The New York herald., 1922-07-08


With all the depth of his convic-
tion, the candor of his honesty and
the power Of his eloquence Senator
BoRAH warned the Senate control
on Thursday, as Senator LENRoor
warned it the day before. of how far.
and how dangerously far, the Nc
Cumbers and Watsons are getting
apart from the American people.
Senator BoRAH is a Republican, as
Senator LENRoor is a Republican.
Both have stayed with their party
in its sorest trials. Both wish to
support their party wherever they
can give it their support in con-
science and honor. But neither is SO
dull of vision as not to recognize what
the whole country is saying and
doing about the lengths to which the
Congress extremists are going, and
neither is so poor in frankness and
courage as not to tell the plain truth
to the legislative leaders who are by
way Of wrecking their party.
When the majority control in the
Senate sees before its very eyes how
its excesses can ALLEVIATE young, able,
brilliant, keenly observing party as
sociates like BoRAH and LEyRooT
from the machine legislative pro-
gram it is incomprehensible how the
McCumbers and Watsons can be
blind to the public dissatisfaction
which Senator BoRAH pictured to
them in his great address condemn
ing Congress extravaganza.
Senator BoRAH did not confine his
criticisms to the bonus alone. He
arraigned all Congress extravagances
and excesses. He said, and said
truly, that the Congress extremists
are passing measures that would load
down the people with other un-
supportable tax burdens. His Pc
riods on this phase of the subject
were of so high an eloquence and
OF such luminous reason that they
merit repeated quotation and delib-
Grafton, as, for example, the follow
ing:
THE most prolific source Of misery
and discomfort is unjus. and burden
some taxation.
"In a great economic crisis or In
times of adversely such as now con-
front us and the whole world, peoples
and nations, like individuals. must
recur to first principles and the SIM
pie. homely virtues, the only sure
basis of personal prestige or national
power. There were only two courses
open to the United States and to the
whole world at the close of the war.
One was that of extravaganza, waste,
taxes. debts; the other that of eco
nomics. frugalities. work and seIf-de-
NAL The latter was the only saliva
ton. The one led inevitably to
greater misery, to utter, to ultimate
ruin: the other to the regaining of
our prestige and our power.
Prosperity we have assumed. is
to come NIT through industry. not
through frugality. not through econ
omy. but through the open door OF
the public Treasury of the United
States. an impossible avenue over
which prosperity may travel.
"a proud. strong people may suf-
FER reverses at arms. but time lights
on their side for victory. An inde-
pendent and self-reliant nation may
undergo the misfortunes of war. but
their character and their purpose
win ultimate triumphs. But ma
tion whose citizenship has been
drugged and debauched by bonuses.
gratulties and subsidies has entered
upon a road over which no nation
yet has ever beaten a successful
retreat"
And the inexplicable puzzle of this
Congress mania to solve every eco
uOullC piobiCii bHdI dilotS III tnS
country and to settle every political
question that anybody brings up
this mania. to make all things easy
by bursting through the doors of the
national Treasury. is that the Sixty
seventh Congress began its existence
with exemplary work at economy
and retrenchment.
Under the urgings Of the President
and the guidance of Budget Director
: DAWES. with oil the departments OF
the businesslike Harding Administra.
tion chopping expenses to the bone, II
is fact that this Congress did get
the appropriations down by a billion
Of dollars. 1t is fact that 1t abolished
many Of the so-called nuisance taxes
and made some improvements IN
other taxes. although IL failed to cor