Evening star., 1923-01-12
c. 0.P. COMMITTEE
NDEF|ANT MOOD
Replies to Criticism Made of
Administration by Hos
tile Democracy.

The republican national committee.
with headquarters in this city. is
starting in with the new year in
militant and aggressive spirit and is
hurting back the javelins of criticism
and allegation cast by the hostile de-
nocracy in Congress at the repub-
lican party and the administration.
It denies that the republican party
has ceased to be the patron Of pros
perity and insists that every day in
every way business is getting better
and better.
In statement sent out by the COM
+. nittee 1t is claimed that the year
1928 is ushered in under very opti-
misttc circumstances. In this con-
nection II Is impossible to refrain
from calling attention to the direful
and doleful statements made by the
democratic opponents Of the admins
tration during the last campaign, to
the effect that the republican party
had failed to bring about good times;
prosperity. that this administration
and this Congress had done nothing
TO assist labor industry, business,
nnance and agriculture toward a re-
turn to normal, prosperous times.
Called "Small, Partisan Charxes,o
The universal reports of all lines
OF business and industry, as set forth
IN the columns of the press of the
country and in the trade journals at
the close Of the year, completely re-
fute the small partisan charges made
against the administration during the
recent campaign. No one can soberly
: contemplate the condition of all kinds
or business today, in comparison with
what 1t was when the republican ad-
Inlnlstration came into power. and not
Know In his own mind. that there has
better"
The statement goes on to cite facts
ana figures to support this contention.
which Is likely to inspire in Cordell
Hull, chairman of the democratic ma
tlonal committee lively incredulity
and fncite him to take pen in hand
and come back with a vigorous re-
buttal.
Savings Increased.
Deposits in national banks and
savings banks increased during the
year and postal savings increased.
notwithstanding great strikes in
three basic Notwithstanding, trans
portation and textiles-unemploym
practically disappeared during 1922.
II was not an exaggeration to assert
that no man honestly in search of
work at a living wage but can obtain
the same today. According to the
reports OF the census bureau, the av-
erage wage for common labor is SO
cents higher today than it was in
1916"
The statement goes on to give de-
tails In various lines OF trade and
manufacture, all optimistic. Then
comes the sad note; all is not well
with agriculture Although the
farmer raised a tremendous crop in
1922" says the statement, land re-
ceived on an average II per cent
more for his products than he did in
1881, agriculture as a whole did not
keep pace with the Improvement in
other lines of business.
This is because the purchasing
power OF the money he received was
not as great as the purchasing power
OF the income of other industries. To
Offset this, however. the farmer is
able to maintain practically unlimited
credits to carry him over. and there
is not the least doubt that there will
be additional legtslauon,sboth in the
halls of Congress and in various leg
islatures, looking to the easement of
conditions in agricultural sections"