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not want monopolies sheltered or ex-
tortion practiced behind the skirt of
protection.
Having reached this view the coun-
try wants to know the facts. Let no
Finance Committee again lock itself
in its chamber and revise a tariff in
darkness. The country wants in on
the secret. 1t insists on knowing what
the cotton men and woolen men and
orange and lemon raisers are urging.
1t wants to know the truth about the
relation of wages abroad to wages
here. If tariff is made without ref
ence to that relationship it wants to
know. And it is convinced that the
only way to get facts calculated to
satisfy it is through tariff commits
sion.
The gentlemen who, composing the
Democratic majority of the next Ways
and Means Committee, are facing a
revision, realize how useful a tariff
board would be. They find that when
it comes down to business the posi-
bility of calling in some authority
with facts is most alluring. And so
they are coming round to favor the
plan.
After all, such a change of front is
not necessarily discreditable. Men who
can change front in order to keep in
line with public sentiment certainly
have some advantage over those who
cannot change at all. Inability to
change at all is standpatism; and it
has hopelessIy demoralized the party
most seriously afflicted with it. The
Democrats can felicitate themselves on
the aphorism that wise men change
their minds. They need not dwell OIL
the alternative if it seems too harsh.
The Washington times., 1911-01-29
TARIFF COMMISSION MEAS
URE LIKELY TO PASS.

Democratic leaders in the House
have been veering about on the tariff
commission proposal in a fashion
which must be accepted as evidence
of their political astuteness. At the
opening of the session almost all of
them we,e opposed to n Commission.
Today it is pretty well assured that
the most influential of them will favor
IT,
That makes two very big and i'm
pOrtant issues on which the Demo
cratic leaders have shown capacity. to
get in line with public opinion. At
the beginning of the session Demo
Gratis were not much inclined to hav-
ing the committee naming power
taken from the Speaker. They heard
from the country and got in line. Now
they are doing the same on tariff COM
mission.
This is not a free trade country.
1t is not a tariff -for-revenue country.
1t is a protection country, but it
has developed some pretty acute no.
tions that protection may be over
done 1t wants protection, but it does
The Washington times., 1911-01-29
THE VIRGINIA COLONIES
MEET IN GLAD ARRAY.

