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Show The Price. Of Wheat Hon. Thomas P. Gore, Senator from Oklahoma fears the President's veto of the $2.40 wheat amendment will prove disastrous to the Democratic party. In commenting comment-ing on the veto he says: "I hope that no Democratic member of Congress will lose hia seat on account of the fact that this measure was vetode by a Democratic President. If the next Senate, if the next House, if the next Congress Con-gress go Republican, it will b due to this veto message. mes-sage. This opinion is based onthe assumption that nothing be done to countervail the effects of the message. In any event I hppfe that no farmer will cast his vote against a Democratic Senator or a Democratic Representative On account of tHe actionthe ac-tionthe constitutional' Mtifn, I may say of the Democratic President. I feel that I ought to give x expression to this hope." Senator Gore then passes out this fine bit of sarcasm to the President. ' "The President in express! terms bases his veto upon principle and upon what he is pleased to call 'wise expediency.' I am obliged' to dissent both from the President's reasoning and conclusions as to the expediency of the vetft. Mr. President, injustice in-justice is always inexpedient: This truth is so plain as to be self -evident; this truth is so broad as to bo universal ; this truth is so.enduring as to be eternal ; . it admits of no exception, "Mr. President, Iheartily approve o f the generous, gener-ous, the golden praise which the President lavishes upon the American wheat farmer with such exuberant exub-erant and artistic grace. "Whatever of comfort the farmer can derive from these "gracious coinpli ments is his for the having. In so far as fine phrases phras-es and charming .rhetoric can compensate the Am- erican farmer for the loss' of $450,000,000 in the year 1917, and for the loss of $700,000,000 in the r 'year 1918 ,that compensation is the farmer's. My only fear is that such compensation may prove to be 'such stuff as dreams are made of.' " |
