The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1901-08-28

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who can't see why the tariff would not
be Just as good tariff II II protected the
trusts little less and the people little
more. BY the time they get around
with their heavy artillery and get 1t
into position TO fire at Henderson they
will find he thought 30 too and was on
Babcocks side of the question all the
time. Both he and Babcock took lead
ing parts as undertaKer and grave-digger
for that measure, and the death and
burial OF the antitrust bill was attended
by them as cheerful mourners. To keep
their party In line and be ready for any
popular wave that may have TO DO met,
Babcook and Henderson are letting the
word go out TO the farmers that pos.
sibly they may be in the van OF the
tariff reformers and are prepared TO
imbibe the spirit Of the Republican
party Of the agricultural section and
make II stand for reduction Of duties,
and thus keep all the long g-horned steers
In the party from kicking up a granger
stampede, No one has finer globe
sights on a political situation than your
canny scotch Presbyterian politician,
uncle Davey Henderson. IL would be
easier TO catch flea in an old buffalo
hide than 10 catch him on either side
Of a question that Is liable to become
either warm or striugey. He has keen
scent for the drift toward royalty and
30 he spent the summer making hay
among the dukes and lords ol Great
/ Britain, winding up with an interview
with King Edward and assuring the
people on this side that our government
was all right as we had the king for our
friend. That's the kind OF a man for
| Speaker when the stock OF imperialism
is going upward, and the Cromwells Of
revolutionary Republicanism who are
talking Of doing up the trusts and the
tariff had better pull in their horns.
The barebones and cropears and Ken
tuck jeans Republicans who live at the
crossroads and get little more for their
hogs and cattle have no business TO get
up and howl like u dog lock ed In barn
about paying the trusts four prices Tor
salt and everything in proportion just
az quickly as the screws can beadjused.
Didn't they vote 10 create prosperity by
putting up the tariffs and shutting out
imports and forgetting that tariffs could
be slapped on.at home ten times ~ higl
AZ those put on paper against articles
they never use2 The tariff reform Re-
publicans are barking up the wrong tree
fighting Dave Henderson for he is fo
that very thing, az he is never caught
long enough on any side OF a question Il
interfere with getting Office. lie will b'
Speaker again and II necessary will pu
through tariff reform bill just In tint
10 help his party win the next election
, and the free trade Republicans will no
leave their party though the trusts mul
tiply like the lice Of Egypt that the mum
ber OF them will be 80 great as TO cumbe
the earth like dust And the Republi
can party will never antagonize then
because where the trusts are there are
yoles, aud they can always catch enougl
suckers among the producers and thos'
who won't vote Democratic ticket Il
carry Presidential election. In thu
meentime the country will become the
greatest ON earth, although We have had
a suspicion that We we're II right alonl
all through history.
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, Al all times Of tho year the producer
: and the business man are besieged fol
; information as 10 the amount OF crops o
/ this kind and that kind that will b,
, marketed here In Western Oregon, The
information is generally furnished as I
, kind OF public duty. The newspaper
are full Of statements that there will b.
/ 81, coo tons OF prunes and 700 car loads
, OF apples from western Oregon this fall
! SO there are estimates ON wheat anC
} oats and barley aud ohittim bark anC
salmon and whatnot Now commerc'
, IL just like like polities-the more near
ly you can know just how many OF eacl
element there are in existence the bettel
! you can play the speculative as il Il
the speoulator who profits byall such In
, formation As soon AZ Il ia known JUS
how mauy hops there will be the specu
lators OF the whole world are pltteC
} against the Oregon product because the,
are gambling on the unknown. II th'
story is 20 the effect that u is large
} crop Of this or that, the scare gets rub
bed heme aud the market takes its tail
} lngs from the mosl distant source Of sup
ply. We can see no benefit whatever Il
tho producer from showing the size o.
Me hand, or indeed IRON amy bhsines'
msn giving Information 10 others about
his affairs except he wants 20 publish
that he has something for which there I,
likely 70 be = demand, o. that be has a