The Irish standard., 1910-01-29

solutely unsophisticated so far al
a political deal with corporations i.
concerned. So anxious has the minor
fty leader always been to keep himself
free from corporation faint that he
has never even used one Of the tele.
graph franks that are extended to
Congressman to enable them to send
dispatches free of charge, nor has NJ
ever accepted free railroad transpor-
tation.
"If the next House is Democratic, az
now seems likely, Clark will be speak
err AS speaker he will give the right
of way to q lot of progressive legis-
lation that Speaker Cannon has held
up for so long. This will bring the
Missourian into the limelight, and that
is all. in the opinion Of his friends,
that will be necessary to impress his
availability us Democratic standard
bearer upon the people"
An insurgent is not necessarily a
Progressive. All who have opposed the
present rules and the power they con-
fer upon the speaker are classed as in
surgents. AS distinguished from these
men who are merely insurgents upon
the rules and the power of the speaker
jo 90
gressives. These are the men who ar"
in favor Of fair play, not only upon the
floor of the house Of representatives,
but also favor fair play for the peo-
pie at large. They are against syndi-
cate control in politics. These are the
real progressives, and there are but a
handful of them.
ellison Gardner, Washington corre-
spondent and close friend of Theodore
Roosevelt, is one of the many prom
fnent newspaper men who foresee that
the next House Of Representatives
will be Democratic. Taft has earned
defeat for his part by his desertion OF
Roosevelt policies" declares Gardner.
"He Is working hand in hand with
Aldrich and Cannon and Aldrich ami
Cannon are representing the special
interests as faithfully as if they We're
on the payrolls of the corporations.
No man can live in Washington and
know his business as a newspaper
correspondent, and be ignorant OF
these facts"
"Uncle Joe" had just finished read
ing the fifty varieties of inter-
views with him concerning his declar-
alton that he had no intention of re-
firing. He stuck his hands in his
pockets, tilted his cigar at an acute
angle, grinned through the smoke and
said:
1.-THE trouble with the newspaper
boys this time is that they had some
information to go on. But they can
write beautiful and accurate articles
when they are not at all hampered by
the facts
A newspaper man whom President
Taft had taken a fancy to incurred
the displeasure of the chief executive
recently by suggesting that the scheme
Of cutting off insurgents patronage
would be unpopular with the people.
Mr.. Taft has not seen this friendly
reporter since.
1.-The tariff" says blind Senator
Gore, enables one man to get with
out earning what another man earns
without getting"
After Napoleon's return from E,ha
1T was only hundred days to Water
loo.
American protectionists on the stump
have fallen into the habit of telling
voters: First, that import duties are
paid by foreigners; and, second, that
the amount of duty is not added to tn,
cost Of the article protected.
If these assertions are true (Which
they are not) how do the protectionists
account for the fact that the difference
i'll the cost of bread in Great Britain
and Germany is invariably equal or
greater in Germany by the amount Of
German import duty?
After 1T is explained that the German
duty on wheat is 1884 a quarter (480
pounds) four paragraphs will suffice to
convince any ordinary mortal that at
least in this instance the import duty
is added to the price Of the article
taxed, and instead OF being paid by the
foreigner" is paid by the consumers:
l. At the beginning Of August, 1908.
the Berlin workman paid for a quarter
of wheat $10.4S. At that time the price