The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-12-06
(By willis J. Abbott

president will create a stir by send.
ing TO congress a message which
even a-member OF the body to which
| IL Is submitted will read. Mr.. Roose-
velt's message submitted at the open.
ing OF the sixtieth congress fills
sixty-three pages of good sized
octave pamphlet. II may be pic.
turesque commentary upon the folly
of such yoluminous message to
congress that when the house and
senate adjourned the newspapermen
swarming into the two chambers
found the neat pamphlets in which
the message was bound lying on
the desks OF the statesmen or cast
upon the floor. Long after the ad.
journment hour no member OF either
house or congress could be- found
who had either read or listened to
the reading of the message. None
would give an opinion upon 1t. or
course in general way prominent
republicans would say that they were
sure It was statesmanlike docu.
ment, though they could not go into
detail. Democratic leaders ON the 9th.
er hand admitted not having read
1t and declined to discuss It either
in a spirit of fairness or otherwise.
The presidents message. If put
into the type used by book pub.
fishers, would make a novel of the
ordinary sixty-cent size. That is not
to say that IL would be so inter
estins as a novel. But when the
members of house ana senate, and
the people of ihe nation have un
loaded upon them suddenly an ex-
ecutiye document of these dimen-
sions, II Is equally hard for the pub.
lie men to express an opinion con.
cerning it, and for the people to
form an opinion about it.
\ distinguished senator of the
United States weighing one of these
pamphlets in his hand, said today,
Time was when the president could
express himself in not more than
five thousand words. This time 1t is
easily thirty thousand words. Is the
burden on the president or on the
people?" To De fair the burden is
somewhat on the president. As long
as the president shall remain the
chief politician of the nation. the lead.
or of his own partisan organization.
so long he must make certain prom
ises. He must say TO newspaper pub.
fishers desirous of having the tarin
on wood pulp reduced that he will
urge IL. What easier way than to
! put, as Mr.. Roosevelt has, per-
functory paragraph of eight lines
two hundred words-into document
of siXtythree pages, of over four
hundred words to the page. The news
paper publishers who called upon
Mr.. Roosevelt must shout with JOY
] when they read the magnificent re.
suit of their visit to him and his
promise to them. There is an old
phrase about "the niger in the
woodpile," this being a matter bear.
ing upon woodpiles and wood pulp.
seems to justify the use of the
metaphor. Mr. Roosevelt thinks.
there should be no tariff on wood
pulp.d due notice Of the change being
Of course given to those engaged
In the business so as TO enable then,
to adjust themselves to the new con,
ditions. The repeal of the duty on
wood pulp should. il possible. be
accompanied by an agreement with
Canada that there shall be no ex
port duty on Canadian pulp wood"
II the committee of distinguished
publishers who visited the white
house and came away confident OF
presidential support, can get any
comfort out of that, they are more
credulous than the pumpkin who
expected TO get blood from a turnip
The notice to the American manu-
facturers and an agreement with
Canada will require more time thar
the present congress will have a
its disposal.
The President and Tariff.