The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-11-26
By Ernest q. Walker.

WASHINGTON, November l2,-Rep.
resentatiye A. S. Burleson of Texas, a
member of the appropriations commit
tee, voiced prevailing Democratic
sentiment the other day when he de.
elsred that ono good business man
borrows money when he has sources of
revenue at hand. The same should be
true of our government" added Mr.
Burleson. "Why not take some of
these burdensome duties of wool and
woolensi 1t would help the wearers of
wooden clothes all over the land. The
treasury could easily realize $5O,000,-
900 of revenue year from that
source. That amount of money would
70 far toward the improvement Of our
rivers and harbors. Then we might
impose an income tax, which would
yield large sums annually-sufficien
for all reasonable needs of the gov.
eminent without being at all burden.
some to the possessors of large
wealth"
Anyhow, the clamor for bond is
sue will be strong throughout the ses'
sion of congress, not particularly for
improvements to the Mississippi River.
That can be STAYED off on the plea
that the army engineers have not
formulated any definite and feasible
program, but there are scores of PROF
ects which the engineers have work
ed out and approved. Congress wants
those projects taken care of, and the
readers will have hard work to pre-
vent an authorization of bonds unless
the money can be had some other way.
The arriving politicians at Washing
ton are gossiping about the elections
Just over and the signs they afforded
Of the popular trend. On the whole,
the Republicans are feeling very well
over the verdicts as rendered at the
polls. The flies in the ointment are
So few. Massachusetts is about the
only instance. But Republican gov
ernor and other State officials were
elected there by safe majorities. Gov.
Eben S. Draper, however, received a
majority of hardly 10000, where last
year he had 10000. The lieutenant gov
ernor, l.. A. rockingham, was also re-
elected, but by only about 5000 votes.
Probably much of this reduced vote
l. IL IN ha
agitation over tariff. The Democratic
candidate for governor, former State
Senator James II. Valley, made his
dominant Issue an eight-hour labor law
that Governor Draper vetoed some
months ago. His running mate, Eli
gene N. Foss, until this campaign a Re-
publican, was put upon the ticket as
candidate for Acknowledgements be-
cause of his longtime championship of
lower tariffs and of Canadian reeiprcc-
ity., He practically came over into the
Democratic party and probably here.
after will be found in that political
camp. Incidentally, it should be said
r..
the sinews for the campaign. The
great obstacle to the Democratic cam
paigns in Massachusetts always is to
raise funds.
Mr.. Foss adopted the methods, which
William l.. Douglas, the shoe manu-
facturer, used successfully in 1904,
when he was elected governor by a
very large majority. He used much
money in advertising and bought space
On the front pages of newspapers to
describe how prices for commodities of
all kinds had gone up. This he at
tributed, of course, TO the high tariff
II was n current saying around the
capital last summer that Massachu'
setts came off better in the Aldrich-
Payne tariff law than any other state.
Cor that reason the Bay State vote
--ay have been particularly significant.
But il was the Massachusetts manu-
faeturers who gained the satisfactory
rates and they are in great minority
in that populous State.
Accordingly the result has been taken
an by the western low tariff advocates
a. evidence OF the nationwide inter.
est in their propaganda. They will
make much of it from now on in the
hope of injecting the tariff as an issue
into next years campaign.
The outcome in Massachusetts, how
ever, according to the Washington in
depreciation has been distinctly over
balanced by the voting elsewhere, In
ghs adjoining State Of Rhode Island
shieh has been electing Democratic
governors in on years for some time
the Republicans won all along the line
The present governor, Aam j, fothier
a French Canadian, WAS selected by IA,
largest margin given any candidate fol
governor ia that State In a very lonl
period, la New York city and state
Republicans more than held their own
although the Tammany eaniif-te f0
mayor VIVA elected, hni with % hostile
lizard NJ estimates. New Jersey lepis
katuTg will ba lpuuillyau this ,tlntsI