Evening star., 1924-06-25

Gen. Bliss to work out disarmament
program. But the government of the
United States must do nothing lest
the irreconcilables disrupt the Repub-
lican party.
High Price of Harmony.
For the harmony thus secured and
the prosperity enjoyed by the tariff
oeneticiaries the farmers of the
northwest have paid until bankruptcy
among them is general
NO such disaster has even befallen
that section. The depressed period
CT the n1neties on which Republican
orators discanted for generation,
pore no comparison to the present de-
plorabie era. According to the Sec
retary of Agriculture 40 per cent of
all the farmers in South Dakota are
virtually bankrupt, AZ per cent in
colorado, so per cent in North Da-
kota, 81 per cent in Wyoming, 62 per
Sent &c IN Montana and approximately
% per cent in the hitherto prosperous
states of Iowa and Minnesota The
farmers dollar. measured by the
S,andard sang q OF 1913. buys only e4 cents
w., Mortn o, commodities, the price of
ms product falling in accordance
win world prices. while everything
ne must buy is held at the war Level
by the tariff.
Though conditions are most acute
IN the northwest, every product thai
must md a foreign market is AFFECT
eo. BankS are SuSpending at the rate
or more than 1000 per year. SIGNIFY.
ing social readjustments of the most
ID acnlng character. We are Off
ctaIly informed that the net change
oI population from farm to town DIR
ing 1873 was over 100000. acce1e
raIlng a movement in progress in re-
general alarm eAei'eu
The tremendous reduction IN H..
purchasing power of the farn nonm
lat1on is already Reflected -,
Ileased unemployment in most or tbe
reading industries. u the
Parfy Is Impotenf.
In the race of an impending ma
.ional calamity the Republican nart,
IS impotent Held fast by the ereat
monopolistic beneficiaries Of tbe =. ~ =,
= uare not lower the rates even On
snoee commodities reduction in the
piIce oi Wnlch would be of Immediate a
Denent to the farmer lest the Who'll
ar sno.h nuJ.ure should tumble. Hoping for
It's opposition to the only nJan vet M
devised by the nations looking IN fhe
outlaWry of war, it dare not take
d step toward the pacification of
Europe, with view to the restora-
S. S.on OF Its normal purchasing power,
lest 1t be wrecked by the passions
IT aroused to accomplish the reiece
tlon or the covenant of the league
OF nations for no better reason than
mat IT was sponsored by a Demo-
cratic President. 1t has no remedy,
that affects agriculture. threatening
every form of industry. Moreoyer
it finds itself plagued with repre-,
sentatives in both houses of Congress,
representative of current thought
among their constituencies, holding
n ,;cti1 -
those of the dominant faction in the
party as to preclude the possibility
of uniting on any program of legis-
lation. Its frantic effort to rid it,
self of the embarrassment of these
insurgent members is as ludicrous
as it will prove futile. They can
Endorsement of people. No regular
or standpat Republican could make
head against any one of them. They
whelmingly Republican against the
policies of the Republican party
With their aid the Democratic mem
berS of the Congress wrote the rev.
ance of the recommendation Of the
President and his Secretary of the
Treasury, a chapter in the history of
congressional legislation without, it
is believed, a parallel. They en-
couraged. promoted and actively aid
utive departments in conjunction
with the Democratic members and
cooperate with them in securing ap-
propriate action touching the revela-
tions made by the various COM
mittees. They revolted against the
choice of the majority of their party
for the craftsmanship of one of the
leading committees of the Senate and
elevated a Democratic member to
that place. The Republican party
has ceased to be an organization
through which the business Of the
country can be carried on. Nor is
that the end of the antagonisms
within the party.
At Odds With President.
THE President was at odds with
the majority wing. with which he is
supposed to be sympathetic, on the
world court, the pension bill, the ad-
justed compensation bill and, to a
greater or less extent, on the immi
grafton bill. And now to cap the
climax unseemingly dissensions rend
the party organization charged with
to begin. If these be not the signs
of dissolution at least disaster may
be read in the formal severance of
any allegiance which may subsist on
the part of the so-called progressive
wing of the party about to duplicate
the revolt OF 1912 and effect an in
organization.
Upon the record of the Democratic
party through eight years of glorious
history from 1913 to 1921 we submit
that 1t should again be entrusted
with the direction of our national
affairs. There is no blot upon that
y