Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-05-07
THURSDAY MAY z, 1908.
THE RECORD,s INCosIsTENC,

in an editorial entitled 'No Tariff
Tinkering," has relieved itself of lot
of superfluous rot, for which it is
noted. Says the Record:
cat Milwaukee, President Roose-
welt considered the subject of the tariff
and the trusts, and made it plain that
the administration has no sympathy
with the visionary idea that tariff re-
vision would prove remedy for trust
evils" The Record then goes on to
say: "The administration is in entire
accord with the masses of the republic
can party or these points, and the
"'Iowa idea" advocated by Governor
Cummins and few followers, is fail
ing to arouse the enthusiasm and inter-
terest that was hoped for by the faith
ers of the scheme. 1t is true that Cum
Minis has been welcomed as democrat
by the peerless leader, but that is
about the only result of the crusade
for revision started by that gentle
man. Secretary Shaw, Senators
Allison, Former Speaker Henderson
and the rest of the epublicans of Iowa,
with the republicans of the entire coun-
try. have no use for any change in the
tariff and protection policy which has
proved SO beneficial to this country.
The few followers of Cummns who are
posing as tariff ''reformers' will have
to throw off their masks and cease
masquerading as republicans and take
their proper places in the democratic
ranks, where it will not be a hard nor
a long step for them to evolve from the
reform shell as full fledged free trad
ers.' The Record seems to have over
looked Joe Babcock, chairman of the
republican congressional campaign
committee and republican member of
the ways and means committee of the
national house. Mr. Babcock far-sce-
ing and shrewd, has stated to the re-
publicans of this country through the
New YORK Tribune, that ''tariff revis-
weapon with which to fight the trusts.
He doesn't agree with the Record |
when it says that ''the republicans of
change in the tariff and protection pol
icy which has proved so beneficial to
this country Mr.. Babcock has been
a lifelong republican,, and a protec-
tionlst, and has been elected to con-
gress time and again by the republi-
cans of Wisconsin, and he is looked
upon by them as one of their leaders,
but Mr.. Babcoc)l sees, as Mr.. Roose-
welt must see, that over protection is
beneficial to no one except the trusts.
When the Record excommuncates
such men as Governor Cummns of
Iowa and his followers it should in
clude Chairman Babcock.
President Roosevelt is doing some
side stepping. He is touring, the ,
country, as he says, as president of
the United States, but in fact he is E,
travelling as Teddy Roosevelt, booming
himself as the next republican candi-
date for the presidency. He dare not
oppose over-protection and favor revis-
ion because he fears the trusts; know
lnS full we'll that if they opposed him
he would last about as long as the
SNOWFALL. He asks con-
sress in one breath to confer more
power upon the president in order that
he may deal ''strenuously" with the !,
trusts. and in another he tells the
and trusts of New Eng
land that if such power were conferred
upon the president, it should be exer-
,lsed with the greatest of care This
nan, exploited as the man of ..moral
courage is a "moral coward" prev