Show N n SIRS STRESSED D MOST I L' L Of BY PRESIDENT Review of Message Shows Disapproval of Farm bill Also Emphasized By FREDERIC FREDERIC WILLIAM WILLlAM WILE WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Dec 10 IEr Per Persistent Ler promotion of economy econom as the principal cause of national prosperity and tax i reduction reduction tion Is the note most most emphatically struck In President Coolidge Coolidge's s annual annual annual an an- nual message message- to congress The ad administration administration ad- ad 1 ministration opposes permanent tax r reduction at this tills time believIng believing bellev ing that the treasury treasury's s estimated surplus of ot should rather rathel be applied primarily to retirement of the orld World war ai debt Meantime Mr 1 Coolidge recommends relief to ments due in l I Match March and June 1927 taxpayers ers by reducing the payI pay- pay I The pr president is almost equally R emphatic in his continued to farm faun relief on McNary- McNary Haugen lines Ins lie He makes males plain that agricultural measures of that de- de 1 about to td be reintroduced swill ill encounter the administrations administration's stern hostility In working out the 1 surplus produce problem to any f h sound conclusion the president nt f decla declares res ft is ft It Is is necessary to avoid I I putting the government into the rJ business of production or market market- r tion for the purpose of price fixing fixing fix fix- ing or attempting to enact legisla- legisla lug Ing Mr 11 Coolidge in the next t t. t breath professes confidence that 4 favor attempted attempted attempted at at- the farmer does not any inv tempted remedies that partake of these elements t C CASTS GAUNTLET In the terms just quoted the president definitely throws do down don n the gauntlet to the farm leaders 1 and farm politicians of the corn wheat and cotton belts From those quarters farm faim relief bills on the precise lines assailed by Mr CoolIdge Coolidge Coolidge Cool Cool- f idge idge- are presently to be brought forth in both houses All doubt of ot r the administrations administration's between the r. r White House and the rural lural west and south is thus reopened and assured assured assured as as- ot of prolongation That the thet t contro roy will dominate the con con- session is to certain That vt H t will become the paramount issue of f the 1928 campaign becomes more more and more probable The sole organized opposition to Mr 11 Coolidge s r is based on t n his his' farm policy The le leader d r of that o os s former governor Frank Prank 0 O. O Lowde l VI of Illinois Illi Ills i nois If cut L Lowden den wants cut cut has sup supplied it in th the anti Coolidge issue Issue the president lions tion's uncompromising stand on I Ii farm relief J Next to economy taxi tax reduction s. s and agricultural questions the presidential message lays the bulk built i of ot stress on national defense matL matters mat mat- L' L tera 4 1 Mr C adheres s firmly to the doctrine of adequate strength on land on se and in the air all but buthe buthe 0 he Iss unqualifiedly opposed to expansion ex ox- of armaments In any of Iose directions P Particular points president ent asset asserts but as a whole our ui military power Is sufficient Mr Ir Coolidge considers that reduction reduction reduction tion of ot the thear v wai ar bt is vastly more important than fresh expenditure on on n the army army or ivy In espousing espousing espousing I ing that th ory the the- president di di- di rests pests himself bf f a couple of ot Cool with epigrams epigrams with which as usual ills his his' message bristles In In any any ny m modern dern campaign he ob observes oba ob w. w serves serves the dollars are the shock troop troop Later Latel ih there re is this Eco Economy u nom nomy Is the e handmaid of preparedness prepared prepared- a ness ness i JINGOES SNUBBED Mr ir Coolidge appears appe rs to attach small entail weight to the r paring prevents the carrying out outa t a cC of the war v ar d department nt that cheese cheese- ee t ti i od of the 1920 o national defense act i. i f- f fTh The Th The The- president pays equally little little J attention to the fears of the navy that lack of f funds a department com corn t 1 pets the fleet to contemplate dismantlement dis dis- I of vital units and esThe es- es The fhe message messages message's s natural ial defense afloat and ashore section se scathingly rebukes bules l' l attempts attempts at at- 1 tempts Jo to f prevail upon the government govern govern- 1 ment nent to purchase se armaments be- be jond its needs needs' This is is apparently a at ha Naval val contractors As to to prohibition President Coolidge contents himself with re reaffirming ie- ie affirming himself a R rigid la law en w-en- w forcer and reprimanding citizens tion Uon lie Jle Ie fri fn particular calls upon who fail rail to support the those in p public places placeS' who have taken the oath to support the constitution conr con con- r- r to id be most scrupulous ilous in 1 I Its s. s observance r Supplementary 1 le legislation to me meet t existing condi condl- i tins in the form of some abuses In enforcement Is given ven iz k the Cool Coolidge dge backing tid ti tio No o o new he notes ar are struck by the predent in the realms realms' of relations relation Mr lIr Coolidge fa favors favor speedy peed r radio adio legislation leaving control control of th air in the department of commerce statutes authorizing 1 Mint to deal with an expected bituminous bitu minous co coal l crisis next spring and prompt action by congress congress' relative to return of war seized alien property property prop prop- j erty erty subject lo Jo proper compensation tion Uon for American claimants Copyright g t |