For more than year no rumor of
the foes advance gave Governor Will
liam Hodges Mann of Virginia an eX-
cuse for mObilizing those Justly cele-
brated ColOnels whose uniforms are
the golden wonder OF the Old Do
mimlon. In spite of the prudent chief
executives special care in securing an
increase i'll the number of his staff
officers, who, like young Casabianca,
are at once beautiful and brave, no
tyrant arose at whom he could hurl
hot words of defiance and a living mass
OF bright embroidery. Designed by the
most exclusive military tailors. there
could he no doubt as to the fullness
in the chest and the fit around the
shoulders, and the sartorial perfection
of the individual uniforms down to the
last gator button, but there was no
means of telling how the general color
scheme would fit into an average land
scape or harmonic with the Persian
rugs OF drawing room.
The situation had been growing
more and more acute ever since Gov
ermOr Crothers called out his beaux
sabreurs and helped the army review
the flying machines at Halethorpe. The
Virginia lamp of chivalry gave out
troubled and uncertain flame.
Suddenly. a few days ago, the Nir-
ginia colomels conceived the happy idea
OF giving themselves a party and in
viting the governor. The meager de-
tails which have leaked out indicate
that the Richmond club, at which the
function was held. never saw so much
dare devil courage garnished in such
rich array. Continuous walls of mir
rOrs multiplied their trim, impressive
figures until a few score aides became
a battalion. BY midnight they seem
ed a division, and at gray dawn an
army corps. Three veterans who had
seen service before at a military we'd
ding were scarcely distinguishable from
the apt debutants when the evening
was over. Governor Mann was pleased
with the knightliest of Nirginia's
knightly race, and they were pleased
with themselves. Richmond has not
felt so secure since the battle of Seven
Pines.
The incident, however, has stirred
feeling of envy and restlessness on the
part of Governor Crother's gilded body
guard. They whisper of adopting a
uniform all of cloth of gold except
the stripes, and dancing the german OH
horseback
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lowed to profit by special privilege; and
inequality of opportunity, when sutf1-
ciently great, means the end OF that
very development of individuality which
is supposed to be the cardinal virtue of
the Iaissez faire system. Under modern
industrial conditions absence of govern
mental regulation and control means
such swollen development of few per-
sonaIjties that all other personalities
are dwarfed, are stunted and fettered
and their power of initiative, their power
of self-help, largely atropbied.
1t is as necessary to possess the power
Of control over the industrial baronage
OF the twentieth century as 1t was to
baronage of the sword.
In other words, the only way to pre-
serve an ample measure of genuine per
sonal liberty for the average man IS 10
increase the sphere of collective action
by the Government So far is this kind
OF collectivism from being necessarily
the herald of Socialism, as Socialism
Is ordinarily defined, that 1t can more
truthfully be described as the pre-
server and restorer of individual ism.
THE elimination of special privilege
must be accomplished gradually, and
many different methods must be adopt
ed for fully achieving the end In view.
There is need of action both oy the
nation and by the several states, anu
there Is need of action along many dli-
ferent lines. No comprehensive pro-
gram for Immediately meeting the en-
tire situation could be devised, nor IN
deed, II it could be devised, would II
be well to try so much all at once.
But the general principle to keep IN
mind is that no one man or class OF
men has a right to enjoy power or
wealth or position or immunity which
has not been earned by service to MS
or their fellows.
Events have shown that the methods
hitherto obtaining for generations In
tariff making no longer produce salts
factory results, and that we must have
g tariff commission of impartial, distn-
terested, Independent experts, who snail
report on each schedule by itself
so that action can be taken on
the schedule by itself without the
inevitable log-rolling and general
eral business disturbance which neces-
sarily- accompany any attempt at gen.
eral tariff revision. There are, of course,
many sides to wise tariff legislation
which need not here be discussed; per-
haps Ii Is not out of place, however,
to mention that our tariff policy with
Canada can well afford to stand by
itself, not only because of our close re-
lationship with the great dominion to
the north of US. but because of the
substantial identity of conditions on
each side of the line dividing US, so that
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TARIFF BOARD BILL
HAS CLEAR TRACK
Plans Well Laid for Compro-
mise Action in House
Tomorrow.

Unless another well laid plan goes
awry, favorable action by the House
will be secured tomorrow on the COM
promise bill providing for a permanent
non-partisan tariff board. This Is the
prospect held out by the formulation by
the Rules Committee of rule which is
to be brought in at the first opportunity,
calling for immediate consideration of
the measure. 1t is the intention to take
up the bill Immediately after the
adoption of the rule and after an hours
debate, proceed to a vote.
That this vote will be overwhelmingly
favorable is the confident belief of
those who have the bill in charge, as
Champ Clark, the minority leader, and
Representative Underwood of Alabama
have already set the Democrats an ex-
ample by putting themselves on record
in favor OF it through their joining in
the unanimous report that brought the
measure out of tie Ways and Means
Committee.
Now that the first surprise occasioned
by this change in attitude on the part
of the Democratic leaders Is over their
colleagues who have had an opportunity
to learn the reasons for that change are
falling into line.
1t was a very important change in
the wording of the bill at the last
moment that gained for it the support
of Clark and Underwood. This was the
insertion of a clause which gave to
either branch of Congress the power to
call on the tariff board for an investi-
CATION of any schedule it desired.
Previous to this the Democrats had re-
garded the proposition of tariff board
as party scheme to give the Republicans
commission whose reports would go
only to the President. 1t was for this
reason that Mr. Clark, Mr.. Underwood.
and other Democrats voted against the
creation Of the temporary board last
year.
Under the bill as it now stands, how
ever, the services of the tariff board
will be as much at the disposal of the
coming Democratic House as of the
President or the Senate.
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WIRE MEN D|SOWN
1910 CARRIER LAW
Seek to Convince Interstate
Commission Their Inter-
eStS Are Immune.

