The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-05-23
Mr.. FORAKER'S VIEWS.
THE TARIFF AGITATION AND TIE
RAILROAD POOLING RILL.

r.y... or the Delay In the Rsturn or Prosperity
~r,..ion-The Need OF LeStslasiea rsr the
Rauroads-ohio aud uer lnnnence.
WARRINGTON, May 22.-Perhaps the busiest
Senator in his apartments 10 ex-Gov. Foraker.
Ma lives at the Arlington Hotel, and 10 assisted
nv one Of; his sons. He came to the SENATE fresh
from a largo law practice, and his timo IL little
,,the disposal OF those who want 1.-THE long talk. I"
He is, however, certain TO deal with the seeker
tor information without evasion or DEPRESSION.
He understands questions put TO him, and his
conversational diction Is that of a lawyer stat
ipR his case, or a Judge, as he was, delivering
tho charge to the jury.
Aman not yet 81, he has been soldier. officer,
three years on the bench. four times q candidate
for Governor Of Ohio. and twice elected, and till
1903 he will be United States Senator II living.
He looks very able to live. with his brown skin.
broad face, massive forehead and intentness of
avery sense, open ~nostrils, warm. open dark
ayes. expressive ears, and hne straight nose.
The mental and mastiff parts Of his face meet
together like q born rulers in an age when two
handed swords and bold policy oncamped in the
name countenance. He 10 not q very large man,
hut q striking one. dressed like q lawyer in his
mice, a good liver, not fleshy. and his elements
are promptitude, unfinching executive nature.
and wide comprehension. His courtesy 10 . little
beset with care, as IL he carried q forge In his
head and It was a battery forge. No secondhand
character is there. You feel sometimes that the
place where he Is must be o tent. and the brass
bedstead in his room carries out the idea.
As this was my first call upon o man whom I
had seen In many conventions, and whose power
over other men like himself in multitudes ] had
felt, l entertained the full impression q stranger
rets OF q redoubtable champion.
governor, what IL the Specification Of 'ekor'
at the end Of your namor
THAT was q cause Of our looking mp the name.
NY grandfather's tombstone spells It -Four
acre. His p eople came from D%evonshire, Eng
land, about l740, and emigrated to Ohio from
Bombay Hook Island (near Smyrnal. in the State
Of delaware, in 1920. Thu book says that the
earliest Of the name was Ranulph Quatuor-
Acirs, or Fouracres. q Norman"
Then your forerunners were not Of the
Quaker colonists on the Delaware"
Probably not. Tho pacific nature was not
frequent among them. Generally whom there
was something not pacific they were In sight. I
am a mixture, however: my mothers people
were Welsh and German from about York, Pa,
and the other side Is English and Scotch"
what part Of Ohio were you born inf'
Highland county, between Cincinnati and
Chillicothe. one Of the old Virginia settled coun-
ties, one tier back from the Ohio River. It adj
joins Brown county, where Gen. Grant was
reared. One of my frst Colonies came from
Georgetown, Grants town. / was brought up
on a farm and went to DO clerk with my uncle.
who was the Auditor Of Highland county. sue
ceeding my brother. hve years my senior. who
had held the place before me at Hillsboro, tho
county seat. It was some relaxation from farm
life. But when I was 16 years old I enlisted in
the Eighty-ninth Ohio regiment and served till
the close of the war. when ! had to return to
school. prepared at the Wesleyan University.
Delaware, O.. and then entered Cornell Univer.
sity. where I graduated in the frst class 1t sent
cut at the age of twenty.three."
Had you o distinguished Colonel"
Our first Colonel. a lawyer. did not stay
with US long. The next was a Baptist preacher.
and he did not last very long. They next sent
us a West Point officer. Capt. Caleb n. Carlton.
who is still alive and now Colonel of the Eighth
cavalry"
did you not feel the influence of his dis.
ciplined nature 7"
Immediately. The regiment was composed
Of the best material. only needing Q commander
1t could feel confidence in. He gave US complete
satisfaction
did you SEQ much servicef"
II Twas in the Army of the Cumberland and
participated in all its campaigns after Stone
River and in the Atlanta campaigns. and
marched with Sherman to the sea. being in that
wing called the Army Of Georgia, commanded
by Gen. Slocum, who put me in the Signal Corps,
and I was for some time on his staff"
did you find Slocum a good officer"
None letter. He was mettlesome, some
times would fly up. but he was a genuine oficer.
very strict, and. perhaps. therefore. 80 efficient"
How does that youthful experience in q
memorable war seem to have affected your life r
at seems rather like a dream now. As I WAS
not 10 when ! came out and had to be educated
after the war and to pick up q law practice and
do many other things. that active morn of life
grows hazy like other excursions of boyhood."
"As you have not long to talk. tell me about
. 0h H. l. /, it better or worse or of than other States
Ohio has not felt the prosperity yet. 1t is
N MsI, G1he re s1 ,ss ssE; psT!s Of our whole country
Must not that revival hereafter be the action
Of individual neighborhoods using their plant
ei!issr'
ti all, and new cities will give work as they
years. Each Of these tariff bills fs, till it 10 put
n motion. en- Injunction on activity, We had
Mckinley tariff, under which We bad. for the
III ErtaL prosperity. Dut MI Cleveland mao
committed himself and his marty to q free trade
policy, and in 1894 the Wilson.Senate Tarin
bill was nassed.. In 1897 we have tine Dingley-
senate Tariff. bill. 20 since 1890. when tho
ORIGINAL standing tariff was altered to the Nc
kinley tariff four propositions have been made
toa business period when the profits Of com
merce are so close and competitive that uncer-
tsinty in the law is dishearteninR to business.
Doctrinal. sectarian tariffs are in every way UNI
profitable and unwholesome."
Where was the first mistake madei"
think tho Mckinley Tariff bill caused an
Inflammation Of the general subject; that It
would have been better to alter the for
namely. a reduction of the amount of revenue.
~ making a tarin on opposition lines to Cieve-
lands challenge Of the protective principle. tho
issue again entered into politics at . time when
labor was fighting the employers and prejudices
which ths reaction failed to asrse upon. and
nor revenue. stopped business for q whole Con.
gress. 1t had to be set aside. The work will
lake the whole summer. Now, how can trade
and Industry proceed with four tariffs in seven
!ears-moro tariffs. / suppose, than any other
great nation makes in a century, The result
with us is an instability In everything and sus-
pension OF endeavor. like a great steamship
stopned In a dense fog In midsea."
What are we to do to take on the a~faiction of