The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1909-12-17
TARIFF AND
THE INSURGENTS
Clash Coming Between Hale and
Taft Over the Commission.
PRESIDENT and THE TRUSTS.


Washington.
Washington, Dec. IA. - In the sub
cellars under the national capitol there
is talk of a coming clash between Sen
ator Hale and the president on the
tariff commission. When Hale got
through with the clause of the Payne
bill providing for the commission there
was nothing left of 1t except 1.-THE pres
ident shall appoint and a few other
words that had no meaning. Well, the
president did appoint, and he is put
ting a meaning into the words that
Hale in his widest dreams never con-
templated. In fact, the provisions the
president is discovering are exactly
the provisions that Hale tried to cut
cut and thought he had. Taft is max
ing of this commission that can in
vestigate tariff facts at home and
abroad and recommend changes.
Therefore. say the wise ones, look out
for trouble when Hale gets a chance
at the appropriation for the tariff COM
mission. This il a situation that fills
the insurgents with unholy glee am
glad to see them get some crumb Of
somfort.
No LET Alone" Policy.
There is growing doubt as to just
what the president will recommend on
the Sherman antitrust law and when
he will recommend 1t. In his speeches,
1t is true. he indicated the amendments
he would favor, but the Standard Oil
decision and other things have chang
ed the face OF the situation. At pres
snt there is an apparent determination
on the part Of the administration to
enforce the law as it stands-to make
little noise about it, but still to en-
force the law Members of corpora
hons who have appealed for a let
alone policy have received rather de-
eided answers on this head. The pres
ldent will advocate federal charters
for all trusts doing an interstate bust
ness. Beyond this it is not certain
that he will urge any amendment at
all, at least not now. But it is certain,
or as nearly so as any future event
ers under the law as 1t is now on the
statute books.
When Is a Lopez Not a Leperf
There is relief among certain med
ical gentlemen in Washington that they
are rid of the John r. Early case.
They did not get out of the dilemma
with entire dignity. but at least they
got out and that IL something Early
Is the man who was pronounced a
Ieper In Washington. but when he
got away to New York the physicians
there said there was nothing the mat
ter with him. He was leper in the
District of Columbia and well man
In New York. something like John
Armstrong Challoner. who IL insane
IN New York and in his right mind in
Virginia. But at last the District doc
tors have agreed TO let Early go free.
whole responsibility off on to DR..
Simon Flexner of the Rockefeller in
stitute of New York, whose decision
they will accept as Hnal. Leprosy
seems to have become a geographical
disease, the sovereign cure for which
Is change Of climate.
Latest Washington Hatchet Story.
Carrie Nation. who has been in al
most every Jail in the land, has man.
aged to break into the Washington
bastile. She used three hatchets for
the operation. labeled respectively
Faith" Hope" and Charity" 1t
Is not on record whether Faith" or
Hope" broke more beer bottles in the
bar Of the new Union station. or maybe
Charity" was ahead of them both,
cution among them to get their owner
behind the kind of bars that are of
iron and that have no plate glass and
bottled goods accessories. II the suf-
fragettes ever take up English meth
DDS in this country would not Carrie
Nation make peach Of a leader? She
would become the Mrs. Pankhurst Of
America.
One Form of the Mouth Disease.
A crusade is threatened in the Capt.
bal City against whistling in the street
,ars. A lady has grown real indignant
because a conductor whistled while
fares. 1t Is sad situation
Ind one that calls for reform. Why
conductors are addicted
% the melody-or malady-of the labial /
sucker is not apparent unless it Is that
hey have nothing else to do. In New I
FORK the cars are so iammed that the |
lickel snatcherS have all the breath ]
Iqueezed out Of them and could not
whistle In more than spasmOdic jerks /
wen If they tried. They do not try. 4
There IS little in New York that con- /
Iuces to whistling anywhere except in
music halls and fats. In fats any
ind Of sound is the rule, pleasant ones
be exception. There 10 something
bout Washington, however, that Is
onducive 10 emitting noises from the
mouth, among which whistling may
e classed. Up on Capitol hill one may
ear mouth noises all day long. There
re persons who grow even more In
ignant Concerning this than did the
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