Show I nUSI BUSINESS EsS MEN IE IX IN TIlE TUB SE SENATE Among other comments that that- th the tariff debate has aroused Is a a. sort o of displeased cd line lino of or statistics on th the tho number and Influence of business mon men monIn In the Senate The Indianapolis News New makes this showing It Il found that there were twenty seven corporation lawyers lawers twenty ono bankers and holders of ot bank stocks eleven manufacturers nineteen holders of railway stocks twenty six holders of ot Industrial stocks six men Interested In steamship lines Jines seventeen Interested in mines and nino Interested in lumber lum luni- ber two Twenty senators are aro counted as os millionaires and only ten ton as poor men in Other papers have hl gone one more at nt detail Into the stud study It seems to bo he regarded as objectionable that men mn successful In business should represent represent represent sent the people In a 0 lawmaking bod body There might bo ho m matters on which business men would bf be b expected to make bad decisions for the tho government It Is ono one ono of ot the tho oft oft- quoted passages from Locksley Hall hail that that- hat The Jingle of tho the guinea helps the hurt urt that honor feels And yet et business men have never ne been slow to risk their lives lIvos their fortunes and their sacred acred honors as asId old Id John Adams put It when the they felt the tho nations nation's best hest Interests d d it It would seem that business men would woul be especially desired In the Senate when matters of the tariff ar arto arto ar i arito to be considered lan l Many readers of or orthe the newspapers take a keen Interest In the tariff But they confess an utter Inability to understand the tariff question There is a a. famous f free ee trade rule tto to the effect that tho the br breadth of at the the o ocean nn an is prat pj enough for fo American Industries There is tho Morrison 1 notion that so complicated com corn a a. matter as aM the tariff cannot be un understood b by the people cople and therefore a horizontal reduction of or ten per cent would be a fair settlement and adjustment of or the whole matter But It Is not a secret or transcendental trans tram thing at all Men of or business business business busi busi- ness training can and do understand it Men who have not had business s training In details the details the buying anI anti and selling the transportation rates the myriad Incidentals the Ingredients and their conflicting problems problems wIll will find the tariff no easy lesson If It the business men cannot understand understand understand under under- stand it no one can They do understand understand understand under under- stand It The They have o to Their success sue suc cess Is built because the they do un understand understand under under- stand the tho little things that go o to the tho make up of or their business problems There will be some things the commercial com corn mercial mind mo may riot not grasp grasp grasp-as as th the importance of art and the sentiment on which monuments are arc But for the tarl tariff the one ono best man is 18 the business man It will hardly be contended that th the hp business men are arc not as honest as are others The They must bo be accepted accept d as quite quito as good citizens as t tore re other men sent to Congress That being true and it being reasonable that they have a better gm grasp p of ot commercial commercial com coin mercial problems problem than men no not trained and successful In business bu affairs af ar a- a fairs Calra we wo can see no good reason renson fo for complaint that the senators who ar arr arr- now considering the revenue In laws ws are aro exactly the kind the they are |