Show i The Contest of Wits of-Wits Wits WILSON without doubt believes thai tha PIU PRESIDENT the tho keen trained mind is the greatest with which man can be endowed Following f froIt his youth n it profession that popular sentiment regards regard as intellectual tho President naturally understand that only b by constant activity can ones one's mental IDenta processes and find perceptions reach the tie maximum maximum of intenSe intense in in- tense acuteness The brain that is permitted to stagnate stagnate stag stag- nate after thu tho fruits of years its of endeavor have havo hn o removed re rc- rc mo moved the necessity for further exertion soon ceases cease to be of ser ser-r service cc This truth which comes conies within Mr Ir Mr Wilsons Wilson's professional pro pro- purview punie ho lie now no applies to tho the tariff ques tion It is his belief as ho lie disclosed to Congress in ir his plea for or the tariff bill that if American wits American non wits in the arc aro allowed 1 to contest with process s of international trade his countr countryman nan will not succumb The Tho President argues splendidly but his premise c cis is so faulty that it vitiates his entire structure of logic If the industrial questions involved ill in t tariff rif re reduction confined themselves merely mercI to a test of wits between American manufacturers an and their foreign rivals the tho matter would be absurdly simple If it were only a question of or American efficiency the ability to cheapen co cost t of production by more economical ll methods and the elimination of or waste our industrial captains might wight owe the tho President a n debt of gratitude e for the mental exercise he lie affords them But nut the crux of the problem is is not there Tho The great proportion of 01 in manufacture is that of labor lobor In what other way can labor cost be bere re reduced except by tho simple process of decreasing wages In what hat other way can tho homo manufacturer compete with his foreign rival ri but by reducing the chief chic item of his production expense the wages of his which Mr Unfortunately the thc contest of wits of r. r Wilson seems so enamoured will vill devolve rohe upon the employee e not the employer The admitted cleverness cleverness clever clever- ness of the tho American wage earner win will be needed to enable him to live frugally fru economically with only the bare necessities upon the wage to which his foreign for for- ei eign n comrade is accustomed The contest of wits will ill be 10 that of the home laborer when he lie endeavors to keep his family in comfort upon uon a meager mengel wage to maintain tho the American standard of living ring on the income of the European wage There will ill bo no doubt about the contest of wits but the time President is in error error s as to its veal real character Courtesy and M Meddling S IO COC courtesy would inspire politeness tol toa towards to- to a l wards the neighbor who rho knocks nock at your door and find requests admission His c explanation that he lie has come to obtrude his personality into a n qu question tion that concerns you oU and you jOU alone might warrant exclusion exclusion sion but the householder with a due ue regard re for the amenities of li lifo o will consent that the tho intruder shall enter entel and state his case even though the application of strict justice would forbid his passing the thresh thresh- old That accurately describes the time courteous reception reception reception recep recep- tion by th the California Legislature of Pre President Wilson's Wilsons ViI Wil Vilson's sons son's suggestion that Secretary Bryan be permitted to confer with the legislators anent the time Japanese sit sit- The United States is s a union of sovereign so states state from whom certain rights cannot be To the tho average American whose patriotism or curiosity has inspired even een a n cursory examination o of the tho broad principles upon which the government Tests rests the line of demarcation is clear and distinct The magnificent cent distances between the two oceans the lakes and time the gulf cudo endows certain questions with ith a 1 purely local application Anti J Anti Japanese legislation in Utah for instance would excite no agitation There are arc not fortunately enough h of the diminutive rc brown men in this commonwealth commonwealth commonwealth common common- wealth to make any difference In California however however how how- ever Cl there are arc of f them and their number has bas created an economic economie problem which that e commonwealth common commonwealth common common- wealth alone can solve rc and whose solution is clearly the business of that state National naturalization laws la to which wo we all subscribe have haTe excluded the Asiatic races from citizenship for very cry excellent reasons rea rca sons ons which wo we shall not insult the tho intelligence of our readers reader r by 15 rehearsing Private appeals from Washington ashington in view of the binding nature of federal treaties are p permissible and defensible spectacular flying trips of f a secretary secretary secre secre- tary of state across the time continent to interfere in the private affairs of a sovereign state most assuredly arc are not Governing is a trade that requires long apprenticeship ap ap- ap- ap hip before full ull control is conferred A Solemn Ass KELLY of Pennsylvania owns a a n name that indicates he has a sense of 11 humor wn or but his membership in the tho Bull Moose aggregation l raises the tho suspicion that he is deficient in and his recent speech in the House offers proof conclusive No individual with tho the ability to comprehend comprehend com corn a joke could long remain in the Roosevelt elt party Mr r. George W. W Perkins never understood the tho laugh that encircled the nation when ho he explained that ho followed Mr lIr Roosevelt elt because ho wished to make mako America Am a better place for his children hildren to live in Nor will win Congressman Kelly ever c comprehend why everybody should smile when he urged the House to accept the tariff solution offered by the Progressives s- s the tariff board The creation of a n tariff commission to settle this vexed que question tion upon a scientific basis founded upon an exhaustive collection of industrial facts was Mr Tafts Taft's t's ts idea It was wa ne never er seriously presented by an any ant prominent American until that President urged it upon Congress and it never found a n place on the statute books until its establishment was provided by bythe bytho time the Payne tariff bill The commission that Mr r. r Taft Tart appointed was at nt work long before the Republican party's repudiation of Theodore Theodoro Roosevelt olt resulted te in inthe inthe inthe the formation o of the political cult to which the tho solemn sol sol sol- dun Mr J Kelly Uy belongs Colonel Roosevelt Roose-relt is to be bo e upon his acquisition of Mr Kelly He Tile should bo be a n follower after the very cry heart of tho the colonel himself The frame framo of mind ho he reveals reals by his public remarks indicates indicates indicates in in- that Mr Roosevelt could claim authorship of the tIle Magna and the Declaration of Independence dence dc without oven provoking a n Kelly Jelly sn smile lc Still if we had bad Mrs rs to deal with with in ill inthis inthis 1 this countr country her finish would doubtless be in in some somo such place at It looks as i if those who designed those Bulgarian blouses want to get us into trouble with the Balkan alliance may r indeed injure th tho prospect of votes otes I for C 1 1 Ut it ll will m nd u ha baud ld d in Procuring bus hus JU 3 I bands f for w women men |