The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1913-06-10


ton with President Wilson's earlier
statement that he has taken his
stand with the House leaders for the
present BILL" and is mot looking for
or accepting compromises" Washing
ton correspondents view his lobby
warning" as a virtual announcement
that he will veto mutilated measure
That is, remarks the New York Eve
ming Sun Qnd.), president Wilson
has not the slightest intention Of GO
ing to Winona." While everybody
else admits the possibility, even the
probability, of an error" Mr. Wilson
does not, says the Philadelphia Pub.
lie Ledger, which adds, almost scot
fingly, that he has taken stand
and with the immobility of titano,
saurus he will keep it." But this very
attitude commends itself to two New
York papers which opposed Mr. Viii
sons candidacy for the Presidency
last fall. "By driving through his
IolHA uicdoulc, Bays Inc ITeSS
which preferred Mr.. Roosevelt, Presi.
dent Wilson may cause loss to the
American people; but they must re-
spect him for having the same prin.
cipals after he was elected as he said
he had before he was elected and for
fighting for those principles in the
White House when members of his
party seek to confound them and to
repudiate their campaign pledges.
And The Sun, whose prediction was
for Mr.. Taft, now declares itself quite
in agreement with the spirit" of the
Wilsonian warning
"The Senators opposed to the bill
have a right to express their dissent
in toto or in detail, but dilatory tao
tics, or talk only for political con-
sumption, or obstructive enterprise,
or filibustering of any sort against
the Underwood Tariff Bill of 1913 is
something which an overwhelming
majority of the people of the United
States are in no mood to tolerate; and
it is just as well that the main fact
should be understood with crystalline
clearness at the Senate end of the
Capitol"
The Presidents demand for
prompt and final action opens with
reaffirmation of that reliance upon
publicity which has been so notable
a feature of his political acts. He
says:
Il think that the public ought to
know the extraordinary exertions be-
ing made by the lobby in Washington
to gain recognition for certain altera-
tons of the Tariff Bill Washington
has seldom seen so numerous, so in
dustrious, or so insidious lobby. The
are being filled with paid
advertisements calculated to mislead
not only the judgment of public men,
but also the public opinion of the
country itself. There is every evil
dence that money without limit is be-
ing spent to sustain this lobby, and
to create an appearance of a pressure
of public opinion antagonistic to some
of the chief items of the Tariff Bill.
1T is of serious interest to the
country that the people at large
should have no lobby, and be voice
less in these matters, while great
bodies of astute men seek to create
an artificial opinion and to overcome
the interests of the public for their
private profit. 1t is thoroughly worth
the while of the people of this country
to take knowledge of this matter. Only
public opinion can check and destroy
it.
The Government in all its branches
ought to be relieved from this in
tolerable burden and this constant in
terruption to the calm progress of
debate. / know that in this I am
speaking for the members of the two
houses, who would rejoice as much as
L would TO be released from this I'M
bearable situation"
Without actually contradicting the
President, the Boston Transcript
(Rep.) reminds him that if he were
not a newcomer, "he would not be
astonished at the appearance of an
energetic lobby interested in the Tar
iff Bill" for scenes of activity such
as this "have always attended the
of a tariff And the New
York Times (Ind. Dem.) wonders if it
may not be possible that
the President has mistaken for
lobbying the ordinary, usual, and per-
fectly Legitimate measures taken by
protected interests to present their
case to Congress. Washington is full
Of representatives of these interests
whenever tariff bill is under consid-
GRAFTON, and sometimes it is to be
feared that undue influenca hoe hoo,