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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-01
Democratic Responsibility for the Tariff

The country is about to witness a
revision of the tariff which is likely
to be more far-reaching i'll its effect
than any other tariff revision since
the civil war. Unlike the Democratic
revision of 1894, the revision of 1913
is accompanied by prosperity, and the
Democratic leaders are trying to sup
press among their followers the root
and-branch spirit which injured them
in the DAYS of Cleveland. 1t is ru-
mored that the tariff bill prepared by
the Ways and Means Committee has
been submitted to the President and
his Cabinet, and every effort is being
made to construct a bill which will re-
ceivc the full Democratic support and
which will embody the Democratic
principles. The leaders of that party
feel that the eyes of the nation are
upon them; that they will be held
strictly responsible for their work, and
that the tariff principle of their party
is on trial.
This situation is very unlike that
existing in the last Congress. AT that
time neither party was completely i'll
control, and each blamed the other for
the failure of legislation which no one
desired to pass. The tariff struggles
were not struggles over particular bills.
but struggles over tariff policies. The
Republicans offered bills constructed
upon their theory. The Democrats
offered bills constructed upol, their
theory Any effort to compromise
produced bill satisfactory to no
one. Politicians fumed and fused
about it, and accused their opponents
of insincerity; the Republicans said
dustrial prosperity; the Democrats &C
cused The Republicans of fostering spe-
cial privilege. II was political game,
and it Disguised everybody.
But all this maneuvering had pur-
pose. 1t was an expression Of the
struggle of policies; it was a curtain
raiser to the Presidential campaign.
The Democratic attack on the Repub-
licans and the sending of bills to Pres
ideut Taft, which the Democrats knew
would be vetoed, were not efforts to
bring about revision at that time, but
they were efforts to make sure the
complete control of all the branches of
the government by the Democrats after
the 4th of March. The Democrats
were successful in their political game
in fhe last Congress. They are square
~ facing the question of what the tar
if shall be- The bill now to be pro-
posed will embody the ideas which the
Democrats desire to place upon the
statute books.
The praise or the blame for the
tariff revision of 1913 will be upon
the Democrats. --
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J. Pierpont Morgan.

Whatever have been mans achieve
ments, whatever his influence, whether
cxerted upon a single household or
upon the whole of known world, it
is his taking off that brings him to the
level where all mems eyes look upon
him in calm, close perspective.
]. Pierpont Morgan, at the pro-
nouncement of whose name monarchies
are related almost 10 have stood still,
came into the hearts of men when he
died yesterday. When the massive
man, who was TO so many millions of
people the tremendous symbol of
wealth and of privilege more powerful
than wealth, closed his eyes forever.
those who vaguely had feared, and
perhaps hated, him, now observed him.
it might be said, for the first time, as
person, a man, a father, a husband,
a friend, companion, an acquaint-
ance, who, independently of fabulous
riches he was supposed TO have and
command, had the placid courage of
great strength, the swift responsiveness
to need which the seemingly unneedful
has, the fine sense of beauty that,
matched with his spirit of largess,
made him the most splendid patron
of the arts in America.
History will, of course, write down
Abr. Morgan's name large upon the
scroll of fame. He was the most tre-
mendous of cur captains of industry.
He ranked almost supreme, indeed,
among the financiers of the world.
At the magic of his voice things al
most elemental were changed or Gre
ated
When he spoke to Congress, through
its Money Trust committee" the
whole world halted, stood still, am
listened. No other man could speak
with such laundering authority as he.
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kissing Goes by Favor.

1t is an old proverb that kissing
goes by favor The truth of the
proverb is very apt to be demonstrated
in the new tariff bill.
If there is one thing that the new
law should avoid it is consideration
for special interests. If, for instance
we are to have boots and shoes, the
manufacture of which is a New Eng
land industry, on the free list, why
should not cattle be placed in the same
category? 1t is no answer to the ques-
ton to say that the cattle growers OF
Texas and the Middle West demand
a duty on their products. The DEM
ocrats of Texas are not entitled to any
more protection than the Republicans
of Connecticut or Pennsylvania.
As matter of fact, if the hundreds
of thousands of cattle now feeding
on the enormous ranches of Northern
Mexico can be brought into this coun-
try without paying duty, the cost OF
meat ought to be lowered. Free meat
is just as important as free iron ore
or free agricultural implements. The
men who are framing the tariff bill
cannot afford to make any distinction
on account of section or political affili-
alton. They must place duty above
partisanship, and administer the bitter
medicine of free trade to every Sec
ton and every industry alike.
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wilson VISITS CANAL
after ADJOURNMENT
President Personally Will Inspect big
Ditch" When Congress Con-
cludes Its Labors.
CORNISH THE SUMMER CAPITAL

