Lower coast gazette., 1913-06-14
NATIONAL NEWS.

Meats and -four have Deen taheH on
the free list and a duty Of lO% 40
valorem placed upon them by the Sen,
ate subcommittee handling the tarlH
hearing. The members of this sun
committee are mostly radicals: Wlt
liams. Shively and Gore, the blind sen
ator from Oklahoma.
The lobby probe has awaited HUE.
Senators questioned, answered that
thew were interviewed by people inter
ested in business threatened by. tne
tarisf hit that these men were not
lobbyists.
The art of lobbying is a gentle art-
it is a subtle art. 81
The lobbyist is much like the eel
and almost intangible. Lobbying IS a
general aggravation Of the constltu'
tional rights of an individual to raise
his voice in protest against a con
templated law that would take the
bread from his mouth. 1t Is only py
suggesting changes and noting L
nublic feeling about those changes
that the governors u governments
can learn whether their plan was con-.
ceiyed by an inordinate lust Tor re.
forms or because the intelligence OF
the neople demand the move suggest
ed In dealing with these protests
the governor must be careful oecause
in orr times the vast majority of the
neople to be affected are inactive and
asleep whilst the benefciaries OF IN
imct;co are awake and crying as
though the heart Of the nation were
broken and the pillars of government
crumbling.
Still there is no eason to believe
that the people are in favor OF the
suggestion because they duly sleep
The people sleep because they do
not vet believe that they are a par'
of the government.
Most of them believing that govern
ment is a magistrate who sentences
and acquits sentencing the helpless
and acquitting the formidable.
The people sleep because V ye
has there been any semblance OF {
call to them for help.
The people who plod are AFRAID pe
cause thew are helpless. The boss i
the rich man. And government Wnlc'
!. should attempt to blend these wv
unnatural divisions has yet to AXE
neutral ground divorcing itself fror
! its unholy alliance with wealth.
The CRY of the business organize
, tion in washington may be false an
avaricious.
But it would be wrong to say s
: while the people are -unheard.
The administration must t1rst prov
the lack Of connection between u
Spokesman Of an industry at was
ington and the people who worke
S for that institution at home be1o
It they can say they have not heard u
s people who lived by that industry.
!, Meat and flour again go on u
. free list though the Senate suD-col
5. mittee removed them, the same co
y mittee must put them back. The lea
It ers of the party consider the remo'
of line with the set plan set to ne
the people as they think they shot
and will be helped. President "
TX son said no to their request to levy
IF duty on these commodities and SO
40 was when they heard the voice OF
- Lord of Democracy demand a 81
nc to these treacherous retreats.
ne An excise tax on tobacco Is I'M
eS nent.
~ Acknowledgement McReynolds s
gests amending the tariff bill to
vide for such a tax.
Senator Hitchcock, Of Nebraska,
~ taken the burden OF pushing
VI through the Senate upon his sno'
IL ers. It hits big companies-th
nd companies that control over 70
pr cent of the total production OF the
: ticle they produce.
The taxed concern must PROD
over 8 ,0OO,00O pounds OF TOBACCO
ties 4.O00,O 900 pounds Of snuff in one y
ri Less than that does not bear the
ira tax. This is urged because
Ia its SUCCESSORS think will break
ute tobacco trust. Where two or n
S a companies found to be owned by
To same company, though none OF
- single factories produce the am,
ailu taxable, the combined output VII
it pass the exemption mark, be t
! of / cent a pound for the first LOO
in pounds over the amount untaxable
3 cents for the next 100000 pc
CIV and soon adding a cent more
re pound for every million pounds
the maximum of 6 cents per ?
I'm. has been reached. This tax Is i
- 80 ~ VaI =
age. The exorhitance Of it, it is h
It to will force the trust to split up
4 in small companies. ,.
one AND tnese mus. VI coptrolIl