The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09
GOES AFTER
 TAFT'S SCALP Protective Tariff League
 Is Busy. LITERARY BUREAU AT WORK Statesmen Say There is Going to
 Be a Rumpus. Federal 0mcehoiders In The South Are Setting Triggers To Pull For
 Genial Secretary Of
BY A. J. STOFER

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 w lington. June S~-(Special )-The Protective Tariff League, with head quarters in the city of New York, shows signs of great excitement People who keep reasonably posted on economic affairs of this and other countries are aware Of the fact that the League runs a weekly publication known as The American Economist" Underneath it's caption there is this sentence: Devoted to the Protection of American Labor and Industries" For many years the men wno run the bu- reau of the League have been sending out deal of literature with a view of reminding the voters of the United States that if there is any revision of the existing schedules the industries of the country will go to smash. labor will suffer and there will be thunder to pay generally. For the past year the people at the New York bureau have been having an easy time.
 It seemed strange that all of sud- den the literature did not go out as in the days of yore. Evidently the fell lows over there thought they had sure thing of it. but here lately there mas been so much talk of the nomina- ton of Secretary Taft for the Pres 1dency as the successor of President Roosevelt that the men of the League appear to be having all sorts of fits. Their literary bureau has started up once more and those who keep track of such matters would not be surprised if 1t were to be under full blast in a few months. although there are no im- portant elections to be held this year.
 Red Hot Against Taft.
 The League is red hot against the genial Secretary of War. Almost ev- cry mail which reaches Washington has something in it trying to prove that 1t is not in the interest of the protect i've system to have him put forward as the Republican candidate. The Wash 1ngton newspaper correspondents are being courted with unusual attention at present. No discriminations are made. Men known to be representa- ttves of papers in favor of revision, free trade or what not, receive the doc- uments. This probably is on the theory that some revision or free trade sinner may be converted.
 From what many of the statesmen of each of the leading parties say, there is going to be a rumpus on the sub- Ject of the tariff within the next two years. Revision. they think. is bound to come sooner or later.
 It will be recalled that when the government had to go into the market to buy machinery @d supplies gen. orally needed in the construction of the Panama Canal. Secretary Taft was bold enough to assert that the Amer ican manufacturers were trying to hold up Uncle Sam in a well devised scheme to charge more for the stuff than ask ed by foreign manufacturers. About that time, it is we'll to remember, Pres- ident Roosevelt was full of the idea of calling an extra session of Congress to revise the tariff. When the news got out, a score or more of the rankest "stand-patters." hurried on to Wash ington to labor with the head of the nation.
 On day it was proclaimed widely that MT. Roosevelt had made up his mind and nothing could swerve him. The next day 1t was heralded far and wide that the President was wavering. Then