Show TAFT AND THE BIG STICK There is considerable eon gossip just now concerning the course cour President Taft Tart will take when the tariff bill is pre pro presented to him for tor signature The other day a dispatch was sent out from corn Washington to the effect that Senator Speaker Cannon C and Chairman i Payne had hall been in conference with the executive at the White house and that Mr Ir Taft TaU was satisfied with the tariff tinkering in congress s so far as it had proceeded This statement was as evi ei evidently en dently given out to counteract the possible effect of ot the speech made in Chicago by Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh lIa In which Mr Taft Was Vas ran highly eulogized but in the course of Which the secretary took occasion to tomy say my in regard to the th tariff It seems to me that the chances are largely large in favor of a revision that the people will accept What bat the people expect is what the protectionist prot Republican party promised In Its Ita last years platform And while It Itis is Ia 1 talking against the Ule wind nind to argue that the revision expected exp t Is not a revision down it would to equally futile to say sa that the revision down was promised to tobe tobe tobe be a revision down and out In conclusion one word about the president pre He lie too seems to be of good cheer as to this tariff question He lIe seems seams to place ce greet great reliance upon the th wisdom of the Ute congress and upon Its public spirit Of course coune it te In easier easler to be complacent when you know you have the lost last word and that the last Jaet word is 18 a combination of language and big stick This is the first mention of tie the big tick tiek in connection with the present administration It has been generally generall understood that the club of Roosevelt went into the discard at the time of the new deal If it is still in the White Whitehouse house hour and kept hept within reaching dis distance dIstance tance of President Taft prayers will ascend a all an over oer the land that he will net his putt when the time for action arrives |