The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-12-24
OLD TIME AXIOM GOOD NOW
Poor Policy to Swap Horses While
Crossing the Stream-Next Sena-
toriai Election Of Vital Concern to
Michigan Farmers.

Michigan F armers.
From the National Farmer:
"The axiom that it is poor policy
TO swap horses while crossing a
stream" has special application in
matters affecting the great indus
tries in the United States in the inn
mediate future.
The special session OF the cons
gress adjusted the tariff question.
and despite the grumblings of the
low tariff interests who want the
door opened wider to the cheap Ia
Dor Of other countries to the end
that home industries may anguish,
the president has indicated firmly
in his message there will be no fur
Their tariff tinkering in the immed-
late future.
The only cause for disquietude is
the outcome as to Cuba, in the event
the government is compelled to alb
rogate the treaty at the instance OF
foreign countries, but we need not
be unduly concerned. There will DC
bridge when we reach 1t.
The country, as the result of the
adjustment of the tariff agitation
has settled down and entered upon
an era Of great activity in all the
lines of human endeavor and all au-
thorities and reports presage great
business, industrial and commercial
prosperity in the immediate future.
All the furnaces and factories
are active, the railways are doing a
fine business, and every wheel OF in
dustry is turning while labor has
never been more actively employed
at remunerative wages.
The American farmer is king.
Never has he enjoyed such pros
perity as at the present time, and
the increase in population and activ-
ity in all lines assures the farmer
good prices for all he will be able to
produce in the near future.
Conditions all around are favor.
able for uneXampled prosperity for
some time to come. But there are
always some disturbing influences ut
work, no matter how bright the sur
of prosperity shines. These are us
ually political and largely inspired
by special and personal interests.
The low tariff people controlled
by the big importing interests, hav-
ing made such Roadway in the tariff
revision business at the special ses-
sion of congress, are determined to
continue the contest and are even
now organizing to control the next
congress in the interests of ono.
more affecting the country with a
repetition Of the Wilson German
legislation of 1894, legislation cost
ing the country wide spread paraly-
sis. Those people have learned moth
ing from the bitter school of ex-
prience.
Personal considerations also en-.
ter into the matter We have am
bilious politicians very anxious for
perferment and they can always be
relied upon to secure followers. A
change means that some of those in
must step down and out, and there
are, always those who want to ge,
in.
The campaign the special import
ing interests have inaugurated to
bring about in the near future stih
further reduction in the tariff is to
be pushed. 1t is responsible for the
so-called "insurgent" faction in the
Republican party. 1t was recogniz-
ed by the special interests that i II
they expected to accomplish their
ends it must come through revolu-
tioniZing the Republican party;
that Democracy offered no hope
whatever for ultimate success be-
cause the people refuse to trust i'll
with the destinies Of the republic.
Hence the Special importing inter-
ests" which control many Of the
metropolitan Republican newspapers
through advertising agencies, consI
oeised the ideaGof progressive \, Re.
publicanism" along free trade lines,
by creating such force within the
party ranks as to force a reorganiza-
tion of the party and the adoption of
the s"r1e cN1o or1fr poliries on whicn
the Democratic party has gone down
to defeat, with a single exception. jim
60 years
The leaders In this movement are
the big importing interests and their
are Senators Cummins, La |
TOILETTE and others. These men be-
came insurgents because they could |
not dictate the tariff policy of the |
Republican party.
And while they accomplished lit =
lie, it Is the threat to continue the
conflict that is calculated to create !