Morris tribune., 1905-10-14
..FoR REVENUE ONLY"

/ No man deserves public confidence who il
in politics., religion, or even business "fo
revenue only, but of all demagogic tricks the
worst form is the man who is reformer fo
the sole purpose of winning public confidence
and then after he has won the confidence of the
! people, he acts like a wolf in the sheepfold
This posing as reformer, but never really
trying to 90 anything but talk and when i
comes to acting, slyly deserving the O
the people, is one of the commonest tricks
among big and little demagogues. A character
istic instance is cited by the St. Paul Dispatch
and we'll illustrates the way public confidence
is won and then abused,
GA few years ago" says the Dispatch "the
Dispatch was guileless enough to really be
lieve that Babcock meant business when he in
troduced that bill cutting steel duties in half
and it was beguiled into saying nice things
about the Wisconsin reforner. 1t might have
known better. Anyway it learned better when
it found out that he only used his bill club
Ito force the reduction of the tax on beer. Hav-
ing done that the "subsequent proceedings" in
tariff reduction interested him more" In
the probing of the insurance companies Mr..
|Thummel, Legislative agent" of the Mutual
Life, said that his company contributed $4,000
to the congressional committees fund last year.
In this way the story told:
90. To whom was it made? A. To the
chairman O. Who was the chairman? A.
Mr. Babcock Q. Made by you personally? A.
I handed it to him. Q. Was it a check? A.
No, sir. Q, Cash? A. Cash. Q, Did you in
itate the transaction, or was Mr.. Granniss the
one who told you to do it? A Neither one.
q me-an0 they
would like to see Mr.. Granniss, and | took him
mot "they' now up and introduced him. ..
Were you present during the conversation?
A. Why, yes [ there. q. What was the
ground upon which the contribution sug-
gested? A. Well the general ground was that
there was great danger of democratic house,
and that probably would result in tariff agita-
ton, and other Legislation attempted, that would
be of such character as to upset business
That was the basis of the argument. Owe
it stated that other insurance companies had
contributed? A. The statement was made
either that they had or that application would
be made to them,
"Al1 of which is interesting a farther
light on Babcock and his tariff notions; tactics,
rather Three years ago he used the tariff to
untax beer; now he uses it to FRY the tat out
of insurance companies and tariff-benefted
Bab's boy told playmate that
'Da0 maze PfO,OOo Ill COuSleo 1a9I yeoi'
oegin to fear that Bah is statesman "for re-
renue only" and that he is tariff refornreT for
he same purpose It is fitting, in this con-
1ection, to say that when Bah was posing as
yaliant, bona fde tariff reduccr his constituents
eturned him to congress in 1902 with a noa-
ority of $3.50, and when they fonnd out last
ear that he was only "fat frier" they let him
ust squeeze through with a beggarly $50
,luralty. Aud we wonder how much Of the
fat he "fried" from these insurance companies
vent into getting that neasly plurality. And
ppropos wasn't it Babcock who undertook the +
o. given him by the stalwarts, of laying La +
toilette out?"
The man who knows how to farm scientI- l
ca1ly is going to have the best profession of
hem all in the near future. Every young man
Who wants to go to school should keep this in i
mind. The school of agriculture can make as
zig difference in farming as the schools of
Medicine have in doctoring, the old sys
EN- of learning by apprenticeship. 4 naan
who puts as much time to studying for farmer
is he would to become a doctor a Rawyer
will make better living than most of the mern-
Review
Some of the fellows who are unable to get
over tue drubbing they got last year with Dunn
at the head of the republican state ticket are