Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-05-03

court OIL JUSTICE seL UP ~ l4e
League.
Since the President cannot lead
his party, and since that party is
hopelessly divided on this question.
the people must necessarily look
elsewhere for, a solution.
AS in foreign affairs, 81 in domes-
tic, with this safety first" admins
tration.
1t seems to me l have heard some
where the phrase, Let us have done
| with this wiggle and wabble."
This seems to be the philosophy of
the administration: Don't do any
thing, and you won't get anything
done; If you ion't get anything done,
you won't offend anyone; if you don't
offend anyone, you won't have enc
mics; il you have no enemies, you
cannot lose an election"
Mr.. Daugherty says Mr.. Harding
is a candidate for reelection. Mr..
Harding is going upon the stump to
tell his views.
Instead of talking to the country,
why doesn't he talk emphatically to
congress?
If congress won't listen, then we
need another kind of congress-
Democratic one.
If, on the other hand, congress is
| right, and the President wrong, per-
! haps we need another kind of presi-
dent-a Democratic one.
MI. Harding seems to have been
unwilling to talk emphatically to
congress, or to the country about
congress-. If he had been willing to
! put the public good above party har-
mony, he would have been talking to
the country for the last two years.
People seriously doubt whether. at
any time, Mr.. Harding will be willing
to forego party harmony in exchange
for real governmental progress.
Mr.. Daugherty is declaring what
will be in the new platform, and Mr..
Harding is to tell the people.
With both branches of the govern
ment in Republican hands, hasn't 1t
occurred to the administration that
1t might not be a bad idea to carry
out the platform pledges they have
already made, and keep their prom
ises to the American people?
Why tell us what they are going to
do two years hence? Why not do it
now?
If, in the present circumstances,
they cannot or will not carry out
| tliCAl PLOlllAoCSB' Not aoool oANc hof
we that new ones will be kept?
In the platform it was stated that
taxes were staggering, and that they
must be reduced.
This pledge has been kept, they
have been reduced-on all incomes
over $780, Those of you who have
incomes over $780, 600 are no doubt
very grateful.
l am sure that the millions who
voted for Mr.. Harding, relying upon
his promise to reduce taxes, are
greatly relieved-just as greatly re-
lieyed of their money as before.
Thus has the burden of taxation
been lifted from the backs of the
masses. All they need now for per-
feet comfort is to be told how they
can secure an income of $4,000.
Another promise was to provide a
simple form of income tax. We have
all gone through the, process. 1 have
no doubt you have noticed how sim
pie the form was, and how simple
you felt when making it out.
Another promise was this:
Two undertake to end executive
autocracy." 1t is ended. Most people
would like to see it restored. How
the people + longing for an auto
cratic executive who will demand OF
a reluctant and impotent congress
emphatic and helpful legislation or
our pressing foreign and domestic
questions.
Another gem in the platform
reads:
I'VE amended the rules Of the
senate and house, which will reform
evils in procedure, and guarantee
more efficient and responsible gov
eminent"
Notwithstanding this great reform,
the senate still busters and filibus-
ters. The Gave of the Winds" is still
belching forth its gusts of words.
The Congressional Record still holds
the record for v~erbosity. There is still
talk, talk everywhere, but not a
sign of progress
Another gem is this:
I'VE endorse the sound legislation
recently enacted by the Republican
congress, that will insure the promo
ton and maintenance of the Ameri-
can Merchant Marine"
And now, two years later. sailing
on congressional seas, we observe the
Igood ship Subsidy" sunk without q
trace-scuttled by its friends.
The platform also said:
1.-THE farmer is the backbone OF
the nation" And it promised the APP
pointment of dirt farmers. Most o.
the appointees wouldn't know a farm
If they saw it, much less the color OF
the dirt.
And for what has been done fol-
the farmers in these two years, anc
for agriculture generally, the CRATE
full farmers are organizing farm
blocs. This provides a practica'
method of expressing their gratitude
Mr.. Harding doesn't like these
blocs; he says they create ENVY anc
jealousy" Thus is a benevolent ad'
ministration treated by unapprecia-
tive farmers.
But the administration has pro
vided farm loan banks of all kinds
Instead of providing ways and means
for making farming profitable, by
furnishing a world market, ant
otherwise stimulating an adequate
return, the administration gives The
farmer an easier method of going in
to debt. and staying there. The slo-
gans ire: mot proits--debts. If you
can't get money by selling farm pro
ducts, mortgage your farm" or THE
way to be prosperous is to borrow
The platform speaks of strikes
as follows:
1.-THE strike or the lockout, as a
means of settling industrial disputes
inficts such loss and suffering on the
community as to justify government
initiative to reduce its frequency and
limit its consequence"
The efficiency of the administra-
ton in carrying out its pledges has
it's best demonstration here, wher
we have in mind the coal strike, the
shipments strike, and the hundred:
of others that have occurred during