Evening star., 1922-05-21
People Want Business Burdens Removed
Beveridge Interpretation of Today's Signs

suit Of clothes and the cheap, ready
to.wear in ratio; to make the we'll
to-do happer pay greater tax on costly
furs and lingerie than the working
mans housewife pays for simple
gowns and homespun. A sales tax is
open and above board. in plain sight
of the people, whereas the present
tumble Of adding taxes to costs Is
concealed, he contends.
Nor can anybody prosper until
railway rates come down." be added.
when q carload Of grain shipped to
Chicago from Iowa brings the shipper
little more than enough to pay the
freight; when q shipment Of cabbage
from Indiana to Baltimore costs more
than the price received for the cab
bage: when an Indiana manufactur-
ing concern cannot fill Los Angeles
order because the freight rates are SO
per cent greater than the selling price
of the article-I ask you, isn't it time
to do something?
III railway rates are to be brought
down. heavy salaries must be cut. ex-
travagance and waste in management
eliminated and inflated wages, brought
back to normal levels fxed by eco
nomic law. And yet within quite re-
cent years we have had tho spectacle
of statutes passed and government
regulations established which arbi-
trarily lift one industrial class out of
and above the economic force operat-
ing upon all other Industrial classes"
I-Yrr <h> ..n~osN. h~y> that. o.>>
- too. says Mr.. ,Beveridge. what with
an Interstate Commerce Commission
| telling the railroads what they may
charge and labor board. quite apart
from the I. c. c.. telling the railways
how they must spend. These two an
tagonistic forces. he believes. must be
sufficiently united to insure harmony
| of plan and action.
II this be treason. make the most
of it, says Mr.. Beveridge.
During his campaign a railway man
in overalls stepped up to him in the
union station at Indianapolis and said:
II understand you are against the
eigh ht-hour. day" To which. Mr.. BeV-
erfdge replied: II am against the
Adamson act. II that IL what you
mean. believe We will have to cut
both railway rates and wages to get
back to normal"
The railway man seemed satisfied.
II guess that Adamson act is all TOM
myrot. anyway" was his rejoinder as
he backed away, hat in hand.
There is no use mincing matters,
side-stepping. pussyfooting or what
-
to the writer. THE fundamental facts
are all there and the issues clearly
defined, more important than any
mere political expediences. We've got
to deal with them and solve these eco
nomic problems II we are to get any
where"
A 8 to the state of mind of the peo-
"A pie. he added: 81 think the people
are puzzled to the point of mystery
by the trend Of modern circumstances
They have been expecting many
things. but these things have not been
realized. You cannot attribute it to
unrest or discomfort. but to a yearn-
ing for the truth, and then definite
action in line with the truth and cal
culated to relieve the situation"
As to the solution, he anticipates
there will be resistance as OF yore
Neither capital nor labor ever gives
up q special and selfish advantage
without a hard struggle. even though
prosperity and common good require
the surrender of unjust. artificial and
uneconomic privileges" he says
There will have to be a yielding all
around, he believes, and the sooner
tho truth is realized and acts con-
summated in conformity Herewith,
then. and then only. will economic
relief be afforded.
The Beveridge nomination has been
regarded in many quarters as the
triumph Of personality over a po-
litical machine. Senator New re-
mained in Washington until almost
the closing days Of the canvass, as
suming the rank and file Of the voters
would stand by the organization"
But It's an old axiom that while the
cats away the mice will pla~." Mr.
Beveridge tells you. and the facts as
you confront them in Indiana are.
that he simply mingled with rhe peo-
pie and talked with them about their
everyday problems. They believed
him. he says. and took him op not for
himself alone. but the things for
which he stands.
That talk about personality, IL all
bunk" says Mr.. Beveridge. Tho reo-
pie do their own thinking, and don't
you forget that. Tho politicians do
forget 1t. The people todayAre more
concerned with their own needs and
are concerned only with personalities
who will interpret their needs and get
them what they require for honest,
normal. common sepse life"
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TN physical appearance Mr.. Bever-
idse is today more somber figure.
his hair a little more whitened than
the Beveridge who stalked the ,os-
trum in the tens and early teens Of
the twentieth century. But time has
dealt leniently with him. His shout.
ders are AZ square. his jaw as firm,
his figure as erect as he was a decade
ago. Two land three times day he
addressed the people while touring
every niche and Granny Of his native
state. He is physically fit, and now
that he has rested from his strenuous
primary campaign he 10 ready for the
fall campaign.
Il care not what they may do with
Albert Beveridge," he says. because
he is but one of the people in the
play, What is worth while IL not the
dastiny of one actor In the play, but