The daily sentinel., 1913-07-16
by Edward heating,


ICongressman-at-Large From Colo.
lection met it's Gettysburg on July 7.
1913, just four days after the fiftieth
anniversary Of the turning point in
the conflict between the states.
On that date 40 democratic sena-
tors agreed to pass the Underwood
tariff bill without material amend
ment Of the important schedules. OF
course. the verbal fusillading Will
continue for weeks in the senate. The
representatives of special interests
will make a few more desperate
stands in the hope of saving some
thing from the wreck But to all
intents and purposes their backbone
was broken on July :, and recovery
is impossible. Lee fought on after
! Gettysburg, but he knew AppomattoX
was inevitable.
! suppose the inside story of this
/ fight for an honest revision of the
/ tariff will never be written. The
vietors are disposed to be generous
and tho vanquished are not seeking
publicity. As | have often pointed
out in these letters, the sugar and
woolen schedules constituted the
Bloody Angle Of the battle. To
carry that position. we had to muster
IS democratic votes in the senate
]
lana senators-deserted to the enemy
before gun was fired. That left us
with i9-just one more than enough.
For weeks and months the sugar and
woolen interests-backed up by "A
hoard of other tariff interests-mov-
ed Heaven and Earth in an attempt
to drive two or three democratic SEN
ators into the protection camp.
The Men They Wanted.
Shafroth of Colorado, Walsh OF
Montana. Newlands of Neyada and
Thompson of Kansas, we're the men
they hoped to get. The testimony
before the lobby investigating com
mittee shows in measure the char
aeter and Intensity of the pressure to
which these men We're subjected.
The beneficiaries of the tariff never
made more systematic fight They
probably never spent more money or
eXerted stronger or mere varied in
fluences in struggle. Yet they lost.
Lost for the first time in the history
II Is not. the most notable defeat
of tariff legislation in this country.
sustained by the forces of special
privileges in the last half century.
The result is due to two Influences
an awakened public sentiment, and
the remarkably able leadership with
which the democratic party is bles-
sed today.
With Wilson, Bryan. Clark, Under
wood, Kern, Simmons and owen
working in complete harmony with
an eye single to the public welfare,
it is difficult for the opposition to
offer effective resistance.
A Republicans View.
One of the leading republicans in
the house described the situation
very accurately while chatting with
me in the cloak room the other day:
God seems to be on the side of the
democracy this time and for the life
of me can't see much hope for the
Grand Old Party.
"You have disappointed us in
most exasperating way. Firsts, We
| thought your leaders would be at
each others throats before Wilson
| had been in the white house so days.
/ Instead they seem to be conducting
continuous love feast. Billy Bryan
permits Wilson to lead the orchestra
while he smilingly scrapes away on
second fiddle Clark and Underwood
who. by all the rules of the game.
| should be waiting around the corner
with baseball bat ready to swat
| the Commoner, seem to be lying
awake nights trying to figure out
new scheme to show their love for
\ him. Bryan comes right back at
them and INSISTS on placing laurel
wreaths on their hrows.
Il cannot believe this harmony
will last, but if it does we are lost.
"And then, look ut the crops!
Think of old mother nature giving us
good crops-the best we ever had
when the democrats were in control
! IDt
start panic when the farmer is pros
porous, and how can we ever con
vince him again that his happiness is
based on the tariff when all this
money is pouring in on him while the
democrats are tearing the sacred old
thing to pieces?
Talking of panics-did you notice
how Wilson and McAdoo made Wall
Street stop all its calamity bowling
a few weeks ago? Just threatened to
dump $500. 100000 of government
notes into the channels Of trade to re-
tlieve tight market. Have you
heard peep out of Wall Street
since? No, and you won't.
Wall Street Buffaloed.
And they will accept Wilson's
currency bill. too He has them buff
faloed This is the first time in a
good many years that he have had
man in the white house who did
not give tinker's damn for the
emperors of finance. Wall Street is
Just beginning to get that fact
through its noodle. II will gurgle
,and gasp its Indignation for a while,
'but 1t will eventually come to its
milk. This talk about the big nation
al banks surrendering their charters
rather than submit TO federal con-
troll is popycock. Wilson and Bryan
will have their way with the curren-
cy bill, Just as they have had with
the tariff bill.
But the amazing thing is that
the country seems, to- like it have
a. lot of sheep men IN my district and
when | went home the, other day I
expected to find them up ini arms
orer .free. wool But theys weren't.
Theyitried to tell me that the tariff
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