The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-25
Reciprocity and the Insurgents
By SAY oYARD

Washington, July 24-(special)-Two linen going in opposite direction on the letreet came in collision and one, cross leyed fellow, roared in great wrath, Why Idont you look where you are going?' ldo which the other, with equal indigna- ltion, ,etorted, 'Why don't you go where ,you are looking?' That reminds of the Republican insurgents in the United States lEenate. They are all tariff reformers Hf we judge by the way they are look ling; but their opposition to Canadian rec |iprocity shows that they have not yet iQuite learned to go where they look.
 It was a sore loss, the death of Dolli- Ver, as great, perhaps, as the defeat Of Carmack for reelection When he died Eoliver was the first orator and the first ,deba. CT of the Senate and the leader Of a new force in that body which promised lgreat things He and his squad were ,the cnly real adversaries Aldrich had to Irontend against the extra session of 1909. Nhs democrats made none or little pro- Nest. The insurgents did all the fighting hnd got the few concessions that were kranted. The democrats were agreed with
 
 teong on they were entitled to their share. hMany of them were only intent on secur- hng protection for certain special interests sn their states, notably lumber, and they Lsared not a rap what happened so it did not happen to them. It was simply rarseating to hear democrats denounce fi,e tariff as the mother of trusts and the butt. cut of oppression and then hold out their hats to Aldrich for a little dab here and a little dab there of protection. What a pity it was that Carmack was not there, what a pity that John Sharp Williams Aa i not yet comel
 1T there had been a real democratic op- position to the robber tariff in the Sem iate in 1909 it would have joined forces ,with Deliver and the insurgent republic ans, and the Payne-Aldrich tariff would have been made the most moderate and hhe least objectionable measure of that nature the republican party ever enacted; ttts instead of going with Deliver the democrats inclined to Aldrich, and we got the worst tariff the republican party pr any other party ever gave us. Daily when Aldrich set the signal of distress, kne lne boat was launched, and Bailey, Simmons, Martin, and others were to the rescue. That is history known of all pnen.
 And what a lion was Deliver in the de- bate of the Payne-Aldrich monstrosity! Nldrich and every other standpatter was pfraj6 of him, and so was Bailey, and all line ether near protectionists on the <l< a. .;1o a wit, master of ridicule, with fine Imagination and fiuency of speech by no other senator approached. Deliver lowered above all the others, no one of whom dared challenge him though he de- fed them one and all. And the only way Nldrich could beat him was to bribe dem- ocratic senators by means of the special favors for their pet industries. Had Car mack been there he would not have al- lowed 1t and that scorpion tongue of his would have prevented it.
 MT Taft. to my notion the best repub- ucan President we ever hadS knew noth-. Ing about the tariff. and he doesn't know much about it now; but he is learning The reciprocity convention with Canada Is long step in the direction of lower and honester taxation If Deliver were nlive I believe he would support 1t. and Canlmins' opposition to 1t Is half-hearted When il is enacted 1t will be demonstrated to the farmer that the tariff is not for his benefit, but an oppression he has borne for half a century. As for southern opposition to 1t, scratch bit and you will dig up the lumber trust.
 Canadian reciprocity is a democratic h. vef,ton, and a child of the administra- uOn of Franklin Pierce, which was as completely dominated by Jefferson Davis es Hayes was by John Sherman, or Me KinIey by Mark Hanna. And these hun dreds of great men have appeared here from the north and northwest and as- severated that if reciprocity goes through Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, both Da- ketas. Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas Idaho Wyoming, Washington, Oregon, and other republican states would turn democrat Men testified that they began voting tle republican ticket when Abraham Isnoo oln was candidate and had kept 1t Up ever since, but that if republican Senate voted for reciprocity they would never support the G. O. P. again, and