Show I Z I WASHINGTON LETTER WASHINGTON J LETTER BIG BUSINESS IS SCARED SC Dy By CHARLES P STEWART NEt E Sen Ion Ie Writer WASHINGTON AUg Aug DI 9 9 Bl business the power behind th the I present lid administration ministration In Wash Wash- WashIngton Ington goes Into the congressional I campaign which Is just starting now flow handicapped the worst way Its It's a campaign In which a 1 record record expenditure of money wa Indicated as almost vitally Itally necessary sary It IC bIg bis business expected to te hold Its own In the next congress cong All the tho signs are arc that political public sentiment has undergone a a L marled marked change throughout large parts ot of the tho country In tho the last few tew months a months a change which bl bi business cannot ut out strenuously disapprove Notably the tariff tar Is under attack at- at attack at tack The Tho tariff Is big business most prized possession Big first thought In ic L I SlIt Its It's emergencies Its It's been dem- dem demonstrated in many a II campaign before be- be bc Is tore Is to spend plenty oC o oi t money Generally speaking It ii 1 turns the trick lint But this time one time one of ot the most mos l threatening outlooks big bud bust busl ness ever faced Its It's its it's prevented 1 L from spending much mitch It If anything the filibuster which just before congress ad- ad ad prevented tho the senate from tron adopting a II resolution limiting campaign expenditures only made matters mattera worse They're worse because the charge Is being made now that tha the filibusters filibuster's deliberate purpose I was to leave big biff business tree free freeto to spend all It wished on the corn com corn corn- corning cornIng Ing election so as IlS to remain in l ling control of oC the tho next congress at a least whatever may nay be ba the corn com complexion of o future ones That may not have been Sena- Sena Senator Senator tor Camerons Cameron's motive e in itt conduct conduct- conductIng conductIng Ing the filibuster In tact fact he h said it wasn't Nevertheless the story Is i In circulation Now If big business goes ahead and blows Itself as unquestionably unquestionably it Is 15 almost Impelled to do the tha uproar will be i terrific win In or lose so lose so bad that tha big business shows symptoms ot of being scared seared In advance nervy elect congressman-elect to pre pre- present pre pre- present sent himself In Washington In i 1921 under tIle the least suspicion that money won his fight True the La Follette and NeelY resolutions having been lost In the congressional adjournment jam i theres there's no definitely tiled fixed limit on what may b be spent but everybody has a pretty general Idea as to 10 what Is 15 too much On the other hand unless it II big business Is almost sure Hure It will lose loo the senate and d maybe mabo th the lower abuse To be sure a tariff reduction congress couldn't accomplish an any any- anything anything thing with Ith a high protection president on the sob ob unless it favored ored reduction by a a large enough majority to override his hla veto which is entirely too much to u- u However It would make a ar ar- ar arron ron ren last list half halt ot of o this administration tion It would hint likewise at grave perils for tor big business In 1023 Th The truth Is big business Is beginning be to realize that It over over- overreached overreached reached While nobody was looking it t quietly helped itself to about all athe the prosperity there was In Ih the dish The others other have hare noticed It now and are arc hollering tor for some e ot of their own or else elsa the tho return of part of ot what big business took toole But Dut there doesn't seem seen's to b be beany bany any surplus and Its It's painful to have to give anything back bacle |