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EASTERN POLITICIANS IGNORE
WESTERN LEADERS.
Raymond, the Chicago Tribune's
Washington correspondent,, writes in
•terestilngly in reference to the mis
takes of tiie wise men of the East,
as follows:
"It is strange that the eastern lead
ers do not. seem to appreciate the
great political importance of the near
ly solid front presented by the sena
tors from the states just tributary to
Chicago. New England men have
run the tariff for so long a time that
they do' not take into consideration
•any of the rest of the country ex
cept as means of trading off so as
to secure the highest rates on their
own schedules.
Most of tlu» eastern senators are
absolutely ignorant of the west. Few
of them ever go beyond the Alleghen
ie.s, and when they do it is often in
private car. They stop at a few
hotels 4n the big cities, but are ignor
ant and unconscious of the extent to
which the west has begun to domin
ate the politics of the country.
With a western president, a west
ern secretary of treasury, a western
war secretary, and -secrtary of com
merce and labor, secretary of agricul
tural, secretary of interior all from
beyond the ^Mississippi, the west has
become to have a dominating influ
ence in the executive administration.
Eastern Men Run Congress.
In congress, -however, eastern sen
ators and representatives run every
thing, dn spile of the fact that Illi
nois supplies the speaker of the
houftc. They make combinations
which win and parcel out tariff fav
ors to the far west or to the eouth
to head off the attitude of the men
from the central west. They are
stVansely oblivious to the fact that
'behind the attitude of the Mississippi
valley senators there is strong pub
lic sentiment which cannot be ignor
ed from a political point of view and
which will make itself felt later on
if the eastern men persist in their
dangerous rule or ruin policy.
It is a. fact which wise students
of politics understand that the' real
throbbing political heart of theicoun
try beat? closely around the popula
tion center, which is now probably
in Illinois. The anti-slavery agitation
in New England probably did more
harm than good. It was the conser
vative men of the Lincoln stripe from
the interior who finally decided the
policy of the governmeut and the
ipiion army had its strongest sup
port in men and in morals from the
same section.
It waa the attitude of the west on
the silver question which raised up
the neccssary bulwark to the Bryan
wave. So, too, in the last campaign
It was in XUo-'west. and liirthe west
alone, that the battle was fought
and won aiyl Bryan given his third
defeat.
Taft Aware of Revision Sentiment.
Mr. Taft knows all this, and he is
fully aware of the depth of the revi
sion sentiment in the .western states.
In all of his speeches during his
western tour he constantly referred
to his personal pledge of
support for downward revision. I was
with him for 12,000 milps or so on
that trip, and can testify from per
sonal experience that he never fail
ed to make that pledge, and that it
was received with intense satisfac
tion by the people to whom he was
speaking.
The western senators who have
been fighting Mr. Aldftch represent
not &reat corporations or machine pol
itics, but the real, live, throbbiing
sentiment of the Mississippi valley
and beyond. In spite of this fact,
short sighted inen from New Eng
land persist in the attitude of defi
ance to this public attitude of the
west, and the present prospects are
that any tariff bill which is passed,
even if it is signed by President
Taft, as seems likely, will be only in
a small mcustirc a redemption of the
pledges which helped win the west
for %he Republican candidate.
There was no shrewder judge of
public opinion in the United States in
the last generation than William iMc
Ivlnley. He had the faculty of keep*
Ing his ear to the ground, and often
when ho was accused of vacillation,
or delay, or lack of nerve, he was
merely waiting to assure himself of
what the people really wanted. He
was a believer In the idea that the
people were supreme, and that the
president or senators who did not
epre«ent them when they had fully
made up1 their nuinds, betrayed, ^their
trust.
Listened to the Interior.
When he wanted to find real cry
stallization of public sentiment in
the United States he never Vent to
the Atlantic seaboard for his informa
tion, because he knew well the cor
porate and immigration influences of
that scction. "Instead of that he lis
tened to «uch good purpose that dur
ing the whole of his administration,
Involving as it did the building up of
an eutirely new system of colonial
overnmcnt, after the carrying on of
a &ucees?ful war, he never made a
serious political blunder.
At the risk of repeating something
may have written long ago, it
tsecftns just as well to tell the «tory
of when and where and how William
i.McKinley developed his expansion
policy, which prevails today and
which is- accepted by the people as
final. It ds a case directly in point
because President MciKnley was
wise enough to know, that when the
great interior mass of the people
had made up their minds that fact
created the only safe guide for the
establishment of a great public pol
Icy.
It is a pity that Senator Aldrich
and his satellites have not been
able to take a lesson out of the
same book. Itso h'appens that at
the present time thq two senators
No lifted liaml may cover?"
