Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1910-03-17
JUNGLE JOE MUST
co. is THE CRY
PORTLAND OREGONIAN MAKES
SOME PLAIN POLITICAL
STATEMENTS.
Prediction That Cannon Is Serving
Last Term a. speaker.

Which means that he will be down
and out at the termination OF the
life OF the present congress. Prob
ably his district will reflect him. for
he Is very strong at home. Besides
he is national and highly pietuT-
esque character, and his district has
a pride in the man that makes It
famous. Therefore his district win
stand by him.
But It is not within probability
that he viii be speaker again. There
is revolt among those who feel them
selves neglected or overshadowed BY
him. He Is opposed bitterly by little
abilities that can't get forward, yet
think they could, on some new deal
Iii Cannon were out OF the way.
There are many Of these. In COM
bination they make strong force.
and numbers tell in the house, as
elsewhere.
There Is strong probability, too.
that the next house will elect demo-
cratic speaker. 1t is really extra
ordinary that the house should have
been controlled by one party during
seven congresses in succession. A
change will be due some time, sure
~. Many signs favor it now.
For the republican party has con-
siderable divisions in many states.
due to variety of causes. For one
thing. the bigger and stronger
party is, the less room In 1t for its
increasing number of great men.
This is the chief source of the fight
against 'Cannonism" The predomi-
nant influence Of Aldrich in the SEN
ate is attacked on much the same
ground. With such motive dissen-
sion and opposition appear, and all
the circumstances and conditions of
the times are employed and magnified
to support and further it. Pledge
ling orators ambitious to make oro-
tund speeches in the house, for
buncombe-that is, for exploitation
can't get the opportunity they de-
sire. The committees are not ar
ranged to their liking, and they can't
get their local bills reported and
considered, nor themselves allowed
their chance to make the corridors
of fame resound with their soul
stirring oratory. Uncle joe is
blamed. He keeps them bottled up.
and their surging thoughts grow
mouldy and spoil like bales unopen-
ed to the sun. Give these members
their name is legion-leaye to talk
out of their stuffed bosoms all the
perilous stun that is in them, ana
not one little of actual business ever
would be done. But an enforced ST.
lenee inks these members, and they
become insurgents" That is hui
man nature, too, and they combine
together to take it out of Uncle
Joe''-who, however, neither is the
proprietor nor was he the inventor
of the system. The rules of the
house were made by the house itself
long ago, through necessity of pro-
viding a way by which things might
get themselves done, and Cannon
only administers the system that
came down through line of former
speakers-republ and demo-
crats-into his own hands.
The roar about tariff and high
prices, by members of each of the
parties. is merely the use Of first
things that come handy materials
from the first pile of bricks within
reach, used as missiles of insurgency.
Our tariff is a high protective sys-
tenn, practically the same that has
existed these many years. The peo-
pie wanted protective tariff when it
was made, have desired protective
tariff ever since, and will keep pro-
tective tariff still. Differences about
it will, however. always arise and
always exist, and protective tariff
can as well be attacked in one OF its
features as another. They who are
looking for materials or weapons OF
insurgency may always find them
easily in tariff schedules; for pro-
tectiye tariff is a local scheme, from
which every district expects and In
sists on advantages for itself. but
is ready to oppose or attack the
claims of others for benefits. So 1t
win be forever, or indefinitely, for
protective tarif, maugre all denun.
citation of it, will be maintained BY
agreement among It's benehciaries.
Yet there win be endless twaddle
against it by those who would deny
1t to others while claiming Il for
themselves. This is the state Of the
debate, In congress now It con.