Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-07-02
THE WORLD MANursHE1L
lFrOm July Success Magazinel

TreSluenL IaIC nan0S. we 90 not
yet know what the tariff bill will be,
nor what the Chief Executive will do
with~it.
What we know, is that tdoay the
new tariff bill is as bad as the old
Dingley law. /
The last ten weeks of tariff dicker-
ing have proved one of the most dis
heartening spectacles in American po-
litical history. republican and demo-
cratic legislators have broken prom
Uses and Unanswered, an diekered,
and bought and sold,. They have be-
trayed their constituents and have
fOrswOrn their honor, if they had any
to fOrswear. Flashy and unimportant
reductions have been blazoned with
trumpets, while new big burdens
have been created secretly in the 81
lence of committee rooms. The Wash
ington hotels and the congressional
lobbies have been filled with whisper
ing gentlemen, ard the wires have
been hot with messages from the big
financial interests. Only a few of
the peoples representatives have
shown themselves true to their prom
ises.
1t looks now as though the matter
were up to Taft. Seven millions of
men voted for him in the hope that
he would guard their interests against
millionaire tariff grabbers. For ten
weeks Mr.. Taft has sat quiet. He has
uttered no statement; he has given no
sign. He is waiting, waiting until
the defOrmed and vicious tariff law
comes to him in the course of legis-
latiOn.
We can well imagine what Mr..
Taft's predecessor would have said
and done during these ten weeks.
Roosevelt would not have encouraged
the tariff robbers by his silence.
Roosevelt would not have kept quiet;
1t is a matter of temperament. The
American people do not expect Mr..
Taft to accomplish results after
ROOsevelt's fashion. All they ask is
that he accomplish them. If the
Angel Of Grace and the Goddess Of
Justice do not speedily make their
abode in the bosOms of Messrs. Can
non, Payne and Aldrich, if the tariff
grabbers present bill at all. resem-
bling the present senate and house
measures, it will be the duty of the
quiet man in the White House to veto
the measure, and, if necessary, to re-
convene the congress in special ses-
sion.
It's up to Taft.
That July day is rapidly approach
ing when, in all probability, we shall
kill and injure some two thousand of
our young people in celebration of
the Declaration Of Independence.
1t is the cannon cracker that is re-
sponsible for most of these casual.
ties. Other forms of explosives and
fire works have their victims, but fol-
wholesale homicide, combined with
arson, there is no villain like the can.
non cracker. In one year nearly fit.
teen hundred injuries, a number Of
them fatal, and a vast number Of
fires were directly due to this miscre.
ant.
This year representatives Of forty
cities met in Pittsburgh to discuss
means of making the Fourth of July
less dangerous. Some communities
have already forbidden the sale Of
high explosives to children. The time
may not be far distant when page.
ants and athletic contests will take
the place of shooting in the day
proceedings, and when mothers may
look forward to our national birthday
without dread.
1t Is unfortunate that the clash be-
tween the Georgia Railroad and its
engineers and fremen should turn up-
on the matter of the employment of
negroes. The question of giving the
Negro chance to earn his living as
: a fireman or other skilled worger, is
one of vital Importance to the South
and to the whole country.
This is a question upon which the
South itself is divided. While the
majority of Southemers appear to
believe that political equality for ne
groes is impractieable at this time,
the mass of the people admit that up
on the cOlored mans ability to get
and keep a job depends the entire
welfare of the South. Men on both
sides of Mason and Dixon's line have
seconded the efforts of Booker T.
Washington to give the Negro a
sound industrial education. Southern
ers as whole have striven to prevent
negroes from migrating to the North,
or from congregating in the densely
settled black belts of the South. But
if the Negroes occupation goes, the
Negro, too, will leave. The industrial
progress of the South depends abso-
lutely upon the Negroes job.
The Supreme Court of the United
States has again decided that the peo-
pie do not know their minds. A law
passed by the house and senate, sign