The New York herald., 1922-08-02
TO GET HIGHER SILK BILL

and given a square deal can under
stand why the Democratic party which
never has given agriculture in this
country a square deal I'm it's tariff bills.
the party that has always considered
farm products raw material and put
them on the free list, accepts THE New
YORK HERALD's editorials with a great
deal OF satisfaction.
Il am simply going to say. as / said
the other day. that I am going to de-
mand an investigation. 1t will be an
investigation OF all these charges and
there Will not be anybody left out.
will pay my respects to THE NEW YoRK
HERALD when the resolution IS intro
duced. I viii pay my respects to every
body. We will And out whether, on a
tariff bill like this. an exception is to
be made for man who raises sheep
Senator Harrison (Miss.) in asking
questions brought out the fact that
Senator Gooding will in all probability
have his resolution ready by tomorrow.
Senator Harrison assured Mr.. Gooding
that when the resolution is introduced
IL will have the support of all the Demo-
Gratis. He said also that he hoped that
Mr.. Goodlng would be able to prevent
any Republican objection to the reso-
lution.
Senator's Easy Conscience.
''If l have done anything wrong in
voting for the wool rates" Senator
Gooding declared. there will be va
cancy IN the Senate. for ] will resign.
But let me tell you that II is possible
for me tc sleep now with ease. I have
done nothing wrong
THE New YORK HERALD came into the
dabafa aa rliar In the dav xx,hap sa,,at toY-
Mclean tConn.) read an editorial which
appeared the day after the minority re-
port on the tariff bill became public.
Senator Mclean was attempting to
show that THE New YoRK HERALD had
changed front on the bill. Senator Sim
mons answered him.
Il presume that THE NEW York
HERALD had not had time to digest that
report" said Mr.. Simmons. Certainly
THE NEW YORK HERALD had not at that
time come to understand what this
tariff bill meant. As soon as this great
Republican paper. which criticized the
report the next morning, before 1t had
probably had time for moro than Just a
scanning of the report; as soon as that
great Republican paper--Republican I
believe. through all Its history, probably
the leading Republican organ of the
United States, certainly one OF the
greatest, II not the greatest Republican
paper published in this whole country
as soon as 1t came to understand what
this bill meant, what the criticisms
meant, the facts that underlay these
criticisms in the report, THE NEW York
HERALD opened its news columns and
from day to day, in editorials that
Numbered around this land began to de-
nounce in the bitterest and most un-
qualified and scathing terms. this bill
from beginning to end
AS soon as the iniquities of the
thing began to dawn on it's editors as
soon as they had had opportunity to
study and see the justification of the
criticisms in the report. they sent a
newspaper correspondent who was an
expert tariff man and directed him to
come to see me as well as other Sena-
tors with a view to exposing what that
paper and its editors had discovered to
be an outrage against the American peo-
pie.
Change of Front Explained.
Il have repeatedly said here that
probably a majority of the great out
standing Republican papers of the
United States to-day, when they have
come to understand this bill as the peo-
pie of this country have come to under
stand it. have changed from advocacy
of il as a Republican tariff bill to
scgthing denunciation of II as a prof.
teering, a plunderbund. a robber tariff
that could not be JUSTIFIED on any prin-
ciple of party or OF morals or of ethics.
I thank the Senator for calling the at
tention OF the country to the fact that
this great organ of HIS party sought to
support this measure as long as
conscience would permit II to do so, and
as soon as its eyes were opened II took
the other turn"
The third Independent mention OF THE
NEW YORK HERALD was when Senator
Smoot (Utah) attempted TO discredit the
attacks on the bill bv market page
article which he read into the Congress
siondt Record This said that the price
of wooden cloth was lower.
The completion Of the silk schedule