Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-04-14


| The Endorsement Of as Large Community
as the City of Chicago Will Be a Masnifi.
cent One President Roossvelt's Method
Of Dealing With Railways in Marked Con.
trast-Tariff Revision Must Bide While
How Rebate In Canada Wheat Works.
From our regular correspondent
WAsHINGToN, ID. c., April 7.
The election OF Judge F. Dunno as
Mayor Of Chicago by a plurality OF
nearly $4,000 votes is hailed by Demo-
Gratis in Washington as the turning OF
the tide which they declare will now
sweep the country and result in elect
ing Democratic majority TO the next
House OF Representatives and even
tually, a Democratic successor TO Pres
ident Roosevelt. The significance of
Judge DUNES victory is emphasized
by the fact that his opponent, John
Maynard Harlan, was an exceptionally
clean man and the further fact that
Chicago gave Republican majority to
President Roosevelt in the election of
last fall. Judge DUNES election con-
stitutes, moreover, an economic as well
as a political victory for the Democrats
as it insures the municipal ownership
OF the Chicago street railway system,
policy that has long been contested by
the Republicans and which the Demo.
Gratis hope to push on into far wider
fields.
"Public ownership of public utili-
ties" the slogan of the Democratic
campaign in Chicago, has long been
advocated by William J. Bryan and
other prominent Democrats and ls now
and always will be strenuously opposed
by the Republicans who believe in the
policy of farming out all public utili-
ties to private individuals and corpor.
atoms which charge the public extor-
Tomato prices, make inordinate profits
and create vast fortunes which the
Republicans point TO with pride as
evidence OF unparalleled prosperity"
So vast city as Chicago will, in the
estimation OF the Democratic politi
clans and economists, furnish a mag
nificent object lesson to the entire
country and will quickly demonstrate
the advantages which will accure to
the public and to the municipality
from administering those things which
by their nature, are essentially natural
monopolies. municipalities can pro.
f,ably and equitably conduct their
ironed highways, argue the Democratic
economist, then States can with equal
profit and equity administer their
ironed highways, commonly called the
railroads, and one OF the most gigantic
monopolies in the country must inevi-
tably be destroyed as the result of an
educated public opinion.
1t is generally held in Washington
that President Roosevelt, with an un-
usually keen insight, has perceived the
evils of privately owned railways but
that he seeks to remedy the evils which
result therefrom by homeopathic
methods, so TO speak, by legislation
which will render the railway owners
powerless to practice extortion but
which will not interfere with private
Ownership. The Democrats in Con.
gress, approaching that half loaf is
infinitely better than no bread are
prepared to support the Presidents
recommendations with regard to rail.
way legislation in every detail but they
have little faith that the President can
prevail on the Senators and Represen.
tatives of his own party to heed his rec
concentrations at the expense of their
friends who now enjoy the privileges
OF railway monopoly.
With the pretended purpose OF devils.
ing equitable railway legislation along
the lines urged by the President, the
Senate committee on Interstate Com.
merce will begin holding sessions on
the 18th OF this month and hearings
will be granted to every one who claims
to be interested in the subject until a
mass of testimony far too great for any
one to digest, or even read, will be
accumulated. That any satisfactory
results will be attained is gravelv
doubted by Democratic members OF the
Senate. 1t is pointed out that there
are eight Republicans to five Demo
Gratis on the committee and even il
Senator Cullom, the one Republican
who is likely to vote for the interests
of the people, were to cast his ballot
with the Democrats, the committee
would be tied and nothing could be
accomplished. Moreover, there is
never any likelihood of the adoption OF
legislation by the Senate when it is
reported favorably from . committee
only by coalition of one or two Re.
publicans with the entire Democratic
membership.
Senator Hansbrough (Republican) OF
North Dakota, is out with An interview
in which he declares that tariff revi.
sion by the next Congress ia dead. In
explanation OF this statement. the
Senator says that he does not doubt
that the President will recommend
tariff REIMBURSEMENT, but that he is
confident his recommendations will
avail nothing. Mr.. Hansbrough
points out that all revenue bills must
originate in the House and that the
House is in the grasp of can oligarchy
of stand.patters,'" and that Secretary
| ohoWS Wbo 10 al ou otCu Bdbs
ter" himself. has, by an Interpretation
placed on the drawback clause of the
Dingley law, satisfied the demands of
those manufacturers who have wearied
Of having to pay duty on their raw
materials and who, in the absence of
the Secretary's ruling, would have
insisted on the opening OF the tariff
question in the hope of procuring some
relief for themselves.
The ruling of the Secretary of the
Treasury to which the Senator partic.
ularly objects allows wheat millers TO
import Canadian wheat, mix it with
American wheat and manufacture the
mixture into -four for export, and
when this flour is exported to secure
the return of the duty they paid on
the wheat when they imported it. The
Dingley law provides for such rebates,
or drawbacks, when the imported ma.
terial can be identified in the manu-
featured and exported article, but
there is no possible wav for the Treas.