Evening Star Newspaper, August 22, 1924, Page 4

DAVIS CALLS KLAN BY NAME INATTACK ON BIGOTRY IN U. S. Democritic ‘Candidate Asks Coolidge to Help Re- move Jssue From Campaign—Makes Common Honesty Slogan V ersus Common Sense. (Continued from First Page.) Bea Girt. You will not be surprised 1f I find my memory turning at this time to the circumstances of my earlier visit. It happened on a hot July day, 12 years ago. 1 was one of & party of 200 or more who tramped in the dust from the station to the overnor's house at Sea Girt. At our ead marched that grand old Roman. Champ Clark, then the Speaker df the House of Representatives. “Among the party 1 recall a Jersey man who was then my colleague in Congress and who was soon to take a seat In the Senate—the loved and lovable Billy Hughes. We were call- ing on a Governor of New Jersey who had just received the Democratic nomination for the presidency. “Most of that company, including myself, had never made his personal acquaintance. It was our errand to assure him of our hearty support and to place ourselves at his service. The impressions of that day were summed up for me by one of my colleagues as ‘we trampgd back to the waiting train. Said he: ‘When that man cumes to ‘Washington there will be a leader in the White House.’ Drove Lobbyist Out. “I recall how quickly this leader- ship asserted itself when Washington had been attained. Congress -met without delay and the first act in the drama was the scourging from the Capitol of the horde of lobbyists, hangers-on, seekers for privilege and representatives of special interests who had infested its corridors. Then came in quick succession under his energetic impulse the fairest tariff law since the Civil War; the Federal reserve act for which the country had walted half a century; the Fed- eral Trade Commission and the Clay- ton act, curbing monopolies and es- tablishing the rights of labor; and through- this and succeeding sessions the Democratic party under his guid- ance moved in solid phalanx, confident in his leadership. “The great war broke. There fell upon him burdens heavier than any that his predccessors had been called upon to bear. For two years he strug- gled to keep America from the mael- strom. and then when the attack upon her rights was made directly he threw himself and h ountry into the bat- tle with a fiery cnergy that amazed the world. Men and money and muni- tions came at his call and his clear voice rang out like a trumpet across the world, giving new meaning to the struggie and new life to those en- gaged in it. Tried to Prevent War, *“When the war was ended he gave to the making of peace the last ounce of his remaining strength. He en- deavored to set up machinry not only to prevent future #ars, but to miti- gate the evils which this war, the last and greatest, had brought upon the world. He never looked upon the treaty of Versailles as a complete and fiinal settlement, but hoped that when time had cooled men's passio: the machinery he sought to create would remove any eclement of injus- tice or revenge the treaty might con- tain, and would give the world a stable and abiding peace. “And then he fell, broken, thwarted, his work unfinished, but his spirit unsubdued. They called him an ideal- ist, they pronounced him ahead of his times. They forgot that they were but eghoing what the world has said through all the centuries of those Who sought to lead it. Envy and hate and malice can touch him now no more torever, but the thoughts to which GILL We were attracted to THE GILL BURNER, just ‘as you will be, because it was and always will be a HOUSEHOLD FUEL-OIL BURNER. Most burners on the market today were evolved from the industrial .type of burner and are, therefore, crude in their operations in the home. THE GILL FUEL OIL BURNERS were developed after exhaustive study of household fuel-oil heating problems, and it is the one and only burner designed exclusively | We Have Beenln 0il Heating MUTUAL SERVICE, Business In Wash. for5 Years HARRY STEVENS, Prosident he gave utterance and the ideals he proclaimed will live long after those who opposed them have passed and been forgotten. Demands G. O. P. Reply. “We stand at the threshold of an- other presidential campaign and the American people are called on once more to’ decide whether they will leave their destinies in charge of those who are now in power or give them over into other hands. Do they ‘want a change or do they not? That is the question upon which all popu- lar elections turn. Under a parlia- mentaryship like that which obtain in Great Britain or France, the gov- ernment of the day puts to the Hou: of Commons or the Chamber of Depu- ties the question of confidence or no confidence.s We do the same thing, except that with us the question is put to the people as a whole. “Republicans must not be pained or surprised therefore if we ask them to give account of what they have done or left undone. They must not blame us if we jog the public mem- ory concerning things that might otherwise be forgotten. “To all such complaints we can but reply in the language of the,| scriptures, ‘Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees which is hypocrisy. But there is nothing covered up that shall not be revealed, nothing hid, that shall not become known. There- fore whatever ye have spoken in darkness shall be beard in the light, and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.’ Contrasts Found Striking. “When we paint against the: vivid background of the eight years under ‘Wilson the history that has been un- rolled since March 4, 1921, there are, to say the least, some startling con- trasts. In 1913 the lobby was scourged from Washington; in .1921, like a flock of unclean birds hastening to the feast, it gathered from the four winds and descended upon the city. The Little Green House on K street was set up for sinister purposes but partly disclosed. Its occupants and their friends soon proved that they lacked neither zeal nor appetite. tain, only about 1,600,000 barrels * become the property of the Govi ment. In case of emergency .r threatened danger the country will have only the doubtful privilege of buying back from the iInterested par- ties, at their own prices, the oll which once it owned. Charges Promote Profits. “And after oll, the veterans, for whose care in one form or another the enormous total of $450,000,000 was provided to be spent, a sum half as much again as the budget of either the War Department or the Navy and 30 times the carrying cost of the De- partment of State. Here was & rare field for enterprise. A year and & half after Congress had appropriated $33,000,000 for building purposes only 200 hospital beds had been added to the bureau's equipment and those in a hoapital purchased readymade; but a friend of Director Forbes meantime had paid $17,000 for a hospital site and sold it to the Government on the same day for $105,000; and $100,000 had been pald to an architect who de- signed a bullding so poor that it was never built. We may be pardoned for asking whether it was common sense to sell at 20 cents on the dollar more than 84,000 sheets for which wounded men were waiting, while at the very time others were being bought to take their place at five times that price. “The enforcement of the prohibi- tion law gave an opportunity for ac- tion of which the denizens of the lit- tle green house were quick to avail themselves. Trade was brisk and profits were easy in this particular line, if but one-half the stories told by George Remus, king of the boot- leggers, and others are to be be- lieved. ‘Will Not “Soft Pedal.” “What i8 the answer when we talk of these things? It consists in the first place of bemoaning the fact that such unpleasant topics should be forced on polite ears. Why not forget about them? Why not say as little about them as poseible? Why not pretend that they were simple in- discretions, which should be over- looked when there is sign of repent- ance? Those who speak in this fash- ion assume a degree of indifterence or a lack of interest on the part of the people, which would be itself a reflection upon popular government. If it be true that public interest in these things has waned, is it not a public duty to see that it is revived before the day of judgment come: “Then we are told with some com- placency that there is no further need for public concern because those under suspicion have been indicted and there is nothing left to do but wait for the d still in the future, when th il be tried W, “Kirst of all came oil. At the head of the buccaneers as they marched along, rode the Secretary of the In- terior. Within ninety days after he took office the naval oil reserves had been transferred to his gentle guar- dianship and the dealing began. 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But to be vigilant in pre- venting fraud upon'the Government and in assisting its exposure is a vir- tue still higher. . Party Held Rewsponsible. “In so far as the property of the government and the resources of the nation have been bartered away, we are told with equal assurance that an effort will bs made to recover them by suit. But where is the re- sponsibility to lle for the fact that our undisputed title to our naval oil reserves has been exchanged for a contested lawsuit to recover them? The policy involved in this transfer and the acts themselves, as we know by his own declaration, had the ex- press sanction of the then President of the United States. Is his party not to be held politically responsible to the American people for thelr loss? “We