Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-02-16
Judge Adamson.

Such phenomenal mental endowments
A. to attract unusual attention.
Judge Adamson.
One Of the most interesting expert
ences In congress is to note the growth
of members up and down, for, strange
as it may seem, they grow in both d.
rections. Georgia has strong delega-
ton In both houses of congress, as she
ought to have, being great state-in
fact, from the very beginning she has
furnished her full quota of worthless to
the federal government.
One of my old college professors.
Charles Louis Loos, was always say
Ing to his students, "Carpe diem!'-
seize the day. This may be fairly
translated into utilize the opportu-
nifty" That's precisely what Judge w.
G. Adamson of Georgia did on the rail-
road rate legislation. He stands Sec
ond on the list of Democrats on the
interstate and foreign commerce COM
mittee. Judge Davey, the ranking
Democrat Of the committee, on account
of bad health, turned the floor manage
ment of that great measure, so far as
the Democrats were concerned, to
Judge Adamson, and he managed 1t 80
as to elicit the commentator of all his
fellow Democrats. He did it with such
grace, tact and good humor that all
friction was avoided. 1t is difficult
task to divide out time on great meas
ure on which nearly everybody wants
to speak in such way as to satisfy
135 men, especially when there is not
half time enough to go around. Yet the
judge accomplished this feat in such
a way as to increase his popularity, al
ready great, and his standing, already
high. He not only delivered an adj
mirable speech himself, but for two
weeks was at his post Of duty every
minute looking to 1t that the Democrats
had an absolutely square deal in the
discussion. 1t was an onerous duty
well performed.
Tho Test.
First and last In platform, from the
hastings and in the public press Re.
publicans have voiced many severe de.
nunciations of the trusts. There had
always been much suspicion as to their
sincerity, for everybody knows that
Republican legislation produced the
trusts. In fact, before the Republican
party came into power there was no
such monstrosity within the broad con-
fines of the republic. Now, after prac-
tically forty-five years of Republican
rule, trusts are plentiful as berries in
June, and, Notwithstanding the loud
and vociferous excavations inflicted up
on them, they flourish like so many
trees planted by the rivers Of water.
It has always been believed that the
trusts furnish Republican candidates
for Office, high and low, the sinews of
war and that the Republicans and
trusts are cheek by jowl and are as
thick as the eiamese twins Chang and
Eng. Indeed, recent developments
prove beyond all controversy that the
big insurance companies and other
great corporations have contributed
lavishly to the campaign fund Of the
Republicans, certain insurance mag
mates going so far as to commit lar
ceny and embarrassment In order to
elect Republicans. In view Of these
facts all Republican verbal assaults
upon trusts have been accepted with q
large pinch Of salt
The determination Of Republicans to
protect the trusts at all hazards and
under all circumstances was never
more forcibly illustrated than in the
debate on the Philippine tariff bill.
The situation as to sugar Is this:
We consume tremendous quantity Of
sugar. We can produce only about
one-fourth Of what we consume. Eug-
ar is imported almost exclusively In
the raw state. On raw sugar the tariff
Is about S86 per ton. Then there Is an
additional tariff Of $3.50 on refined
sugar, called "the differentlal." The
sugar trust gets this rakeof Of $500
per ton. That is what 1t feeds on. It
is whoppins big largsss. In order to
test the Republicans as to the sincerity
Of their antitrust declaratic-- I'd in
order to relieve the people OF ex.
orbitant tax on prime Necessary OF
life offered an amendment to reduce
the differential by $3.50 per ton, and
the following extract from the Con.
gressional Record shows what hap.
pened.
Mr.. Clark Of Missouri-Mr Chairman,
I offer an amendment.
The clerk read as follows:
Amend by inserting in line 8, page Q,
after the word aforesaid the following:
Except on Philippine sugar there shall.
after the approval Of this bill by the pres.
ident OF the United States, be levied. col.
lected and paid In lieu Of the duties now
provided BY law on ali sugar above No.
u Datsh standard snd on al sugar which
: