Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-26

system in the House OF Representatives
which has made ii unrepresentative and
subversive of our form OF government.
mo one denies the existence of this
public sentiment. No one needs a seer ;
eye or any gift of clairvoyance to know
that that public sentiment is a growing
one. insistent and determined. and ii is
not difficult to to see that the logic of the
situation compels a declaration from the
Speaker and the accession TO the ranks
of those who merely desire to change the
rules following the declaration
According to the prophecy of Senator
Reed Smoot of Utah the American peo-
pie are laborine under a NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
and one which the senator is inclined to
believe they will awaken to i'm the FORTH
coming year.
Il believe that the people of this coun-
try will awaken to the fact next year that
the so-called raise in the wooden sched-
ule, which they believe has caused the
increase In the prices of wooden clothing,
is due to some other cause than the tariff
and that reason I believe to be the manu-
facturers themselves who have arbtra-
rily raised the prices.
Whether IL was unconscious or not the
senator gave no sign, but he remarked at
the close of his statement that il was
rather dry subject
That the navy Is the most popular
branch of the government is the belief OF
Senator George c. Perkins of California
see improvements in that quarter
II believe that VIC viii maintain the
present policy in regard to the navy 7
have always been in favor Of increasing
the appropriations and have endeavorcd
along that line for several years or un-
til the appropriations have taken a good
step forward As to next year. with
gard TO the navy. believe that there will
be two more battleships built some tor
pedo boats and several golfers.
For the uninspired," aid Representative
Michael r.. Driscol OF Syracuse. y "
''prophesying is simply guessing. If The
guess happens ii is prophecy: Il not for
get it. IL is harmless TO guess on fu-
lures where no margins are required aud
no risks incurred. SO here goes for a
guess on national politics for the year
1910.
I'VE are facing deficit and our in
come Is uncertain. Congress will. there
fore. cut its garments according to is
cloth. Current expenses will be pro-
vided for, but not many new laws will be
enacted which will require appropriations.
The friends of large rivers and harDors
improvements will be disappointed. The
arid land reclamationists will not get all
they hope for. Swamps will not be
drained at national expense. nor will tia
government be committed 10 the policy of
ordinary road building. In the middle
west and northwest sentiment for freer
not dissatisfaction with some OF the
tariff schedules will become more intense.
The insurgents in Congress viii continue
to insurge and organize. and in most
cases will be sustained by their constitu-
ents whose antagonsm toward the con-
centrated wealth and the great manufac-
turing and Industrial corporations and
trusts of the east and near east viii
grow stronger and have its effect on the
congressional elections.
Speaker Cannon will he issue be-
cause in the minds OF those people. he
is associated with the interests which they
believe are making too much money be-
hind the tariff walls. Candidates for Con-
gress will be required to commit them
selves whether for or against his con-
tinuance as Speaker. His old friends and
supporters will appeal to him. and in or
der to save them from danger of defeat
he will eliminate himself an is
sue by declaring that he will not
be candidate for reelection to
the speakership. and the next House
will have working republican majority.
Prejudice against a central bank will
continue to yield during the year, and the
next comprehensive banking and cur
rency law will create such a bank"