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...jobless: "I admit .there is distressing unemployment. . . . Something like 46,000,000 individuals are earning a living in the country and certainly 43,000,000 of them are at work." Then he gave his figures a political twist: "The workers of the country need the passage of the Tariff Act to remove uncertainty. . . . Delays in tariff legislation are more responsible today for creating unemployment than any other factor. Push the building program, pass the Tariff Bill and our worker will find employment...
...months of debate on the tariff, Senators spoke 4,219,000 words, which cost $131,900 to print in the Congressional Record. Democrats spoke for 221 hours, Republicans 158 hours, Insurgents 148 hours. Such were the statistics given the Senate last week by that master statistician, Chairman Reed Smoot of the Finance Committee, nominal pilot of the tariff bill...
...these words, all these hours, all this money spent on the tariff appeared last week likely to become so much waste. The coalition of Democrats and insurgent Republicans which had been ploddingly revising the regular Republicans bill, suddenly disintegrated under a series of log-rolling trades among the Regulars...
Under the Senate's parliamentary practice, tariff amendments by the Finance Committee have priority over all others. Time after time during the past six months, the Coalition voted down the Committee's provisions, substituting amendments of their own with lower rates...
Mencken thinks polytheism still rears its many heads. "The God of the Episcopalians is an elderly British peer, courtly in manner, somewhat beefy, and, in New York, vaguely Jewish. The God of the Mormons shaves his upper lip, and believes in large families and a protective tariff. The God of the Methodists is an agent pro-vacateur, forever fingering his pad of blank warrants. The God of the Baptists is amphibious, and, in some of his aspects, almost identical with the Neptune of the Greeks...