The San Francisco call., 1904-07-07
uncertainty as 10 what competition 4
abroad they viii be obliged to meet"
QUOTES ANOTHER SPEECH.

And have heard that the President in his
pOlucal tour through the West in the spring
language:
If a tariff law has on the whole worked
Neii ana II business has prospered under II
ana Is prospering, it may be better to endure
some inconVeniences for time than by maxi
IN, .lls ouahges 10 risk causing disturbance and
Psrnaps paralyze the interests and business
OF the country. The fact that the change in
given rate Of duty may be thought desirable
, uoes not settle the question whether fl is ad-
visable to make the change Immediately Every
tarlh deals with duties on thousands OF artf-
cies arranged in hundreds OF parag era uhs and
many schedules These duties affect a vast
number Of interests which are often conflict
ing II necessary for our welfare then ~
course Congress must consider the question Of
changing the law a whole or changing in
any given rates OF duty. hut We must renern-
sicered some one viii appear 10 demand
change in almost every schedule in the law;
ana when II comes 10 upsetting the schedules
be ruinous"
Verify. two souls with but a single thought.
50 nafinonlously expressed, Is not to force a
single special interest to take its Inns from
me public breast for fear the public finding
lht1h unnecessary. might shake them all off
1t Is not, therefore 70 be wondered AZ that
the peroration OF the greatest of these'' was
a sort OF dedication Of him who had dubbed
natural as self appreciation 1t was only
alter-egotism after all
What a magnificent piece OF humor is this
unbounded adulation of our fellow citizen in
the White House by the ''chief of these How
4lNAlyiDNs 70 praise SO nighlY fellow -ciff-
zen in the White House who IN the long line
OF great men who have filed the seat he now
occupies has himself found only about three
II MS opinion worthy Of anything like unstint-
ed praise-George Washington Abraham Lin
coin and himself Verify the other humorists
Will have to retire from business
The chief of these" is Mr. Root The
temporary chairman said, speaking Of the
Republican party: Through II more than
any other party the moral sentiment of thc
American people finds expression" Cod save
Where? Going back to ancient history in
n ne Credit Mobilier? In the long saturnalla
OF Southern reconstruction? Or. in recent his
tory. III the PostOffice Department. In the
public land bureau? In the full svav ~ HOSES
formerly cursed bitterly and now taken so
londly 10 MS bosom by the President? In the
pluapie telegrams inqulring Just when the
patriotic and una ssisted revolution of hftv
or one hundred men was ''slated'' to come on
Unexpectedly IN Panama? In the celebrated
order OF Hell Roaring Jake" Smith nre
scribing ten as the age above which children
were to be killed in one of the islands a. tbe
PhihpplnesE The universal honeyconb bling Of
our national life with the corruption Of legis-
lation- bought special privileges? Time fails
me to task where. What has ancient history
to DO with present iniquities. anyhow?
MT Root saws Offenders have been re-
Isn't this remarkable Numbering in fha in
deX for you. when compared with actual
Republican accomplishments, especially when
compared with the refusal Of a Renuhlican
House OF Representatives to make culnrite
face even much Congressional irvesti
cation: when compared with the absolute ana
TO recognize anybody for the purpose Of nalS
ing motion even OF that character? n
there ever was a determination fully enter
tained and finally carried out. Il was +ha de-
termination Of the Republican administratIo,
and the Republican legislative body 10 sea
10 IL that nobody should Investigate the alleged
their colleagues in the executive branch of
the Government.