The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-12-06

SON why man OF party SHOulQ not
be simultaneously both conservative
and progressive. In fact, all legis-
lation should be on lines of justice.
common sense and enlightened patri-
otism
Question 4-Do you think the fact
that all the most militant, progress
in the last congress, like Cummins of
Iowa. La Toilette of Wisconsin, Clapp
of Minnesota. BristOw of Kansas,
have been sustained at the polls,
while in almost every case the stand
patters have suffered indicates that
the country is ready for and expects
progressive legislation for the con-
troll of corporations? Will progress
i've policies necessarily disturb or
harm legitimate business?
Feud Family Affair.
Answer-Most of your question
four / answered under the head of
question three. Such progressive"
policies as | described H. No. not
only will not harm legitimate bust
man desires to injure any legitimate
business is absolutely inconceivable
A sane man wishes to promote every
legitimate business because the well
fare and happiness of the people de
pend very largely, if not entirely.
upon the growth and prosperity of
legitimate business, large and small
The talk about desire to injure
legitimate business is the malicious
jabber of standpatters-' tale told
b yam idiot. full of sound and fury,
signifying nothing except that the
man who talks it is of the tribe OF
Ananias and Sapphira
So far as the feud between the
standpat and insurgent republicans
is concerned that is family fight.
a performance for which | have no
taste. | interfered in a family row
once, when in my salad days, and
every time l think of it | hum bly,
and reverently thank Heaven that
! am still alive.
Too Many Instances.
If the fact that certain insurgents,
such as La Toilette, Murdoch and
PoindeXter won shows that insurg-
ensy is CROWN, by the same token
does not the fact that Beveridge,
Burkett and Fowler lost show that
insurgency is waning?
1t is not wise, according to Lord
Bacon, to undertake to deduce a
general rule from too few instances.
Whether the insurgents will swal-
low the stardpatters or the stand
patters will swallow the insurgents,
whether the Thorough trouncing
they all got will bring them togeth-
er or separate them more widely, can
not be predicted with anything ap-
proXimating certainty. They have
my hearty wishes for a permanent
and wider separation. the more per-
manent and wider the better for the
country.
Question 5-HoW do you regard
the result Of the last election as a
whole? AS victory for the pro-
gressives or insurgents, or as an out
come regardless of parties?
Answer regard the result of the
last election as a sweeping democrat
ic victory, giving us a golden oppor-
tunity and imposing upon us a grave
responsibility.
About Tariff Revision.
Question 6-Do you regard the
reelection of those who were pro-
gressives or insurgents in the last
session as a republican victory?
Answer regard the selection of
any sort of a republican to any sort
of an office as a republican victory
pro tante. There is no use to null
tiply words in answering No"
Question Are you in favor of
taking up in the presene session a
revision of the Payne-Aldrich wool
and cotton schedules, Or do you
think it would be preferable to take
up a general tariff revision at the
presene session and if so. could this
be done, in your opinion, without
disturbing commercial interests in
general?
Answer-Unquestionably the cot
ton and wool schedules need revis-
ion: so do the other schedules, some
more, some less. Whether any re-
vision will be attempted at the short
session, in which there are only