II became known yesterday that Presi-
take a trip to Panama Immediately after
the close OF the special session of Con-
gress. President Wilson has hopes that
the extra session will be ready to put up
ready then to board a warship and leave
for the Isthmus.
A midsummer trip TO Panama will be
something new for a President of the
United States. President Taft's trips al
ways were made in the late fall or in the
winter time, when the season is supposed
to be more comfortable on the Isthmus.
Statesmen OF experience agree, however,
that If Mr.. Wilson can stand a Wash
ington summer he won't have much diff
ficulty in enduring August weather in
the tropics.
President Taft offered Mr.. Wilson the
use Of a war vessel soon after the cleo
ton, to make the trip to Panama, but
the President-elect declined, on the
ground that he could not afford TO spare
the time. Mr.. Wilson, it is said, feels
under obligation to become acquainted
with the details of this great work at
first hand, and it is for this purpose
that he will make the trip.
The Presidents family probably will
leave early in the summer for Cornish
n. II. The President has selected the
summer home of Winston Churchill the
novelist. for his summer residence. Mr..
Churchill was the Bull Moose candidate
for Governor of New Hampshire.
Harlakendensen House is the name by
which Mr.. Churchill's summer home has
been known but even Secretary Joseph
p. Tumulty is willing to acknowledge
that this probably would have to be alb
breviated
For some time the President was
strongly inclined to make his summer
home at Spring Lake, N. j., which is
Only a short distance from Sea Girt,
where the Governor of New Jersey has
his summer home. The President de-
cided that he would get more rest up n
New Hampshire, where his place would
be less accessible.
The Churchill estate consists of 900
acres of farm land and a fine grove, and
lies three miles beyond Windsor, VT.
overlooking the Connecticut River and
at the foot of the Green Mountains. The
new summer capital is ideally situated,
so far as privacy is concerned.
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STA ESMEN-REAL AND NEAR
By FRED C.. KELLY

