Evening star., 1924-06-25

WAS the appearance of these Wor-
thies purely accidental. sporadic in
pretended ON account of conditions
SO bitterly denounced by the revolt
ing Republicans in 1912, consider how
the leaders of the party to which
they belonged have treated them in
their deiinquencies and villainies.
from any high official quarter against
Forbes, the despoiler of the disabled
, veteran, or Fall, who bartered away
an all-important element of the ma
tional defense under circumstances
he dare not tell lest he confess crimi-
nality?
Republicans of Yore.
I'm its virile youth the men whose
names blaZen the pages of the his
tory of the Republican party did not
hesitate to declaim against the cor
ruption that was sapping its vitality.
The venality that stained the admin
istration of Gen. Grant. though it
by none more roundly or with great
er effect than by William Cullen Bry-
ant, William E. Curtis, Carl Schurz.
Lyman Trumbull, Joseph Medill,
Charles Francis Adams and John
Bigelow. political associates of Abra-
ham Lincoln. They found no extern
uation of the crimes that in their day
polluted the record of the party they
had helped set on foot, in a supposed
after -the-war psychology.
Instead of excoriating the un-
faithful public servants of whose
misdeeds the uttermost parts of the
earth are not uniformed, to the dis
grace of the nation as well as of
themselves, palliation is attempted in
the absurd observation, emanating
from the White House, that men
are involved who belong to both po-
litical parties" charge character
lied by one of the few leading Re-
publican papers that have declined to
condone the offense revealed as a pal
try bit of political Misrepresentation
Commenting further on the dis
closures touching the leases of the
naval oil reserves, the same journal
remarks pertinently that the matter
of real concern is the corrupt proce-
dure of member of the cabinet and
the connivance of two of his col
leagues and that 1T is incontesta-
BILE that responsibility for the scan
dal rests square upon the Repub-
lican party
Peril in Tolerance.
1T is in this easy tolerance of
turpitude in public Office that the
real peril to free government lies
rather than in its casual occurrence.
Touching the abuse heaped upon
those through whose efforts the in
the Congress which authorized them,
the president of the foremost wom-
ans college in America wrote:
II am amazed, not at Congress,
but at the people, who seem for the
first time in history to contemplate
graft in high ofice with resigna-
ton The distinguished educator
must have meant some of the people,
for 1 cannot believe that more than
a negligible number regard with un
concern either the ignominy uncov-
cred or the palpable falsehood of the
platform in it's assertion
that the recent congressional inves- !
legations have exposed instances in
both political parties of men in pub
lie office who are willing to sell Of |
fetal favor If one Democratic Of |
fceholder has been involved by the |
for anything he did |
while in Office let him be named. But |
If it be true that the moral tone of
our people has been SO debased as to |
graft in high Office with |
resignation, at whose doors shall the
blame be laid II not at those of the |
Republican party, whose spokesmen,
appalled, at first by the disclosures, |
rallied to level their guns, not at
those guilty of the derelictions made
public, but at those who laid them
bare.
Shielded by President.
himself has not hesitated to endeavor
20 shield the delinquents from the
public odium to which their derelic- |
ions have subjected them by joining |
in the hue and cry against the in
that have been conducted |
under the authority of the Senate
and against that body for authorizing |
them His message on the subject |
had for its plain purpose the suppress |
sy,t1 n nyrII
conduct Of a member of his cabinet. |
It is true he has historic warrant, |
II precedent be a warrant for his |
at titude. When the British House |
Of Commons sought to investigate |
the profligate and corrupt Duke Of
Inflated descent upon CadiZ, Charles
wrote that body: I see you especial
~ aim at the Duke of Buckingham.
must let you know that 1 will not
allow any Of my servants to be ques-
:ioned among you. much less such as
are of eminent place and near to
r,e.' Charles lost his head and Cal
vim Coolidge may profit politically
by his example!
"I repeat 1 cannot admit the ac-
are Indifferent to the corroding in
luence Of corruption in office, high
,r low. But we shall see. They are
On trial If notwithstanding what
has transpired the party now in
power in the nation is continued in
control by the choice of the people
IF the United States. apparent, or
-eal. what judgment must be passed
lpon them by the world? They en-
oy the distinction Of having erected
md maintained a government whose
IF venality as those of any nation
IN earth, and they will not, I VEN
.ure to predict, forfeit it
Revision of Tariff.
"In the hour of the triumph of
and selfishness, when the
policy 81 isolation was said to have
,een Overwhelmingly indorsed; when,
Is stated, every sordid interest came
publican party entered upon the task
IF revising the tariff. No porten-
ous voice now dispersed the in
5idious lobby overnight. The sche-
lules show it's handiwork. Higher
han ever before mounted the rates.
f had my way, said Senator Good
ng of Idaho, I would make the duty
30 high that there would be a COM
,lete embargo against every manu-
'actured article that can be produced
n this country.
There is an exquisite harmony be-
ween the policy Of isolation and of
protective tariff as conceived by
his statesman. and as exemplifled in
he act of 1922. Why trouble our
selves about the troubles of Europe?
let her stew in her own juice. Let
Is not even trade with her. or course
10 such policy was or could be pur-
;ued.
"A decent respect for the unfortu-
late ultimate consumer placed some
.estraint upon the rapacity of the
avor seekers. The promptings of
common humanity no less than the
distress Of agriculture relying upon
markets across the sea forced a
.rudging attention to conditions
REVEALING and events transpirins
here The people Of Europe have
,een constantly calling upon our
private citizens to aid In bringing