The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-04-18
TARIFF IS STILL
LIVE ISSUE
Especial to the Silver state.)

Especial to the Silver State.)
WASHINGTON, April 1s.-While
congress is bravely hammering away
at tariff bills and appropriations,
there's heap sight more interest be-
ing felt in politics that in legisla-
tion, whether the latter be construc-
tive or destructive, progressive or re-
dictionary. This week has seen a big
stride in the rounding up of conven-
tion delegates, especially in Illinois,
where Clark surprised everybody
Practically everybody in the running
has gained something, but then most
of them have not gained so much as
they had expected and of course there
are few walls rending the atmos-
phere. Cries of fraud - ssinflu-
ence,' "pernicious activities,' "cor-
ruption' and the like are becoming
familiar to newspaper readers Mean
while the standing of the candidates
is changing so rapidly that it is diff
cult to keep track of it, and in fact
scarcely any two of the political head
quarters can agree on the exact dis
tribution of the delegates.
On the surface it seems that Col
Roosevelt has been making big gains,
and on the Democratic side Speaker
Clark IS friends have been very busy
and highly successful. Wilson and
Taft are not at all down hearted to
judge from the tone of their literary
managers, while Underwood. Harmon,
LaFollette, Gaynor, Marshall--in fact
all of them, seem to be advancing
cheerfully to the big skirmishes at
Chicago and Baltimore
Tariff Not Dead
Amid all the turmoil of politics, and
in fact furnishing fuel for the con-
flagration, the committees working on
the tariff bills are hard at work, and
the two houses of congress are from
time to time listening to speeches on
the subject.
On the Republican side the determi-
nation to protect American industries
is as strong as ever. Representatives
Needham, of California one of the Old
est members of the ways and means
committee, with which all tariff
measures originate, is strong sup
porter of the protective theory. He de-
clares that nearly all of the industries
in his state have been developed with
the aid of a protective tariff. With
the high cost of labor, which is scarce
at best, and the expense of irrigation
Necessary in many cases-he de-
.clares that it would not be possible to
grow many of the things which are
now staples in California and Arizo-
ma. Especially is this true of or
anges and lemons; and yet the people
dealing in these fruits say that the
large production in California and
Florida has resulted in bringing the
prices down to level which makes it
as easy for the poor to enjoy the de-
licious fruits as to buy apples. This
being the belief Of Congressman
Needham it may be imagined that he
was dazed when he received a letter
recently from an importing firm in
Chicago, urging the removal of all
duties on fruits imported into this
country from Mexico, or other coun-
tries. Mr.. Needham replied that he
was "utterly opposed to such a
policy" and that he preferred giving
ito our own people the preference
in the markets Of the United States.
Free traders, like Harrison, of New
York, for instance, say that such ar
guments edo not appeal to them"
Will Show thes World.
When the people go to California
over the southern routes, they drop
gently down the mountain grades in
their comfortable Pullmans and from
the wastes of snow quickly speed into
groves of oranges, fields of wild flow
ers, and villages set in orchards and
flower gardens. The charm is irre-
sistible. Just what magic there is in
an orange grove, filed with golden
fruit, is mysterious, but it seems to
be as potent with the "natives' of
the country as with the stranger
At the big exposition to be held in
San Diego in 1915, there will be
bearing orange groves, lemon groves,
groves of date palms from the desert
beyond Yuma, orchards of the alli-
gator pear or avocado, mango trees in
full fruit, guavas and loquats, fig and
olive trees-in short many trees of
commercial and ornamental value
which the average person has never
seen. There will be experimental
farms on which the annual crops of
the region will be cultivated. Expert
mental work in bulb raising, seri-cul-
ture, grape growing-in a score of diff
ferent lines, viii be carried on bv ex-
perts. To everyone interested either
professionally or academically it will
be feature of the exposition well
worth crossing the continent to see.
Elephant Seals.
On an island just below San Diego,
in Mexican waters, are found the only
specimens of elephant seals known to
exist. The government of Mexico and
that of the United States are concern
ed as to how poachers can be prevent
ed from exterminating these interest
ing animals in their desire to take
them for exhibition purposes. While
the exposition management at San
Diego are anxious to have these ami
mails protected, they hope to have
specimens of them on exhibition at
the exposition in 1918. Some were
taken last year by the Smithsonian In
stitute and they have been objects of