"From eating of forbidden fruit,/J
itrolher, my briber."
The three ghosts on the sunless road
Spake each to one another.
"Whence catue that red burn on your
foot
No dust or ash may cover?"
"I stamped a neighbor's hearth flame
out.
Brother, my brother/'
The three ghosts on the windless road
Spake each to one another,
"Whence came that blood upon your
hand
"Ko other hand may cover?"
"From breaking of a woman's heart,
Brother, my brother."
"Yet on the earth clean men we walked.
Glutton and Thief and Lover
White flesh and fair It hid our stains
That no man might discover."
Naked the soul goes# up to God
Brother, my brother."
from Iowa are leading the attack on
a New England tariff. Mr. Cummins
is a new man in the senate, but he
has been a tariff revisionist for
years and he made good almost im
mediately after his arrival here.
Dolli,ver an Old Hand.
Senator Dolliver is an old hand at
the business. He served in the waya
and means committee, in the makdng
of the Dingley tariff and in making
and unmaking of the war revenue act
I can testify from personal experi
ence that he was one of the best
equipped men on that committee dur
ing all of his service. He was infin
itely better posted than Mr.. Payne
and he ought to have ibeen on the
finance committeein the senate, and
would have been if the powers that
be over there were not personally
afraid his great ability would force a
reduction tariff.
Both of these Iowa senators are
protectionists from the word go, and
yet both of them are in favor of a
moderate and reasonable reduction
in the tariff. That they faithfully
represent the views of their people
no man can doubt.
This points the moral that I have
been so long getting at. In the early
fall of 1898 hostilities with Spain
had been suspended. A protocol for
a treaty had been agreed upon In Au
gus^juid the treaty Itself was signed
'in Paris some months later. With
the armistice President McKinley
found It possible to leave Washing
ton. He went out to the Omaha
exposition and from there he took a
'trip across Iowa, down into Missouri,
eaetwardu^nto Indiana, and back" to
Chicago, where a great peace carni
val was in progress, of which he
was a nfial. figure. I was with
him on the whole trip and remember
some things which for. obvious rea
sons could not be printed in full at
that time, although they were hinted
at in. my dispatches.
What Thoy Wanted to Hear.
When we first steamed out of
Omaha early in the morning the
crowd to greet the train at Council
Bluffs was small. The .president
made one of his usual speeches, re.
ferring to the great prosperity of
the country which had followed the
enactment of tho Dingley law. The
crowd was respectful but not entus
iastic A little farther on a variation
of the same speech was tried at some
cross road stopping place. It had
the same reception. For the third
time the experiment' was made 011 a
larger crowd and again the lack of
any wild enthusiasm was apparent,
and this, too, in a state where 51c
Kinlcy was known and loved by ev
ery one.
After tills third experiment the
president came back in to the car
and sat down on a couch at the end
of the room. I could see he was
preoccupied, and apparently a little
anxious. After thinking over the
matter a little while he brightened
up.
'These people are so -prosperous,"
lie said, "and they know It so much
better than we do, that they don't
care to bo told about it.
"Me had struck the nail on the
head with his unerring 'political saga
city, and he proceeded at once to
apply the remedy.
At tho next station there was even
larger crowd, as I remember, and
tho president cut out a great deal of
his prosperity talk, but referred to
tho ne&ssity of finding tnew markets
abroad for the products of the farms.
Instantly there was a whoop from
the crowd and the president's face
brightened. He had discovered what
the people were thinking about and
he was exceedingly quick to give
them what they wanted.
When the train slowed up again
Mr. McKinley, who was a wonderful
campaign orator, extended his re
marks to the desirability of finding
an American market across the sea.
The crowd went wild. They made
application to the Philippines at
once and it was easy to see that they
were practically unanimous In decid
ing that the vast territory conquered
by Dewey would remain under our
flag. Again the president caught the
inspiration of the moment and later
on some of us were surprised to find
him saying that our flag was flying
on far away Islands across the sea
and that the flag was not to cc
down.
Forming of Expansion Policy.
And so it went The expansion
policy was formulated in the presi
dent's mind there and then. He
went on from one -statement to an
other until by the time we had reach
ed Burlington, where he was received
with a great torchlight demonstration
the president of the United States
in repeated speeches had practically
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Bv Theodosla Garrison.
The three Bhosts on the lonesome road
Spake each to one another,
"Whence came that stain about your
mouth
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outlined his policy of retaining tho
Philippines.
