Evening star., 1929-11-18

Most of the criticism Of Senator
Moses "Sons of wild iackaSses" speech
is made in spirit Of raillery which
the critics seem to feel characterized
the gibe itself. But while humor softens
much of the comment on the New
Hampshire members fling at the Senate
coalition against the tarin bill there are
those who take a more serious attitude
They feel that Senator Moses has IN
jured the prestige OF his party py
heiohtening the already existing tension
over this important legislation.
"The Senator is slipping" declares
the st. Louis Post-DiSpatch. THE
former editor, whose erudition once de-
lighted and dazzled the Senate, Is get
ting to be perilouSly unreliable. One can
hardly believe q thing the man says
EVERYBODY knows now that Senator
Brookhart would never have gone to
that orgy If Mr. Moses hadn't assured
him that the host was a boon COM
panion Of Or. Clarence True wilson
Then the terrible butchery OF tnat
familiar stanza from Oscar Wliae
Reading Gaol.' We have forgotten the
Moses version, but the assassination OF
the tariff bill certainly called for the
correct text, which is:
For each man kills the thing he loves,
Let this by all be sung.
Some lay it low with smart bon mot
A wisecrack neatly flung.
A Bingham kills 1t with clerk,
A Grundy with his tongue
"And once again Mr.. Moses comes
blundering into print by characterlzlng
the independent Senators as the sons
OF wild asses We submit that JOB
had vexations enough In the flesh
without being misrepresented by the
sinners, S-ints or Senators OF To-Day.
FOR vain man would be wise, tnou8n
man be born like a wild ass'S colt, was
the way that perturbed spirit put 1t.
"Tf George Moses really used the ex-
preston, sons of wild jackaSSeS, AYERS
the New York Sun, "he was only fooling
in his ,droll New England way. AT the
Republican national convention last
year he roared something ABOUT well
coming AL Smith with 'ioSpitable hands
tn a bloody grave Mr. Moses Is full
of delicate epigrans, but he Is AFRAID
to use them all the time lest he be re.
Varded In New Hampshire as smart
Hence his outburSts about bloody graves
and iackasses.' Possibly he had no
more malice in the latest case than
actuated Zophar the Naamathite In his
remark to Job. Senator Moses, how
ever. should be more conSiderate OF
the Senators who come from the great
open spaces with great open pores OF
Scnsjtlyeness. at the Bell Telephone
Laboratories the experts attached new
device 10 a man who was grinding his
teeth, whereupon there was q roar
through the auditorium like an elevated
train Keep that contraption away
from the coalitionistS lest the Capitol
tumble down."
''While they would like to boil Moses
in OIL" &vers the Akron Beacon Journal,
'every mothers son Of them is strs1d TO
BEGIN something sgarnst msa VINO
has called them the Soas OF wild JACK.
asses 1t is true they are talking ABOUT
It, but that Is as far Is It VIII ever set.
It was all right 10 jump on the meek
and long-suiferlng Bingham. He does
not look pugnaciouS. He Is not pug
nacious. He firmly believes that . IS
per cent profit derived from the sweat
of ones brow Is worth more than any
fight. But George looks pIgnacious.
He Is pugnaciouS, and, what Is more, no
son of the wild jackaSses cares to put
his carcass under Georges guns. He
has wit, q cruel exactneSs in stating
the truth and always the courage to
make his last thrust more bloody than
his first. Such man Is seldom at
tackled. Indeed, when he attacks he is
usually left to the retribution Of
heaven"
r 4 X n
The technique of the Senator Is crit
lciHed by the Kansas City Journal-PoSt
with the statement: Simeon FeSS was
more descriptive and at the same time
more dignified In calling them pseudo
When few Senators
break OF from their party majority and
form q coalition with the traditional
party enemy. they deserve that appel
lation. No wonder Senator Moses views
the situation with alarm. as chairman
of the Republican senatorial committee.
But he does mot helm matters auv hy