The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-12-14

SO,s ana snail not nave to QT1Ir a1inl6SS- l ly about exposed to grave peril under | the direction of any one who without chart Or compass or the experience which will enable him to take an ob- servation to find our true course is suggesting the direction of safety for us.
 THE ONLY SAFE PLAN. Let us hope that the sweeping ex- ecutive approval ofawhat was accom- plished by the decrees in the tobacco case may not turn out to be like the judgment arrived at between two sta tions concerning the tariff, though no one will be more pleased than myself | If he be correct. Certainly, however, his opinion is not in accord with the conclusion of another distinguished cit izen of this country, MT. Roosevelt. who is disposed to regard the conclu- sfon of the tobacco litigation as a close approach to a judicial farce. Though between two such eminent doc tors we may not perhaps decide. we are certainly. justified in concluding that one of these opinions must have been dictated hurriedly between two stations We have had in this coun- try too much of a happy-go-lucky hurried between stations conclusion as to our policy toward vested inter ests in this country. Is it too much to insist that the only safe plan is 
 the hurry and hustle of our journeys are over and that we substitute for the rule of thumb proceedings some approach to scientific businesslike methods?
 Above all, let what prosperity we strive for be reasonable, stable pros perity Artificial prosperity of uncer- over-enj njoyed. The full dinner pail yes; but not the overf1owing dinner pail one day with the excess split upon the ground the next day.
 PRAISED BY LoNGWoRTH.
 This Is how MT. Longworth patted the Democratic leader on the back:
 There is no question to-day" said he, "who is the leader of the majority in congress. Not for many years has so forceful a personality come to the front of his party, as the present lead CT of the house. Not in my time scer- tainly, and not, as believe, in mod ern times has the Democratic party developed man possissed in so full degree of the qualifications for real leadership as it has this year in the person of Oscar Underwood.
 t'He has shown qualities of resource fitness, f1rmness and tact that have welded his party together as it has not been for years. And with it all he has, in the most trying times of pOlit- s1Ca1 stress, been so lnVarldDiy genial and courteous that he has won not only the respect but the hearty good will of every member of the opposi- tion. I would not presume to give gratuitou advice to the Democracy, least of all when a very prominent constituent of mine is safd not to be wholly adverse to accepting high pref erment at the hands of the Democrat ic party, but I can at least say to my friends in that party that there is no honor in your gift so high that it might not be worthily bestowed up- on oscar Underwood.''
 BE REASONABLE.
 Already, as you see, the pressden of the United States frankly admits that his indorsement of it in his Wi mona speech as the best tariff we have ever had was ill advised and that his remarks were prepared hurriedly by dictation to a stenographer sn travel ing between two stations and that his expression does not now represent his present deliberate judgment.
 ..Whi'e l intend that my speech at this dinner shall have no political as- pect, I nevertheless think it fair to say that the Democratic party has shown disposition to be thus reason able as # looks at the industrial sit uation, which it regards as so largely attributable to tariff conditions. For UaSS6u the house of representatives were ve- toed by the president of the United States the Democratic party has not indulged in any wholesale condemna- tion or criticism of his course. although it by no means wishes to be under stood as assenting to the propriety of of his proposed determination that no tariff bill would be approved by him that was not first proposed or assent e.i to :,J the tariff board, board psr- sonal to himself, inasmuch as the con- stitutfon requires that congress shall provide for the nations revenue On the other hand. have said. and I say again on behalf of all Democrats who have at heart the interests of the people in this great emergency. that if the tariff board does report some thing that is reasonab1 and just and fair we shall adop. it and give credfi where credit is due.'