The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-01-31
The QUARREL
OF THE swine.
Scramble For Tariff Favors q
disgusting Spectacle.
CONSUMER IN BACKGROUND.

Steel Men Enraeed Over the Jo,.
Handed Them by the Laird Of Sk;bo.
7'I'man investigation Hangs Fire,
Light Needed on Panama Canal,
Purchase-Democrats DepIor. vu,.
garity OF Congressman Willett,
By WILLIS J. ABBOT.
The Review of Reviews refers to the
current tariff revision discussion AS a
journey for the nation through the
tariff bog.
From view obtained at closer
range than that of DR. Shaw in his
editorial sanctum in New York | would
refer to it as the decennial quarre, of
the Industrial swine for the hos,
places at the governmental trough.
l would not weaken the force of the
foregoing. but merely explain it's mean
ing by saying that not all who engage
m tariff revision discussion belong to
the class to which l assigned some cr
them. Rather. | seek language ade-
quate to express ones sense of min
gled amusement and disgust at the
scramble of the hitherto favored for
larger favors. or, at least. for con
tinued favors.
Ones amusement, by the way, is not
lessened by the walls now heard from
the Iong time coidled steel and iron
men at the remarks Of that canny
$500, 100000 bondholder of the steel
trust, Andrew Carnegie, before the
ways and means committee "The
steel business needs no more protec-
ton is the substance of the Scots
statement
Fun For the Democrats,
Really. to Democrats this is con-
vulsively funny. We had been led to
understand that ali infant industries
needed protection, and we remembered
that it has been little time ago that
the steel men-the laird of Skibo among
them in the foremost rank-brought to
Washington a puny baby and implored
our Uncle Samuel to provide for him a
nurse and bottle filled with high tariff
milk.
1t Is beyond belief that this child
should so soon be changed from milk
diet to meat. potatoes and prunes, the
food Of lusty workfngmen. Tender
hearted folk will opine that it might
be dangerous to effect SO sudden and
radical alteration of the nutrition
lime for the rearing Of such Z
Young hopeful as the United States
Steel corporation. Even Democrats
hard hearted sometimes on the tariff
theme pity the tiny being thus forced
Or desired by the Scotsman to be forced
to subsist on. mans food.
It creates a situation which might
compel Frederick Weyerhauser. owner
Of a paltry 100000 acres or there
ab0uts Of timber lands on the Pacific
coast. worth from $1,000 to $4,000
quarter section. to endure removal OF
the s. duty on lumber. which might
make it necessary for the government
to provide an almshouse for him and
similar sufferers from tariff reduction.
The Consumer Neglected.
have read the GOO pages of print
ed testimony-forty volumes-given be-
fore the ways and means committee.
and in no instance did a witness speak
Of the consumer-the ultimate cOnsum-
er-of all Of these tariff protected ar
ticles. There must be some of them.
at least, as many in the United States
a. there are. that are Interested as
producers in the zinc industry. to take
at random one of the industries which
all many of the testimony pages.
MIR. Ultimate Consumer, gentlemen
OF the trough scramble, is highly es-
Unable, a poor but honest. an obscure
but thoughtful. a long suffering out
spirited, a patient but just. Individual
who when once actually aroused, when
cognizaIt of the facts. when convinced
that he is being made sport OF ana
when Informed as to what course WIZ
bring him his desideratum will 90
things things not exactly constituting
that ccnsummation devoutly to be de-
sired by the political fellows who nave
brought Mr.. Ultimate Consumer into
that frame Of mind.
interject this at this time as a gen
tie reminder that the common people
OF the nation expect at some stage OF
the tariff proceedings to have their
interests taken into account ana 10
suggest that disregard of their views
might work harm to the political for
times Of some eminent men whose Of
fetal residence just now is Washing
ton-a residence by no means eterna'
In its tenure.
Position Of ssnator Ti''man.
The Tillman incident has come ana
zone. 1t never will be investigated oy
the senate or will be only II Senator
Tillman or his friends force such ac-
ton.
This is unfortunate for Senator Till
man. The attack by President Roose-
velt is not negligible. 1t Is not Trivial
It Is not to be ignored in wisdom.
Either the chief executive outraged