Show y- y i The e South's in tn the e Saddle TilE HE President is displaying the tho resolution resolution that goes wit with his I rectangular In jaw haw Protests from Democrats an and Republicans I alike fn fall l back buck rebuffed from tho the imp impassable Sable portal o of f his deaf f. f EssentIAlly essentially a free trader trade r and eon consequently able to S see o but onen one t t of our Jf man economic system aa liB many many ar articles i c 1 es will be bo bof t f n on oil TiL the non l'-blo l' list as revenue revenue necessities will permit and andi andt t 1 House ou o influence nce and l patronage compos compass ss J r. r WIlson being a Southerner h himself surrounded cab- cab 1 er by a amen f Hi men 1 from m Dixie Dixi and supported b by y a a. a House majority o of f t ts the he e s iS Co Complexion Plo n the incidental protection that rs is ono one of t t time i. i p t ij p products C f of a n r revenue tariff will b be enjoyed by Southern ta t alono 10 The South LI will viII be bo protected in in it sells and andi i t Jp given I T Mi i and l o pen open n market marke for what it must buy bu That Th t ideal i a. 1 iU restore tho the glories of t antebellum days when w wealthy Louisiana a and Geor Georgia cors a planters plante swa swaggered rc through the time streets of oft t I I W oil raffled It it boldly in m In House find Senate an and occupied t t the C expensive SlY sUlt suites u s iu I m th the hote hotels hotel I t President Wilsons Wilson's honesty honest y ca cannot nl ot b be questioned q Ho He firmly t believes that a an tire n special l interests t rC ts arc are sitting upon the chest of L f t recumbent tade le Sam S crushing tho the tife life l ife from m him with the weight II tariff favoritism f TO I sties gives them He Ile is IS as fearsomely obsessed with ith this bugaboo bu t s er was wag Mr Bryan ryall with tho the supposed g gold old devil t 1 of Wall street t that r t chuckled w with gh ghoulish glee as a's as he his cracked tho the t 1 tender b bones nes of f fiat t money exponents fir Mr Wilson Tilson is determined I ti upon on rescuing r seu n t the l imperilled per consumer without rc reference Ce co to tot to t r i the P producer ro l he eith lt er will 1 not not or r cannot cannot understand d that the the J 1 producer and the t consumer nr are so 30 intimately ly related that the ruin min f of ones one's prosperity must must US contribute to the thc pitiable condition of time the ot other h cr I i t 1 1 t With an actual l desire es e to favor the South at nt tho the expense ense of the thc I i f East and West Vests Mr Wilson lson son should ho not be charged His integrity 1 may fear no challenge tp wishes to be bo President of all aU the tIle people I I 1 but those who surround u d him Im the congressional leaders leaden who are the 1 I instruments he must must nl use are are from the tho South their ir homes are there therel l f their investments ar are there t the tho interests s of their theu neighbors g h hors are their theirs I f If sugar ev evades deg decapitation oll and is IS condemned only to lingering I R r death it will ill be because So Southern Democratic senators demand it 1 P and he must have havo their votes if lead escapes with Ith o only h moderate I reduction in its tariff it W ebe the Missouri i ouri influence o exerted I I through rough Champ Clark The President would handle every ever product 1 without reference to o ita point rigin if he ho c could but h he e cannot I h I because he must wor work with the tools O ls a at hand The South is IS i In in n the I 1 saddle and Mr Ir Wilsons Wilson's 0 own Il P pr predilection l le for the he land of lri his s birth 1 I prepares S his mind to accept Yi unusual resignation n a condition 1 r that might otherwise have him 1 I The wool men the lead lend the meu mC sugar s gar men of Utah and tho the thoI I west tress ma may as well wen prepare themselves themselves' for whatever may y occur If I my any of these industries evade onda the tariff axe it will win be because of c circumstances over which tho the WC west h has B. B no no control The Tho Car of 1 is s in motion but tatty need not apo the fanatical and 1 throw themselves under its wheels It it will kill search them out unless I some seine Southern influence the President r must heed intervenes to toi 1 i save sage itself and unwittingly and without intent in thus rescues some om 1 one of the these e western products I The he Democratic tic governor of Massachusetts who vho a t few months month i ago ngo prided himself that 11 he had been m prominent t sipco sinco 1902 in 1 advocacy of tariff re revision a and d reciprocity il t has as undergone au an I operation for mental astigmatism and h s the light Ho now recognizes that the Democratic Congress is anning I live tive tariff revenue only des destructive e downward revisions re t i 1 Governor Foss sees the danger to his big st state tc from Southern ascendancy and ana he has urged the Massachusetts Massachusetts' s tt l Legislature to 1 I memorialize Congress against such a peril t to the the interests of I II Massachusetts etts' r He has repented in sackcloth and ashes Already f r the hc chill of tariff re reis revision is ont seiz s u upon upon his iris Democratic