The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1913-06-07

80 ~ me pAcch tHdu the ldLe w
'fW, DHdley's justly celebrated collec
zion Of yoters-oDiy Senator Bacon. o.
georgia, admitted that he was inter
Rsted financially in investments thai
Esnight be affected by the tariff laws
PIE SAID that ne owned a little farm in
Georgia, the products OF which would
perhaps. have their value Influenced
|-cr better or for worse by the tarid
schedules. The senator also had q
little stock in corporations that man
fractured goods subject to tariff i'm
posts. None OF the other, senators
illad even the most remote personal
Interest in the making Of the tariff
land the rates might be fixed or IN.
Fixed to any degree without helping
lpr hurting them OF course Senator
Bacons farm is not a requisite exhibit
Ipr exposure in this connection. The
Farming class, under the new political
tdpc.rine, is exempt from the opera
ltions Of any law they wish to violate.
THAT would let Senator Bacon by or
Ethe main proposition, What they wifi
do 10 him for owning the few shares
i'm corporations that make articles
Whose value is affected by the tariff
will probably have to be sent up to
tile White House for determination.
The admission OF Senator Bacon and
the denial of the rest OF the senators
of personal interest in things subject
- tho fnffff is,at,os,,r,ef ;Il,,c+r .5,,.-
well the absurdity of Of this probing
into the ind Yidual Interests Of sena-
tors. OF course every senator has
personal interest in the making Of the
tariff bills. Those who own farms and
corporation stocks are producers. who
would, undoubtedly benefit from the
aigh tariff schedules on the articles
Of their lands produce or their com
4anles' manufacture The resi- since
they ara not producers, must be CON
5pmers, and, perhaps they may even
include in their ranks that individual
cg mystery The ultimate consumer
WIN the consumers in the senate
deny their interest In the schedules q
taxation OH the imports. Certainly
none on the Democratic side vii 81
I'd, else he must deny ne whole
theory upon which the present pro
gram 81 revision is belag followed by
.lie Democrats, the same being moth
hs less than tho reduction d the nigh
cost Of living. II is 10 be hoped thar
0eforc the whole list OF senator's Is ex
dausted,. some ca these Statesmen VIII
stand forward and declare that he is
Interested, as consumer in The
schedules o@the tariff bin,
As to the Lobbyists without WIG, il
is believed or asserted abound at
tho capitol. only one seems to have
been definitely discovered, ne By Sen.
ator Amhurst Tho man who So
smooth The cAn carry a bundle q eels
upstairs without saropping one Of
them" seems TO have some accquaint-
ance aud TO have made vivid ifi
PRECISION. He seems to have represent
ed many more than one interest, and
there is ground for suspecting THAT b
nay be the numerous and insidious
LOBBY, the president told Che country
vas swarming about the senate
There Were a good many people en-
saBed in business which would he af
ttced by he tariff who came up and
talked with the senators and gave
tAcir views and ali that and these
persons were leeitimately present aud
6entonding for their interests, and, a
tbe senators generally were disposed
c. insist, were not lobbyists at all
Since every senator assumes and APP
pears TO be conceded the risht 70
iHdge for himself who is and who is
not a lobbyist among those who talk
I'd him about the tariff, it may be TAX
en for granted that mighty few lob
byists will have any Acknowledgement
DARN sthe inquisition now proceeding,