All this, it must he remembered,
was before the peace commissioners
had ever started abroad. There was
no fighting going on, but we were
in: a position to control Cuba, Porto
Ri(.n, and the Philippines beyond all
question. Late in the evening I
called the president's attention to
th^ fa:t that he, in one day, appar
ently had developed a great national
policy of vast importance. He ^tap
ped a moment and said in his qv.lot
way, although of course I cannot re
member the exact words:
"I suppose It is true that my pro
gressive speeches this day while
traveling across the state of Iowa
will be taken not only at home but
abroad as a basis for the policy w?
ill insist upon ip negotiating the
treaty of peace. I don't care much
if that Interpretation is put 011 thesj
speeches. No man, whether he be
president or congressman, and 110 col
lection of public officials can create
any great public policy. They can
only register tho will of tho people.
"I would rather have the point of
view of these Iowa farmers as a bas
for my future policy than the ad
vice of great merchants or college
•professors or famous statesmen. It
true I have progressed in a single
day, but I believe you will surely find
that the sentiment wo have found
expressed so decidedly here In Iowa
today is the sentiment of all the
people, and that in the long run it
wlll decide the question of policy,
'hether we believe that policy to be
wise or not."
Day In Iowa Fixed National Policy.
President .McKinley was wise in
his generation. I know that he felt
some douibt as to the wisdom of
keeping the Philippines, and later 011
he was careful to leave a door open
for giving the people their independ
ence when they had fitted themselves
-or It, but it was one day across the
Iowa prairies which fixed the policy
of the United States as it exists to
day, and it was fixed not 'by an arbi
trary decision of the president him
self-but by Ills accurate gauging of
the determination of the people that
the inlands should not go back to
Spanish misrule that they should
not be turned over to Germany or
Japan, but that the American white
men should bear their burden and
build, tip the Filipinos to the point
where our spoils of war should not
degenerate into a prize of mere Eur
opean diplomacy.
It is a pity that Mr. Aldrich and
•Mr. Lpdge and other men who ought
to kndw better do not see that wheji
Senators Dolliver, Cummins, Bever
idge, Bristow, La Pollette, Nelson,
^tfVap$^and others 'take "the stiind
they do they are only representing
public sentiment, which in the long
run will be Irresistible and which
can define the tariff policy just as
easily as it did the greater one of
.territorial expansion. It might be a
good idea to put Mr. Aldrich, .Mr.
Lodge, Mr. Crane, and some other
of the eastern senators on a special
train and let them go touring and
making speeches to crowds In the
rural districts of Illinois, Indiana,
Minnesota. Wisconsin, Kansas, and
other states.
POPULAR FEELING AND TARIFF
BUNCO.
The St. Paul Pioneer Press, tho
leading republican newspaper of
Minnesota, I11 an editorial entitled
as above, strikes at its party's tariff
program in the following wrathful
language:
"The most wholesome thing for con
gress to do at this juncture would be
to adjourn for a few weeks and dis
tribute -itself among its constituents.
It would get In touch with the
practically universal exasperation and
disgust of the witers with the Payne
bill, the Aldrich monstrosity, and
the cheap skullduggery and chicane
which have caracterlzed the framing
of the house and senate measures.
But there Is not the slightest hope
that congress will consult Its con
stituents. The -tariff framers do not
want to put their heads In the sand
and imagine that there is no trouble
in store for their blessed protected
industries. They can't and they
won't see that unless they grant the
just and reasonable demonds of con
sumers for a more moderate tariff on
-necessities, and for free raw mater
ials, particularly for free, lumiber,
free wood pulp, free hides, free iron
ore and free coal, there will be a
storm that is not unlikely to put an
end for good and all to the republi
can party as at present constituted,
or at least to the domination of the
standpatter and reactionary, and to
extreme protection for any industry
whether It needs it or not.
Let congress commit the crime it
threatens to commit and by a little
judicious leadership on the part of
the democratic party, by sloughing
off tree trade, free silver and other
popullstlc excrescences, that party
would be likely to carry, four years
hence, almost every state In the Mis
sissippi valley. To' elect a republi
can president against a sound and
sensible democratic candidate stand
Ing on a platform of common sense,
there would not only have to .be a
republican candidate and platform
unequivocally pledged to a definite
tariff policy, but a complete change
in the feeling that now exists.
"It is probably not exaggerating
to say that millions of voters west of
Ohio are ready today to rebuke con
gress for its evident Intentions in
a way that will disturb the gall even
of that hoary old sinner, Aldrich. For
the rank and -file of the republican
party Is mad, and mad dean through.
They are not only exasperated at the
'gold brick' which it i» the purpose
of Aldrich and his followers to hand
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them they are still more exasperat
ed at the evident assumption that
they are a pack of dolts and block
heads who can be bamboozled with
impunity.
