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

DN &n0fttC IL
WASHINGTON, June 6.-You can
find prophets to foretell the result OF
President Coolidge's veto of the Nc
Nary-Haugen farm relief bill any way
YOU want it foretold.
II means that nc last the president
has definitely eliminated himself as
i denomination possibility-the farm
ers are so sore that they won't give
him a chance to refuse to he drafted
or 10 consent 10 ii, either.
On the contrary, he's placed him
self in a position where he'll have TO
consent to be drafted-to vindicate.
No, Ne won't have 10 do any such
thing. II will do him just As we'll to
have Herbert Hoover nominated-be-
cause Herbert's as plainly on record
a. he Isl: against the McNary-Haugen
principle.
Yes. so ne is-and that's precisely
why Herbert's nomination has be-
come so absolutely impossible.
Coolidge and Hoover both are out
Of the picture-tne farmers won't
have either one of 'em-Frank O.
Lowden will be chosen ut kansas
City. That is, in other words, Charles
&. Dawes will be.
That last conclusion-in favor Of
| Dawes-or Lowdcn-hasn't, however,
a single good leg 10 stand on-for the
simple reason that it's utterly out
of the question for the republican
party to repudiate a major Coolidge
policy on the eve Of an election.
Thus it's evident that Coolidge
must waive his objections and run
I aCain-or, 80 to speak, that Hoover
must be nominated.
OF 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 it would
take too long 10 repeat all their
views. It's a trifle confusing, any
way.
The only thing the republican
prophets 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 W
differences Of opinion among them
selves, too. but. like the republican
prophets, they all do agree on "a
thing
&C. O. r." prospects in November
are shot all to thunder.
The farmers have been largely re-
publicans hitherto, but now-the way
the democratic prophets figure it
they're going TO flop over 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 all
logical prophecy galley west and
crooked.
The McNary-Haugen plans n pro-
tcctive tariff proposition.
Yet Calvin Coolidge, the high
priest of the loftiest kind of n pro-
~tective tariff. not only vetoes the Nc
Nary-Haugen bill, but roasts il 20 q
brown turn as "-uneconomic."
Whereas the democrats. who al
ways have said the republican tariff
rates were robbery. are offering the
farmers all they want of same-if
they'll flop over and vote the demo.
cratic ticket.
Some prophets don't believe the
democratic party really can turn
itself inside out like this, when ii
comes actually to doing it.
They think the thing will resolve
itself into a fight. not to pass the
NeNary-Haugen bill. but to cut the
top off the tariff rates that we have
slready to equalize down instead of
equalizing up.
The truth Is. the prophets are all
mixed up. You can't trust any Of
en-.