Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1910-03-11
FRIDAY MARCH II. 1910
HOW The GAME IS WORKED

cad the following dlspatch 10 the
good old Republican cuckoo, the New
York Herald, printed by it as a Wash.
ington special. and then think just a
little-a few solemn thoughts. The dis
patch says:
Changes have been made in the
administrations interstate
bill which are of such q sweeping
character hat the bill has been redrawn
in that part relating to securities and
an entirely new bill was introduced in
the house today by Representative
Of Michigan, as a substitute.
These changes have been made as the
result of careful consideration by
Attorney General Wickersham of sug-
gestions made by attorneys for railroads
and banking houses and it is believed
that as now framed it will not interfere
with legitimate financiering."
Such q good old familiar sound has
this dispatch, sent to a newspaper that
is heartily supporting not alone the
president but Uncles Joe and Nelse as
WE'LL
The administration prepares a rail
road bill and sends it down TO congress
with instructions to pass it. That bill
represents its sentiments. But if the
railroad and banking attorneys do not
like those sediments the administration
can change theml And it does so.
But there were other portions of the
bill to which objection was also made.
These were the parts that legalize rail
road pooling, that create a court of
commerce and give it greater power
over the commission than the courts
now exercise, and take away from the
commission the power to prosecute its
cases in court and vest that power
in this same Attorney General Wicker
sham.
The directors to these parts of the
bill, however, were not the attorneys
for the railroad and banking interests.
They were only senators of the United
States, men like Cummins and La
Toilette and the CONSTITUENCIES they
represent. And their objections go I'M.
needed. When railroad and banking
attorneys are not numbered among the
DIRECTORS the administration stands by
its guns. Indeed. when only ''insur-
gents" object, the administration causes
inspired dispatches to be sent, like that
to the New York Tribune of February
81, which begins with this sentence:
THE present situation in the senate
insurgent camp strikingly verifes the
accuracy of President Taft's view that,
as a broad proposition, insurgents are
not to be depended on for legislation
The difference, of course. is very
plain.
When the insurgents oppose a meas.
ure the administration jams it through
despite their protests, and then the
president makes q speech branding
them as traitors to the party.
But when THE System" objects the
administration changes the bill so as to
make it conform to THE Systems
will, and then calls attention 10 the
fact that it is only through such loyal
men as Cannon and Dalzell and Aldrich
and Hale and Smoot that anything
can be accomplished.
The history of the tariff bill is yet
fresh in the public mind. Everybody
remembers how Taft himself told the
country that, while the wool schedule
was bad, and indefensible, 1t has to be
left that way because otherwise the
wooden interest senator's would have
voted against the whole bill and de-.
feated 1t. In the same speech in which
he made that admission Taft praised
h wooden interest senators for their
loyalty to the party, and branded as
enemies of the party other senators,
who had objected to that bad and In.
defensible schedule, and whose protests
were ignoredl
IL any man is i'm doubt whether the
administration is governed by ''The
System" whether congress is governed
by Tho System" whether the republi
GIN party Is subservieDt to 'The
System" let him study these facts and
this contrast for awhile, and then ans.
wer frankly and honestly his W
question. II he will, his answer will
DO the correct answer st. Joseph
Observer.