When Is common carrier not a COM
mon carrier? When it's a telegraph or
telephone company, and doesn't want to
publish its tariffs. ~-
That's the view of the wire and WIRE
less companies, and they are trying
hard to make the Interstate Commerce
Commission see it. They are not sue
ceeding very well thus far.
The railroad law of 1910 placed the
telegraph and telephone properties un-
der the commission, and apparently in
tended to make them common carriers.
The companies admit that they are SUBJ
ject to some sections of the law. but
deny 1t as to others, and there is proba-
bility of big litigation before the mat
ter is decided
During the consideration of the last
railroad act in the House somebody
made a hit-or-miss stab at putting tele-
phones and telegraphs in the meas
rre: An amendment was offered
and adopted without being fitted
INTO the general scheme of the law
Nobody worried about the fittings
at the time; now the wire companies
their leisure.
The wire transmitters are subjected.
In general. to the interstate commerce
act They admit they are required to
charge reasonable rates. and not to
discriminate. But when il comes to Sec
tiOn 6, of the Hepburn act, they deny
they come under it. This section pro-
vides that carriers by rail, and carriers
by rail and water shall do certain
things. Telephones and telegraphs are
carriers by neither This is the section
that requires public filing of tariff and
rate sheets. The companies don't want
to comply with II, and insist that the
commission is unable to force them.
What to do is giving the commission
some concern. 1t held hearing sew
eral weeks ago, and is soon to take
up the matter for action. The DISPOSE
tion is to insist that the companies
come under all provisions of section s,
and TO issue orders accordingly, and let
the companies fight II they like.
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nillion dollars taken from al

million dollars taken from al
ready scanty means of support for the
benefit of unknown persons engaged
in industrial conflict with unknown
employers. All of this money loss
represents nothing of grievance in
those who paid it, except as they made
distant cause their own. What was
the loss it represented in the poverty
and want that it sought to relieve is
only family indicated by the industrial
tragedies that called it forth. What
was the loss to the employers, whose
expenses in such cases are great where
those of the workers are poignant, is
question suggesting an even mere
appalling total. And what was the
loss through the petty advances in
price to the consumers makes even a
more hopeless picture.
There is in figures like these a
thought arresting attention and call
ing for succor-a thought of the glory
of a principle which will make denial
out of poverty for a cause immeGi
ately nebulous, of the less appealing
bnt sometimes admirable stubbornness
of capital, that will not yield an easy
inch for the fear of logical ell-of
the public which, like giant caught in
nettles, wastes its strength in futile
smartings.
Yet in some way the public must
act. In some manner it must compose
the difficulty. By some means it must
find the solution of an apparently un-
and eternal problem. The eight
mselfishly given by the mine
workers for the aid of striking brothers
is but drop of the loss of the strikes
which called for their donation. The
strikes of the mine workers constitute
a small portion of the total amount
dribbled from the pockets of a con-
suming public living from hand to
mouth. When and how, by process OF
law or progress of understanding, will
an end come to the drain of industrial
warfare which at times rivals tha
drain of armed conflict!
The Washington times., 1911-01-29
BOY SCOUTS TO GIVE
ANOTHER EXHIBITION
Large Crowd Amused by
Woodcraft Tests at the Y.
M. c. A. Last Night.

Another exhibition of wOodcraft, and
will be given in the near future by the
Rov Scouts of America, If the parents
of the boys can prevail upon Y. NJ. c.
4. officials TO repeat the performance
given last night in the large Y. NJ. c.
A. gymnasium.
There were tests in quick observation,
singing, rapid dressing, which elected
much laughter from the big audience,
several races, and 4 fight with the In
dians. In the observation tests two boys
would bIindfold another and place sew
eral articles before him. The bandage
would be removed for about a minute
and replaced. The boy would then tel!
what objects he remembered having
markatle facility for remembering them.
In the dressing race the boys sur
prised the audience by suddenly begin
ming to tear their clothes from their
1.-THE young limbs. They wore tights
under their scout uniforms.
Exhibitions were given by the Beaver
patrol, under the leadership of Julian
Hovey, and Cobra patrol. under the
leadership of Jarrett Huddleson. Build
ing fires by merely rubbing two pieces
OF wood together, bridge building and
pyramid building were the three spe-
ciaities.
Under the leadership of Winifred Daw
son, the Tiger and Bulldog patrols gave
a knotting exhibition, and the Silver
Fox and Owl patrols, under the leader
ship of Earnest Fortier and Walcott
Hays, gave a tent striking.
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A DEFINITE LINE ON THE
WASTE IN STRIKES.

