, 1908-04-21

are going 10 have an extra session OF
congress Immediately after the 4th of
March. 1909, If not before, and the
whole tariff schedule will be open for
remarks at least, if not revision, and
we shall hate TO see a lot of letters.
newspaper items, etc, quoted on the
floors or the senate and the house as
showing that sheep and wool men are
tor Bryan as some OF them in the west
have declared themselves to be.
They want to elect Bryan or tear
down something to get even with the
president. They seem to think that no
matter how the president and house
act, the senate is strong enough to
hold them up, and will SO hold them.
Now, Mr.. Flockmaster, do not bet
your money, or let your friends bet
theirs, on the s%enate's holding up the
sheepmen, If they do not hold them
selves up. There are less than ten
states now in which wool interests
have n large prestige, as compared
with other interests. In all the 9th
ers throughout the union the cry for
lower-priced clothing, etc. (Which is all
nonsense, Of course) will carry every
time as against the wool interest and
those who desire protection, and how
much stronger will be the pressure for
taking off the tariff on wool if repub-
leans elsewhere can point to the fact
that wool men and the great wool
states, like Wyoming and Montana,
are divided and part of them willing
to accept Bryan?
OF course, Taft will be dead safe on
the wool tariff, provided the wool rien
themselves properly set the pace. al
though Taft, like all the others nov
will submit TO a revision of some OF
the schedules, Mighty few stand
patters" are left. Even III esteemed
Uncle" Joe Canon has been compelled
to submit sufficiently for his state TO
align itself for early revision of some
kind.
Ii we divide up and Taft cannot
make it, and they stampede to Roose-
welt and he should feel compelled to
take 1t, then his policies might follow
him to some extent, though his close
friends are satisfied he can be set right
on western matters. If Bryan is elect
ed, Of course he is committed to free
wool and various other free things. II
Taft is elected, he can profit by the
good deeds and policies of his prede-
~cessor, can out his errors, take
hold fresh and new, as to our western
range and sheep matters, and endeavor
as he has always done to be with the
men who are on the ground and in the
field doing things
We grant that there is a lot of Bry-
an sentiment, but Bryan cannot carry
New York; he is weaker there than
ever; nor can he carry a lot of western
states that he carried the first time.
The wool situation is nothing to
was a surplus piled up in this coun-
try, nd when all the working men and
lots of others were too poor to buy
wool clothing.
Mutton is mighty high now, but we
do not think we will have any large
demand for sharp prices on wool until
after the election and some settlement
of the tariff revision by the extra ses-
sion of congress, or at least an indi-
cation of what the result is liable to be.
What do we think about the revision
of wool? If the big western wool
states pile in early for Taft, so that
every one knows where they stand, and
then when they get to convention, if
the unexpected happens n Taft an
not be landed, go to the next best fell
low, and finally when the nomination
is made, accept it Observation-Disclosures
pleased Or not-go to the front with
vigor and beat their tom toms and
make themselves heard all over the
country, then We a stand up and
prevent any ruinous changes (f