The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-03-18
As WASHINGTON
SEES HARDING
YEARS WORK
Worthwhile Achieve
naents are Almost
Neglible and Credits
Claimed D u e t o
Democratic Policies
By WALLACE BAssFoRD
fSpeciaI News Correspondent.

Especial News Correspondent.)
Washington, March I6.-This ad-
ninistration has completed its first
year; the president says that it's
great accomplishments speak for
themselves If they do. their
voice remains nnheard by the great
majority of the people. who are
practically agreed that it has been
q year of wasted and missPent
tine, and that the people who
voted Harding into sthe White
House have not even had run for
their money" To hear the voice
of these wonderful but unlisted ac-
eomplishments. the ear Of the pub
lie would have TO be equipped with
Mr.. Edison's new invention. which
is said to be so capable Of multi
plying sound that it, can hear a
molecule when it turns over for
another nap.
The president may have thought
the list of achievements SO tedious
that he had no time to enanlerate
every great blessing flowing forth
TO gladden. the happy and prosper
Gus toiIers. who inaks the welkin
ring With their shouts of approval
as they cast their sweaty caps in
air. Or could it be that the list is
like the short and simple annals
of the poor and would remind the
public that the administration has
been trying to dip away with
teaspoon the ocean Of our Difficult
ties2
What Is The answer? Here it
is-here is the list OF. accomplish
ments completed to date:
The appropriation of twen-
ty million dollars from the grain
corporations funds tprofits made
off the wheat growers) to relieve
starving in a section OF Russia,
while starving at home is over
looked:
y 2. The passage OF The maternity
bill with most of the good features
left out ss
s. A good roads bill
ss4. The Aiasssa- biis. turning over
ali Of Alaska's resources to the
3 Secretary OF the Interior, so he
can reward the friends OF the ad
ministration to HIS hearts content.
5. Buying a senate seat for
Newberry at 100000 per.
To list the failures would re-
quire columns. The tariff bill is
deaa-iocked: the re-apportionment
bill faiIod in the house because
the Republican caucus could not
agree on it. The soldier-bonus bill
has been dead-1ocked repeatedly
and no prophet is so bold as to
predict the outcome. But the ship
honus lin this case the money
would go to the rich and powerful
ship-owners) is being enerseticaliy
pushed by the president. Git all
depends on who gets the bonus)
The treaties made by the disarma
lnent conference are held up in the
senate This conference. by the
way. was provided for six years
ago in the naval appropriation act
of 1916, ID "a Democratic congress
and the Law was signed by Il Demo
cratic president. Even the money
TO cover the expenses was ther ap-
propriated; all Harding had TO do
was obey the law and cali it. On
foreign immigration there has been
an utter failure TO legislate. The
taxation laws have been revised
with measures which even the Re
pubAcans admit are unsatisfactory
compromises Taxation has been
reduced very slightly and the ax-
penses of the government not at all.
The irrigation and reclamation bin
has been lost in the committee
no action OF any sort. Budget re-
form failure. Almost every mem
Der Of the house VINO has spoken
on the subject has attacked il. And
so on through the list-many thou
sands of bills introduced. billions
OF dollars appropria' ID in excess OF
pre-war appropriations, but no re-
lief afforded TO anyone anywhere.
Wheat has risen in .price-but il
ia all out OF the hands OF The farm
ers; they get none of the benefit,
but all of the people have To pay
more for their flour and their
Tread. In only this one thing has
the administration kept its prom
ise. and this promise has heen
kept TO the ear only, for the in
crease al this time is an evil in
stead OF a good.