The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-08-04
rAF1rs spLENplp CHANCE.

Mt Taft has fine chance to make
the Insurgents wish they had never
| been born and to please some hun
dreds of thousands of Democrats in
all parts of the country IL is the
easiest snap he ever had, and
he will never have another. we be-
lievo that the Insurgents are wholly
insiucere in their attitude on the
tariff question; that they have been
playing politics" Tor the personal ad-
vantage of their greatest leader on
this as on other questions that have
como up for consideration at the pres.
rnt session of Congress. They have
been cunning for the President every
day, and they think that they
nave run him up tree. II he will
play little politics himself now,
and politics the Insurgents would in
stantly understand. ana approve the
wool tariff bill and the farmers FREQ
list bill there would be weeping and
wailing and gnashing of teeth in the
lnsursent Gehenna; and, their last
state would be worse than the first.
This IS the thing for Mr. Taft to
do. although very few people think
that he will do anything of the sort
nesday-althouGh we must say
that 1t did not cope from any "one
near the President" and was not
vouched for BY "a perfectly reliable
friend OF the Observation-Disclosures
that the President has his veto mes
sages already written out and locked
up in his desk; but he could we'll
afford TO think about these two bills
seriously to see If they really arc not
within the same general direction as
he were making up tariff bill. We
think they are We think that they
are far better than any of the Insur-
gents would have favored If they had
not been SO intent on putting the
President in q hole. They are also
in line. generally speaking, we have
no doubt, with the recommendations
the tariff board will make in their
report next December. If such is tho
case-and the President can very
he would be merel- anticipating the
recommendations he will make as to
the revision of the tariff at the next
session OF Congress. basing his recon-
menda lions then upon the suggestions
OF the tariff beard, There would be
nothing wrong In that; that would not
be playing politics; that would only
be taking advantage of a situation
not OF his seeking or creation, but q
situation he must meet. Meeting it
in this way. the Insurgents would
never be able TO pull themselves out
of the pit they have diligently digged
for their larger and cleaner and bet
ter brother.
Moreover the President could arp
prove the wool tariff bill because he
has pronounced the wooden schedule
in the present law indefensible; and he
could also with propriety and with
entire consistency approve the farm
ers' free list bill because he has re-
peatedly declared that tho country
must have relief from the tariff our
dens and that the tariff question
should be taken out of politics. We
hesitate to advise him as to his course
IN this matter. He would not take
our advice when, with tears IN our
voice as big as La Follette's self
appreciation. we besought him 10 kill
the Payne -Aldrich tariff bill. He
woul t do It. and he knows what
happ, ID We have suggested another
chance, and the finest ever offered,
for his deliverance from an embarrass-
Ing situation, and he will be sorry
for it If he shall fail the second time
to take good counsel
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