Democrats are making and will make no campaign of person- alities nor shall I speak with disre- spect of any occupant of the presi- dential chair, whether living or dead. I am glad to believe that that higl office has never been unworthily held. We have, however, the President's own authority for the statement that ‘the only practical way to secure re- sponsible political - action by the formation of parties’ We agree and assert further that the only way to secure good government is to hold political parties responsible. I think I detect in some quarters a hope that without change of name or much of personnel a reorganization of a oer- tain political concern can be effected, taking over any discoverable asset: and repudiating all unpleasant 1i; bilities. My experience as a lawyer has taught me that creditors are rarely satisfled with this convenient method of canceling their claims. The American people can hardly be expected to accept it Finds No Hope in Excuses. “If the fact is that the public re- sources have been squandered, is it t that_a budg Glasses Fitted Eyes Ezamined College Dr. CLAUDE S. SEMONES Eyesight Specialist Phone Main 781 10 e2d G Bta. WoW — OO0 OO OO SO0 AR O A TR RS £ system has ‘been Installed? If unfit and corrupt men have been put in and kept in office and left to their devices, is it a sufficlent defense the ' administration - was not actually destrous of dishonesty? If the wounded veteran has been de frauded of the care that was his due, is there any comfort to him in the fact that Congress made lavish ap- propriations? “The tariff afforded an opening to the hosts of privilege for an assault less direct, but far more devastating to the public pocketbook. We are told that America, in 1921, was threatened from abroad by an ‘Im: pending avalanche of suddenly ches) ened merchandise’ from which it was narrowly saved by the beneficent ac- tion of the Fordney-McCumber tariff. In view of the bitter struggle that the exhausted peoples of Europe have had since the war in rebuilding enough of their shattered commerce to provide their dally bread, is ‘there not something grotesque in picturing them as ready to overrun the mar- Kkets of the world? Cites Increase in Rates, “Let me give you two or three il- lustrations of what a high protection- ist means when he talks of & com- meycial alanche; under a Demo- cratic tariff, sewing machines, neces- sary in every home, were on the free st and we were importing' scarcely 1 per cent of the value of our dome: tic production. This was an ava- lanche, however, not to be tamely borne, and a duty of 33% per cent was imposed to check it. Of alum- inum kitchen ware, now in such unt- versal use, we were importing less than 2 per ocent of the amount which we consumed. Such an avalanche ac- cordingly was permanently barred by taxing the domestic consumer three times the existing rate. In rubber footwear our imports were too small to be worth reporting, but the duty nevertheless w: ised 150 t. UNDER UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT SUPERVISION Specialized Service to Army, Navy and Civilian Depositors Industrial Loans Checking Accounts 49, Savings Accounts Banking Hours: 8:30 to § P.M. THE DEPARTMENTAL BANK 1714 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W. In manufactuges of wool our imports were less thAn 6 per cent of the domestio production, so the rates of duty were increased by 80 per t. Truly a Republican. protectionist's avalanche is a fearful thing to wit- ness, even from afar. “In the realm of forelgn affairs the contrast between the past and present 1s more striking still. Wants Great Role for United States. . “There was a day when America sat in the councils of the nations, oc- cupying at, their table the seat of honor and of dignity that was her right. There was a day when she made covenants and engagements in her own name and was not content to be merely the beneficiary of the effort and good will of others. Today apparently she has no other program than to'‘encourage American citizens and resourcgs to assist in restoring Europe with the sympathetic sup- port'—but nothing more—'of our gov- ernment”’ It is a far cry to this from the declaration of Theodore Roose- velt that ‘If we are to be a really great people we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the worl “As an American I am gratified by the fact that American citizens have had their share in the latest effort to solve the economic difficulties of Europe. Every man o¢f good will must hope _that the Dawes report points the way to befter days not only for our neighbors across the seas but for ourselyes at home. But I do not_understand hat_th, it SUFFERED WITH ANNOYING - [TCH Turned to Ringworm, Could Not, Rest at Night. 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