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September, 1922
THE AT L A NTIAN
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More Power to Pat Harrison
(From the New York Herald (Rep.).
When the wool producing statesmen
confess pecuniary interests in the wool
schedules they say they are within
their rights and sneer solemnly at any
suggestion that private interest enters
into their legislative action. And when
oil Senators confess personal interest
in a thirty-five cent tariff on crude
petroleum, as Senator Harreld, of Ok
lahoma, did day before yesterday, you
get the reply that they are “within
their rights” in voting for the duty.
It is high time there should be
clearly established the principle that
it is not within a Senator’s or Repre
sentative’s rights to vote on questions
or for measures in which he has a di
rect personal interest, big or little.
The needed illuminant will be afford
ed by a record vote in the Senate on
Senator Harrison’s searching resolu
tion affirming the just rule in Jeffer
son’s Manual and the common law of
Congress for a century and a third.
Naturally there is every disposition
among profiteering statesmen to block
the progress of the resolution toward
a record vote. There is no justifica
tion, legal, moral or personal, for such
an attitude. Let Pat Harrison ham
mer away. The New York Herald is
for him in this matter because it be
lieves he has the discernment, the wit
and the courage to make the fight,
and it does not care a continental for
the circumstance that he is a Demo
crat.
Heflin’s Humorous Climax
to Explode Charge.
Concerning the now exploded charge
that the big newspapers threatened to
defeat Taft in 1912 unless news print
and wood pulp were placed on the
free list, which resulted in nothing
more interesting and important than
that Senator Watson, of Indiana, has
a bad memory for dates; the following
anecdote by Senator Heflin (Dem.,
Ala.,), is a fitting climax for the hu
morous incident; Senator Helflin said:
“I recall an incident in connection
with the presidential election of 1912.
A story was told to the effect that
the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Wat
son) was calling upon Mr. Taft at the
White House after the election, and
that while he was discussing some
matter with him, word came in that
Senator Smoot was in the office of
the secretary waiting to see the Pres
ident, whereupon the Senator from In
diana remarked to the President,
‘Just think of it! There’s Reed Smoot
out theer walking around with half
of your electoral votes in hfe vest
pocket.”
LET “PAT DO IT”
510 Courtland St.
Jones—I hear your wife has gone
on a two weeks’ vacation?
Smith—She has.
“When are you going to have
yours?”
“I’m having mine now!”
J. H. EWING
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HAVE YOUR PRESCRIPTIONS
FILLED AT
FRANKLIN
<5& COX, inc.
24-26 WHITEHALL STREET
CONNALLY BLDG.
The August government crop report
shows a probable production of 3,-
00,000 bushels of com and 800,000,000
bushels of wheat, with relatively good
crop prospects in other products. The
question now occurs what are the
farmers going to do with their sur
plus? Europe wants it and needs it,
but a Republican party conspiracy,
beginning in 1918 and continuing to
this day, has left Europe in financial
and economic chaos and destroyed the
farmers’ greatest source of prosperity,
the foreign markets. Until these are
restored, the surplus agricultural
products must go begging and also
operate to reduce the price in the
home market. It is now proposed to
destroy what is left of the foreign
market by the prohibitive profiteering
Fordney-McCumber Tariff bill.
While the farmer is thus increasing
his products the Republican party is
driving away his customers and de
stroying their ability to buy. This is
a form of economic idiocy, upon which
Republican reactionaries have a mo
nopoly.
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Four Horsemen of the
G. O. P.
Poverty—Distress.
Disorder—Violence.
= 5 “Seben dollars fo’ one hat!!! Is yo’
III milllllllllllll Illl Illllimill crazy?!!
LIARS I CAN FORGIVE
The Tailor who tells me that my fig
ure is much trimmer this season.
The Barber who insists that his
treatment is doing wonders for my
hair.
The Manicurist who raves about
my intellectual hands.
The flapper who assures me that I
am getting younger every day.
BUT I CAN NEVER FORGIVE
The Golf Professional who tells me
that in another month I will play
around in 80.
Tonight, I've got a date with Paul.
0 Gee! I hope the boss don’t bawl
For me at five.
But if he does, I’ll quit this place.
1 can do better with my face
Than in this hive.
Why, with my features on the screen,
I sure could be a movie queen
And sport a car.
O Gee! But won’t the boss regret
The way he treated me, you bet,
When I’m a star.
E. D.
MANNERS
Said Mayonnaise to Lobster:
“Refrain crustaecous fish
Your soft caressing;
Remember, you’re a lobster,—
And I,—am dressing.”