Show I BANKERS SEEK SMOOTS SMOOT'S SCALP SO TARIFF T A IFF CAN BE CUT DOWN BOWN Or Organized ga cd Campaign Against c Duty Seems in Evidence WEST VEST VERSUS EAST Freight Rates Hates and Lack of Farm Relief Aro Issues By Dy IW ROBERT ERT T S SMALL t LL Special of The Standard Copyright 19 1126 Consolidated Press Association CHICAGO June One 26 One doe I not have hav to linger long lone here her In the middle west to realize that a a wave of sectionalism i Is swe swoOping thIs I part t of the country It constitutes t tes a condition and not a n theory that the politicians will wilt hav bAvo to meet There Thero Is a 8 new outcry against the domination of ot tho the east cast Jl Ii doca doe no good food to point out that most of ot the Important committees committee ot of the th United State senate nr arC presided over by western senators You realize more than ever over that Ii it Inthe the country at large lane Washington W Is judged by the administration rath- rath rath rather er cc than by congress Presidents PresIdent like Roosevelt and Wilson elated dated this state of ot public opinIon That Is why they virtually took char chargo e of cone cas President Cool Cool- Coolidge Cool Idge has kept hands oft ort congress AND But Dut the Is from New England and Andrew VI W Mellon secretary secretary of tho the treasury Is Pittsburgh Both Doth are aro ar of the east These are arc two figures who stand standout out today In all political discus discus- discussions discussions sion The Tho political menace In the see see- cc in m which I Is being preached today lies Ilea In the th fact tact that It Is 13 arising largely from Republican sources source Some Someo of the most Influential pipers ot of the th great treat In inland Inn empire the tight light The grievances of ot th se lection seem scent to many tm ta m gt as A A- A AThey They cast Is a not listening to the tot voice ot of o the corn belt bolt It ItIs Itis Is treating the belt with contempt The cont belt and Its supporters will never Dwer forgive Sir Mr Mellon for tor forthe the letter he h wrote against the lausen plan of farm relict relief Nor did the corn torn belt like the spee h i Mr r Coolidge delivered here her In Chi Chi- cato cago last l t December The corn belt bell beltIs bellis beltIs Is up In arms arm 11 IL It Is a wide wido and populous belt and already It has hown In Iowa and herb In Illinois that It can make trouble for tor sena sena- senators sena- sena senators senators tors running on an llon lion platform They say y out here that the east eAsl has bas no nD conception of ot the farm tarm problem and that the fhe he east ought to t listen to tD men who ho hall hati from the corn country f ATTACK CK ON OX TARIFF T In retaliation tor for the lack ot of farm relief they aro are threatening A concerted attack on the tho he tariff It does no good to point out that everything the farmer raises Is pro pro- protected pro protected by the the tAriff The Tho notion Is 18 is spreading ix being being- that fostered fostered the tho tariff really Is I designed for tor the I east and tho the east east cast alone There need be no Black Dlack clouds Are or gathering Catherine in this section They aro are giving real concern to some of the old line leader leaders Sleet Sleet- Meet Meet-lne ings Inga have been held this week In Chicago to consider tho the situation IIER AIER It Is recognized here If tt not In Inthe inthe Inthe the east cast that the Ih tariff lies haI i l become a major league leaeu issue for tor the th first time since Ince 1908 What Is I cau ln Itra grave ve concern to the protectioniSts Is the thC th fact tact that the international bankers of ot the tho east cat are attacking th thO tariff end and nd are arc helping to 10 spread the discontent out here and even still further to te tho the west nest est where frIends of ot Senator Reed Smoot of oC Utah say ay the te bankers banker are ar out for hIs scalp because he heads the tl- tl fi tl-nanc tl nance committee of the th senate senale and can block radical attempts at revision while In that position The he western ls ar are claiming that even In the matter ot of freight rate rites rates they are aro being dl- dl die dis discriminated criminated Against for tor the benefit of the east catt Eastern merchants can th their r goods gooda rood to the wesl coat coast via In tho the Panama cAnal cheap cheaper er than Chicago or St Louis or Kansas Kanas City or St St Paul can can can- ship by rail tall These eastern gOOds can even come corn into Inlo the Interior from the western coast anti and still have a an ad As A a matter of fart faN goode from Chicago can cnn be bo shipped to 10 the east cast anti nl then transferred by bv bywater water wAler to the th west wot coast cot It Is 11 said ld cheaper than they can go RO from this central point to California Oregon and Washington by rail The wes weE wants this changed CONCERTED I MOVEMENT HT ENT I A concerted movement Is I und underway r way for tor the formation of a mid mid- midwest midwest west association of 01 commerce to todeal todeal deal with this and other problems problem The Th ta cast catt t Is being accused of op- op op op posing midwestern waterway d de development The Th east cast I Is blocking the lakes to the thc gulf rulf waterway de de- de dc Sectional resentment a against all these things i Is rising Already It i Is n it very tangible thing thine When Senator Reed of Pennsyl Pennsylvania vania yania In explanation of 01 some ome re- re recent r cent primary expenditures expenditure said of his commonwealth We are no pet let pet petty ty tv western state slate tle he h helped to lo fan Ule i-be fires of this n iTC lm l-lm lam Ism In the papers of the th midwest you can tAn read rad dally daily editorials under such uch option captions as a the Ihn coming storm storn or fighting the tho west wt or who hD pays pay the th tariff tarIU A As In all A wars political or other other- otherwise wis wisp wise this sectionalism Is going to toI toI tobe tobe I be a 1 b of self defense o Th The I I on Page roge FIve BANKERS AFTER SMOOTS SMOOT'S SCALP Continued From ironi Inge Inse One west sas sa's avs It is 1 being attacked And It Is raising Its It voice vole In warning Politics and commerce are strange IY ii mixed In the coming storm torm It was wa C E Id Childe traffic bu- bu bureau bureau bu bureau reau manager of at the tho ber ber bel oC ot commerce who r recently stood tood before a senate enate In Washington and said ald You have just seen evidences of political rc rc olt olt out in au our I territory Our people are not radical bud bu wint relief relict and they are voicing their demand that something something- be bedone bedone bedone done 00 |