The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-11-03
WAR rs
MUS / Be
REWARDED
United States Senator
Speaks On Bonus
at Gary

Discussing the soldiers. bonn.
the League of Nations ana -
tariff: praising WIN R. Woo5 -.
ms great service to the TENN dfs
trlct' and laudlng Albert I Rava~
.use as statesman and favor3te
son OF Indiana, United Stafes 60
ator James r. Watson delivered ar
inspiring Republican speech las
night at Gary.
The largest crowd Of the cam
paign, with the possible execution
OF the audience to which BeverIdea
spoke week before. greeted Wat
son at Umpleby's hail
4he senator was hoarse from his
many speeches and # was physical
~ impossible for him to attend
more than one meeting last even
ing He was kept in Gary ana an
otner speaker substituted for tho
meeting al Hammond.
When Senator Watson began his
speech he spoke with dirlcultv
Later his voice grew stronger ana
ne finished the speech with ali fbn
customery oratoricaI effects that
nave endeared him to his eonstit,-
ents.
Regarding the bonus. senate
watson said that while ii was no-
party promise. and lie was not
p-edged upon it. he had elected Is
Oe Tor H. even as against the presf-
dents veto, and that when Rever-
| ldge takes mis- seat IN the senate
he will add weight to the agbt for
the measure watson declared ~.
believed that In some form tbe
bonus would be rassed.
He said that Beveridge favored
the bonus.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
The senator then launched into
a discourse upon the League Of. Ma
tions.
7 voted against the ratihoaric
Of the treaty Of Versailles because
did not believe the League of
Nations would do what ii said ii
would" declared watson. Three
men - Clemenceau. Lloyd George
and Wilson - behind locked doors.
put nations together that did not
belong together. pulled nations
apart that belong together. We
kept out OF the League of Nations
and as long as there is a Republi
can president and Republic,
| congress we viii continue to keen
out of It. The League of Nations
has not brought psace to Europe.
Never has there been more horrible
tales Of bloo1shed than now. IIora
! George said last week that a mil
lion and a half people have been
cruelty murdered in southeaste-n
Europe.
Woodrow Wilson told them wo
would take a mandate over Armenia
and Turkey. How would YOU lilze
to guard Turkey tonight9 If we
had taken that mandate. boys from
Lake county would be there tonight
We viii send our money to Eur
ope TO feed starving people but NOT
to fight the battles of other nations
We sent $20,O00.00o to starving
Russia and the American people ara
ready at all times TO relieve suffer
ing. But never again. unless our
own flag and our own Institutions
are in danger. will one American
boy go over there to fight
The United States is the only
national COW that IS giving any
milk and they all want to get their
pals under it,"
ANSWERS RALsToN
Senator Watson answered tho
charge Of Samuel Ralston that the
Republican administration was
shifting the taxes from the rich
TO the poor.
I'VE have not shifted taxation.
we have reduced Il one and a halt
billion dollars he said We took
off the nuisance taxes. such as the
tax on bottle OF pop. an ice cream
soda, sporting goods. clothing. and
transportation. We reduced the sur
tax from 65 per cent to so per cent
in order to get the wealth OF tho
country to invest in industry. We
haven't added a penny Of taxes 10
any man. We have reduced them.
We made nobodys burden greater.
We made evcrybody's burden light
err"
Senator Watson began his talk On
the tariff BY showing that whereas
prosperity existed in 1918. Tho Z
country was plunged into industrial
depression Just before the European
war when the Democratic free trade
policy became effective
Again. af-er the war prosperity
passed, lack of a Republican protec-
tive tariff plunged the nation into
idleness.
al. that havoc was VIZ ,ucht by
removal of the Republican protec-
tive tariff" said Watson. THE war
acted as embargo and a tariff and
when it was over and we came into
normal times the lack Of protection
for American labor and Industry
closed our industries Bismarck
said nearly fifty years ago that 10
was his judgment that the wonder
ful progress Of the American nation
was due to the protective tarih.
THE FoRDNEY TARIFF
I'm passing the Fordney tariff bill
the Democratic senators voted for
high tariff for products Of their
own states. I happened to be on
the tariff committee Of the senate
and at the outset I said tnat there
would be no protection on products
of Democratic states unless the
senators came and asked for it.
Every blessed one Of them came and
asked. for ii and OF course they got
IL. They had TO have it. American
labor cannot compete with the pau
per labor OF Europe without the
protection OF a Republican taria
Senator Watson exhibited various
articles made IA Europe bg skilled
labor receiving from 60 to 50 cents
a day. where as the labor on these