Show NO YIELDING ON TARIFF Senator Warren Talks of Sentiment in West STRONG FOR PROTECTION This the View Held by Rocky Mountain Country Wyoming Senator Is in Close Touch With the Sentiment of His Section I TRIBUNE SPECIAL Washington March Protection has some strong advocates In the West the Iowa idea having spread Eastward East-ward rather than Westward The Rocky Mountain country Is strong for protection said Senator Warren yesterday While It Is true that there arc but comparatively few Hems I in which that part of the country coun-try is a beneficiary yet you may set the people of that country clown as stand patters rather than followers of the new Idea sometimes called the Iowa Idea That Is if we must choose between be-tween those who sand pat for the Din gley tariff and those who believe that the tariff Is a breeder of trusts and that the schedule should be overhauled at all events whether by friends or by enemies our people would prefer to bear the slight Ills they now have rather rath-er than to fly to those they know not of PRidES FOR WOOL AND CATTLE Under the DIngley act our Western industries are In a satisfactory condition condi-tion Western sheepmen who are talking talk-ing of IS and 20cent wool this year were glad to get f i to S cents just before the Dingier act passed Cattlemen who now get 550 to SilO a head for beeves marketed bad to be satisfied with 20 to SLM a head under the WilsonGorman act Maybe the Dlngley act Is not responsible J re-sponsible for the t increase but t If i nol I It is a coincidence which we desire to have continued for awhile yet If it becomes evident that any portion of the Dln ley act should be modified r have no doubt such modification will follow But the work will be done by h those t who constructed con-structed or at least believed in that bill rather t than by those who sullenly accepted but have never sincerely supported sup-ported itAS AS TO RECIPROCITY We are opposed to insidious attacks upon the Dlngley tariff under the guiso of reciprocity treaties which are not reciprocal re-ciprocal I instance the attempted re ciprocily treaty with the Argentine republic re-public The promoters of that treaty would reduce by 20 per cent the duty on wools imported into the United States from Argentina and thus menace men-ace by a dangerous foreign competition competi-tion an Industry which prevails In nearly near-ly every Stale in the Union thus vitally 1 vi-tally affecting agriculture and In exchange ex-change we would get but a slight reduction re-duction of duly by 1 Argentina upon exports ex-ports of agricultural implcments from Ibis I country benefiting a dozen or so manufacturing establishments Ve wish the mannfaeturln tnhl1Hnrnt w1 but not at the expense of the farmers IRRIGATION PROJECTS The people of the West are gratified grati-fied by the t prompt and earnest manner wIth which the Interior department through the geological survey has taken tak-en up the execution and administration of the new Irrigation law The spirit of the law bolting to an equitable distribution dis-tribution of the reclamation fund among nmonS the Western States has been observed in the first selection of irrigation selecton Irllsalon projects pro-jects for construction We look for energetic en-ergetic endeavor in the building of the projects selected so that the country may be given an early practical demonstration demon-stration of the wisdom of the legislation legisla-tion WEST IX THE SENATE As our people well know what has been accomplished in Congress for the West has been mainly because of our relative Western strength In the Senate Sen-ate where we with our thirteen far Western Slates California Oregon Washlnglon Nevada Montana Utah Idaho Wyoming Colorado North Dakota Da-kota South Dakota Nebraska and Kansas are In the proportion of 2G to 00 or about 1 to i2 < while In the House wt have but as votes in 3SG or about 1 to 10 This is exactly as many members mem-bers oC the House o Representatives jiuqnuo XIVC9H ispw ojiuo otn uroij the area of the Unllcd Statesas the one State of New York will have In the next Congress There Is of course much anticipation anticipa-tion t over President Roosevelts Western rip I was suggested Our Western people and especially those of Wyoming the Senator of answered an-swered are particularly well pleased that President Roosevelt Is going to visit us Ibis spring The President like his cllsllngulnhed predecessor Mr McKinley recognizes he value of per onal observation IN FAVOR OF ROOSEVELT With the East and all other parts of the country the West is united In support sup-port of Mr Roosevelts nomination for thc Presidency in 1001 We share with the entire country In the confidence reposed re-posed in his high purposes his sincerity and honesty and in his constant effort to make the best use of his great position po-sition without a trace of demagoguery fol the betterment of all citizens of our country whether rich or poor |