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virginia oratOrS-'the Lame Lion or
Lynchburg," as his admirers call him
make strong senatorial team. Swan
son has served in the lower house of
congress twelve or thirteen years and
made a most active member. Had he
remained in the house he would GER
tainly have been chairman Of the
great committee on ways and means at
no distant day. He is in the very flow
er Of his years, young, capable, hand
some aggressive and ambitious. When
four years ago he waf defeated for the
gubernatorial nomination BY Governor
Montague he bore himself so bravely
and rendered such brilliant service on
the stump In behalf Of the whole tick
ct, including Montague, that his noml-
nation this time was foregone con-
cluslon. That he defeated two such
men as Judge Mann and Lieutenant
Governor Willard is sufficient evidence
Of his popularity. That he will be
elected there is not the shadow Of
doubt. That he may acquit himself
we'll In the place once held by Patrick
Henry, James Monroe and Thomas
Jefferson is the hope Of his fellow
servants in congress.
The Reciprocity Convention.
When General Winfield Scott Han
cock, while candidate for president de-
clared the tariff question to be local
issue he was laughed at almost as much
as was the great soldier for whom he
was named for declaring, while he was
candidate for president that he had
just ''risen from hasty plate Of soup"
Nevertheless, Hancock uttered an i'm
mortal truth, which aided in keeping
him out of the White House. The tar
liz is local issue pure and simple,
especially in country so large as this,
with such varied resources. The Scot
fish red herring fisherman who wrote to
Sir Robert Peel urging him to secure
free trade In everything except red her
rings was the typical man and express
Cd the whole philosophy Of the protec-
tive system special privilege for some
at the expense Of others. That he was
ridiculed for his pains does not mat
ter. When a Minnesota Republican
delegate to the Chicago reciprocity con-
vention declared that he was against
the Dingley bill because 1t does not
protect Minnesota interests he was
simply repeating In inverted form the
Scotchman's remark. If everybody in
America could see things with Us clear
vision as the Minnesota delegate Pres
ident Roosevelt's message to congress
In December would be devoted princi-
pally to urging revision Of the Ding
ley tariff rates. The stand patters may
whoop 1t up all they please, but the
time lie not far in the future when the
tariff will be revised. People learn
slowly, but they learn at last. There
Is no school equal to the school Of ex-
Iperience. Certain persons, 30 1t Is said,
will learn In no other but 1t Is surely
lpercolating through their heads that a
tax Of 81 per cent on everything used
by an American citizens Is not such a
blessing as 1t is cracked up to be by the
stand patters.
Jour Tariff and 0srmany's."
As frequently stated In these letters
the Washington Post Is an Independent
paper with strong Republican leanings
and consistent advocate Of protec
tive tariff, but the stand patters cause
Its gorge to rise Under the above cap
tion It recently contained this vigorous
and luminous editorial:
Tho German asrarians correspond t
the American stand patters. They ar,
resolved that the German farmer shall
have the monopoly Of the German mar
ket while our stand patters are deter
mined that the American manufacture
shall have the monopoly of the American
market Our present tariff is declara
ton Of commercial war against the Ger
man manufacturer; the new German tar
H. which will go into effect next March
IL q declaration Of commercial war agains
the American farmer. In Germany thu
man who works in the shops has no rights
that the man who works in the field Il
bound to respect; in America the mar
who works in the field has no rights tina
the man who works In the shop Is bount
to respect. The German tariff is for tn,
German farmer; the American tariff II
for the American manufacturer.
This German chancellery is bubservien
to the German agrarians; the American
administration 10 obsequious to the Amer
lean stand patters. When a greater i'm
pstus II given to this commercial wa,
next March American farm products Il
the value Of 100000 900 will be shut out Of
the German market. That will deTange
every market In the world where thu
products Of the American field are bough
Ind sold, including the sacred home mar
kst. Who will foot the billsf That Il
easy. ThAy will be apportioned between
the artisan Of Germany and the farnnel
Of America,
The president Of the United States Il
said to be much concerned about the thinl
and 10 contemplating reciprocity treaty
What will he do with his treaty when h,
negotiates TT What chance win such 4
treaty have In congress dominated II
ono house by the senate finance commit
tee, while the other house Is powerless II
the grasp of a committee on rules oom
posed OF Joseph G. Cannon, John Dalzel
and Charles H. Grosvenor7
No. The g,ifty-ninth congress vii
stand pat It will have nothing to d
with German reciprocity or any othe
reciprocity Intrenched behind q GRO
Goshen and confident in a prosperity
claims to control, the Fifty-ninth con
gross. II needs be, will defy Republican
president and stand pat
And why not2 We have fallen on time
when the American people will put u
with anything that Ia done in the name O
prosperity.
cushman's Nerve.
Ever since tho great day in the hous
when my friend Francis w. Cushmal
Of the state of Washington ran amuc
on the house machine and put to rout
General Grosvenor and all his lieu
| tenants I have Thought ha ahould auf