The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-04


4. euffercd Indicates that the country IN
ready for and expects piogresaive leg.
islation for the. control of corpora
tlona2 VIII progressive politics necea4
| safily disturb or harm Legitimate bust.
nessY
Malicious Jnhbrr.
a. Most Of VOW. questions answer.
ed under thu question three Such
"proEressive" policies as I described
In Ne. not only wllli1iot harm "legi-
innate business" but will help 1t. That
any sane nun desires TO iinjuro any
| Legitimate business Is absolutely in
conceivable. a sane man wishes to
promote every legitimate business, be-
cause the welfare and happiness of tho
people depend very largely, ie not en-
tire1y. upon the growth ind prosperity
4 of legitimate business large and small
II The talk about a desire to injure le-
Ultimate business is the malicious 1ab-
ber of standpatters---"a tale told by all
idiot. full Of sound and fury, signify
\ ing nothing.n except that the man who
II talks II is OF the tribe of Ananlaa and
Sapphira.
So far as the feud between the stand
pat and Jnsurgent Republicans is con-
earned that is family fight, per-
formance for which have no taste. J
Finterfered in family fight once, when
in my salad days, and every time
think of it / humbly and reverentlS
(, thank Heaven that am still allVe I!
the fact that certain Insurgents, such
as La Toilette. Murdoch and Poindex-
i ter, won shows that insurgency 10
4 growing, by the same token does nov
the fact that Beveridge, Burkett and
oxt,1n,. ell
waning? 1t Is not wise, according TO
| Lord Bacon, to undertake to "deduce
general rule from too few instances
| Whether the Insurgents Will sWal-
low the standpatters or the standpat-
tiers will swallow the Insurgents, wne-
Their the thorough trounclng they all
got will bring them together or separ.
ate them more widely, cannot be pre-
dicted with anything approximatins
certainty They have my hearty
wishes for a permanent and wider
separation. The more permanent ana
wider the better for the country.
@. 8! Are you in favor of taking up
at the present session a revision Of
the Payne-Aldrich wool and cotton
schedules, or do you think 1t would be
preferable to take up general tariff
revision at the present session, AND
IL so. could this be done, in your opln-
ion, without disturbing commercial In.
terests in general?
Need Revision.
A. Unquestionably the cotton and
wool schedules need revising; 80 do
the other schedules some .aore, some
less. Whether a revision Will be at. +;
tempted at this short session, in which |
there are only a!xtytive working days. |
/ do not know. Democratic action Will
depend on the consensus of pemocra-
tic opinion in the House and Senate.
Democratic opinion, indeed might !
broaden 1t so as to say public opin-
ion, is divided on the two methods OF
revision--by a general bill, or by |
separate bills. This. too, is a matter
not of principle but of detail, which |
must be determined by ascertaining
the consensus of opinion among Demo |
Gratis. Each method has it's advantages |
and disadvantages, and each has its |
advocates and opponents. l feel sure /
that changes in the tariff in fulfilment
of the promises OF responsible Demo !
Gratis can be made without iniuring ,
any legitimate commercial or bust
ness enterprise.
Indeed. am inclined to believe that
every legitimate enterprise and COM I
mercial business would be benefited bv
Just and wise revision OF tho tarit. !
1t nj ght be advisable to put IN a slid
ing scale OF reductions To extend grad /
ualIy over period of years a: was put ,
into the tariff bill in 1883, So that husI. /
ness enterprises might adjust tncnl /
selves to. the change.
@. 6---How would the whole country
regard the election of Il corporation /
attorney ike Edward NJ. Shepard or
William +. Sheehan partner If .'niEc +
Parker. as United States senator .frorl
New York?
Al have no idea how the country !.
as whole would regard the election
of any man to the Senate from ;try
state. assume that. the legislature
selection Of a proper Denocrat.
growth of the Socialistic vote to abou.
100000. nearly double frat Of t,ur3i
years ago. without much organizaticp
or money? What does 1t fnAanp
A-The growth of the SocialistiC
vote Is a phenomenon which mUst he
thoroughly considered by thoughtful
men of all parties. am certain that
manev persons will he SURPRISED when
they find out who vote the Socialistic
ticket.
Now, having fully answered. these
questions NAV he permitted 10 stale
that the chief thing which which made
our oy-erWhS lmin@ victory cornpa-a-
lively easy was the fact that maior-
ity of newspapers and periodicals We're
helpin2 us in one way or another.
whereas heretofore Cor sixteen wears
onl,: few of the great metropolitan
dailies and magazines gave US aid and
comfort,