Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-06
Washington
Letter
FARM VETO RESULTS?
PROPHETS CONFUSED
Il. Eh,rfae II Stewart

IN III
WASHINGTON, June 6.-lou can
find prophets to foretell the result Of
President Coolidge's veto OF the Nc
Nary-Haugen farm relief bill any way
you want il foretold.
II means that at last the president
has definitely eliminated himself as
- denomination possibility-the farm
ers are 70 sore that they won't give
him a chance ID refuse TO be drafted
or To consent TO ID, either.
On the contrary, he's placed him-
self in a position where he'll have 70
consent to be drafted-to vindicate-
No. he won't have to do any such
thing. II will do him just as well to
have Herbert Hoover nominated-be-
cause Herbert's as plainly on record
A. ne IL: against the McNary-Haugen
principle.
Yes. 80 he is-and that's precisely
why Herbert's nomination has be-
come 50 absolutely impossible.
Coolidge and Hoover both are out
Of the picture-tne farmers won't
have either one of 'cm-Frank %.
Lowden will be chosen at kansas
City. That IL. in other words, Charles
g.. Dawes viii be.
That last conclusion-in favor Of
nawes-or Lowden-hasn't, however,
a single good leg to stand on-for the
simple reason that it's utterly cut
of the question for the republican
--a. - ~~-~wls-A~ "a wanfnv TnnlNdRm
policy on the eve of an election.
Thus it's evident that Coolidge
must waive his objections and run
again-or, so to speak, that Hoover
must be nominated.
or course the Curtis, Watson, Goff
and other assorted prophets aren't
in complete accord with the Coolidge,
Hoover. Lowden and Dawes prophets
or with one another. But IL would
take too long to repeat all their
views. It's a trifle confusing, any
way.
The only thing the republican
TEpphets all do agree on is that the
VITO hasn't damaged &C. O. r." pros
poets in November one little bit.
To get this angle Of the situation
we must consult the democratic pro-
phets. These latter have their own
differences Of opinion among them
selves. too, but. like the republican
prophets, they all do agree on one
thing
&C. q. r." prospects in November
are shot all to thunder.
The farmers have been largely re-
rublicans hitherto, but now-the way
the democratic prophets figure it,
they're going 70 flop ove TO the dem
o~cratic side, to get the McNary-
Haugen bill passed.
AT this point we run into a queer
enough state Of affairs to knock al
logical prophecy galley west anc
crooked.
The McNary-HauEen plans q pro.
t~ective tariff proposition.
Yet Calvin Coolidge, the high
priest of the loftiest kind of a pro
t~ective tariff. not only vetoes the Me
Nary-Haugen bill, but roasts il to
brown turn as "uneconomic."
Whereas the democrats, who nj
ways have said the republican tariff.
rates were robbery, are offering Oh,
farmers all they want Of same-i1
they'll flop over and vote the demo
cratic ticket.
Some prophets don't believe I'll.
democratic party really can turr
itself inside M like this, when il
comes actually Ia doing il.
They think the thing will resolvt
itself into n fight. not - pass thu
McNary-Haugen bill. but 10 cut the
top off the tariff rates that we have
slready to equaliEe down instead OF
equalizing up.
The truth il, the prophets are all
mixed up. You can't trust any al
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