River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-05-08
TIE TARIFF BILL
(By James a, Frear, M. CD

(By James a FTear, NJ. CO
: WashiDgtor, Nay Sit has been
week 81 DEBATES IN the House on
taa tariff o,l} All The talk will not
change the results nor strike a
punctuation mark from the bill, for
the schedules were fixed beyond
amendment on the first day OF the
session, when the bill was intro
daced Democrats take the posi-
ton that the country has put their
rtrtg ~ power lo pass a tariff bill,
aa4 they are doing the best they
can to meet promises. In order to
hold Members together, the secret
caucus ruia was adopted and mat
tiers Of political patronage have
beer PIT on the shelf until the bill
is disposed Of Il will go through
THE House supported by Democrats
while Republicans, -partizans,
it'd pendeats aad aird party Mem
bsrs wjIl all vote a3ainst it.
This opposition is not due to
partnership, but rather TO the fact
taatuo outside help has been in
vited by the Democrats and a deep
seated fear ez'sss in the country
that t1e bill III its present form will
be disastrous 20 business, An
absence Of personalities or abuse
has married. the debate, The Demo
crats while making swesping re-
d1ctions have tried 10 do the best
they could bn frau he beginning
oe f1e session have efusaR.to per
nit amy other faeers Ia the tariff
pie, Notwithstanding many unsafe
and unjust features are declared to
exist in the bill. Third Party
members have been more extreme
in denunci alton of Democrats and
OF the bin. than were the Repub
LEANS. AID Of them will vote
against The naasura
The bin wil Sc put through the
House aud win reach the Senate
this week, where ii is expected to
remain for about two months, while
the solons 81 that chamber offer to
the 1000 items ali Of the amend
ments which have been refused in
the House
Many able men are to be found
On Both sides ST The present House,
but none stand cut as orators or
debatars compared with some Of
those vino we're on The door when |
was living here temporarily, many
years ago then a boy in teens.
Sam RauGsu. Sunset" Cox and
Alexander Stephens, Vice President
of the detunct Coufederaoy, were
then on the Democratic side, and
James Garfield, Tom Reid and Gen.
Ben Butler, who had declared the
negro "contgaband" during the
war, out OF rhe Republican side.
A few days before the close of the
last session, asked old Uncle Joe
Cannon how he regarded Randall
and Reid, both of whom were
Speakers whom we'll remembered.
The old Roman who has served
during nineteen sessions of Con-
8rsss, longer thau any living man,
with q record as Speaker more con
tentious than that of any man
either living OF dead, paused re-
flectively and .aen said with Can.
non-like emphasis:
~ consider sam Randall the
ablsst man who ever sat in the
Speaker chair. A great man and
hign tariff Democrat who believed
in the protection idea, although he
was a Democrat
Uncle Joe last served during the
closing days ot February 1918. He
Went down before the November
avalancn and is now living in Dan
vile HIS ulbure to ! great Demo
crat, now osad, came from the lips
Of a Republican, we'll qualified to
judge.
From politics 70 religion is or
dinarily considered long step, but
we all realize no man can measure
the elevaeing influence in politics
of pulpit utferances. A few dav
ago heard g sermon, that aside
from Biblical references and inspir-
ing e1ortarlons, might have came
from broad minded political
speaker. Il breathed a spirit OF