Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-07-12

or four first-class smelters at work
In all Colorado. Agriculture has be-
, come the foremost business, thanks to
sagacious irrigation policy and the
influx of . hardy farming stock f:om
list Is i'm the dumps, as he is every
where else. He blames the same
causes-high freight rates. low PRICES
for his produce and stfn costs Tor
everything he has to buy.
Sugar beet IS one of Colorado's chief
agricultural products. II not the big
gest. Even though the new republi-
can tariff gives sugar liberal treat
ment, the raiser of beets laments that
the great refining companies arc in
to Messrs. Fordney and McCumber.
As for the farming housewife, who is
now putting UP her annual supply of
canned fruit and paying $40 and up
ward per hundredwelght for sugar
what she has to say about the tariff
is reproduclble only in explosives.
Even tungsten, a Colorado product.
is so poorly protected In the new tariff
that Chinese tungsten can undersell
1t.
Want Prosperity Back.
Such prospects as President Harding
has for winning Colorado a second
time are going to depend very largely
Joint again There is manifest dtsap-
pointment that hts administration has
not done So His landslide majority
in 1920 was rolled up in these parts,
as In others, on the confident belief
that campaign pledges would be
soon. On the question OF better times
there is a deep-seated conviction that
promises have not been kept.
The administrators feat In reor-
ganizing the government on econom-
teal lines merits wide commentator.
The western folk are impressed by
tho spectacle of a S300.000.000 surplus
for the past fiscal year and regard
system that entities the President to
great credit. The western people
like to think this showing means the
possibility of reduced taxation, de-
forecast that no relief in that dfrec-
tion may be expected for gener-
aticn.
Mr. Harding and his political adj
visers are aware that the election OF
a democratic governor, William +.
Sweet, last November was 'handwrit-
ing on the wall Of no undesirable
portent. Mr.. Sweet catered deliber-
ately to the disaffected labor element
and the discontented farming COM
munity Though he is banker OF
occupation. he has long been identi.
fed with rroletarian longings and
does not object to being labeled a
radical democrat.
Ran ON Local Issue.
1t proved easy for him to oyerturn
the huge republican majority OF two
years previous Sweet ran on sew
eral appealing local issues. like aboli-
ton of the rangers, the state police
force, abhorred of organized labor.
But what he capitalized the most sue
was as tme fn
town and country. He espoused with
Especial vigor the cooperative market
ing idea and as one of the earliest
acts of his administration secured
lature of cooperative marketing
law.
If it works out satisfactorily it is
bound to boom Gov. Sweets political
stock and materially advance his
ambitions to enter the United States
Senate from Colorado. The Sweet
marketing bill was drawn by Aaron
Sapire. the recognized foremost CO.
operative authority and the organizer
of the California citrus fruits CO.
operative selling system. Huston
Thompson Of the Federal Trade Com
mission, who was Woodrow Wilson's
candidate for the vacant Colorado
senatorship, is now in Europe study
ing cooperative associations. Gov
Sweet is going to have him tell Colo
speeches during the. coming autumn
and winter. The western farmer is
pinning his faith to the co-operatives
as the surest guarantee of economic
salvation now in sight.
Tied Up With Phipps.
1t is impossible to explore the after
math of President Harding's expedi-
ton into Colorado without being told
that his fate in 1924 Is intimately
wrapped up with the political for
tunes of Lawrence c. Phipps. United
States senator. Mr.. Phipps aspires to
reelection next year. He had charge
Of Mr.. Harding in Colorado Mr.
Phfpps has accumulated host of
enemies within the republican party
ard some say he will have trouble in
securing denomination.
Predictions are numerous that he
faces certain defeat for election If he
is victorious in the primaries, and
that he will drag the republican
presidential ticket down with him IL
his name is on the same ballot. Mr..
Phipps is accounted the richest man
in Congress. Now and then his name
Is unpleasantly bracketed with that
of Truman H. Newberry, as to the
manner in which his election was
achieved. While the President was in