"It is time for congress to wake up
to the facts.- Either the consumer
of this countyr. are going to get what
they demand, genuine revision down
ward, with raw materials 011 the free
list, and without any administrative
'jokers' or any 20 per cent, maximum
trickery, or there is going to be the
dickens to pay two years and four
yoars hence in the republican party.
Failure to comply with the demands
of the rank and file will split the
party wide open.
"These are not threats. They are
a plain statement of popular feeling
as expressed in this state by individ
uals and as revealed in the columns
of the press of the country from one
end to the other."
PARTING OF THE WAYS.
From the New York World.
Because he was once a Democrat
MacVeagh's words "of warning do not
please the rump Republicans of tho
Senate. When plunder and plutocra
cy are afoot it is usually enough to
denounce as "Democrats" all who re
sist their advance. Conditions arc
changed to some extent when the
chief obstructionists chances to be
Secretary of the Treasury in the
Cabinet of a Republican President.
Mr. MacVeagh's admonition to the
Republican supporters of the pro
tected trusts in the Senate was as
follows:
No great leader of an American par
'y can fail to understand the value
of Independent thought and action
in tho party itself if only this inde
pendence alms at the party's liberal
izations and progress, and if it seeks
In and through the party to answer
more perfectly the deliberate and
wise demands of the nation. And you
and I must agree—for, we cannot es
cape the conclusion—that -it might be
come the duty of a great party leader
to create for his party a new major
ity and control.
Because this message from Mr.
Taft, who is the great party leader
referred to, was borne by a man who
was once a Democrat it is no less
binding and Impro !sive. The Repub
lican party, from its organization to
the present day has profited greatly
in power and intellect by its Demo
cratic recruits. They were the back
bone of Lincoln's Cabinet. They
may prove to be equally Important
in Taft's.
There is nothing ambiguous in Mr.
MacVeagh's "new majority and con
trol." It means of course a coalition
between, the liberal, ai\d progressive
Republicans and such Democrats as
are loyal to their professions. There
may not be enought of -these to cre
ate at once a "new majority and con
trol," but they are numerous enough
oven now to prevent the passage of
a monopolistic tariff bill over the
Preside'iral veto, and that, beyond
question, Is tho interesting prospect
which the Secretary's speech fore
shadowed.
The Democratic party went to
-pieces in 18G0 on the issue of an
inhuman plutocratic slavery system.
It is the glory of the American peo
ple that, strong as is their attach
ment to party, nox political organiza
tion has yet been able perpetually to
maintain solid ranks in support of a
vested wrong. Is the liberal and pro»
gressive element of the Republican
party, with the President at its
head, about to separate from the
wing that is wedded to the insatiable
plutocracy ot the tariff?
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WHAT IS A HAVANA CIGAR?
From the London Chronicle.
What is a- Havana cigar? 'The
London Sessions jury 011 Wednesday
appear to have been of opinion -that
a cigar made in England of Havana
tolracjpo cannot rightly so be called.
And George Augustus Sala, who knew
as much about smoking as most peo
ple, and had studied Cuban cigarmak
ing 011 the spot, once set forth that
three kinds of cigars oome from- Ha
vana itself. First, genuine Havana,
made of tobacco grown, cured and
rolled in tho Island of Cuba second
ly, cigars composed inside of United
States or European tobacco imported
into Cuba, with an outside wrapper
of Havana leaf. Thirdly, cigars
brought ready made from Europe,
mostly from Bo-een and Switzerland,
and re-exported'from Havana to Eur
ope, where they pay duty and are
sold to the unwary as "Havanas."
A DRY JOKE.
Au English laborer in Cheshire at
tempted to drown himself, au Irish
reaper, who saw him go into the
water, jumped after him and brought
him safe to shore. The fellow making
a second attempt, the reaper again
saved hiin. -But the laborer, deter
mined to do away with himself,
watched his opportunity and hanged
himself behind -the barn door. The
reaper, who saw him, never offered
to Interfere or cut him down. When
challenged for this afterward by the
farmer, he answered:
"I took him out of the water twice,
and, knowing he was wet, I thought
he liung himself up to dry."—London
Tit-Bits.
AN UNCONVENTIONAL GRADU
ATE.
"So you've just graduated from
college?" snaps the head of the firm.
"And I suppose you think you know
enough to run my business If I give
you a place?"
"I hadn't considered that phase of
the matter," replies the graduate. "I
called to Inform you that I have com
•blned all your rivals and am willing
to let you Into tho comblnatloh if
you will talk business."-Chicago Post
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