gage in conversation with Henry Barn
hart, member of Congress from Indiana.
and himself a newspaper publisher. II
seemed. as luck would have IT. that
Barnhart had been thinking of the de-
STABILITY Of getting up just such a bill
as Burleson wanted. Doubtless he
hadn't thought of it in connection with
the candidacy Of Woodrow Wilson and
he might never have stopped to draw
the bill up, but he had contemplated such
a thing and favored it.
Thus Burleson found the problem
greatly slmplified He had been casting
about for a man to father a bill by
which he could catch those papers he
was after, and here he had stumbled on
a fellow with such bill already in his
head. Barnhart drew up the bill, pro-
viding for the publication of a papers
owners. officers, and so on, and the
labelling Of political advertisements.
Burleson busted himself framing schemes
and trades. and the bill was passed.
Burleson had little idea, when the
idea of the publicity bill first struck
him, that he would be the one to en-
force ii. Publications not fulfilling the
requirements of the bill were to be ex-
cluded from the mails. More than 90 per
cent of all the publications gladly met
the requirements Postmaster General
Hitchcock agreed not to enforce the law
against the others until the thing was
passed on by the courts But when
Burleson became Postmaster General he
Immediately thought Of the worries he
had about seeing that bill passed. and
he didn't propose to have it treated
lightly. He issued an order that it
should be enforced at once.
Secretary Of the Navy Daniels feels i'll
at ease whenever he finds himself with
much money in his clothes. When he
was down home in Raleigh, he had
credit, naturally. and paid everything
by check. AS he doesn't smoke or
drink, he had little use for pocket
money. and often would go for days
with only few cents In his pocket.
Whenever he has occasion to get on the
train and go some place with $40 or so
expense money in his pocket he feels
as uncomfortable with SO much wealth
as IL he were a lone guard over the
vaults Of the United States Treasury
tCopyrght, 1913. by Fred G. Kelly. All Rights
Re0ryed.l
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Former CONGRESSMAN Steven q. Ayres
of New York dropped into the office OF
the Secretary of State one day recently
to say howdy to Mr.. Bryan. Another
man was standing near by and Bryan in
troduced them Ayres didn't catch the
name, except that he was Secretary
somebody, and he assumed that the man
was private secretary to Bryan. So he
talked to him kindly.
I'll venture TO say you'll fnd this
very nice work. remarked Ayres.
Yes" said the Secretary. Il feel sure
it will"
you've been associated with Mr.. Bryan
before?" asked the ex-Congressman-
mo; never before"
"Ah, well, that will just add to the
interest I'll bet you'll find him pleas
ant gentleman to work for
At that the Secretary excused himself
and passed out into the hall
Nice unassuming chap. that secretary
of yours" said Ayres to Bryan a few
moments later.
you met him, did you!
.'why. yes; you introduced US, you
know
Then Bryan explained. The man he
had introduced to him was secretary
Garrison-Secretary OF war.
Ayres tells 1t on himself
Besides being Postmaster General.
Albert Sidney Burleson is distinguished
for being a human prairie dog. He can
dive underground and bob up again just
where one would least expect him. He
does this not through any desire 10
evade issues, for he can look a man In
the eye and say yes or no with mucn
facility. 1t is simply that he hnos II
convenient to move in q mysterious way
his wonders to perform.
One of Burleson's tricks. as a Con-
gresham, for example, was to let other
members take the credit for important
bills that he himself concocted. He
probably has got as many bills passed
as any other Democrat, and yet one
rarely ever heard Of a measure known
"a the "Burleson bill" Let US say that
he desired to get through bill advan-
tageous to sheep raisers of Texas. He
would jump into his prairie dog hole, and
when next seen he would be arranging
with a man from Massachusetts to In
troduce the bill. The Massachusetts
man could not be accused Of geograph-
ical prejudice in favor Of sheep raisers.
but would be doing the thing. don't you
see, for purely patriotic reasons.
At the beginning of the campaign. to
nominate Woodrow Wilson for President
there were three or four newspapers
against Wilson because, as Burleson be-
lieved, of domination by the wicked I'm
terests." Burleson wished to force these
papers to make public their real backing.
On the face of IL, that looked like pref
ty hefty Job, but Burleson had Bright
idea, and. prairie-dog-l like. he began to
burrow. m order to reach the three or
four papers he was after he was OBJ
iiged to take in all the other papers in
the country, but that, so far as he could
see. did not matter. newspaper pub
,icity law-that was his idea.
Meanwhile. Burleson CHANGED to en-
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-01

never saw Roswell until / was Presi-
about the place that when I did see
1t I felt as IL I already knew every
nook and corner of it. and as IL IT were
haunted by the ghosts of all the men
not mean merely my own family. I
mean the slaves. My mother and her
sister, my aunt. used to tell US children
all kinds of stories about the slaves.
the early days of settlement he had
been partially scalped by a black bear.
Then there was Nom Grace. who was
for a time my mothers nurse, and
whom had supposed to be dead, but
who greeted me when / did come to
Roswell, very respectable. and apparent
ly with years of life before her. The
two chief personages of the drama that
used to be repeated to us were Daddy
Luke. the negro overseer. and his wife,
Nom Charlotte. I never saw either
Daddy Luke or Nom Charlotte. but I
inherited the care of them when my
mother died. After the close Of the
war they resolutely refused to be eman-
cipated or leave the place. The only
demand they made upon US was enough
money annually to get a new 'critter."
that Is. a mule. With a certain lack Of
ingenuity the mule was reported each
Christmas as having passed away. or
at least as having become so infirm
as to necessitate a successor-a solemn
fiction which neither deceived nor was
intended to deceive, but which furnished
a gauge for the size Of the Christmas
gift.
My grandfather's house was on the
line of Sherman's march to the sea, and
pretty much everything in 1t that was
portable was taken by the boys in blue,
including most Of the books in the IL
brary. When / was President the facts
about my ancestry were published. and
a former soldier in Sherman's army sent
me back one of the books with my
grandfather's name in it, 1t was a little
copy of the poems of "Mr. Gray"-an
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-01

