The Washington times., 1924-10-04

puted at one-fifth Of cent and
the gasoline taxes made up the
difference of oIe-twenty- fifth Of
q cent
conversation with voters and poll.
/ ticians in all parts OF the country
for many years, ever since La
Toilette became prominent, that
the vote for La Toilette this fall
will be at least double the mum
Der Of voters who are In favor of
such things as national ownership
of railroads
Situation in Wisconsin.
This writer is confirmed in this
view by a striking fact which he
has already mentioned in these
columns, The State OF Wisconsin
itself has been able at one and the
same time on one given election
day to elect La Toilette to the
Senate and to vote heavily on a
referendum against public State
ownership of water-power.
For such reasons, and for a null
titude of other similar reasons, this
writer confidently asserts that GER
tainly at least so per cent of the
vote coming to La Toilette next
November will come to him for
reasons other than ''radicalism'
and that not more certainly than
so per cent Of it will deserve to
be regarded as any evidence of
radical sentiment in this coun-
try.
AS proof Of this assertion and
prediction, this writer willingly
n MO fc ~ -
ton of the next Senate and House
of Representatives.
Those returns, according to all
present indications and prospects,
will give the so-called radicals
no real chance at all to carry
through any extreme radical
legislation during the next two
years.
Moreover, and further, it is care
fully to be noted that the demands
OF our present radicals" are quite
devoid of certain fundamental ex.
IRENE paralyzing features which
characterized the demands of all
the farmer.labor radicals who have
preceded them in our political his
tory.
From colonial days down to the
election of 1896 our American trad.
icals'' were virtually always in
favor of cheap paper money un.
backed by metal or by any other
value except the fiat Of the Gov.
eminent.
POpulists' Dream.
/ IN 1892 the Populists ran on a
beautiful plank that the Govern
naent should have a sort OF money
depot In all the various districts of
this country and out Of these depcts
should just simply print and issue
paper dollars to be loaned to
farmers on their crops.
With that plank the Populist can
didate for President managed to get
twenty-five electoral votes. Our
scraziestn radical State today would
vote to- consign him gently in a
madhouse.
Our Populistic radicalism of thirty
years ago was much worse from
the conservative standpoint than
our present radicalism.
Moreover. and finally, il we lift
our eyes from what our radicals
seem likely to do to what in office
they actually do. as in Germany
and France and Britain. It becomes
clearer than ever that the world in
fact is turning to what the more
ambitious radicals Of the last cen.
tury would have regarded as con-
servatism.
The Socialists have recently held
large power in Germany without
making one genuine effort to intro.
duce the Socialist cooperative com
monwealth. They even have con-
nived, as no Republican ar Demo.
cratic administration at Washing.
ton has ever connived, ut a virtually
unrestrained orgy Of nonopolistic
profiteering.
Prime Minister Herriot, OF France.
having come into office on that
famous -heralded and much
acclaimed swing toward the Lett. I"
has occupied himself with external
affairs and has left the inward con-
sentative nature of French business
virtually untouched.
Prime Minister Macdonald. Of
Great Britain, has signalizsd his
term of office principally by irving
to finance Germany through an OFT
right approach to Morgan & Co, OF
New York-an approach so frankly
outright that 1t scandalizes and en-
RACES our Mayor Hylan, OF New
York, who says that the Macdonald
scheme is handing over the poor
people of Europe to the wicked Gin
ternational bankers"
The communists of Russia have
failed more and more to accomplish
--Or to gain the materials for ac.
oinplishing communist world
revolution. The radicals of west
ern Europe, in office, are govern
ing hand in hand with high finance.
The radicals Of the United States
have abandoned their efforts to
get rid of finance and money and
to live on fiat and paper. Even
thus moderated, they will not con-
trol-at the utmost--more than
20 per cent Of the next Congress.
The next President Of the United
States, in all practicable probability,
either in the person of Mr.. Coolidge
or in the person Of Mr.. Davis, will
be one Of the best friends OF
stability that ever occupied the
White House.
In these circumstances, from the
standpoint of the political reporter,
the talk in business circles about
uncertainty" as a handicap to
business at this time is a great
political and psychological error.
The uncertainty" is a more
human personal detail as to
whether this man or that man will
be in office. The large impersonal
general fact Is that throughout the
whole world, except possibly in