Evening star., 1923-05-23
Politics at Large
BY N. O. MESSENGER


tee' through their respective pub
licity bureaus. are issuing some
heated political statements these
days and making ilurid charges of a
partisan nature. The democrats are
saying that the republicans are a.
bad lot and the republicans retort
that the democrats are the worst
ever. Looks as If the country is in
Tor rough time, whichever way the
cat hops in 1924.
Chairman Hull of the democratic
natlonai committee charges that the
IIspuplcan managers have slighted
me woman voters by not taking
nepupifcan national. leaders," Chair
man HUH alleges, after a full trial
OF nearly three years, have demon
strated the fact that republican wom-
eh are not welcome on the national
committee, however welcome they
may be on election day, and that If
any welcome should later be given
| them II Will be done most grudgingly
ana solely through circumstances Of
politlcal expediency.
=, Not only, says Chairman Hull,
has the republican party Ignored
the economic rights of women, but
thelr political rights as well, until
we pehoid the humiliating spectacle
OF republican women on their bended
knees imploring republican leaders
of the republican national COMMITTEES
10 at least treat republican women as
human beings and fu1l-fedged Amer
lcan citizens. and pleading as the
Ser9ngest nn,., reason in support of their
posltion that the democratic party
bestowed full and equal rights on the
women or America by giving them
equai representation on the demo-
cratic national committee In 1920 and
since that time"
The republican national committee
Is lambesting the democrats on the
question of taxation. A broadside
| rom the republican national manage
ment says: The democratic national
committee announces that demo-
cratic leaders are perfecting plans
Tor heavy reduction of federal
taxes In event that they get control
OF congress. Democratic reduction
or taxes is a thing always talked
son administration began to increase
taxes as soon as 1t came into power
Durlng Its first year, in times of ab-
solute world peace, it jumped public
| taxes over 100000. 600. as compared
with the last year under President
! Taft.
The announcement that demo-
cratic leaders are perfecting plans
/ Tor new tax laws should cause gen.
ulne uneaslness among business in
| tereStS or the United States particu-
Iarly those of the northern states
ihe business. financial and Industrial
| interests OF the north have not for
! gotten that when the last demo-
| cratic federal tax law was beng
framed the democratic Chairman
which had it in charge boasted in ad :
vance 1t would be SO devised that
the north would be compelled to pay
the bin. This prediction came true.
II democratic leaders showed as
public expenses while they are in
: power as they do in issuing state
! ments about reducing taxes while
| they are out of power. they would
command greater confidence among
the taXpaying public"
| The democratic national committee
continues without let up to remorse-
lessly hammer the republicans on the
| tariff law and its alleged effects on
the consuming public. The annual
whole cost Of the government" the
! democratic national committee as
serts. lis about $4,000, 100000. That
Is Just about the amount the Fordney-
McCumber tariff takes from the peo-
pie. Any feasible reduction in income
| taxes could save a comparatively
small number of people hardly more
than S20O 100000 ayyear. A reasor-
able decrease in tariff taxes would
save all the people at least 81 1000. .0o0-
| goo year. But the interests which
enjoy the protection given them by
the Fordney- -McCumber act and which
are the chief republican campaign
tcontributors will oppose any curtail-
! ment of their profits for the benefit
4 of the public.
| 'Save as means of defeating
President Harding's proposal for
| American adhesion to the Interna-
tional Court alleges the democratic
! national committee. Transportation
and taxes are of little concern to
the irreconcilable republicans They
would be willing enough to permit
| freights and taxes to remain as high
as they are now If they could cir
| cumvent the President by playing the
game another way. They are merely
| trying TO use these domestic issues
| to. block the road to this country's =
! participation in international affairs,
| american farmers are fixing their
minds and their hopes on a profitable
foreign market for their surplus
products as the only solution of the
| economic difficulties which have
| plunged thousands of them into in.
| solvency and bankruptcy. Two at
| tempts to cure the farmers ills by
enacting tariffs on agricultural prod
ucts nave failed and the farmer is
going to apply a new remedy-the
| stabilization Of Europe through
American cooperation
| The republican national committee.
in its arguments, insists that the eco
nomic condition of the farmer has
nothing to do with the question of
American participation in European n
| affairs. So there you are The vot r
will have to work it out for himself.
| X X
| The Institute of American Business.
with headquarters at so Madison ave-
nue.. New~York has recently taken a
poll of the attitude Of republican and
democratic newspapers toward the
| Permanent Court of Justice, the
league of nations and the extent to
| which the United States should par
| ticipate in European affairs. In
! quiries were addressed to 1000 news
! papers outside the metropolitan CEN
| ters--republican, democratic and in .
aependent papers having representa-
tfon IN proportion to the total num-
Der included in each classification.
Replies were received from 735 nuh-
LEGATIONS: daily and weekly.
according to a statement sent out
by the institute, 1.-The editors Of The
| to policy of isolation. Republican n
editors indorse President Hardine's 3
proposal that the United States ioIn
the world court under conditions that
VIII entail no entangling alliances.
| Democratic editors not only indorse
/ the world court as a second choice,
but still remain faithful TO the Will
! son league of nations"
The editors of independent dailies
were consistently opposed to isola-
., tion. the statement said. Replies
were received from 1875, 90 standing
/ for the Wilson league. as against AZ
| OpDOSed The showing no far oe ~