Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-08-25
POLITICAL LEADER PENROSE
CHANGES HIS POSITION

the most brilliant sustained efforts
in running-tire debate the Senste
has ever seen is that now being
exhibited by Senator John Sharp
Williams, of Mississippi. who is act
ing as one of the manage of the
tariff bill. Senator Williams is the
most erudite man now in the Sem
ate, not excluding Henry Cabct
Lodge of Massachusetts,. Some of
Senator Williams recent short
speeches have been classics. He
seems to have restored to the up
per house the brilliancy of utter.
ance that was common in the STIR
ing years which led up to the civil
war. Recently Senator Boies Pen
rose, of Pennsylvania, charged that
the Democrats had been coerced
by the caucus into support of the
tariff bill. This was part of Sena-
tor Williams reply:
Mr. President, l hope we may
go ahead with the consideration of
these paragraphs, although l think
it would be we'll to have the Chap
lain recalled for the moment IN or
der to render thanks to Almighty
God for the conversion Of the SEN
ator from Pennsylvania, Mr. PEN
rose. In an old German story in
my life | read of a sermon which
was entitled Satan Rebuking Sim
l never expected to see that repro
duced. even in diminuendo, but l
have seen it this morning. To
hear the Senator from PennSyl-
vania rebuking secrecy and parti-
zansh& is almost equal to the
deviR9D lking sin.
1t is pretty hard for the Senator
from Pennsylvania to recognize the
fact that he is a minority, and so
far as his particular stripe of Re-
publicanism is concerned that he is
woefully infnitestimal insignificant
minority. 1t is mighty hard to be
tumbled down from a precipice of
arrogant dominion a thousand feet
high to an abyss of oblivion a
thousand feet deep politically, and
stand it without growing in self
defense more or less progressive
himself
But when the Senator talks about
the caucus coercing us, ur the
President coercinG us, that is idle
verbiage cast upon the circumam-
bient atmosphere for self amuse-
ment. When a dozen men with a
common purpose meet and deter
mine upon methods by which they
shall accomplish a common pur-
pose and eight Of them advocate
a certain method of accomplishing
the common end, and two more, an
other. and one another and one still
another, and they finally arrive at
a given result, nobody is coerced;
everybody has merely shown con-
mon sense, the common sense which
results in concert of action"
TARIFF LOCAL ISSUE!
1t was old General Hancock who
called the tariff local issue and
was heartily laughed at by the
statesmen Of his time. Succeeding
statesmen, however, have again and
again alleged the truth Of the re
cent occasion when Senator Knute
Nelson, Of Minnesota, attached hct
tobacco clause Of the tariff bill.
believe it is just and proper to
put a Nh tax on cigars, because
they L "a luxury not consumed by
the ordinary workingman quoth
Senator Knute; and as to cigar
cites, believe their use is deleter-
ious and for that reason the higher
the tax the better. 1t would be well
if they could he taxed out of use.
But when it comes to plain, old
fashi ned smoking tobacco and
good old fashioned plug tobacco, to
tax them is burden upon the lab