Judge — February 17, 1923 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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Home 4 City _ | point wh Stirring the Pot in Washington by Herbert Corey N THE Goop oLp days a farmer was I modest man with straw in his whis! ‘ He knew his place then, by gum. When he wasn’t singing comic songs he was beating the rosy harbinger of dawn to the tape or feeding the cattle Jat night by the touch system. He anointed his Congressman with burgoo and comforted him with hickory hams. He could casily be stalled, “Weighty reasons of state forced us to }withhold the relief you ask said the Congressman, And the farmer kissed the and that bit him. Now he is as urban » bootleg: | “Kick in! | “Make it snappy |, Which may be why the | | T: he says to the Congressman. ay both the major parties, the tion and all the unider tie strangers who can get near enough licking the dried | milk off his boots. He may not be able to induce Congress to enact legislation enabling him to borrow money on. his needs, but there isn’t even a whimper of |doubt that he will get the farm credits he ly desires. The tragedy of Senator adge's life is that he never learned to milk. | | | N (= PEOPLE have lov i revered the farme Literature is full of excellent quote it him. But he ne would have been given the legislative relief he wanted if he had ed peaceful, In the first place the idea was a new one, and statesmen will not caper to the lascivious pleadings of novelties, and in the second place neither rty could figure out a partisan advan- tage. » bloc sacrée had not yet come into being in either House. Then the farmer kicked the stuffing out of a few statesmen and became the nation’s pet. | Mind you, not all the members on , honored and cither side of the fence are convit that farm credits legislation is wise. ‘They merely say that it is inevitable. When the farmer can combine with the drys and the curse-the-railroads crowd and the chase-the-supreme-court element and the more-wages-and-less-rent-bunch, Con- gress—being composed entirely of poli- ticians who must soon run for office— will do what he tells it to. The comfort is the farmer is essentially conserva- for all the didoes he has been cutting ely. He will be radical up to the his own interests are endan- gered. There he will stop. At De moment of writing only Se MeLe: Chairman of the Banki Garreney Comiiities. hasiad the-onu to tell the farmer that he may blame him- self for a part of his troubles. Not being suicidally inclined MeLean made it clear that he proposed to vote for the Capper- Lenroot-Anderson_ bills, which are the expression of the farm bloc. But he likewise gave figures to show that farm values have doubled in a decade and th while the farmer was flushed with money he did what the rest of us did— blew jit. He spent half a billion dollars for blue sky in. securities in each prot tiv up I teering year. MeLean refused to vote 18 for Norris's bill to put the Government. in the hay, feed and grain business. He said that other classes who also bought bum oil stock have the same right to draw a subsidy from the taxpayers that the farmers ha I: A comrort, at that, to know that this one thing is sure in this session of Congress. Nothing else is—it isn’t even sure that nothing else is—not even that this Congress will die on March 4. Every one believes it will. The Congress- men are as tired of Congress as are all the rest of us. But the p am ahead holds infinite possibilities for filibustering. ‘The ship subsidy scheme is done for, of course. Laid out on two chairs and with quarters on its eyes. But there are other things full of temptations to yawp. Earnest Willie Upshaw, who set the Washington grass afire. One is the resolution in favor of a con- stitutional amendment forbidding the issue of npt securities. It will be adopted without a doubt, but to the tune of feverish yowls from the States’ rights men. The only reason why it will be adopted is that the leaders seem to have discovered that if the flood of tax-exempts is persisted in an era of repudiation is not too far av We have had two such eras—in the for and the seventies— and no other is needed. Also the tax exempts encourage the spending of bil- lions—literally billions—of public money in very excellent’ public improvements which must, however, be paid for by . A consequence is that the wage- ris paying an undue share cost of running the Government. > year the men earning one hundr