Dem c ic soul ef fore forc no matter no-matter matter mattel what comes we can at least enjoy enjo y the t Fosa lamentation lamentation lamentation lamen lamen- tation from the Slough o of Despond in which he be deliberately mired 1 1 himself f p 1 Z r lei Al s 's f r r 1 vr i 1 fI f I New New Roosevelt lt Trick 1 f N MEW r nationalism onee once Mr Roosevelt's hobby hobb hobby but ab abandoned nd e ne I I because it seemed to be of or no service against again st the Republican k party lias has been rehabilitated With that wonderful political sagacity Y t t that has made him a p at tho the game Mr Yr Roosevelt realizes 1 I that hat the advocacy of federal g g government ver ment is a n. weapon he 1 can can use against the party parly par iu in power the party that is supposed to toI to tofi t I I f fi favor vor states states' rights Opportunism series serves well hint him th that t knows hoto ho hots it t and the colonels colonel's clear clear- I to use r perceptions rc options havo have once-more once stood 1 I him liim in good stead stend although i itis it ia is doubtful wh whether the new nationalism national nation l- l ism ns as a political principle principle willabe of lasting benefit it As a n. rallying c cry in the absence of anything be better er i it is n not t without its good points t I Clothing an old idea In in new nevi vestments is IS a trick the colonel J I has turned throughout his political life I He lIe ie has d done one it again in I his letter fo to the few find and attenuated Bull Moose in Congress He I submits is with all nIl the portentous gra gravity ty o of a neW new discovery that 1 where the rights of trio the people can only be secured through the I exercise e of the national al pow power r then wo we 0 are rec committed to tho he doctrine of using the tho I national power to an any extent t that t. t the rights TIghts of th thE I people demand Then in m order to force theP and his part 1 into the thc position the thc colonel wants them to tot tako kc he remarks tha thaI I this of or itself sunders sunder us from the which h he 1 declares is irrevocably committed to tho tiro d doctrine c in of of or some Bome lift 1 separate ate sovereignties l 1 1 Jn In this thus le letter cr f to to the thc Progressives III in t Congress ss Mr Yr Roosevel is reviving re an 81 i issue th that t ha has long since sinco in o gone i into t b ragbag t 1 The The- Civil Scar var established forever fOre the principle that t al the h Unite 1 States although a union of states is into a a a. a h moge J mass mass with full fun authority uth over r its constituent parts and able to I itself tI t I States States' rights f has not bC been a live lice issue for half a century Notis Nor Not is left to fo chaU challenge the tho centralized power of the fod federal o so long ai as exercised with duo deference e to the Constitution al I r. r couldn't get a corporals corporal guard to follow him to m ped Reddon ll on an any theory that made of the thc states t a group of conquer conquer The colonel should pr provinces gue guess s a amt am t i y J Ra l a Ra i S i I A Path Pathetic tic Coterie NATURAL history in th the branch of zoology ool gy records man many instances 1 of attempts on the tho part of tho tail tall t to wa wag the dog never llever however however how how- ever was ns the effort efort successful Political history is equally equal lacking 1 in records of the same ph phenomenon as C Congressman Murdock and 1 his is friends R are hooked booked to learn earn Fi Fifteen teen misguided sf statesmen n. n chosen to the lower house hous on Bull Mose tickets have h ve tact met in In Washington T organized Wand and nd decided to ask for committee assignments as ns a third party ty Of the Republicans Republicans in the House these fifteen gravely liel selected fir Mr r. r Murdock as as' the victim they will put forward as their I candidate for speaker Victor Murdocks Murdock's attitude may be bett better r understood when it is 1 known that he ho hois is redheaded ded and therefore hopeful He began lug ing tig three years yearn ago aided the Democrats to thwart the will win of tho the 1 Republican majority in the Sixty-first Sixty Congress E Ever Er r since that tin time e h he has been beon t the tho o self constituted c ted leader of the die Bull Moose aid aids s society formed farmed to give comfort to the Democracy cy He Ul is is a resident j 1 of X Kansas Hansas a 0 commonwealth that tha appears to regard political eccentricity as proof of genius and disloyalty as indicating a n free and independent spirit sPiris l I It is' is fortunate for the tho country that Murdock and his associates are in so 50 hopeless a a minority indeed their numbers hardly arise to 11 the Qc dignity of Cf tb that t ter term This little cote coterie ie may meet and resolute I but it may as as well debate with owlish gravity gra the theory of the green greenI I cheese composition r n n. n Q of moon fo for all the effect its actions will t have upon legislation The party is IS dead its funeral has bas been l deferred only because of a lack huk of mourners I t A Ar A ht 1 L President t Wilson Wilso hasn't closed the door China o l n open to only China only ly the thet t e. e open pur purse ow f i Q i r j |