The Cordova daily times., 1922-02-25
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1922
ONE "BLoc" IS AS BAD AS ANOTHER

A great deal of buncombe has been printed on the subject of the so-called "farmcr bloc " The power of this so-called "bloc' has been exaggerated, its purposes misrepresented, and an effort has been made to stir up sectional and class prejudice on the basis of lrrespons- ible newspaper talk about the "domination of Congress by an agrarian group. The last manifestation of hysteria along this line IS a pronmciamento given out by New York firm of stock brokers warning the country @axainst the control of legislation by the farm ing interests. This statement continues: Ut is inconceivabe that the great business and banking interests will endure for long the med dlesome experimental discrl1nnations of pol tics dominated by the Middle West.'
 The National Republican stands firmly against ''blocs' in legislation, whether these be 'blocs'' of the kind that forced through Congress the Adamson law and government ownership of railways in the alleged interest of labor, farmer 'blocs' that represent only the welfare of single class, or ''blocs' ot the sort that inveigh as this ''bloc' d1atrbe from the eastern seaboard does against other sections of the country and against all leS1sla- tion not intended primarily to benefit the ln- terests of that part of the country m which population and wealth is most concentrated. The ''bloc'' composed of those interested in importing interests rather than in American productive industry, and which is therefore opposed to protective traiff on an American valuation basis, is not only just as objection able to people nationally y-minded as a farmer or labor ''bloc,' but it carries this additional odum of standing for the promotion of for eign rather than home interests.
 The ''bloc' business in Congress is not a new thing It has flourshed without being generally identified for a long time. Eastern interests and political leaders have been as guilty as Western, while the sectionalism of Southern politicians is chronic. Any agitation which seeks to array East against West, or West against East is unpatriotic. Nothing can come of it but harm to the whole country
 While we are being asked by many people, especially by many who deprecate the alleged sectionalism of the middle and western DOT tions of the country to think of our duties and responsibilities across the Atlantic, might it not be good time to be thinking of our du- ties and responsibilities to our own people here at homee- If deep depression exists among the farmers and manufacturers of the United States,-and it does,-why not give
  ing them out' It is easier in some quarters to get up enthusiasm about reviving European industry and restoring European credit than in behalf of the revival of American industry and the protection of American credit.
 Granted that sectional and class groups in Congress are undesirable, and, if they seek to profit at the sacrifice of the general wei fare, they are unpatroitic, equally unpatri- otic is the attitude of the American who is unwilling to give as much consideration to American needs as to those who are willing to sacrifice the welfare of their own country in order to protect European investments and promote European importations. One such ''bloc" is as bad as another, to stir up section al, class or occupational hatred in America, no matter what his location. is an enemy of the republic--National Republican.
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