1t needs no argument to establish
the costliness of strikes. The expense
of the conflict is on the very surface
of public appreciation. Whatever the
final result, there is loss on the one
hand and, suffering on the other. 1t is
illuminating, however, to get from an
authoritative Source a balance sheet
of merely one phase of the cost paid
by workers in battle with capital.
In advising the United Mine Work
ers against a continuation OF a pend
ing strike, President TON" L. Lewis
submitted the following summary of
amounts paid out by the union in the
last decade on account of strike bene-
fits.
The Washington times., 1911-01-29

and stand before the nation as a shorn
people. For, while the past 500 years
has seen the queue a mark of ancestry
and honor, long before that, when the
Cantonese slew the Manchu, the queue
was mark of slavery.
Chinatown Doubly Happy.
And so for these two reasons China
town is doubly happy today. There is
special rejoicing in the ranks of the
Chinese Free Masons, of which there Is
strong lodge here. They are glad
because they always have striven for
peace. They have ever sought to stay
the hand of "Po-tautsi," who, though
their name means messengers of peace.
are the gun men of the tongs. They are
rightly named, now, say the Free Ma
sons.
And the Chinese Empire Reform Asso-
citation, whose members all wear their
hair short. is pleased because of the
queue-clipping edict, which many of
their kinsmen have followed.
Greetings Everywhere.
And New Year greetings are every
where. They are printed on red and
white strips of paper, with the reed
pen and ink block, and they say much
as do our own wish a Happy New
Year" Therefore is the greeting Gar
nee 70 toy met with the response to-
day Ting Haouw, which means very
good, for the long war is ended, the
queues are clipped, and Chinatown.
Washington's law-abiding Chinatown,
is glad.
While the visits in the local China
town today were social calls, much
like those aid by Americans, a greater
object was behind them-the liquidation
of debt.
The Washington times., 1911-01-29
THE LESSON OF POLITICAL
REACTIONS.

Students who take that larger view
of current events which crystallize into
what may be called the philosophy OF
history have recently had some strik-
ing illustrations of popular tendencies
In the matter of the constitutional privi-
lege of amending the rules, which pre-
cipitated a revolution less than year
ago and colOred the whole course OF
events in 1910, the House has appar-
entity turned hand. spring. A privi-
lege cOntended for as paramount is, in
the twinkling of an eye, pronounced
incidental and inconsequent-rev
without a quibble or qualm. While
the story of it is still wet on the
record comes the news that, without
fanfare or Obtrusiveness, the Republi-
can leader whose overthrow at Sara
tOga marked an era has been restored
to the very eminence from which he
was deposed. After a period of storm
and stress almost unparalleled in in
tensity the skies clear and the sun
shines and the pundits of the G. o. p.
coo together like any sucking dove.
The instances might be multiplied,
even from recent experience, in which
political events have run their cycle
and returned to the starting point
again. Superficial observers see in all
this merely the Inconsistency of the
mutable many-the irresponsible ebb
and flow of Laodicean opinion which
is neither hot nor cold; the reckless
hystera of the mob which, finding ex
preston through its complaisant lead
ers, is re=dy to shout "Hosannah!" to-
day and "Crucify!" tomorrow. And
vet to get the true perspective of this
periodic rise and fall the horizon must
be enlarged to include the events of
more than a twelvemOnth-more than
a decade. The rehabilitation of
Barnes or a Cannon does not show the
net result of what has taken place.
Such instances are but white-caps on
the surface of great undulations which,
while they rise and fall, are ever ad
vancing The philosophic historians
have pointed out that great popular
movements may temporarily fail be-
cause the times are not yet ripe, as in
the earlier efforts for Italian unity;
the leaders may not be equal to the
task, as in the Hungarian and German
struggles of lS4S, or. as in the French
revolution, popular frenzy may lead to
such eXcesses as make reaction newt
able. Still the general course of events
is a series of advancing cycles which
leave the world better and brighter.
The refnements of civilization are
multiplied and placed in easier reach
of the people. Out of the tumult
comes a residuum of political morality
and individual integrity which mark
the struggle as well worth while. The
of all human institutions
is rule to which popular government
is no exception, but the earnest men
who are seeking to adapt it to the new
needs of today need net despair.
The Washington times., 1911-01-29
COL ONEL ROOSEVELT TELLS HOW TO REMEDY
EVIL OF SPECIAL PRIVILEGE BY GOVERNMENT

