The citizen., 1911-06-30
IL WILL TELL JUDGE DOUG
LASS FRANKLY I AN NOT IN
FAVOR OF NEGRO CITIZEN
SHIP"
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
THE WORK OF THE DEMO
CRATIC HOUSE OF REP
RESENTATIVES

The House of Representatives last
week passed the wool tariff reduction
bill and transmitted it to the Senate.
With the passage of this bill the House
of Representatives, which is Demo-
cratic, has already passed five Of the
most important bills that have ever been
passed by any Congress in the history
of the nation
The bills passed were the Reciprocity
Bill, the Farmers Free List Bill. the
Wool Bill, the bill for the election of the
United States Senators by the people,
and the bill to admit as States, New
Mexico and Arizona.
This has all been done in period Of
about two months of an extra session.
The Democratic House has shown to the
people of the country without regard to
party, conclusive evidence that Dem
ocratic Congress can and will do bust
ness, if they are sustained by the people.
1t not only proves that they will do bus
mess, but that they will do it honestly,
promptly and wisely. in the interest Of
the people, and not in the interest of
special privilege.
In this short session. SO far, more inn
portant legislation has been done by the
House of Representatives than in any
session of Congress since the late Civil
War. The importance of the bills passed
can hardly be overestimated, and if the
work of the House of Representatives
is passed by the Senate and ratified by
the President, it will result in untold ben
eft to the people.
Ii seems most probable, and in fact
almost certain, that these bills will be
adopted by the Senate, and then sent to
the President for his signature This
assumption is founded largely on the
condition of the parties in the Senate.
There are in the Senate enough RepubIi-
can insurgents with the Democrats to
pass all of these bills, and the indica-
tons are now that the insurgents will
vote for them.
The insurgents, are in fact, committed
to them all in principle, for they, and all
of them. at the last session of Congress
on the floor of the Senate denounced
the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Bill as indie
fenslble, and the logic of their argu-
ments will force them to support all of
these Democratic measures. There, is,
however, one weak spot in the insur-
gents position, and that is their state
ment that they still believe in the prin-
clples of protection. This statement
is in direct contradiction to their words
and to their works and votes on the /
Tariff Bill when it was before the Senate. (
The insurgents will never be con-
Sistent until they drop the principles of !
protection per Sc, because a tariff bill /
without protection, per Sc, will not help |
or CRAFTY the special interests, and a I
tariff bill for protection per Sc, is Just +
what we have in the Payne Aldrich /
Tariff In our judgment, if the insur-
gents undertake to stand on the doc
trine of protection for projections sake,
their position will be impossible, if not
absurd. But there is another considera-
ton that is still stronger, and that is that
the people of this country will not sus-
tain the insurgents if they try to main
tain protection.
The people Of their own States will
repudiate them, because the people have
had their eyes opened by hard and
bitter experience Of the iniquities and
oppression of protection tariff, and leg
islation for special interests.
We believe that there will never be
any more legislation in this country to
promote special interests. 1t has been
done in the past, and has only been pos
slble then, because the people were
deluded and deceived, but the people of
this country have become enlightened
and educated, and the delusion and de-
ceptlon that has been practiced upon
them by the Republican party ever
since the war, is now no longer possible
and the veto upon the protective tariff
passed by the people at the last election
rom Maine to California, will continue
to be made more and more emphatic in
all future elections, until protection and
legislation for the special interests will
only be the nightmares of past injustice,
and robbery. 1t is believed {
that Mr.. Taft will sign all of these bills
when they are presented to him, because
he has practically, by his words, adopted {
the reform provided for in them except