Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-09-12

WHAT FOOLS THESE hoHTAAs Be.
Tariff legislation was the reason given
for the hate extra session OF congress
All last winter at the regular session.
which closed up the expiring congress.
we're were told there was so much 70 De
done on other lines that the tariff could
not be duly considered for lack OF time
for careful study and comparison of sta
tistics to relieve q tax-ridden people
Therefore an extra session mus be
called IL was 10 be devoted TO tarin
legislation pure and simple. IL was 10
20 down 70 the root OF the whole matter.
The bad tooth Of protection" was 70 be
extracted aud a new tooth, sound and
good looking. put in its place by new
tariff doctors.
In addition. q tariff board was con-
structed, which was made up. not OF
tariff experts. but clamorous and defeat
ed politicians who would be heart-oroken
II forced TO leave the enchantments OF
Washington city
These appointees on the new tariff
board were TO instruct the incoming con-
Rress with its free trade policies and
when the tariff board was organized W
ssleft-orer''t politicians. I said 10 myself.
s-the whole thing will prove nzzie.
And so It has.
The rampant politicians went at the
business OF the extra session ike ham
mer and tongs, until the new men got
their positions and the path into the
treasury funds Was made clear and the
salaries were duly set down 10 be drawn
and paid over monthly-
All the summer these people have been
s'gassing'' about the tarifr. and as !
think. and believe. pulling the wool over
the eyes OF the dear people az home
II has been = sharp cut. make-0eiieve
EFFORT 10 show how not 10 do IT. ;
To read Of what they promised 20 do.
and what they failed 10 do Is quite
enough 10 wake up the apathetic. indif-
ferent people At home, but the farce sun
goes merrily on
The regular session. which meets the
first Monday in December Is 20 40 the
work that the extra session OF six long.
expensive months OF jaw and gaboie
didn't do
Il POSITIVELY fatgue's ones ndgnatonl
II Is evident that they did nothing but
play a. politics"
Some hundred OF men who got nto con-
xress by the use Of the usual methods,
and who draw 80 per day with pickings
out OF the taxes Of an ignorant but con-
hndng constituency. have been In Wash
ington City from March and through
August pretending to doctor that con-
nrmed old patient. called the tariff. and
the patient IS IN worse condition than
they found the old hulk when they be-
gan deliberations with high-prieed tar
IN board 10 help them decide and legis-
late.
That tariff board is already the laugh
ing stock Of the country. Some OF them
were rewarded for their treachery last
year. for Il is q notorious fact that Mr..
Cannon. the speaker Of the house. elab-
Grated in a public speech during last
years campaign. the consummate treach-
cry Of certain so-called Democrats which
appear to have been promptly cashed on
demand BY a Republican president.
IL makes me tired to see how the COM
mon people are humbugged by this tariff
fraud Not q dollar has been reduced,
and the people are getting nothing but
high prices all the time.
IKE ALARMING SPREAD or FELLA-
GRA- 4
From the newspapers we hear a great
deal about the increase OF this strange
disease. which I never heard OF until
few short years ago
Last evenings Journal chonicles nearly
90 well marked cases in a North Caro-
lima town.
have ceased to wonder or be sur
prised at such Developments. but ! do
wonder and do feel surprised that we
heard nothing OF this fell destroyer until
lately.
There seems to be in pellagra no.
chance TO place any OF our old-time all
ments with only a new name. unless IT
was known as eczema. and dOctored for
eczema in -bygone days
The ailment Is now. so pronounced
and dreadful to look at that I wonder
If the Israelies did not call Il leprosy,
OF which We read so much in Bible his
tory. AS they did not subsist on Indian
corn or maize. there would be no op-
portunity 10 charge II up 10 corn bread
OF food preparations made from our, sort
Of corn
am doubtful concerning this corn talk
anyhow.
Perhaps ii Is because have been
largely reared on corn bread and hominy
and such Ike that I am a doubling