Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-06-26

! favored few and dampened the
hopes of the struggling many.
The doctrine of equal rights to
none and special favors to some
was never more firmly embedded
than i'm the Fordney-lA Cumber
tariff law.
AS indefensible as are these two
offsprinSs of governmental torma-
! ton, they are not comparable to the
administration shipsubsidy pro-
posal. Projected in the winter Of
! 1922, following the chilling frosts Of
| that November election it planned
with the aid of an army of lame
| ducks, repudiated at home and fon
died at Washington, to make a
quick getaway" They sought to
! lay upon the American taxpayer an
| additional burden of $3.50, 900 900 to
subsidize the shipping trust. Your
Democratic representatives III con-
gress, aided by the patriotic progress
sives, withstood their mad on
| slaughts-for three months held
them at bay, and through q highly
organized filibuster prevented the
! passage of the measure.
In all the speeches delivered in
| the Cleveland convention, or in the
| platform there adopted, not a word
was written nor a whisper uttered
| of the administration ship-subsidy
| proposal. If that proposal had be-
| come a law, the immediate appro-
| prlatlonS to carry it into effect
| would have denied any reduction of
taxes this year, or in the immediate
| years to come. The Harding Cool
| idge administration was willing to
give millions to the shipping trust,
| but not one cent to the American
| soldier.
The platform of the Republican
! party and the speech of the tempo
rary chairman of the Republican con-
| Ventlon proclaims the budget law
as a Republican accomplishment
the disarmament conference, the re-
| ductlOn of the number of govern
mental employees, the decreases in
| the amount of annual appropria-
tons and the national debt as, Re
| publican achievements. IT is re-
grettable that we can not accord it
this wild acclaim.
Budget Plan Democratic Idea
The budget law was urged at the
instance of a Democratic president
and received the vote of every Dem
ocrat1c representative. 1t was We
toed by the Democratic president
only because an unconstitutional
provision was included. 1t was then
passed by a Republican congress
and signed by a Republican presi-
dent in the proper and constitu-
tlonal language suggested by the
Democratic president in his veto
message.
The disarmament conference was
heId not because of a Republican ad-
ministration but in spite of the Re
publican administration. 1t was first
suggested by a Democrat, and urged
by Democrats. The fight was re.
newed by Borah, Republican, YES,
but one who wisely declined to be-
come associated with the bankrlInt
ttepuollcan partnership in the COM
ing campaign; one whose opposition
20 the feacuonarE control of his par.
ty mas ever been constant and ae
sIeSSlVe. Under his leadership, and
oter the most unrelenting opposition
Vi Ihe administration, the sentiment
was crystallized the law enforced
@iIu Ihe dlsarment conference called
IL is true that during the more
Chdn three years this administration
mas controlled the government the
NUMBER OF civil employees in the gov.
erfmeht service and the annual an.
D -, nave been reduced.
lhoSe reductions came. however nor
because OF any Republican reforms.
lhey were the natural reductions
mat How from readiustment of alb
normal conditions occasioned bv tho
war II we did not have bigger
lhlnSs to discuss, greater achieve
ihehts to proclaim, and higher DIR
poses 10 announce, we might claim
that IN is months of Democratic adj
mlhlstration, Immediately following,
Ihe war, not only did we reduce an
preparations in larger amounts than
ever dld the Republican party but we
reduced the national debt bv more
IMAM Two and One-half billions of dol
idtS ana the number Of civil ON.
ployes by 100000
9nld all this deceptive cry Of econ.
omy let it be remembered that this
republican party, during it's less than
| Jour years of control. has expended
S9,o92 900, 600 more than did the Dem.
ocratlc administration during nhe
| WhOle i've years immediately nreced.
| ing the war
Corruption Is Inexcusable
Inc American people have taken
the measure of this administra tion
1t may have been able to free itself
from sectional idolatry and to have
! looked beyond the sky lines of New
/ England 1t might have heard the
! Sroans Of the distressed farmers of
the west and sympatheticaIly re.
! sponded. 1t might have sought mar
ketS and removed the tariff Jams in
! the channels through which our sur
plus products move. 1t might have
ViSualized world conditions and
/ courag cously assumed the part be.
! fitting great nation. 1t might have
! reduced living costs, redeemed
! pledges to the soldier. followed a def
mite domestic program, and adopted
a broad and statesmanlike foreign
/ policy, but even then. it would have
aVailed it nothing with its carnival
of corruption. The least that the
American people expect of their pub
/ Tic servants is common honesty. They
/ VIII forgive their passivity. overlook
| their indiscretions. and. too often
toISet their impotency. but to them
/ corruption is IneXcusable graft is in
/ detenSihle.
/ Plzarro and his adventurous band
as they set their faces toward the
golden west, were not more inspired
IN quest of treasure than this admin
lstratlon. They were looking for
gold, heaps of gold, shimmerinr
Sieamlng gold, They did not wait
10 touch the nerves of mother earth
nor drag the currents flow in their
mad enthusiasm; in greedy haste thew
sraSped the sparkling 0and. then east
II down with curses when they found
the Sllttering grains were not of
soId' F"om cabinet head to Repub.
mean representatives in congress
. IKE plague, the disease spread. II