The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-02-17
Utterly Futile.

So Governor Curtis Guild, .Ir.. and
other Massachusetts Republican tariff
reyisionists are at il again-that is.
they are beseeching the president and
congress to reduce the tariff. Theil
effort is utterly futile. They might as
we'll appeal to the Egyptian sphinx foi
redress of grievances. Uncle Joe runs
the house .Aldrich runs the senate ami
the president is so busy in his wal
with Foraker that he has no time Il
consider such a matter as the tariff.
One might as well expect man en-
gagged i'm a life and death struggle with
n grizzly to stop for purposes of ex-
amining a menu card. The Browns
vile episode has proved an apple OF
disccrd among the Republicans. and
the end is not yet. and let US hope
that the end will not come until Tie
Republican party is rent in twain ney-
er TO be reunited. That is certainly &
contamination devoutly to be wished
Colonel Roosevelt evidently has on his
fighting clothes and has made. up his
mind to carry the war into Africa
name for Ohio-by appointing neGIc
to the colectorship Of internal revenue
at Cincinnati, thing apt to ruin For
aker and Dick. no matter what they
say or do. With them it's Il case OF
damned if you do and damned If you
don't White Ohio Republicans are
perhaps unanimous in the opinion that
negro officials are the proper capel
away down south in Dixie" but negro
officials in OhiO-that's another story
Very much depends on whose OK is
gered, don't you know. Undoubtedly
Colonel Roosevelt struck Foraker on
the flank There has been. first and
last, much philosophizing about what
Ia the master human passion. Lord
Byron. who certainly knew what he
was talking about, said, Sweet is re-
venge. He was q competent witness
for he was not only the greatest poet
that ever lived. but the most revenge
full of mortals He roasted his multi
tudinous enemies over Il slow fire.
bathed them in vitriol pulled theil
teeth, gouged their eyes out, broke
them on a wheel, applied the thumb
screws and rack and inflicted upon
them any other tortures he could Go.
wise, and in that regard he was mar.
velously fertile in resources.
To use a crude but most emphati.
expression coined by my old law part.
Her, ex-Lieutenant Governor David
Alexander Ball of Missouri, he limb
ed, skinned and jayhawed Them
far as Foraker ct al are concerned.
the president seems to be in Byron's
revengeful frame of mind when he
wrote THE English Bards and ;cot2h
Reviewers l haven't read that poem
IN ten years. but the opening lines. a
sample of the whole, are fresh in my
memory yet and will be till | go hence
Still must I hear? Must noarse F'ftz-
gerald bawl
His creaking couplets in tavern hail.
And | not write lest Scotch Reviews
Should dub me scribbler and denounce
my muse?
Prepare for rhyme, I'll publish right or
wrong.
Fools are my theme; let satire be my
song
The papers do say that the iron en-
tered the soul of Senator Foraker
when he learned that the president
had called Booker T. Washington into |
consultation as to the Ohio negro APP
since which Booker f. has |
teen dubbed "the third senator from
Ohio" It's not only 4 pretty fight as
u s.t.,f,dS hg,t y f11rinrs ono natna
rrsssG are shouting go it. husband.
SO it. bear with perfect impartiality. |