Bisbee daily review., 1911-05-10

 Bob Gates, of the congressional gal leries handed me a newspaper clip l D ug that he informed me was an cdi- l torial rom the Fort Worth (Texass Record, accusing me of the horrible and revolting crime of inconsistency, that "bugaboo of little minds" Pri- vate letters, also from Texas. have come 10 this town warning timid folks Of my aweui peryersity in this behalf
 It seems that Senator Joseph VI Bailey some years ago made speech on the judicial power nom mated in the federal constitution, and 1t challenged my attention and extorted my admiration. l had no hesitancy in complimenting the men tai endowments and legal attain ments of the senator and l still say it was great speech and worthy to rank with those of our eminent constitutional lawyers, few of whom ever dealt with a legal question ID ; a way that was not Greek to me. though some forty years ago was A 'near-lawyer' myself. l also said that Mir. Bailey must be a man oi force to substitute his idea of near f0flH lOt AAAN 0BANHNA' democracy of Roger e. Mills ane make it go down in Texas and in 1 the south. or words of that import. But does my admiration of Bailey as a lawyer estop me from chai- lenging the heresy Mir. Bailey deals out as a statesman? l tTow not. what 1 said of Bailey on the juoiciai power and on the tariff as we'll might have found precedent 'b Shakespeare;
 ] s' Respect to your great place and let the devil
 ! Be some time honor'd for his i burning throne"
 ! care nothing for consistency when it conflicts with conviction and I would write what l believe today. although it contradicted every thing I believed and all l wrote yes terday and [ would not give snap of my finger for a newspaper or journalist that would not do as do in that particular. l have no patience with those newspapers ed ited by the money downstairs rather than by the brains upstairs. Their preachments are flimsy, fatulent, vapid. insIpid. colorless, contempt ble, infamous, and their owners are sycophants and towards, liars anu slaves. What my mind forges and my conscience approves my pen will write. and it will write none else. Thank God there are brave news papers in the land, and they illustrate all that Thomas Jefferson meant by a free press.
 But this time | am innocent or inconsistency. stiE say that MT. Railey's speech on the judicial pow CT. whether it is sound or rot, IS a great effort. and I still blieye and now say that MT. Bailey's stand on the tariff will make Texas re- publican state if Texas follows him. As well eat the devil as to drink his broth.
 . And speaking of consistency, what is NIT. Bailey's record on that! William NJ. Springer, a democrat from Springfield, H., was chairman of the ways and means committee or the Fifty-second congress, of which body Joseph W. Bailey was mem Der. Mir. Springer assailed the tar iii in detail. He brought in numer- ous bills that the republicans il derision called "popguns," and each of them put a raw materal on the free list. The first was wool, and at that time Texas was a wool state. Did Mir. Bailey oppose it? No; ne swallowed free wool. free lumber. free coal and everything else free that Springer set before him. Nor IS that all. Tn the next succeeding congress the Wilson bill war gorged with free raw materials as 1t passei the house of representatives, and NJ. Bailey supported it, though a score or SO of haIfbaked democrats voted against it. So, if the Fort Worth Rec ord would scalp a man for inconsist' encv. let it chase MT. Bailey out or the woods.
 Morrison and Caiisle. Mills and Wilson all held that free raw ma terial is the A E c of tariff reform nd mark you. West Nirginia whence hailed William L. Wilson, l' an enormous producer of coal, lun' her and wool. Kentucky grows moro hemp than all the other states to gether. but democratic kentucky voted free hemp, a pure raw ma teriaI because to tax it imposed al |. additional burden on the man grow ing cotton in Texas. And Texas ought to be honest enough and gen erous enough and proud enough tc vote for free wool for the child sleeping under blankets in kentucky
 It is true that hemp, raw ma terial. is taxed in the Payne-Ald rich monstrosity. but it was don' on motion of w. O. Bradley, a re uublican senator from Kentucky, whc is in exact agreement with Bailey as . to raw material I don't blame Brad i ley. He believes in it because 1t i' republican doctrine to tax the mass es to enrich the classes. l don remember how Bailey voted on th' hemp proposition. but his constitu l ency harked back to 1894 he voted for free hemp; but if he conformec to his present evangel he voted fol the tax and thus imposed additiona . hardship on the Texas cotton farmer whom it is impossible to protect anG who pays the tax on raw materials ? How a cotton farmer, whether ownei
 of the soil or renter, can folio" Bailey is incomprehensibie- l know