Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-08-22 | Page 12 | Caution is Essential

I CAUTION IS ESSENTIAL R lawmakers should avoid oid allY any unA unwary un- un A wary ivary entanglements with ith the Wilson Vilson administration tion on the currency question The President has lately decided apparently to make this matter nonpartisan nonpartisan non non- partisan and amid his lila reasons for this new attitude altitude are nrc by byno byno byno no means obscure Were Yere ho able ho would control this as rigidly through a n party caucus as he has bas the thc tariff Th That t he lie cannot compass because tho the di divergence divergence di- di of opinion in his Ins own party is rapidly approaching approaching approaching ap ap- ap- ap acrimony It is is this circumstance that now v renders him suddenly deferential to Republican views Members of that party arty however should treat him in this timis instance as he lie has them in reference to the tho tariff legislation It will win bo he folly for tho in either house lse of Congress to treat with their opponents in the time matter matter mat mat- ter of u a remedial rem currency bill We Ve do not doubt the time President will wiB relinquish any number of objectionable ble provisions pro in the measure in in return for or support of hi his pet requirement lie IIo is is unalterably committed to regulation of the tho currency by a reserve board Under under under un un- der his control and amid it is is impossible for the Republican lican party rt to concede thi this The method of govern govern- in the tho circulation privilege e the e expansion and contraction contraction con con- traction of the tho available a volume of currency is the bloody blood angle about which winch tho the currency battle will wage X No 0 Republican can afford to support the time Presidents President's views and atul MO wo sincerely doubt whether he lie will abandon his hiis position Mr Wilson ileon has endeavored en to make every er e governmental governmental govern rn mental policy a n partisan issue issue He has declined Republican Re ne- publican aid in iu other matters anti and he lie ought no not to tobe tobe tobe be given ien the time opportunity to refuse it in ill this When he flirts with whim Republicans it is 14 because he hc needs them which he be their cue to withdraw His Iii's advances ought 0 to bo be regarded with suspicion t 1 e 9