The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-12-27
"L4FE" YOUNGS IGNORANCE

The following editorial In the Pitts
burg Post, December 20. concerning
the late Hon. Frank Hurd will be of
much interest to Mt. Vernon people,
The editorial is entitled. "Lafe
Young's Ignorance"
About the only merit the standpat
speech of the brief senator from Iowa,
'Lafe' Young, possesses Is that 1t
does not occupy much space In that
willing victim of imposition, the
Congressional Record" AS we not
ed at the time of its delivery. the
substance Of his cowboy harangue
was to have the people endure tariff
burdens for the sake. OF business"
He did not define with any exactness
whether he meant the, honest busl-
ness the great mass OF Americans pur.
sue, or that business" which -four
ishes upon tribute pillaged from the
people through the processes of tariff
schedules. He especially exhibited
his editorial spissitude by laying
strongest stress upon the necessity OF
preserving the rates on farm pro-
ducts, which yet form the dominant
mass of exports.
II is lamentable for newspaper ed
the Philippines, and acquired some,
though fictitious, fame as n village
spouter, to project himself abruptly
and immodestly upon a Senate to ut
ter this:
They used to say that In Ohio
there was man by the name OF
Frank Hurd-I do not know
whether he Is living or dead, but
I presume such. men never die C
who, when he had an audience OF
farmers In the State of Ohio,
could take the tariff schedules
and make them SO ridiculous that
the good agriculturlsts were pre-
pared, then and there. to 60 from
the school houses and the I,
churches and boil Republican
leaders in oil out or very indigna-
tion. He was elected to Congress
about every other term on that
doctrine. You can not elect a
free trader twice In succession
any more than you can find a man
who advocates q Tow tariff de-
Tending low tariff when that tar
III Ia In operation.
Frank Hurd, OF Toledo. was one of
the brainest men Ohio ever knew. His
father, like himself. was one OF Its
greatest lawyers and legal publlcist
Of note. Mr.. Hprd was elected to
three Congresses alternately. but did
this fact not strengthen rather than
weaken his tariff spripliples? Three
times his constituents sent him to
Congress, and finally only quit be.
cause he died. During no year Of his
service was low tariff In operation
nor any specimen OF what Democrat
ic House could pass. II behooves an
editor, like "Lafe" Is when at home
and where he will soon be again, to
know all this, or to keep silent a,
least in the senate.
Further, Mr.. Hurd was one of the
most eloquent orators his party ever
had. Long before "Lafe" Young's SUI
perlor colleague. Mr.. Cummins, EN-
braced the late Mckinley creed of rec
iproci.y, Hurd made a speech In the
House which rang through the Nation
and its phase. that sounded like q
bugle blast, was "Out TO tho sea-
There was tho epitome of all Blaine
ism, and the initial exhortatlon thai
1lnally converted Mckinley. Oughtnt
there to be an editor for tho "Con
greshional Record" fully equipped
with a box of blue pencils, and al
so with the more potent function o.
signing notes: "Your contribution
is respectfully declined as not avail
able for our columns?"