as regards Canada / should be glad to
see the most complete measure of re-
ciprocity to- which Canada will con-
sent.
Something of Importance car be done
to prevent tEc upgrowing Of a kind of
special privilege neculiarly formidable
in the future by securing complete ma
tional control of water power, so far as
it is now possible to secure it. Not
day should he lost in carrying out this
purpose. Running water pays no heed
20 State lines. Every important river
system of our country includes more
then one state in its area. The ma
tion, and the nation alone, can act with
full effect in this matter. Water power
Will play an enormous part in the fu-
tire Of industrialism. The people should
not surrender it in fee to any Individual
or corporation. 80
LAS regards all railways engaged in
interstate business, the path we are to
tread has now been definitely marked
''AII this, however is attacking only Il
single class of problems. There are
huge interstate corporations in this
country which would be practically un-
affected by anything done under the
unaffected by anything done about wa
ter power or about railways. 1 believe
that we must have Government super
vision of the capitalization not mere
~ or pubic service corporations, but of
all corporations doing an interstate
business -
Il believe that the great corporations
and their agents in political life have
been especially anxious. to prevent the
proper development of the Bureau of
Corporations and to minimize so far as
possible its activities. l think that the
powers of the Bureau of Corporations
should be so extended as to enable 1t to
apply to the gigantic business combina-
tions participating in the commerce be-
tween the States the same kind of Fed
eral regulation which is now applied to
the railways through the Interstate
Commerce Commission. Mr.. William
Dudley Foulke has worked out this idea
admirably in his recent speech to the
National civic Federation, and has
shown that all that Is necessary for US
to do Is to combine and slightly improve
upon what has already been done in
Canada and Germany in this matter.
.
II do not believe in a system Of law
in which the object of Governmental
proceedings requires the dissolution of
the corporation or the confiscation of
its property, which may be ruinous to
the public as well as to the corporation.
The proceeding should be, In substance,
to declare any corporation an injurious
monopoly, and when that declaration
should be definitely affirmed by the
The Washington times., 1911-01-29
MRS. .ELK|NS WILL
RECEIVE 100000
Accepts One-third of Sena-
tors Estate, Leaving Bal
ance for Others.

WHEELING, W. Va, Jan. 9.-Out OF
the s2O.OOO,OOO estate of the late Senator
Elkins, the share of Mrs. Elkins Isl"
be about 100000 and the share OF
Katherine EIkins about 100000.
Mrs. Elkins has decided TO accept her
dover rights. which will leave two
thirds of the estate TO the children
and the other relatives. The children
will get most of the two-thirds, so that
each of the seven will get practically
two twenty -firsts of the estate.
Striking. in the business-like VIII OF
the late Senator. is his provision for
the disposition of Halliehurst. his home.
80 long as an Elkins lives" 1t Is to
he kept in the family, he directs. All
the relatives, near and far, are remem-
bered generously in the VIII.
The Washington times., 1911-01-29
Will Repeat This Year
The Irish Home-Going

Last summers successful Irish
home going will be repeated next
summer. 1t is intended by the Irish
Home Coming Association which held
a meeting at the Raleigh Hotel last
night.
1t was determined that efforts to in
duce at least 5000 Irish men and
women to visit the old sod would be
made. Some are expected to remain
there and assist in the development OF
the island.
p. J. HaItigan. editor OF the Nation
al Hibernian, was elected pre-
last night to succeed Francis j. Kill
kenny. who resigned. The other Of
ficers. Treasurer Joseph d. Sullivan,
and the vice presidents. DR.. p. J. Len
nox p r. Moran. John T. Coughlin.
P J. Haltigan. and I. T AnsberrY
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Nicaragua Has Named
A Financial Adviser

On recommendation of Secretary OF
State Knox, when asked by President
Estrada to name some American fnan-
-Sier who could direct his country in un-
tangling its money matters. the Repub-
lie of Nicaragua has appointed Ernest
II. Wands, of New York, its financial
adviser.
AS further assistance to Nicaragua,
the United States has delegated the
American consul at Managua, Thomas
p. Moffat, as member of the commits
sion recently chosen to adjust and ad-
judicate the unliquidated claims against
the Nicaraguan government.