The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-26
BY Ernest G.. Walker.

(Mdu special 10 Inc AuEeItiSer
WASHINGTON, November 12-Rep-
resentative A. S. Burleson of Texas, a
member of the appropriations commit
tee, voiced prevailing Democratic
sentiment the other day when he de-
clared that emo 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 off wool and
woolens2 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
go far toward the improvement of our
rivers and harbors. Then we might
impose an income tax, which would
yield large sums annually-sufficient
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 SEES
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
eets which the engineers have work
ed out and approved. Congress wants
those projects taken care of, and the
leaders 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 a 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
wear 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
should be attributed to the Democratic
agitation over tariff. The Democratic
candidate for governor, former Stats
Senator James H. Valley, made his
dominant issue an eight hour labor law
that Governor Draper vetoed some
months ago. His running mate, Eu
gene n. Foss, until this campaign Re
publican, was put upon the ticket as
candidate for lieutenant governor be
cause of his longtime championship OF
lower tariffs and of Canadian reciproc
itv. he practically came over into the
Democratic party and probably here
after will be found in that political
camp. Incidentally, it should be salt
that Mr.. Foss furnished the bulk OF
the sinews for the campaign. The
great obstacle to the Democratic cam
paigns in Massachusetts always is Il
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
very large majority. He used muel
money in advertising and bought space
on the front pages of newspapers t.
describe how prices for commodities OF
all kinds had gone up. This he at
tributed. of course, to the high tariff
It was current saying around the
eapital last summer that Massaehu
setts came off better in the Aldrich
PAYNE tariff law than any otner state
For that reason the Bay State vote
NAV have been particularly significant
But it was the Massachusetts manu-
facturers who gained the satisfactory
rates and they are in great minority
in that populous State.
Accordingly the result has been takei
M by the western low tariff advocates
as evidence of the nationwide inter
est in their propaganda. They vii
make much of it from now on IN th'
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 Il
the adjoining State of Rhode Island
which has been electing Democratic
governors in off years for some time
the Republicans won all along the line
The present governor, Aram j. Fothier
a rench-Canadian, was selected by tn,
largest margin given any candidate TO
governor in that State in a very lont
period. In New York city and State
Republicans more than held their own
although the Tammanv candidate 70