The Brunswick news., 1922-12-12
THE PRESIDENTS MIND

/ idppedfS 70 De one OF MS aDleSt state
Ipapers. He is not a vigorous writer
like Roosevelt, nor highly inteliec-
tuai and brilliant one like Wilson, but
speaker, a writer and a stat tsman
Of the Mckinley type. He is aApoli-
tician and morgsthan politician. hile
he keeps his ears fairly close ID the
ground, he is a politician of untk kuaI
courage, at times putting him in he
Statesman class. He is genuinei1 A-
terested in the farmer, as weill 8
politically interested in his. He sees
that something must be done to save
the agricultural interests Of the coun-
try as well as the political interests
of the Rep%lican Party. His mes
sage therefoN is a direct appeal to
Congress to io something substantial
for the farmer, and an Indirect ap-
peal to the farmer not to look for
friends outside of the Republican
Party, says the Macon Telegraph.
The President, in common with all
keen observers, sees that the farmer
is especially hard hit. His foreign
market has been largely cut off, and
our tariff and other legislation have
enabled the manufacturing and trad
ing classes to profit at the expense
of the farmer! In other words, the
price of what the farmer has to buy
has been kept up by artificial means,
and the PRICE of what the farmer has
to sell has been kept down by official
Americas failure to do something
substantial in the way of opening up
foreign markets. The truth is that
the world win have to get on a peace
basis before it can be good buyer
of our agricultural products; and be-
fore it can get on a peace basis,
America must cooperate actively to
remove the causes of war and the
fears of war.
| AS much as President Harding is
welded to the tariff. the tariff itself
is q double barrier to agricultural
prosperity. 1t enables the American
manufacturer to sell high to the
American farmer and It prevents the
recovery and purchasing power of
foreign consumers of American agri-
cultural products. If we had the tar
iff walls knocked down and the fears
and preparations ercA wars removed,
the American farmer would find a
good market for what he has to sell,
and the things that he has to buy
would be much cheaper. All efforts
to boost one Industry at the expense
of others, and all efforts to divide up
the world into rival antagonistic
groups, will have to give place to a
sense Of the common interest and CO.
operation OF mankind. Civilization has
become such complex machine that
all of its parts have to functioR to.
gether in order to function welF and
in order to prevent gravest danger
even to the healthiest parts. When
one member suffers, all the members
sooner or later suffer with it.
AS to foreign affairs, the President
moves in the right direction, but
moves too timidly and too slowly,
Unfortunately, in order to be elected
President, he tied his hands against
the greatest service as President. The
Association of Nations that he prom
ised as substitute for the League
of Nations does not meterialize. In
fact, the PRESIDE has never thought
out any concrete plan of world assoc
iation and cooperation. In the
Washington Conference, he and his
associates rendered great service in
bringing about a better understand
ing between the United States and
Japan. but as splendid as this was
and is, the great need is basis for
understanding and cooperation
among all the nations. This seems
too big for the President. But until
this is reached, all of our group un-
tlerstandings threaten us with counter
group understandings.