The Washington times., 1923-12-06
PROGRESSIvES
CAUST|C ON
MESSAGE
Words of President Cited by
Wheeler As Surrender to
Wall Street.
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WAL 0ItSCGS
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fore, 1 regard the proposed protocol
for the league court exactly as I
regarded the treaty. OF Versailles
and the covenant of the league in
this message"
Senator Royal T. Copeland, Demo
crat, New York: 1.-THE Presidents
message is greatly disappointing. l
can imagine what the farmers will
be saying about his statement that
those farmers who raise their Hv-
ing on the land are not greatly In
Distress These encouraging words
won't go far with a farmer who
can't make clothing or shoes or
school books or farm machinery
out of oats and apples and other
things for which he has no sale.
I'm a world needing food as our
world does, it is cruel to say the
acreage Of any human necessity is
too large and that we must stop
raising for export If America did
her part to rehabilitate the world
and to reopen trade and commerce
there would be money to pay for
the products of the American farms
and justification for larger acreage
instead of smaller.
zone has but to read Mr.. Melons
recommendations regarding surtaxes
to realize that his inclusion of a
hundred million dollars loss of reve-
nue. from surfaces il made a part
of the $323, 900 900 reduction he pro-
Mn11nSN a6roafkc
that no such falling off in revenues
actually will occur. I hope the
President has not been misled by
of persons who have writ
ten him, and on this account taken
a stand in his message against the
bonus on the theory that both tax
reduction and the bonus cannot be
carried into effect, because Mr..
Melons own statement shows they
can be.
''It is natural, ! suppose, for a
President to feel that
the tariff law does not demand a
as he says in his mes
sage, but any one who has tray
eled about this country will take
an opposite view"
Senator Lynn j. Frazier, indie.
pendent Republican, North Dakota:
"The Presidents message is Of the
kind / expected him to deliver.
The part Of it in which I am par
ticularly interested is the section
dealing with agriculture, in which
he admits there is actual distress
among the farmers, and that in the
exchange of their products for
their wants the ratio is very much
against the farmers.
HE refers to the farmer as a
public necessity whether contemp-
tuously or not I do not know. That
is the same attitude taken by bank
ers, politicians and spectators in
farm products.
1.-THE President says EVERY sound
remedy that can be devised should
be applied for the relief of the
farmers but proceeds no further ex-
cept to point out the need of dis
posing OF the surplus wheat held
by grain gamblers and corporations
and suggests authority be given the
War Finance Corporation to grant
the most liberal terms Of pay
ment.'"
Senator Burton X. Wheeler, pro-
gressive Democrat, Montana: 'All
In all, I consider the message a
complete surrender to Wall street
and the big interests. The Republi-
can National Committee should have
no trouble In raising ten to twenty
million dollars for their 1924 cam
paign.
II regret exceedingly that this
message carries with it no hope to
the people Of the West, nor to the
common masses anywhere in the
country.
with reference to the farmers,
he says he is against price fixing,
but offers no plan to relieve them,
but points with pride to what the
Republican tariff has done to them.
He has a peculiar idea OF things,
for he points with pride to thing
that has meant ruination and suf-
fering to the people Of the West,
where the suffering, in many
instances, is as sharp and general
as that Of Central Europe"
Senator Henrik Shipstead,
far1ner-IabOr, Minnesota: 1.-THE pres
ident's message Is no disappoint-
ment, for 1 expected little.
II am interested in agriculture.
The wheat is out of the farmers
hands. The spectators have it, and
Ne has suggested a grain-gamblers
relief bill to be enacted by Congress
to pay these gamblers a profit on
their gambling. His fine talk about
doing a thing for the direct benefit
of the farm will not fool the farmers
Of the West. It might have sounded
better several months ago, before
the wheat was forced out OF the
farmers hands at less than cost to
produce.
81 am interested in what he says
about the coal situation. He has
proposed, in effect, that a lot of
hold-up men be allowed to reform
their methods as to future hold-ups.
II point to his contrasting views
between a desire for a fixed price for
transportation that will not be con
fiscatory and his proposition to do
nothing to keep the farmers property
from being confiscated; the one being
q common carrier, hauling foodstuffs
at a fixed profit; the other being the
food producers forced to operate at
a loss In order that the carriers NAV
have a fixed profit"
Senator c. C. Diu, Progressive
Democrat, Washington: "As chieftan
of his party and as President. Mr..
Coolidge has taken complete leader.
ship Of the Old Guard reactionary
forces of the country. Progressives
can find no hope in his MESA pe
There is the comforting fact, how.
ever, that they know now that he
is Enthusiastically against the Iegis.
lative remedies that they offer Tor
the country's ills. He is frank and
courageous in his support of the