Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-09-28

The effort the part President Taft to justify the Payne
Adrich tariff bill has awakened candid criticism among the
loyal Republicans of the which to him painful
surprise and has done initiate him into the real
of the people this question than anything that has
occurred in the course of his administration.
II Winona Mimi that he made his now celebrated
speech which exoed the tariff the best
passed by Republican congress. .
When he arrived the home of Senator Cummns who dis
tngnshed himself during his first term of service IN the upper
house by the vigor with which he denounced Adchsm ana all
nevertheless he continued his journey westward ne was met
with chorus of hostile criticisms because of the foolish and
exravagant in which he alluded to measure which, In
the opinion of fair-mnded Republicans something like the
worst instead of the best tariff bill passed by Republican
congress
These criticisms from loyal and representative
papers whose pushed the bounds OF courte
the injustice which Adrchm has perpetrated He finds that
great people, strongly Republican states
recognize tariff abect surrender to the
ca which dictated the the at the
expense of the general welfare and Republican good faith
AS Of the vigorous of his critics pointed outa
Republican of high neutrality-suspicious. in the chem
schedule relied conciate
the and compensate them for the increase in the cotton
schedules and the maintenance of the wool schedule in its prs
tine inquity
doubt by wnona speech President
Taft sacrificed much of the prestige he hitherto
enjoyed people country with grief and in
dgnaon that the promises of revision downward freely made
by the Republicans would be kept and they resented the
mockery which thrust upon substitute But
somehow they INDUCED belief that the president had exerd
himself personally reductions which the nsoene of the
majority the house and particularly the reoutey de-
MED He looked who this important instance
party putocratic
ogarchy in the senate whose conduct was guided solely by
selfish interests of the protected industries
This sentiment generated species of sympathy for the
president in his quality of good and sincere beset with
evil associates whose power overshadowed him.
But this sympathy melted instant when he frankly
undertook justify the niqutou which enacted
law the special session of He made to feel
the most direct and convincing that he had dappont
ed the just expectations of the people and that his real duty lay
the direction of correcting the gevous bunder that had been
made rather than in attempting justify it by arguments
ssd taken from the special interests represented in the senate
1t not too much that his has nded fame
of indignation which has been growing extent and intensity
he ourneyd towards the and his sank deeper
into the understanding of the people These criticisms have
merely from the progressive Republicans who have long been
less revolt but from the loyal and subservnt
section of the party whom language such they employ
would once have seemed like treason
There those who think they unmistakab signs Of
general revolt The section of the party which is held together
by the cohesive power of public plumber shown
selves be selfish and INSCRIPTIONS that the Republicans of
the west who guided by their convictions feel
that they have reached the parting of the ways.
The shallow subterfuge the out doctrine of Infant
industries has, fact been thoroughly exposed and the dan
which attend the misuse Of the taxing power Of the
men to enrich few special interests have become well
and generally recognized that this revolt promises become
accomplished fact and to bring reaction which STAND
patter' withstand