Show WHAT GOLDWIN SMITH SAID SAIDA SAIDA A long time ago Mr Ir Goldwin Smith one of the first of the insurgents said saidA saidA A political party begins to die as soon as ns Its machinery becomes more important Important tant tan than Its Us principles Which Is a avery avery avery very creditable aphorism The statement nt Is made apropos of the position of some of the insurgent In urgent sen sea senators senators atom and congressmen In various parts of tho the United States who declare they will not follow the Republican party leaders In recent legislation and that they will wUl destroy the present method of managing the four hundred representatives tives at Washington So far as the tariff law Is concerned It Is la a closed incident We do not be ba believe believe lieve any man will be Indorsed by the people of ot the nation in any effort to re reopen reopen reopen open the th tariff debate for a number of ot years Nothing Is more harmful to the business of the country than a constant uncertainty as to the tariff That is a subject which can an be re reopened reopened reopened opened only at the expense of very se so serious serious rious Ios loss and commercial disaster wherever men of the great republic are concerned So far as the rules of ot the lower house of congress Is concerned they may ma be altered or abolished entirely Any man who undertakes to get business done by four hundred congressmen who recognize recognize recognize nize no procedure will Ill find that the sessions will h never 1 r fend and no measure will ever over reach conclusion In a meeting of fifty men It is difficult difficult cult enough to get ordinary business done even with the most accommodating ing chairman In a congress of four hundred the attempt to get got the speakers kers eye would amount to one continuous riot Uncle Joe Cannon may be a czar as has been charged But he was elected speaker and the majority of the lower lowerhouse lowerhouSe lowerhouSe house Adopted the present rules be because because because cause the men of at experience there know rules w were re necessary If doing d what Is best for the country and avoiding what is worst for the country be paying pa more attention to the machinery than to principles then the Republican party better plead guilty And If the he adoption of ot rules rifles which help to get business done is a setting of the manner above the matter matt r of legislation then en the nation better go batik bank to the original sL congressmen pro by the i apportion apportionment t ment C r v |