The Idaho Republican., 1912-03-01

for casting, as the faults and flaws
are not missing among those who
grace, instead of merely live, in the
halls, habitations and haunts of the
great. When one awakens to reali.
zation of the things of the capital
it is with knowledge that all Amer
lean Caesers are feeding on the same
kind of meat. The man who pro-
claims that "he can't see much diff
ference in people" is not philosoph-
er-he simply can see little farther
beyond the end of his nose than his
less discerning brother; he has heard
and read time and again of late that
the trusts are back of Taft-the
trusts are back of Roosevelt-the
trusts are back of Harmon-the
trusts are back of Clark-the trusts
are back of Underwood, and maybe,
tco, they are back of Wilson and La
Toilette, and Cummins and all the
rest. Applying the long-handled
glass to quick view of Washington,
the modern method of villification,
is found not unlike red-hot school
district elections, in which the men,
women, and the help" all vote; and
the man who cant see much differ
ence in people" might go little fur
ther and say that he cant see much
difference in elections" Washing
ton joins Virginia, and Virginia ex-
cells among other things in peanuts.
That may explain the origin of pea
nut politics."
Everybody is trust-busting, and the
Democratic House is fairly frenzied
over the matter. Since last April
they have investigated day in and
day out, with no results. Bryan wired
to tell his fellow Democrats to take
new tack, and investigate the money
trust but Underwood and Clark
knew it would be another flash in the
pan, and they refused to tackle the
job. Instead they are going to grind
out a few tariff bills, and they have
started in where they left off in the
special sessions, to create further
schedules, acutely indigested and of
course there will be a batch of pres
idential vetoes to put the finishing
touches on a do-nothing congress. The
president has told congress that the
sensible thing is to investigate the
high cost of living" but congress
can be counted on not to do it-that's
the way they treat that class of sug-
gestions Meanwhile, the housewives
have been going to market, and they
return home with the complaint that
a. dollar as the price of car fare, a
dozen eggs and a pound of butter, is
outrageous. And who's to blame
the tariff, the trusts, congress, the
president, or the supreme court? Or
is it all of them?
The good president used to be a
judge, and he loves to vindicate the
courts, and tell bar associations how
bitterly he is opposed to the recall
of the judiciary, and this has prompt
ed the Wisconsin presidential can
didate to start making sentiment of
contra kind. Temporarily Mr.. La
Toilette has been ''out of it," but re-
ports are that he is bucking up on his
strongest vegetable diets-sot hav-
ing tasted meats for many years, and
his friends say he is coming back"
with rush. LaFoilette's friends de-
clare that Colonel Roosevelt is most
unkind to think of ''butting in but
the popular impression is that if any
one makes a dent in the Tafe move
ment it will be the Sphinx of Oyster
Bay. Every few days new "head-
quarters opens in the capital, to say
nothing of the candidates who merely
run literary" bureaus, manufactur-
ing partisan dope for admiring edi-
tors.
Arizona-the last of the states, be-
came an accomplished fact on St.aVal-
entine's day. The moving picture ar
lists were permitted to be present
when President Taft signed the proc
lamation, and people will see the real
human side of the office of their chief
executive. They will see the president
fondly slapping Delegate Ralph H.
Cameron on the back, and Cameron
doing the same to the president. Mr..
Cameron is the last of the delegates
from American soil. Senators, con-
gressmen, and others passed before
the camera and helped to make the
record of "a day. to be shown around
the world.
PREPARING FOR SUMMER