Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-18
by WILLIAM HARD.

whether HERBERT hoover IL "oIhHlk
for the Democratic national commlttee
or the Democratic national committee
is working for Herbert Hoover Is
colossal problem which washington to-
day cannot solve as the Republican
members of the Senate finance COM
mittee are preparing to transmit TO
their Democratic colleagues their fnai
decisions on the dutisb!e items In the
Hawley-Smoot tariff IL.
Charlie" NJ, on, learned public
ity directc" d, Snappy press agent OF
the Z ....Cratic national committee,
keeps issuing statements almost daliy
from the inspired pens OF Democratic
Senators assailing all Republican tarin
rates. actual or possible. Meanwhile
within the recesses of the Republican
national committee there is red
headed" epitome of pugnacity OF the
name of Bennett Gordon who could
exchange statement for statement with
Charlie" Nicholson to the end OF time
with no trouble. Yet Mr.. Gordon Is
imperturbably silent while Mr.. Michel
son is uninterruptedly loquacious. Why
is this?
The answer is manifest to everybody
in Washington except perhaps Senator
Caraway of Arkansas They DO not
know where Herbert Hoover Is in this
tariff night. Everybody else knows and
the Republican national committee
most especially knows.
The Republican national committee
does not propose TO answer Mr.. Michel
son and to impede him in his general
and generous desire to bring the tarin
goose down from the rafters when 1t
is wen known that the Republican
President entertains the view that per-
hans some parts of the tariff goose Is
still hanging too high.
In fact the Republican national
committee calculates that Mr.. Michel
sons efforts, while extremely likely TO
bring the goose down to the Democratic
Cordell Hull level, which Is fairly near
the floor, may bring it down at least
to Q sort of mid-air level, where 1t
will be grasped by the White House
and O large part of the whole Repub-
lican party.
The truth is that the Republican
party is besieged by vast multitude OF
tariff duty seekers, whom 1t cannot on us
own principles refuse to accommodate,
but whom 1t would be delighted to see
swept of its affiicted body by the prin-
ciples of the Democrats and by the
force of uncomfortable circumstances.
Mr.. Nicholson Il today accordingly the
most popular character m washington.
The Democrats watch him with pride
and q lot of the Republicans watch
him with hope.
MT. Nicholson seems to calculate, on
the other hand, that nothing-not even
he. himself--can reform the Repunn-
cans and deliver them from the inhabi.
tants of their hides and that they Will
20 right ahead and produce an mex
cusable sky-high tarin law, wnlcn.
thereupon, he will be able TO oenounce
~kA hU rAnFlnGs
irc his present writings with due ref
erenee to the penetrating fact that the
nemoerats foresaw 1t all and denounced
n All at the very moment OF the crime.
At this point in the drama, however,
with Mr.. Nicholson doing all the talk
ino paYts and Mr.. Hoover and the re-
rrhlican national committee doing all
The silent parts In the same plot. tneie
enters upon the scene certain prlvate
citizen from Illinois, one w. T. raw
leigh Of the City OF FreeporI' s..,nsan-
tants insecticides, extracts, MAYORS ana
,...Sic,res that are made In numerous
Tactories and sold in all States OF TINS
aa,,stru IN our otherwise dtscontenteo
and POLITICALLY rebellious farmers:
Mr. Ravleiah Is variously descrloeo-
.rd In far from complimentary terms
NV hostile and incredulous opseIxets'
hit this writer ventures to state rlen'
here and now that there Is no otner oi nc
man in this country VINO Is sons "
have SO much influence on IIie Ae"
tariff law as Mr.. w. L. hawIetsn, ,S
Mr. Rawleiqh had q wonderful worlo-
v,,rning idea. This idea was to collect
a hsrd of economists and get them 70
trample out the truth from the cnan
AZ ali the statistical controversies re-
narSinu ZACH and every important oe-
bstsble agricultural item In the wnoie
tariff proposition.
For instance:
The tariff on such and such COM
modify Is at such and such 4eigns.
How many dollars Of benent does u give
to the producers Of thai commooiCy!
How many dollars OF cost Goes ~ III ~.
net cain or loss to the farming popuia-
ton and to the whole country?
No such inquiries In any thorough
ana authoritative manner had ever De.
fore heen made In the course or any OF
the great tariff fights Of the past: Mr.
Rawleieh has now been making them
for many months in an unending series
of reports from altitudinous scholars OF
the University of wisconsin, headed ny
the internationally famous Jonn ~
Commons, and in enormous ana monu-
mental reports also from David =: Lew -
formerly q most conspicuous MEMBER OF
the United States Tariff Commission:
These reports are disseminated to the
political Morld and the journalistic
world in Washington by Charles M
Kelley, who as . writer Of statements
for statesmen is the fearless peer OF
even Mr., Nicholson or the temporarily
| taciturn Mr.. Bennett Gordon.
Mr., Kelley conducts his educational
processes In Washington under the
roof-tree Of the Peoples Legislative
Society, which was started by the lat:
senator La Fcllstte Of Wisconsin ana