The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-07-09

Developments in connection with the
tariff debate during the past week have
been far from devoid of humors Dem
ocratic Senators generally have come
to take philosophical view of schedules
They have done their best, at least a
majority of them have, to secure lower
duties and resultant relief for the con-
sumers, they have succeeded in some
small degree and failed in a majority
of instances and they have now reach
ed point where they can look calmly
on at the work of their Republican
brethren and extract from the situation
all the humor which it affords.
On Monday consideration of the cor
poration tax amendment was begun.
By clever manipulation of those Sc
nate rules of which he is past master,
Mr.. Aldrich acquired for the corporation
proposition a parliame ntary situation
which for the time being precluded it's
amend ment and rendered unacceptable a
direct vote on the Taft proposition.
This was the occasion of disappointment
to the Democrats, some of whom, at
least. believed that were the income tax
to come to vote first it would be a
dopted The majority however, even
of the Democrats, realized that the
work of the President had been too
we'll done to permit of any defeat of
his plans. They have, therefore, set
back contentedly, more lockers on in
Venice, and have derived large mea-
sure of enjoyment from the antics of
Aldrich. Hale, ElkiEs and other High
Priests of the school of Republica
as. they tramped doggedly along like
prisoners of war tied TO the tale of the
Presidents chariot and sought to give
an imitation of enjoying the proceeding
Mistaking the judi cial temperament
and calm, good natured exterior OF
William II. Taft for the old-fashioned
conservatism of the Mckinley type,
they have, to their discontinue, a,
least, partially awakened to the fact
that they have caught as great Tartar
as Roosevelt whose m ethods are differ,
ent but whose radicalism is no less.
In fact nehind the closed doors
of their committee rooms
so me of the most extreme Republicans
are declaring that they have placed in
the White House Democrat in dis
guise and one iGfn itely more dangerous
to the Republican party than Mr..
Roose welt, as his methods are more
subtle and his good nature more seduct-
i've.
When Senator Aldrich, standing be-
fore the Senate as the legislative father
of the corporation tax, undertook to
explain that measure. he but lily yelled
his mate hostility to it, frankly confess
ed that he expoused it only as a means
to defeat the income tax, and predicted
its repeal within two years. This
means that the corporation tax will
be killed in conference" shouted some
of the most violent opponents of the
measure in Republican ranks. "This
means nothing of the kind" replied the
President in effect, talkin 6 to group
of newspaper correspondents at the
White House. ut means only that
he accepted it only because he was in
tight place and ad to come to me for
assistance. His prediction that the
measure will e repealed in two years is
perfectly harmless. If he can CLEAN
some small degree of comfort from that
prediction, I have no objection. But
l know that once this tax>goes into
operation and takes two million dollars
a year from the Standard Oil Company
and its subsidiary companies, almost as
much as the Steel Trust, nearly as much
from the Sugar Trust, and at the same
time places on public record in Wash
ington statements of the profits made
each year by the trusts and protected
interests, the American people will
never permit it's repeal. Ten Senators
from Rhode Isla nd could not erase it
from the statute books. Why people
should be amazed when Senator Aldrich
does little squirming is beyond my
comprehension"
To add to the misery of the old-time
Republicans even Elihu Root, junior
Senator from New York, assumed to
be the embodiment of conservatism, has
so long sat at the cabinet table of
Roosevelt. and has so closely associat-
ed with Taft, that he too has become
infected with the virus of radicalism
and astounded his colleagues in the
Senate by declaring that he would work
and vote in his own State for the ap-
pIoval of the constitutional amendment
empowering Congress to impose an
income tax. Mr. Root added that he
favored the corporation tax because he
believed the government should have
in its possession systemstized informa-
ton regarding all corporations: that
CouSieSo do uo" sotlhS ~ heep awe
thousands of corporations by protec-
tive tariff; and that it was proceeding
: by guess work and conjecture: with
garbled statements on both sides of the
question" Nothing but the infexible
rule of the Senate against applause
prevented hearty outburst on the
Democratic side when Mr.. Root enunci
ated this frank declaration regarding
methods framing tariff
bill
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