Arizona state miner., 1926-02-27
POLITICIANS GET BUSY

entry of the United States into the
World Court, who "bossed" the con
vention at Cleveland, who tried to
! introduce New England mill master
methods into the government at
| Washington, faces hard fight
against former Senator David 7.
Walsh in Massachusetts.
The efforts of President Coolidge
| to make secret agreements and to
| wiring blank designations from COM
missioners of the U. S. Shipping
| Board and the Tariff Commission
both of which are independent of
fees of the government, has left
bad taste.
In the case of Shipping Board
Commissioner Bert E. Haney of Ore
gon, President Coolidge himself
came out publicly and stated that
Haney would follow the lead of Ad-
miral Leigh Palmer, president of
the Emergency Fleet Corporation,
although Mr. Haney had to be con-
! frmed by the Senate and Palmer
! did not And when Haney did not
do this, and denied that he had any
! ,01, l1n Il
! to violate the oath of office of
| Shipping Board Commissioner, the
President requested his resignation,
| which Haney refused to give. Mr..
! Coolidge did not strengthen his posi-
ton when he had to let Haney re-
/ main under recess appointment until
! the Senate convened. 1t was a con
! fessiO1 of weakness.
! In the case of the Tariff Commits
sion the administration leaders find
/ themselves unable to deny that Mr..
| Coolidge tried to arrange before he
! appointed David ]. Lewis to that
/ commission under q recess appoint
ment for a blank resignation. They
find themselves unable to deny that
Mr.. Coolidge tried to and did sup
! press the findings of that commits
! sion until after the election-and the
! politicians know that these things
! do not set we'll with the people,
They wanted the people to forget
! these events, but the people will nc
| forget
Then the farm relief has bothered
the administration. While good ad,
vice was being dealt out from Wash
ington the farmers were being ruin
ed While experts" were being
sent out from Washington to tell the
farmer how to make his farm pay.
the farmer was getting near and
nearer to the poorhouse and to ruin.
While the bitter fight over the Nc
Nary-Haugan bill was being waged,
prOpagaEdists were out among the
farmers preaching. "diversifcation, -
fewer automobiles" harder work"
better marketing methods" etc.
These things did not go down with
the farmer. He knew he was work
ing hard. He knew he couldn't
econOmize. because he hadn't any.
thing to economic on. He had all
) ready economical to the point OF
starvation and ruin. He felt that
he was as much entitled to ride in
an automobile as the wheat pit and
cotton spectators who neither pro
duced nor consumed his crop, but
sat in the middle and took the
farmers profit on the one hand anG
oyercharged the consumer on the
, other-then contributed heavily tc
national campaign funds to be lei
alone.
So the politicians realize that thej
have got to show the farmer sons
practical, tangible relief, or they are
: gone, so far as the farm vote i:
2 concerned
Mr.. Work in the Department O
4 Interior has embarrassed the admin
: istration. His attitude toward recla
nation has been unsympathetic. Mr.
New in the Post Office Department
5 has raised rates-and the mail ser
s vice is no better than before.
t The refunding of the foreign wa
v Indebtedness to this country has no
e contributed to the good humor O
r the taxpayers toward the admins
$ tration-and the politicians know
< that People in Arizona cannot ur
o derstand how it is that they mus
O pay eight and ten and twelve pa
s cent for money when foreign cour
e tries can get the use of Arizon
g money put into Liberty Bonds TO
l. such low rates as were agreed III
/ on
l. The political horizon continues i