The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-16
MADE Them LAUGH.
Senator's Amused and Startled
by YOung's Speech.
Lectures His Colleagues From
Standpoint of an Editor.


body, of which he has been q MEMBER
exactly 20 days the surprise of IT'S OK
lstence. He had prepared to make an
attack OF his cotlea gue, Senator Suin-
aims, who seeks passage OF d concur
rent resolution changing the rules u
the senate and house so as TO permit
piecemeal revision of the Payne-Aiu-
rich tariff law. This ne did and more;
Doffing his toga, when he arose, ne
lectured the grave and dignified sena-
tors from the standpoint OF an eullor'
which he IS in private ME
The senate gasped and then laughed
when Mr. Young told it that the colf'-
try would feel relieved were congress 20
adjourn altogether for two soEa
years 1t gasped again when ne al!ud-
ed to its members in breezy fashion as
boys" and when he declared that the
editors of the country and not congress.
ruled the country. the galleries joined
with senators in general hi'arity
Senator Young's speech, which occu-
pied less than an hour, commanded the
strictest attention The senator had
prepared an address which was before
him on his desk. but he seldom con-
suited the printed transcript he warm
ed as he proceeded and, apparently
realizing that it might be at once ms
salutatory ard his swan song, he spoke
his real thought on legislation and on
the national legislature
His reference to editors and printers
ink as the real directors of the destiny
of the nation was followed by disayow2l
of anv intent to offend. When he called
his colleagues boys" he accompanied
it with a wave of his hand. This in
cident followed a story of how, just rs
he was about to take the train foT
Washington and the senate, consti-
t. ent .fbuttonhoIed', him. go down
there, SENATOR" said the constituent.
land for Heavens sake, put up a fight
fo the consumer" Il will not Mr..
Young said he replied, 4"Those boys
there are doing that. L am going to
fight for the producer"
Standing in Senator Tillman's place,
Mr. Young attracted general attention
when he arose not only because of the
novelty involved in a set speech from
SO new a senator, but because of the
quaintness and forcefulness of his Ian
guage a he warmed to his work.
| Mr. Young opposed all efforts at re-
vision of the existing tariff law. be-
| cause, as he commended, the law protects
| the interests of the farmer. He had
| great fear, he said, that ultimately the
| adoption of the resolution would prove
| injurious to the great agricultural in
! tereSts.
| THE principal complaint against the
| tariff as regards price," he said, "has
| had reference to the products Of the
| farm. Therefore, we might anticipate
| that the first schedule that would come
| from the other house would be the ag-
ricultural schedule l would be afraid
for Secretary Wilson or any number of
| great farmers to be caught alone with
| that schedule with no means of de-
| Tense.
THE weapons of offense and defense
| in legislation are the right of amend
ment and the privilege of offering sub
| StituteS. My colleague would take
| away from himself and myself the right
| of introducing the wooden schedule as
| a substitute for proposed amendment
| which might put agricultural products
| on the free list. If the proposed rule
| should become the law of the two
| houses we would be denied the privilege
of fighting for our interests by the ar
raignment and introduction of the in
| terests of Others"
Mr.. Young spoke of the recent cleo
| tons and plainly referring to the pro-
| gressive Republicans, said that argu-
| mentS made by men within the Repub-
| ican party had produced Democratic
| votes. In discussing the attacks by
| insurgents upon the principle Of prOtec-
| ton, Mr.. Young told of meeting Colonel
William J. Bryan recently and saying
| to him that just as the latter had pro-
crossed in fitness for the presidency
| his chances had diminished and that as
i he had now; become a conservative his
party would not prefer him for that
| high office.
The Iowa senator challenged any
| member to state his belief that the
/ 1lISI was ISCSlN1I6 LOO IiluCI lOI HE
products. lie declared it had been in
timated the middle man was getting
too great a share of the value of farm
products.
eff this be true" he demanded, .twhy
strike at the producer? Why not go
after the middle man direct? The
tariff of 1909, in attempting to strike
at monopoly, put petroleum on the free
list. The refiners Immediately reduced
the purchasing price of crude oil and
sumner of refined oil. Thus the con-
sumner was not benefited. Why repeat
this performance in the case of the
farmer and his products?
THE tariff ought to be revised he
continued, s.as the president has sug-
gested. in a scientific way one schedule
at time. 1 might not be willing te
object to the rule proposed by my
colleague, which would prohibit the
offering of amendments to a schedule
which might be pending were I not
afraid that the first schedule to be
pending would be the schedule cover
ing farm products.
Such being the case. Mr.. Young con
tinued, the great farming states woulo
be attacked by the south, the Rocky
mountain states and Now England
Under the combined attack of the
great manufacturing and mining re
gions, the agricultural states would b.
practically helpless Because of thi
condition, he said, he hoped the Cum
minis rule would not be adopted. ant
at this juncture INDUCED in a fling a
his colleague
IT am surprised also" he declared
that my colleague, who has beef
fighting bravely and CALAMITY to un
shackIe the members of the hous
from the tyranny of the rules, SHOULD
undertake to bring the same shackle
into the senate. Yet my distinguishes
colleague seeks to make it impossibl
for me to defend the only products o
our home people.
; Demanding to know who was dissat
, isfied with the tariff, the senator de
Iclared that the time had come to en-
the tariff discussion. He agreed witt
President Taft, he said, that the coun
try needed rest.
Would it be sumptuous for m
to suggest to such Republicans as hav