it to the admiration of the world gh ,,iIc it has always been under republic '+ao administration. We found waste a ,ors restored economy; inefficiency and nn istored coordination and progress. nor have enacted budget legislation 2 nd. placed the financial administration
 re- the country upon a scientific basis. inc found a mess of complicated obligati' .tbe and are disentangling them and rest ,hat ing credit and prosperity. We fot oro- millions of men out of employment z vel today every man who wants a job nin- one and we are on the verge of om- greatest era of prosperity ever kno lade in the history of this country.
 res Demseratie DbstFsetsan.
 day And in all this work of construct 'pss this remedial legislation, the republi Vt tparty has encountered democratic or cu(6 .;-,-. ,,5 .ehe avaT-x, eff of