Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1909-01-14
WASHINGTON LETTER

and Means Committee a Georgian ap-
peared. He was lurnberman and
standpatter. Chairman Payne asked
him: why should you people from
the South always come here asking
for the very highest rate Of duty and
always voting for the lowest?'' The
broWbeaten man answered: Il did
not vote that way myself. The returns
show that Mr.. Taft got more than
forty thousand votes in Georgia.
[ was one of those voters - But Mr..
Payne was inconsis. ent. It would be
strange indeed il there were not peo-
pie in the South DESTROYS of securing
an enhancement Of the value of their
products through the tariff or by any
other means. Greediness is not confn-
ed to sections or individuals and there
are some planters in the South who
would gladly snatch protection against
the pittance Of Egyptian cotton that
is brought to this country. Southern
ers Of this type, however, are few in
deed as compared with the hungry
horde north of the Mason and Dixon
& x f f4l- E
line. Per contra, the tariff is a fetish
with actual millions Of people in the
North who have no direct interest in
its spoils, but who have been told
that it is the primal source of pros
perity until they believe it.
Protection, like plague, is easily
introduced but to stamp out the cpl
demic-that's the rub. The in
FAINT industries Of the country, like
the steel trust, the sugar trust, the
lumber and all the other lusty trusts,
continue to clamor for the milk on
which their infancy was nourished.
While Holland and instruction are
playing hob with his principality,
President Castro is having fine time
in Berlin and he has furnished the
German correspondents rare oppor-
tunity for type Of journalism sup
posed to be more common in this coun-
try than in Europe and known as
yellow" Castro's doings are por-
trayed in the daily papers with great
elaboration. He is both sick and well;
fasting and feasting amiable and ter
rible, all in twenty-four hours. He
is reported as negotiating with the
Germans for battleships and cannon
and as desiring TO employ the best
German military experts to Germanize
or Japanize the Venezuelan army. It
is evident that Castro has money to
spend and that the Germans are anx-
ious to render him all possible aid in
swating it.
The success Of the skirmish in the
House of Representatives recently,
led by Congressman Gardner Of Mass
achusetts, possibly presages the over
throw Of Speaker Cannon in the sixty
first Congress, or if not his overthrow
by the election Of successor, it at
least indicates that there will be a
sufficient majority to strip the Speak
er Of some Of his despotic power. The
insurgents favor the selection of the
House Committees, including the all
Committee on rules, by a.
committee chosen by the House, in
stead Of by the Speaker. This change
would be in accordance with the prin-
ciple which forbids the concentration
Of 50 much legislative power in the
hands Of one person, as IS now pos
sessed by the Speaker.
Il all the distinguished statesmen
reported as probable members Of Taft
cabinet should come to Washington,
they would make a remarkable increase
in the population Of the city. But Of
the many names only nine can be
chosen.
Il the tariff should be honestly re-
yised, it may be predicted that moth
ing will be more astonished than the
Tariff itself.
There is no doubt that the inaugura-
lion Of Mr.. Taft will be quite as SPLEEN
lid in its pageantry as the Inaugural
ion Of any Of his predecessors. A
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