Bisbee daily review., 1911-07-23
RATHER MIXED PICKLES.

Says Golfers Weekly:
 Tn the dramatic effort of the in surgents at Washington to use the reciprocity bill as a wedge to force a downward revision Of the tarif, there lies extensive possibilities and likewise extensive dangers. If the result is to kill reciprocity, without bringing about revision, the insurg- ent cause will suffer heavily. If, on the other hand. the reciprocity bill is passed intact. and along with it bills lowering some of the worst schedules. the insurgents will share credit with the democrats.
 Senator LaFollette in his whole career has been the enemy of half measures. Time and again in Wis consin he set his mind upon a object refused to accept an incomplete step, failed for the time being. and sue ceeded, few years hter, in get ting the whole. If his refusal to accept the reciprocity bill by itself works out the same way, he will emerge from the fray stronger than he entered, but if, in the general mix-up, reciprocity suffers, and tar if revision does not gain, upon the senator will lie much of the responsi- bimty The same statement will hold of Senator Cummins and other in surgents who have taken a similar position.
 As for the president, whatever work he has done for reciprocity must rebound to his credit, whether or. not that bill becomes law. if however, the result of the fight is to bring before him this summer var ious pieces of downward revision, he win be unable to avoid fesponsibil ty for these indirect consequences of his special session. Presumably he will sign any downward revision sent to him, and if SO he will be strengthened. If he should make the pitiful mistake, however. of veto ing downward tariff bills on tho ground that he preferred to con slider nothing but reciprocity at thi. session, the tables would be turned and incalculable loss would fall or him"
 As the readers know the Courier Journal has not taken much, or any stock in republican insurgency. Il prefers straight politics to mixed politics. Senator Cummins greatly seriously discredited himself by th' single sentence that he considered the worst of republicans better thai the best of democrats. That ez hfbited him as either foolish bigot or an unreaecting spouter. Senate LaFolIette is displaying spectacula- propensities the reverse of req statesmanship. Both La Toilette ana Cammins have perhaps run thei course. They are probably if no on their last legs, yet at the zenitl Of their influence. In any event Col Hers Weekly gives them timely ad monition. There are two. or thre of their colleagues. rattling roun' he senate disguised as democrats wlio likewise stand in need of warT ing.
 sThe high protective tarif is as sredly on its last legs. 1t is boun tor go, in our opinion the repubi can party will go with it-precisei as when slavery went by the boar democracy followed after. TheT wss no separating democracy an slavery. There is no separating II publicanism and proteetionism.
 Tn the meantime nobody is thinl Ing of free trade. With seven c eight hundred millions of annual n Venue to levy and collect there ar t6und to be imposts protective tneir nature to the amount of dut. Bat the doctrine that the soyeri ment has no right, just or legal levy a dollar Of taxes except for 2 oun support, is steadily penoiratir the popular mind. and in the CT wIn be universally accepted by a parties.
 Tho play Of the insurgents t position is child's play. They vi either have to come 6ssF 10 dei