eighteenth-century edition printed In
Glasgow.
On October q, 1858. I was born at q
East Twentieth Street. New York City,
In the house in which we lived during the
time that my two sisters and my brother
and were small children. 1t was fur
nished IN the canonfcal taste Of the New
y rk which George William Curtis de-
scribed in the "Potiphar Papers" The
black haircioth furniture in the dining
room scratched the bare legs of the chill
room was a library. with tables, chairs,
and bookcases of gloomy responsibility
1t was without windows. and so was
available only at night. The front room,
the parior. seemed to US children to be
a room of much splendor, but was open
for general use only on Sunday evening
or rare occasions when there were part
les. The Sunday evening family gather
ing was the redeeming feature in a day
which otherwise We children did not
enjoy-chiefiy because We were all OF US
made to wear clean clothes and keep
neat. The ornaments Of that parlor I
remember now, including the gas chan
deiier decorated with a great quantity
of cut-glass prisms. These prisms struck
me as possessing peculiar magnihcence.
One of them fell or enc day and hastily
grabbed it and slowed 1t away, passing
several days of furtive delight in the
treasure, a delight always alleged with
fear that I would be found out and con-
victed Of larceny. There was Swiss
wood-carving. representing a very big
hunter on one side of an exceedingly
small mountain. and herd Of chamois.
disproportionately small for the hunter
and large for the mountain, Just across
the ridge. This always fascinted us:
but these was a small channels kid for
which we felt agonies lest the hunter
might come on it and kill IL. There was
also a Russian moujik drawing a gilt
sledge on q piece Of malachite. Some one
mentioned in my hearing that malachite
was a valuable marble This fixed in my
mind that IL was valuable exactly as dia-
monds are valuable. / accepted that
moujik as priceless work Of art, and it
was not until I was well in middle age
that it occurred to me that ! was mis-
taken.
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His very statement was manifesto
ton of his spirit. 1t showed that ne
lived almost in another atmosphere.
As the holder and controller of money.
he was a ruler to whom the captains
and the coxnselors, the generals. and
all the wise men of the nations lent
ear.
1t would be hard to say that a man
of such power was selfish or cruel or
unthinking. AS an essentially Aneri-
can citizen, he set himself in high
place of nearly incalculable force. His
qualities of mind were, without dis
pute, of the first rank, which in art or
war or science have been called genius.
His qualities of heart, when the true
human man is known, will be written
almost as supremacy.
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The Presidents Half Holiday.

Nothing could have been more sue
cessful, both from the social and spec
tacular standpoint, than the half holi-
day which the very hard worker OF
the White House gave himself on Sat-
urday, when he visited Fort Myer to
witness the best exhibition of horse
manship that has ever been offered at
that famous post 1t is always well
for even our first citizen to take half a
day off, not only on his own account,
but on that of those who relish some
opportunity of seeing the Chief Magis-
trate stirring abroad and recreating
himself.
The perfection to which the haute
ecole has been carried by the daring
riders of Fort Myer, the grace and
charm of the horsewomen, whose
steeds kept time to the rhythmic waltz,
and the truly acrobatic feats of those
who figured in the Cossack number,
combined to make the entertainment
more exciting and certainly more ar
tistic than the average circus, with or
without three rings.
If there were more such half holi-
days, at least once week, there would
perhaps be less OF nervous epidemic
among our workers And if men and
women perpetually in harness would
only emulate the Presidential example
and break away from their desks
they would doubtless obtain quick re-
suits. There is nothing like the week
ly half holiday.
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ALITTLE NONSENSE.
LIES LESSON.

LIES LESSON.
One day saw a pocketbook;
Twas on G city square.
But when I took another look
found 1t wasn't there.
In later days men often come
Who harp upon the theme
or getting handsome profits from
A million-dollar scheme.
And then away the long years fade;
1 think OF days at school,
And of the first time I was made
A sheepish April fool.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-01
POLICE GUARD ARCHBISHOP
Cuban Prclatc Threatened with
Assassination.

