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Show SEVERS COMPARISON. No Progressive has said sharper things or has put a keener qdgc on his criticisms of Taft than "Life," the New York illustrated periodical which, in its last issue, offers this comparison of a Biblical character and our President, under the heading, "Was Judas Fat?": lie was not so represented by the early painters. Yet, why not? A betrayer enjoys betraying. Why should not a Judas ,who enjoys judasy, be fat and smiling? . , We know a gentleman who said, when running for the presidency: "I wish there to be no doubt as to the revision of the ; tariff. I am a tariff revisionist." "Tariff revisions should be immediate, and on the . whole there should be a substantial revision downward." "Tariff duties ought to be reduced." t i But when he became President he snapped his fingers t in the faces of his electors and joyously betrayed his-,trust. And a fatter and more smiling gentleman you will scarcely ' find between Maine and Texas. Taft made a complete reversal when, confronted by the tariff measure passed by the last session, providing for a reduction of duties, he vetoed the same. Taft, at times, is anything but a statesman states-man too often he is purely a politician. p.re.a, .,...- - M ..urn nacmgJgmJBJ.ii'mM iwanft aamemi. jw u |