The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-09-27
QUIET WELCOME
FOR ROOSEVELT j. !: |: ! |: | |
The Street From the Station to
the White House to Be 55
Decorated.
WILL BE NO BRASS I. As BANDS 3 4 )
The Executive is5toSR Reach WASH
ington Next Saturday
$.s Afternoons
ORION our Regular correspondcnt.)

ORION Our Regular Correspondcnt.) 4
4 WASHINGTON D. c., September 3D.
PRESIDENT Roosevelt will return hons
from Oyster Bay next Saturday Ills
train will reach Washington at 6 o'clock,
p. M Tho suggestion that the return
Of tho Executive be made the occasion
OF 10 pyrotechnic display, with accom-
panlments of brass bands, was promptly
vetoed BY Mr.. Roosevelt himself. Tho
avenue Will be decorated with bunting
from tho Sixth Street Station to the
White House, at i Sixteenth Street and,
OF course, there will be q throng Of peo-
pie on the sidewalks from the station
j to tho Presldents MANSION But tn vel
come will be lacking Inc any Formally.
It will be simply a civic and & civil de-.
s1ronstration IN honor Of the return Of
President and citizen, who has added
very materially to 8hls reputation and
prestige since kho went away to his SUM
merg home Last spring. 55,g
Tariff Revision.
3s The President will not exactly find
work piled UP when no returns, TOT mat
tiers requiring Executive attention, have
been passed on at Oyster Bay as they
came up. But no has allowed several
subjects requiring his attention to walt
until his returnSto the White House. It
I is said that tarifr revislot,5is one OF these.
and as evidence that he will take up
\ that subject In earnest tho President
+ has invited q number OF leading Repub-,
Leans OF varying shades Of faith as to
tariff matters to meet him at tho White
Z House next week, when the en- tire Sill b
jeot as 70 erring to revlsio IN Will be gone,
4 over. 5 ~ 55s RAJ all; s
The ''sandpatetrs," the men who do not
want any change whatever made An
existing schedules, count the President as
much OF revislonlst as was n Grover.
( Cleveland. The latter was called q tarift
$refornler. Revislonist IS az later term,
and while It means Democracy IN every
sense It is the creed Of e. good n y !,
Der Of strong. even stnlWart 4, Isepub ll-
cans, Tho President Is at heart a free
trader, 1t Is believed Nearly all his
writing on the subject OF starlff VI Indicate
this, He has said some things u q urtng
political campaigns which trongly adj
8yoca ted a protective tariff, but all his
thinking on the subject when he wa
not al candidate appears to have been e.
In tho direction o unrestricted trade With ~
other countries. d 81
Big Man Needed. s5
AZ Granting that President ooseyelt * Is
sincerely md honestly In favor of tar1n
reform, IT remains to be seen whe The
he IS a. man big enough to- oYerco l1 ne
solid opposition OF the great mass Of MS rs;
party, and achieve a rcductlon N TIA TIT \
IA tes which now levles such 4 an 4 enor-
nous tax on the consumer "a n s $$.
Last summer number Of NNa q 2
correspondents made tour 81 Canada,
They wore guests Of honor ut q BAN pans
EqueLs at Vancouver. One Of the number l
who is Ia Pcnnsyivnnian, and Of course rs:
an unconlpro rnislng advocate OF a prot ec-
tive tariff, was the schioe speaker from
among the guests at the ban1uet, and
made a 4 speech OF somewhat doubtful ,l
$proprlety in which le proclaimed ire
benefits OF protective tariff, = fter the ne
!5rnor he went to a tailor singSthee j city
ana ordered q suit of fin eclothes. such
I 40; he would havA had to pay forty dol-'
lars Tor i'm this country, 2 he Canadian
price was fifteen dollars. And now tn y. I
.nowspaper man Is being Euyed py MS
Democratic brethren, because he had no
more regard for$the manufacturer OF his
country, than to buy clothing ABROAD 1,t't' g,
simply because lle could get them for less 3
than halt the home price,