The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-07-29
PAGE THIRTEEN

ever, with the chances Of revision doeonaoard
all the time growing less
Senator Aldrich controls the situation be-
yond doubt
So completely does he boss things that he
would not yield point to even Serano Payne,
the House of Representatives high tariff
leader.
Payne wanted one or two changes made in
the Senate bill to make it conform more to his
House bill, but Aldrich wouldn't stand for it.
President Taft was appealed to, but Aldrich
defed even the President,-so sure is he that
he has Congress by the throat.
The President has been giving dinners to
the Aldrich and Payne followers, trying to
reconcile them, but what reeenciling has been
done is by Aldrich making the Payne crowd
surrender their ground and accept his terms
Of surrender.
With ''the people be damned" Joe Cannon
the foxy rascal, working in harmony with
him, Aldrich doesn't have to yield
Cannon, the Gar of the House, working
hand in hand with Aldrich, the ''Boss'' of the
Senate, forms a combination that will come
nearer making the President come to their
terms than the President will ever come to
making them come to his
When ''f0@y' rascal like Cannon, and a
bold rascal like Aldrich combine to do the
people, the people may expect to be done so
long as they keep the Cannons and Aldriches
IN power.
You often hear our Congressman give the
excuse that they voted for protection on GER
tain items in the Tariff bill because they want
ed to protect our home infant industries
You are often told by the high tariff cham
pions to 'look at England's deficit"
England, as you know, is a free trade coun-
try.
So far so good, but let us 90 a little further
Suppose you read what the British Premier,
Asquith, has to say on the subject.
"LoNDoN, July 23-Addressing meeting of city men
this afternoon in defense of the budget Premier AS
quith declared that the only alternative offered
Chancellor Loyd-George's proposals for raising the
new revenue necessary, the introduction of tariff
but the Liberals he said would not look at any sug
gestions for tariff.
"'Two great countries the two greatest commercial
rivals have in the world continued the premier,
have been trying their hands at tariff fabrcations for
the last two or three years Germany for two years
has had in operation fulblown scientific tariff and
Germanys deficit is much greater than own, and it
has already caused the downfall of of the most
powerful ministers in Europe, and if look on the
other side of the Atlantic they have just completed
revision of the Dngley tariff 1t is not for to speak
dsrespectfully find pleasure and compacency in the
troubles struggles and misorunes of friends and
neighbors, but when we are told that the sovereign
remedy for financial troubles is to create in Great
Britain what has been created in Germany and what
is just being recreated in America general tariff
entitled to look to the experience of those who
have adopted those methods And what is the of
the American tariff? Why, far as [ can make
out, it is universally condemned by the whole American
press and regarded by the American people tri-
mph OF particular interests general interests for
they trusts and monopolies reentrenched and
inforced in their long and too victorious campaign
against the consumer
'AIr. Asquith added that unless there revolu-
tionary change in public opinion here it would be i'm
possible to carry general tariff through the British