Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1922-08-25
MASSES WEARY
OF G. 0. P. RULE
REPUBLICANS FROM HARDING
DOWN FAVOR RICH INTERESTS
AT EXPENSE OF ToILERs.
NO "PEP" IN THE PRESIDENT
Boys Who Offered Their LIvos Durnu
World War Stand Little Chance
OF Being Put On Their
Feet Again.
10 "PEP" IN THE PRESIDENT
BY WALLACE BASSFORD
Especial News Correspondent

demonstrates that Harding has little
force-probably less than Taft-but II
also proves another thing-that he has
no sympathy in his heart for the man
VINO tolls. His every move, weak and
undecisive though 1t may be, leans TO-
ward the interests of the big corpora.
lions. Eighteen weeks ago 100000
union coal miners were put out OF
work by the concerted action OF the
mine owners, due TO tho simple fact
that the existing wage arrangements
had reached their expiration and the
owners refused to meet delegation
from tho workers aud fix up now
schedule OF wages for the coming year.
In all this time no coal has been mined
by union miners except In Kentucky
The result Is there Is not enough Goa.
being produced to supply the summer
needs OF industry, and not ton oil
hand for the coming winter. II all the
miners should SO to work tomorrow
there would Still be scarcity OF coal
all winter long. As this Is written
there is no immediate prospect Of work
being resumed.
Harding has talked platltudes and
his satellites have handed out many
vague hints of the wonderful moves
he has up his sleeve to end the coal
and rail strikes. but II he has these
wonderful moves, they nre still I'D his
sleeve. while he plays much golf, COOS
week-ending and yachting and attends
Laddie Boys birthday party. Laddin
Boy has fourstory cake. What have
the little children OF the coal miners
Ill many cabin up In the mountains?
Meanwhile. every individual worker
and consumer In tho country suffers
or loses work or money or is incon-
yenienced or alarmed by tho condition
which Roosevelt ended In day. But,
you say, Harding Is not Roosevelt, and
no one person In America will take
issue with that statement.
This session Of Congress will finally
end somewhere along in tho fall, and
when it ends there will be some angry
war veterans In tho country. For tho
simple reason that when tho session
ends there will DO 10 bonus bill of
any sort whatsoever. Scores OF Repub.
lican Congressman have nude the
welkln ring with their demagogic
speeches about what they are going
to do for the world war soldiers.
Many OF them have certainly realized
all the while that there Will be no
bonus passed I'm this Congress-: when
L say passed, / mean. made into law.
The present bonus bill Will probably
pass the Senate, for there nre enough
votes OIL record there to pass IL, hut
IL 1t passes the Senate II will not be
signed by the President, and II the
hackers Of the bill try to pass 1t over
the Presidents veto they will probably
succeed In the House and Will, In all
likelihood. fail In the Senate. Few
men Will sit In Congress- and vote to
pass bill over the veto OF the head OF
their party. and this requires n two.
thirds majority. or all the men who
have demagogued on this important
measure, probably the worst and most
ridiculous position is occupied by
Simeon d. Fess, of Ohio, who owes
most OF his fame to the fact that he
has gotten about all The members of
his family on the pay roll ut Washing.
ton. Next to golf. Fattening the
Fesses Is one of the most popular
sports in administration circles. Two
years ago Fess voted against the
bonus and spoke against It.; ho had
little Congressional district all
sewed up and II was pleasing to his
heavy campaign contributors for him
to vote that way, but now he Is drop.
ping that succulent bone. like the dog
that crossed the brook, to grab at a
shadow. In Tess case, the shadow
represents the scat so ably filled by
Senator Pomereno. Now, Tess has
switched about and is for the bonus.
1t is curious coincidence that Tess
Is In the confidence of the White
House. and others enjoying the same
relation tell their friends that Harding
will veto the bonus bill II 1t comes to
him. So, perhaps the canny Tess Is
playing safe after all--votIng for the
bill to please the soldiers and their
friends all the while keeping his
fingers crossed, knowing that his vote
Will help the boys not in the least
In contrast, the attitude OF Finfs
Garrett was strikingly honest; he op.
posed the bill because he believed 1t a
poor bill for the boys and a piece of
insincere demagoguery which was
never intended to become law. Tess
now is for the bill, but two years ago
he thought very much az Garrett did,
for he gave an interview to the New
York Herald in which he said: There
is little merit in the bill" The thing
the Republicans then most feared was
Kitchin's statement that II the ma
jority would allow the bill to be amend.
cd he would submit amendments to
raise all the money needed for the
bonus by tax on profiteers-the fel.
lows who are causing the consumer to
pay Sill for the commodities which
could be bought for n dollar in 1914.