The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-03-19

getting happily married to an
other woman has no claim, as
he suffered no damage"
Secretary Of State and he goes and
plants the. United States marine
corps on the necIxs of the Haitians
and. the DOnlinicans and Mica.
raguAns.
They appoint MIR. BurIesOn to be
Postmaster General and he gets
busy to extirpate and bury all labor
ORGANIZATIONS i'm the postal service
They appoint Mr.. Palmer to be
Attorney General and he gets out q
beautiful injunction to put the
United Mine Workers and their
strike where they and 1t were
thought by him TO belOng-On the
legal ash-lleap.
They appoint Mr.. Houston to be
Secretary OF Agriculture and he
leads the way to that ''deflation" Of
the farmer and to that restriction
Of the supply of farmers credit
which, IN turn, led the way to the
farmer.labor political Northwestern
revolt Of 1922, and to the appear.
ance among us i'm Washington oil
such persons as BroOlxhart, of Iowa
and Shipstead, Of Minnesota, and
Wheeler, Of Montana.
No Criticism Intended.
These things may all have been
very fine things to do. There Is nc
notion here OF criticising them on
their merits or demerits.
What il here pointed out is only
this: that after the Democrats have
kidded the common people almost
into death and the millennium, they
then give us. just about, on the
whole, the same sort OF admins
tration that the Republicans give
US, with the top-dogs top, where
they are accustomed to be, and
with the under-dogs under, where
their native home Is. g
The labor radicals and the radi'
cal farmers were never more under
in their lives than when the Demo.
Gratis got through with them last
time in 1921.
The people whom the Democrats
most Immediately helped during
their last term Of office were the
bankers.
The greatest Democratic achieve
ment under Wilson was the crea-
ton Of the highly useful and splen.
did Federal reserve system, which
the big bankers love.
The Democrats had to hold the
noses Of those bankers while they
poured the Federal reserve system
into their mouths.
II Tasted Very Bad.
The bankers thought it tasted
very bad. The Democrats said:
1--WE know it is good for you"
1t was. 1t has saved many a
banker from going bust. 1t has
been wonderful for the business com
munity.
One of the most distinguished OF
all Democratic Senator's. in a con
test in Washington lately Tor the
best definitions, Of our political par
ties, produced the following one re-
garding the Democratic party:
"A Democrat is a man Who &C
quires office on Jeffersonian prin'
ciples, and Who operates Office on
Hamiltonian principles"
The Republicans produced the
Sherman antitrust law. The Demo
Gratis produced the Federal reserve
system law.
The party Of business produced
the thing which big business has
most hated.
The party of the common people"
produced the thing which has most
strengthened our big banks and
which drives Brookhart Of Iowa and
Shipstead OF Minnesota and Wheeler
of Montana into spasms and spar.
oxyms Of fear and anguish for the
common people
Meanwhile, always, the Democrats
in office attack that vicious special
privilege" the tariff tax" and what
do they do with it?
They reduce it by IL or Is per
cent, in total and on the average
and they let the rest of it stand
and they grasp their trumpets and
their drums and their sackbuts and
their psalteries and they perform a
mighty orchestral piece entitled
Now Special Privilege Is Dead.
They then go out Of office with
the American Republic solid as
rock. and with the working man
working for wages, and with the
farmer ploughing in the sun. and
with the capitalist cutting coupons,
and with the relative position oil
everybody toward everybody else
just exactly what it was before
and with you no nearer to being
railroad president-and no farther
away from it1than you were be-
fore, and they dash to the first
stump they see and they stand on
it and they wave their arms and
say:
"oh, if you will only SOL us
back to office just once more, we
will this time tear pretty nearly
everything absolutely to bits"
The Republicans make themselves
out to be more pro-business than
they ever are.
Cutting Out the Bunk.
The Democrats make themselves
out to be more anti-business than
they ever are.
When you cut the bunk out OF
both Of them you get a difference
which is indeed seriously a con
siderable difference; but, and again
seriously, how small that differ
ence is in comparison with the mll'
lions of miles that separate their
two sorts and forms of bunk PEI
Torrance artistry!
AS for the Progressives, while
perhaps they. are not as good AS
the Republicans and the Demo.
Gratis at kidding others, they per-
haps are even better, even more
marvellous, at kidding themselves.
Tomorrow: Progressive Bunk.
Copyright, 1925, by Current News
Features, Inc.)