The Alaska citizen., 1910-09-12
THE COLONEL IS NOT QUITE so WELL LIKED AS HE
 MIGHT BE NOW.
SHOULD STATE HIS POSITION
People Who Would Follow Him Want to Know Where He Stands on the Leading Public Questions-He Must Get of the Fence.

 ly in the Insurgent districts are becoming impatient at Roosevelt's s apparent reluctance to state exactly where he stands on the subject of Insurgency.
 The result is that Theodore Roose. welt is not quite as popular an ex- pres dent as he was immediately fol lowing his return from Africa.
 This is an unbiased conviction that has been forced upon me after having travelled from Washington to the Pacific coast and back. I have talk ed with hundreds of persons of all classes, and have sojourned especial ly in the Insurgent districts
 Roosevelt is not unpopular. do not wish to convey that impression. He still has a large following
 But many of Rooseyelt's admirers seems to feel the eX-President is waiting to see which faction of his party is the strongest. instead of making a decision on the basis of which faction is morally right.
 If Roosevelt acts quickly and with clearcut candor he may prevent further inroads on his popularity. If he does not so act, the movement which he is given credit for having started will march on without him. with LaFollette or some other gen uine progressive al the head
 Will T. R. Aid Lodge?
 Word has come into the West via the Associated Press that Roosevelt will campaign for the reelection of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, of Mas sachusetts, who declares the ulti- mate consumer is a myth
 Roosevet's admirers are gulping hard over this information. They have been educated by LaFollette know Lodge as tool of Aldrich and the special interests.
 They also have the word of no lesser authority than Representa- tive Butler Ames, a Republican In surgent of Lodges own state of Massachusetts, that the political ma chine of Senator Lodge lis backed by all the large corporations" and is used to advance the selfish financial schemes of the large railroads, bank ing and manufacturing interests he (Lodge) serves in the halls of Con gress."
 Roosevelt's great popularity has been largely due to the belief of the people that he was the enemy of such corporation servers as Lodge.
 Therefore all over the land the eX-president's friends are asking: How can Roosevelt conscientiously speak for a man like Lodge, when he does nothing for men like La Fal- lette?"
 The mere asking of this question has the tendency of placing Roose- welt on the defensive And it is bad for any politician, great or small to be on the defensive
 The Democratic Position.
 Republican spellbinders have in timated the Democratic party stands for free trade. Absolute free trade is impractical with the United States. Every country in the world, includ- ing Great Britain, levies some tariff, and this country must always do so.
 The Democratic position on the subject is substantially as follows
 First: The government should nev- CT collect one penny more revenue than necessary to administer it's affairs with rigid economy.
 Second: The lowest rate that will yield the greatest amount of reven- ue should be imposed
 Third: Luxuries should always bear the highest revenue duties.
 Fourth: Experience has vindicated the wisdom of the ad valorem du- ties as being the correct practice.
 Fifth: Revenue duties should be laid so as to operate with equality neither for nor against any class or section.
 Sixth: Absolute necessities should go on the free list.
 Seventh There should be impos- ed revenue duty upon practically all imports, with certain exceptions. These exceptions should be determin- ed by the test.
 Imports coming in competition with products should be placed on the free list, and articles of absolute necessity should be i'm ported free of duty.
 Aldrich at Headquarters.
 Quite an important conference was held on J. Pierpont Morgan's yacht, COrsair, off Newport, R. l., recently
 It is understood that Morgans guests included Senator Nelson w. Aldrich, Senator George P. Wet more, who had just returned from seeing President Taft at Beverly, and Charles D. Norton, the Presi- dents secretary
 Morgan is known to take the