The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1913-06-06
The PRESIDENT SHOULD BE
PATIENT.

President Wilson, in his outbreak
, Monday against what he calls "the
| lobby seeking certain alterations
of the tariff BILL" exhibits sur
prising tone of impotence and a
deplorable blindness to fundamental
instincts of human nature.
Mr.. Wilson is irritated because
men who feel that their fortunes,
and even their business lives, are
menaced by the Woodrow Wilson bill
are in Washington arguing and
pleading with members of Congress
to give them a chance to continue
the productive enterprises in whchi
they are engaged.
/ Because these men are at least
rich enough to pay their fare to
Washington and their hotel bills
there Mr.. Wilson talks about "money
without limit being spent" and conf
plains of this interruption to the
calm progress of debate"
What would Mr.. Wilson have? The
framing of a tariff bill is not the
solution OF problem in pure mathe-
MATES, which can be conducted with
calm" because none save few
mathematicians care what the answer
is The factors in a tariff problem
are human beings, their hopes. their
fears. their welfare and that Of those
| dependent on them, and their hap
piness.
Is it a crime for men who feel
whether correctly or mistakenly is
immaterial-that the business by
which they live and thousands of 9TH
ers live is menaced by lawmakers, TO
endeavor to defend themselves. TO
seek to gain hearing from their
rulers, to demonstrate with them,
TO try TO convince them that they
may be wrong?
Because MIR. Wilson sincerely be-
lieves his tariff bill is absolutely all
right is it proof OF an evil mind and
sincerely believe that some features
of it are all wrong and destructive
to the welfare of themselves and
many other American citizens?
No one disputes Mr.. Wilson's en-
tire sincerity. Why can he not credit
equal sincerity to those who feel
compelled to disagree with him? And
when did the possession of property
lawfully acquired become a crime,
or argument in defense of that prop
erty become immoral? Have We lest
even the moral right of self-defense
and of trying TO save our property
from destructive legislation through
the election of MIR. Wilson as our
President? He almost seems to think
so.
about are railing at business men
for presuming to go to Washington
to argue with Senators in defense Of
their property and business inter
ests. Yet We remember that when
there was pending at Springfield a
libel law which these newspapers
did not like their publishers went to
Springfield, or sent their attorneys
and agents there. to argue with III"
General Assembly that the proposed
law was wrong and should nul ue ell
acted.
However, let MIR. Wilson be pa /,
tient. In due time he will get his ,
tariff bill before him for signature /
or If not quite all of it al least most
of il. Whether the people will like |
Mr.. Wilson's tariff bill when he has
signed il and they have experienced
its effects is another QUESTION.
The Inter Ocean does not believe
they will like it and does believe
they will like il so little that they will 1
turn Mr.. Wilson's larry out OF Of
flee as soon as thy Cun. But we DO
not therefore inilds =. Visions
motives for urg .il's - ass a"y
more than Mr.. Ni.,on ST. u!d impGg,
the motives of men who oppose I'll
passage of some parts OF it.
Let President Wilson De more , u
tent and more charitable with those
who have the misfortune to disagree I
with him. His recent utterance ex-
libits a tone of academic arbitrar1-
less which pleases only his enemies
md which grieves his best friends
inter- Ocean.