Show UNCLE JOE CANNONS SORROW Joe Cannon of the national house or of and standpatter e extraordinary Is a 8 wor worried neil ried man He made a trip to Wash Washington ington ton lAtely according to the theP P ost his bis first hard work there was 5 l a perusal of o the treaty with P Panama and andt t the la law authorizing tIN the construction of th the canal Then he said saidI I do not DOt koo know that I Ita have ve any mes ines sege 14 to tIN the t tuching ehi f the eon con of t the Panama canal My Iy is i that the set act of 0 i au U the president to con construct the Parama canal enal and to acquire and nd op operate orate erate the n railway and it es him fm to enter into the ry contracts to accomplish the work My recollectIon n is that th lh authority of the president hi the thc Hem ren Hemis renIes Ies is pl mry I Lat Later r on in question of the pU purchase e of and supplies or for the canal Uncle Joe said r 1 takE it for granted that a all the supplies needed should Mould be and will m be the prod luet net tf ci our onn on labor wherever practical practicable cal cable le Naturally Uncle Joe Toco in common with ether friends of Ute the protected in inter inter ter sta i is alarmed by the announce millions or of the canal money are to OM be spent abroad because Ute president declines Unes to permit t the he govern to rob roh itself it by menus means of the tariff valI U on which the trusts are arc It IL gives Ute the president a splendid to accomplish three things First it will in Nove the government money second ona it will ill deliver a blo blow Kt at atie Ute ie trusts which hoped to corral the tite canal anal money and third it will I size the need for tariff revision Evidently Uncle Toe Joe got pc scant nt comfort rein from the In the case He discovered ered the president has I plenary authority and is 16 therefore out of r reach h unless con congress amends Use law Jaw to compel the purchase hase ul of aU all supplies at al home And what a balty old oh row that tat would stir up NJ T The Mt passage of 0 a law to loot t Ute the extent of millions the already sadly depleted treasury by forcing th the nt to pay t the extortionate prices charged by the protected inter interests eats ests at home would be a tariff revision argument that the not answer t though they talked t them em sOlves vs black In the f face faceA ce ceA A writer In the Post is undoubtedly right ht when he says Be sure that will not n bE done The standpatter is a good many JOany tiling things but bet he i Is no fool and nd he knows know that such a Ia law as that would be a severer blow to excessive duties than all the logic of aU all the free traders from Adam Smith to Hoke Hok Smith Truly t these De be troublous days for forthe tb the and their protected friend The Te latter Jatter if IC the they would ook share In the distribution of the canal mone money must conic wn down to the ch charged abroad and that will ill hurt It looks as if the pre president ident had an all anthe the best of 0 the situation and with Ith all KII talk of his hig future candidacy definItely put to rest re by his own words he Is Im impregnable pregnable That he be will III utilize every presented te 1 by the me situAtion is Pint HOt to be doubted and nd U Je Joes perplexity has abundant |