The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-04-23
MONTANA AND FREE WOOL

Senator Myers called upon President Wilson Monday
and in the course of his visit he informed the president
that the majority of the people of Montana favor free wool
I'VE presume Senator Myers bases his opinion upon the re-
turns from the election last fall; if he does, he should say
that a plurality of the people of Montana favor free wool;
the democratic vote-of course-represented the free-Wool
sentiment; it represented free-sugar sentiment; it repre-
sented tree-lead sentiment; but it was not a majority; it
was a plurality.
Yet, judging from the expressions of the newspapers of
Montana, the people of the state are ready for whatever
happens in the tariff line. Last fall vote placed a demo-
cratic delegation in congress to represent Montana; that
members Of the delegation carry out the pledges of that
platform, the people who elected them have no kick
coming.
We give, this morning, a little symposium of Montana
editorial opinions regarding the tariff bill. The selections
are few; they do not represent the entire field; but they
are chosen at random from the daily and weekly news
papers which were printed last week in the state. They are
interesting; they reflect all sorts of community sentiment.
Some of them are from democratic newspapers, some ire
from progressive newspapers, some are from republican
newspapers. One is from an agricultural publication, but
Uncle Bob Sutherlin has, it will be remembered, forsaken
the pillow for a federal job, SO he is entitled to talk politics.
We have clipped nothing from the Helena Independent,
because Snator Walsh owns some of that newspaper and its
opinion might be considered biased, but we have taken a
paragraph from the independents local %neighbor, which is
about what the Independent has said. Nor have we
clipped from Congressman Tom Stouts correspondence to
his own paper, the Fergus Democrat, in which he says this
is the best tariff bill that ever was. But the clippings
represent different sections of the state; they stand for diff
ferent local interests. On the whole, they substantiate the
statement which the senior senator made to the president.
They are worth reading; here they are:
a %s 1 IS ts' v nSes'G ina aSss %at TEL {" G senators SHs stan has y an Fsss'
% "5o"nS o nj" the 'p partS nea @ ""S i" a'f raHs E rrbu ,ne ''S@"'' ma inc
tariffs 1H1: 4 ":S: is s s%s sss By s:'@ 3e s.s s;tss", ' os se" ss s.:; s"s secs s' amy
the farmer nan is goinE to get it Where the chicken got the axe
Forsyth Times-Journal
in accordance with the pledge o the Baltimore platform, it cannot be
be permitted to stand in the way of the general welsre-Mnes Rom
ney in Senator Myers home paper.
Reports rom Washington indicate that the senators rom Montana
free 20 1t is n o believed that free 100 will mure to the injury
of the labor There is Little labor but much free Hs government s n range
pinyipal ndustries-Kalspen Journal
people :" s"s SHOULD Ts STAND sn' together d t~r it i" is ' &c" ""T Tne country ns I"S BEEN m% fiseced
by he tie c"nnsr tariff tar nma ,t so ~t of Gr m ti%t N t ns1s is is an mo o t"srs amS
combines n privileged few or a fooins with the masses Rocky
The New York World and other Atlantic coast democratic papers
2 wan ne% moe 'hdso LEADERS she s,a may na an "n nn @r ny. w nna deno %r ns st tn1Sm'
but the people of Montana are behind the junior democratic senator
state !" es and "T peop p5%"s1 "a "aT Record %1" S''"'""'S 'A'""' "0 "S
him sine his recently announced intention of being for almost any,
thing that's free, especially for free WOOL W wonder if he would
tana. we will string his political career to h highest limb" re-
the u%r past week. The two we're evidently sheep men free wool and
susar apparently doesn't appeal to nan Observation-Disclosures
It is quite apparent that he position Of Senator walsh OF tariff
than that taken by Senator Myers-Dawson County Review:
In this We heartily asres with Senator Myers For a number of
ommerc Wool a placed in the finished cloth, has very little col
sheepmen for the product There is only N buyer Of WOO in the
United States tqntnesz and , the tariff aatfxi has 1 mighty little influence I" what it
The fact that the , republican ~, party tm or tina that re republicans %nb 1sa are fr pro-,
straight dose to see what the effect will be-et us have what the
Even if changes are made in the bill, and a small tariff is placed OIL
wool and sugar instead Of the rec provisions, the bill would still
tails might s4 be o fh 1a G,. nc nc u nay BE 9n nmst in T nm tut 1 nmy naMa ss
Anaconda Standard.
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