Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-15

ceptions are the joint resolution asking
congress for a clock in the Lincoln postof-
flee and their declaration Of hostility to
the principle Of protection, whereby they
changed ct great expense the game laws,
so as to pnt bluejays on the free list"
1t was certainly amateur night" in
this Legislative vaudeville, and long before
1t was over every "Cornhusker' from Rulo
to the Black Hills was shouting at the top
Of his voice, Give them the hook"
But let us not dwell upon this saturnalia
Of p~ie-counter partisan extravaganza they
gave the people in lieu of their fair
promises ef economy and reduced taxes.
which. in conjunction with their last-day
roorbacks. had trioked the people into
voting the democratic ticket.
They had secretly written upon these,
pledges what democracy has always writ
ten on every candidate and every policy It
ever endorsed,-"without Recourse-God
help the endorsee." This party, without
responsibility. without confidence, living
on a memory Of ante-bellum successes, or
ganized, IL at all, into guerilla bands, al
ways pleads, in defense Of its ~blunders and
broken pledges either the exemption act
Of tn statute Of limitations.
Righ at this time, all the democrats and
some republicans are lifting their voices
against the tariff bill. Now, 1 don't know
whether It is a good bill or a bad bill, and
In this I believe 1 am on an exact par with
most of those who are loudest in their de-
nunclations. Senator Cummins said at
Knoxville, Ia, October Z, that he did not
think we should enter on another agitation
for revision Of the tariff. but that, instead,
he wanted "a commission, like a court, II
you please, authorized to go about, take
testimony, tax evidence and examine
books. and then tell the people OF the
United States the difference between the
cost Of manufacturing here and abroad"
TIL senator said, Il don't want another
revision until we know those differences"
To the republicans who c~ritlcise this bill,
which promises a continuance Of good prices
to our farmers for their beef, their pork,
their wheat and their corn, upon whose
prosperity our very existence depends, 1
say, Don't take snap judgment. The
proof of the pudding is in the eating" If
the bill is right time will prove it so. II It
is wrong, we must make 1t right, and say
ing it is all right doesn't make 1t right.
But, on the other hand, don't forget that
saying 1t is all wrong doesn't make 1t all
wrong, by a long ways either. The repub-
lican party will solve this problem, as it
has solved every other, and do so with the
skilled science and labor or the architect
and the builder, not with the battering ram
and dynamite Of the house-wrecker.
To the democrats who denounce the bill,
l laugh and then shudder before 1 say any
thing / laugh to think of their last clown
like effort to frame a tariff bill and 1
shudder to think Of its consequences to the
American workman and farmer and manu-
facturer. On this question, as on every
other, we can say to them with good grace,
And why behold1st thou the mote that is
In thy brothers eye, but considerest not
the beam that is in thine own eye? Oh,
how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me
pull out the mote out of thine eye, and be-
hold a beam is in thine own eye? Thou
lhypocFite; first cast out the beam out OF
thine own eye, n then shalt thou see
clearly to cast out the mote out of thy
brothers. eye" For the democrats in the
senate and house, during the last session,
abandoned every party principle, abandoned
everything, to save the tariff on the prod
ucts of their own states and constituencies,
and, when the progressive republicans de-
manded still further reduction, the demo-
Gratis were ready at all times to jump into
the breach.
The vain hope Of democracy for control
OF the next house has brought on a mighty
battle, in which Bailey of Texas has taken
a strange hold on Bryan Of Nebraska and
the two are mixed up in a half-nelson and
hammer-lock over what KIND of a bill they
ought to have If they ever get a chance to
try to make one.
FIRST ROUND.
Bailey Tented with right, then led with
a strong left to jaw. Bryan swung with
right, but Texas Joe wasn't there. He
ducked, slde-stepped and landed a clever
half-arm hook which seemed to stun the
big fellow. 1t was Balley's round. AS we
go to press the gong has sounded for round
No, 2. and the heavywelght's, seconds are