Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1909-09-22
PROF. H. c. EMERY.
PEN SKETCH OF HEAD OF
TARIFF COMMISSION.
A REPUBLICAN AND A PRoTECTIoNIsT
OF THE PRESIDENT TAFT SCHOOL.


from the LeWtStoH Journut-
Perhaps no man in recent years has so
suddenly sprung into the arena OF public
affairs in this country who is so little
known by the general public as Prof.
Henry Z. Emery, chairman OF President
Taft's tariff expert commission.
This is shown by the things which the
Washington correspondents and the edi-
tors Of the great newspapers and others
who are supposed toknow all about every
body, have said and written OF him since
the announcement last Saturday of his
selection by President Taft. As matter
OF fact, beyond setting forth that he is
professor OF political economy at Yale,
they have been very much at sea. One
correspondent says that he is ranked as a
s'radicsl tariff reformer''; another editor
says that it is obvious that he is for tariff
reduction. Both these statements are in
correct, as is the announcement of one of
the great metropolitan papers that he is an
independent IN politics.
Prof. Emery is republican, and in 1896
was on the stump for Mckinley. He is
also protectionist of the moderate class.
SO far as it being obvious that he is for
tariff reduction, il is far from such. A
man of his calibre doesn't make up his
mind until he has carefully investigated
a subject. His duties at Yale have made
him converssnt with the tariff problem,
but he will take up his work on this
commission with an open mind, and his
decision at the end will be the result
of what he has learned while engaged in
practical tariff work. Those who know
the gentleman say this, ard his record
substantiates the assertion.
Among the summer colonists and all-the
year round residents at Hancock Point,
where Prof. Emery with his father and
mother spend their summers at the fam.
lily cottage, there is great jubilation at the
appointment, for Prof. Emery is favorite
with them and has been these many years.
In Ellsworth, the feeling is the same, and
on every hand his friends are confident
that he will make Q success OF the work
and bring credit both upon the President
and himself.
A young man is Prof. Emery, despite
the fact that he holds Q professorship at
Yale. He is full of the spirit OF boyhood,
yet he has all the dignity man OF his
position should have, and by his work
has shown that he is fully competent to
perform the new duties to which the
President has assigned him.
Prof. Emery is Of fair height and weight,
athletic Of build, though not an athlete in
any sense of the word. He has black hair,
and eyes which have tendency to brown,
while in his facial appearance he has
q stricking resemblance to his distin-
guished parent. There isn't q bit OF
affectation in his manner.
YALE's YOUNGEST PROFESSOR.
When the news that Prof. Emery had
been named to the important position OF
Chairman Of the expert tariff commission
came, it bought gladness to the people OF
Maine and to the friends OF old Bowdoin,
for he is not only Maine boy, but he is
Bowdoin boy, SO that the honor to the
State is doubled.
Born in Ellsworth, his boyhood was
much like that Of ..other boys. When the
course in the public schools was completed
he entered Bowdoin. Graduating from
Bowdoin in 1892, he entered Harvard and
got his A. NJ. from that university in
1893, and then went to Columbia where he
secured doctors degree.
In 1894 he returned to Bowdoin as an in
structor, remaining until 1895, when he
went to Germany to study in Berlin year,
returning to Bowdoin as professor. He
continued the work ut Bowdoin until 1900.
That year President Hadley, then pro-
lessor of political economy at Yale, was
elevated to the ONCE Of president, and
Prof. Emery was selected to take his
place. Since that time he has held the
economic chair in Yale.
When he went to Yale Prof Emery was
twenty-sevsn years Of age, and was the
youngest man ever elected to professor
ship in Yale, which OF itself was . great
honor to him.
BELIEVES IN PROTECTION.
As already said, many misstatements
have been printed about Prof. Emery's
political views in the past week. He il
not free trader, or q radical, or an in
dependent. He is q republican and . pro-
tectionist OF the school known as mod
crate protectionists.
No doubt it has been assumed that he
is radical tariff reformer and q free
trader because most professors OF political
econ omy are such. Among students OF
economics he is best known as q pro-
tectionist in theory. What he has
written along that line and what he hoe