The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-05-11
The Security of Nation
Above Politics
NUVVC L VHCIVO
New York World elegram)


There are encouraging signs Of a
break in the Washington political
deadlock which has been intensifying
the depression during the last fort
night.
Following President Hoover's econ
omy appeal to congress house COM
mittee apparently has killed the cash
bonus, and a senate committee has
agreed on tax bill expected, with
economies, to balance the budget.
The presidents statement yester-
day, direct appeal to an impatient
public, accurately described the back
ing and filling which is jeapordizing
vitality necessary economies.
This is not controversy between
the president and congress or its
members" he said 1T is an issue
against delays and destructive legis-
lation which impair the credit of the
| United States. It is also an issue
between the locust swarm of lobbyists
who haunt the halls of congress seek
ing selfish privilege for special groups
and sections of the country, mislead-
ing members as to the real views
of the people by showers Of propa-
ganda."
That statement should be kept on
every desk in Washington, where it
can be read daily by every senator
and representative, by every cabinet
officer and bureau chief, and by the
president himself.
Each Of them has given in at one
time or another to this lobby or that.
There IS not one budget cut that is
not being opposed by some wire-pull-
ers; not one tax increase that Is not
being opposed by some special in
terests.
There is only one way to balance
the budget now. All lobbyists must
be ignored; compromises must be
made by the administration, the
Democrats and the Progressives on
all conflicting economy and tax
plans. Reasonable speed of accom-
plishment, rather than hair-splitting
judgments on detail must be made
the first consideration.
Every one knows that the basic
causes Of this depression are eco
nomic rather than political. It is
equally obvious that partisan politics,
played by all three factions during
the last few weeks, has greatly in
tensified the economic distress by
creating uncertainties and delays in
obviously necessary corrective legiS-
lation.
The agencies of recovery must be
freed. This cannot be achieved until
all factions recognize the necessity
OF common compromise.
This newspaper is not in the habit
Of talking compromise. It would not
be talking compromise today if the
nation were not in the worst crisis
in its history. And in periods of
extreme crisis, whether for the in
dividual or the nation, the time comes
when action through compromise is
imperative.
There is much about the senate
committees tax bill that we do not
like-for instance, singing out the
automobile industry to carry an un-
equal burden and dropping many OF
the other nuisance taxes: the brazen
injection of high tariffs in a revenue
bill; the uneven income tax rates and
the refusal to tax beer.
But there are also many things In
1t which the administration and which
the Democratic leaders do not lik(
las witness how different this bill
Is from both the original Hoover tai
plan and from the Garner-Rainey.
Crisp bill.
II there Is to be q budget balanc-
ing tax bill and adequate economies
before congress adjourns there must
be new spirit Of give and take. That
applies to the Democrats and Pro.
gressives. It applies equally to thu
president and his supporters.
/ The president appeals for such non.
lpartisanship and pledges himself K
it. His opponents reply that the presi.
dent started the partisanship, Will,
they alone have been pure au<
|patriotic. An angered public has littlt
interest in who started It.. What Il
wants TO know Is who u going to enc
the pickering.
/ The faction which plays the leas
politics In this crisis will play tn,
best politics.
II the insect called the "walktnf