The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-06-25
Tariff Views.

Tariff Views.
The Boston Herald. an independent
newspaper, recently said,
One of the ablest Of the newspapers Of
| the Union in its editorial department
comes from the extreme west The Port
land Oregonian, published there, though
| accounted a Republican journal and re-
gardng itself as in agreement in It's gen.
| eral positions with the Republican party
has yet enough of that natural accom-
paniment Of ability, Independence to pre-
| sent claims to a better classification. 1t
! has discussed the tariff question always
! with candor, and In its latest considera-
ton Of the subject we find it saying:
| american tariff practice differs from
| European in two important respects-our
| constant expectation to violent changes
| and our aversion to necessary slight
| changes. Our unwillingness to re-
wise the tariff i'll specific spots when JUS
tice and expediency require is partly due
| to ignorance of our professed statesmen,
who study ward politics more than they
| do commercial needs; partly to super
| stitious worship Of figures and punctua-
ton marks in tariff bills and partly to
more or less corrupt subserVience to the
great protected corporations"
| The Roosevelt-Taft Panama cana!
| pronunciamento as to the purchase OF
supplies where they can be obtained
the cheapest seems to have added my
venerable and vitriolic friend from
Ohio, General Charles H. Grosvenor.
Perhaps it's the heat Whatever it is
that ais him, he predicts that congress
will be convened in extraordinary SEES
sion Nov. -. which is Sunday. Some
body ought to kindly lend the general
an almanac.
Mr.. Secretary of the Treasury Leslie
NJ. Shaw is great stumper and
brilliant postprandial orator, but rs Il
prophet he is not a bowling success.
Quite the contrary. All along he has
been predicting that the deficit would
not exceed $1S.OOO,OOO. whereas 1T the
end Of May it was s36,G50,ooo "il still
growing. All the Republican stump
speakers and papers should promptly
and abjectly apologize to Hon. Henry
G. Davis for the abuse they heapel Oh
him last fall for telling the truth about
the deficit Will they do it? Not much
They haven't decency enough.
The country will lie relieved to know
that Hon. Whitelaw Reid. ambassador
to the court Of St James, after being
kept like Mohammeds coffin, suspended
betwixt heaven and earth for ninety
days by Hon. Joe Choate, has at last
reached his post Of duty; not that any
body cares particularly where White
law may be at any particular time, or
whether we have an ambassador to
England at all, but because the people
generally are weary Of the whole mess.
When General Henry v Boynton
died the country lost one of its BRAY
est soldiers and one of it's best citi-
zens. A kinder heart never beat in
human bosom. He was gentleman
in the best sense of that much abused
term. He was foremost in every good
word and work. He helped along many
a man in an honorable public career.
He was an exemplar of the good, the
beautiful and the true. He always did
what he thought was right for rights
sake.
Whatever else may happen in the
wide, wide world, it can never be
claimed that the Chicago Journal is
not optimistic. 1t discourses Of THE
Russian Republic" as cheerfully as
Colonel Sellers spoke Of that vast for
tune which he was to amass in Asia
by selling his infallible remedy for
sore eyes. But the colonel died poor.
and there is no Russian republic, and
will not be, we fear, for some scores,
perhaps hundreds, of years. OF course
it is to be hoped that in the course of
human events Peter the Greats realm
will become republican. but as yet it is
Cossack, with no republic in sight
NJ / M.