Santiago de Cuba. March 31.-A
heavy police guard today was placed
around the residence Of Francisco de
p. Barnado, archbishop Of this city,
following the report that three men
were on their way from Havana for
the purpose of assassinating him.
The archbishop, who Is well-beloved
by his flock and one of the most popu--
lar men In the city, - keeping to the
seclusion of his home. Barnado vas
made archbishop in 1899. succeeding a
Spaniard. who refused to remain In the
position under American occupation.
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ical agitators. his cashiers automobile,
the personal habits Of his largest borrow
er and the state of the bond market. >
For all these reasons We would not care
to be a banker. We would prefer to be a
principal depositor who is entitled to go
into the bankers Office at all hours with
mis- hat over one ear and sass him with
impunity.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-01
B A N K E R S
By GEORGE FITCH,
Author of cat Good Old Siwash."

worry. Few people realize the bankers
facilities for worry. After he has finished
with the ordinary worries, such as crops,
health, business, weather, and trusts, ne
has to go on and worry about discount
rates, deposits. New York interest, polit-
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A SeasOnab1e Joke.

From Judge
Paw
well, George?"
do they have winter in summer in
the arctic regions?"
Yes, son.
And do they have summer in winter
in the tropics +"
Exactly"
do they have spring in the fall any
placer
Hardly"
''Or fall In the spring.
IF you keep this thing up much longer,
George, you'll get something worse than
a fall in the spring; I'll duck you under
the pump
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hound to Come.

We're getting to it. There will he
department of poetry before many more
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Au-April Trick.

"Son, I wouldn't run after that girl, IL
I were you"
why not. dad?"
"She has her heart at the end OF a
string. When you reach for il she'll yank
it away"
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Shall I print this poem by Browning.
or this one by Mehitable Wombat?"
print the one by MehitabIe," decided
the editor of the Plunkville BaZoo.
browning is the better poet, but Mehit-
able is a subscriber"
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COL. THEODORE ROOSEVELT TELLS
THE INTIMATE STORY Of HIS LIFE
Former Soldier President and Parymaker Writes "Chap-
tiers Of Possible Autobiography Personal
Is uu...k


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kprll I I'm History.


April ]. l534-Henry VIII kicks a helmet
with a brick under 1t.
April /, I75S-Dr. Johnson plays the
pocketbook trick on Boswell.
Kicks Verbally.
The hats a fellow kicks at now,
And kicks at good and strong.
Are those that WHEY wants to buy
When springtime comes along.
The American Gets StunE.
Learn to speak French. Then things
won't cost so much in Paris"
"Oh, you can't make 'em think you are
Frenchman.'
mo; but sometimes you can make 'em
think you are Russian or Spaniard."
Same Old Sell.
Ever fooled by the pocketbook trick?"
Several times as a boy. Even now /
frequently run across 1t dressed up as a
gilt-edged investment proposition
Saw old Wombat just now"
why do you speak so f1ippantly of the
aged? Have you no respect for gray
hairs?
II suppose so. But he's baldheaded
guy"
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-06-15
DELLA CLARK IN "lNTRODUCE
: Me-" /

In Introduce Me-" which Manager
Vesperman will present at the Bijou
on June IS for an engagement Of
one night Miss Della Clarke, the
clever au~thOr-actress, is making a bid
for popular favor with a clean, clever
comedy, full Of numerous situations
and a story that is sustained right
to the finish.
Miss Clarke plays a dual role in
that she is a club woman to her hus-
band and one crowd of friends, and
a successful author to others. The
plays story is built around the double
life" she leads, which gives rise to
complications with her husband. The
husband dramatizes a book she has
written. All the time he is working
on it he hasn't the slightest suspic-
ion that his wife i sthe books author.
With the success of the play comes
the revelation of the %author-wife, a
Strengthening out of affairs, and final
ly one last situation on which the
curtain drops.
Among the people assisting Miss
Clarke in the presentations Of charact-
ers are: w. H. Pemberton. Clare
krall, Gordon De Maine, Josie Nor
ris Sullivan, Helen Everett, Martin
Muellen, and c. Martin.