The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-08-28
Democrats Call II Necessary
For Tariff Revision.
RULE OF PARTY MAJORITY.
Does Away With All Personal Views.
President Has the Cartoonists Guess
ing-John Sharp Williams Breaks a
Promise-CIapp Raps "High School
Exercises" and the Tariff System.
By ARTHUR w. DUNN.

BY ARTHUR w. DUNN.
Washington, Aug. 25.-[Special.l-
From time to time the caucus system
by which the pending tariff bin has
been advanced to its present position
has been severely condemned. The
Democrats, defending what they have
done in caucus, frankly say that only
by taking the bill into caucus and each
member Of the party subordinating his
personal views to those Of the major
ity was it possible to pass tariff re
vision bill.
They are right In that If every man
held out for his own Ideas and insisted
upon protection for the products Of
his state the present low tariff bill
would soon become a protection meas
ure. Criticisms by those who always
vote for low duties on what their PEG
pie buy and high duties on what their
people sell will not affect caucus die
tation, however vicious the caucus sys-
TEN may be considered.
Rule Of the Majority.
The rule Of party majority must
be enforced or the rule by parties
abandoned If this country has reach
ed a stage where the party system
Of government Is ended then there
should be no caucus. If parties which
are successful are to control, then the
majority Of those parties, voiced in
caucus expression, must control the
party.
It was not the rule Of the majority
by caucus which disrupted the Repub-
lican party during the last four years
1t was the rule by handful of leaders
who insisted that they were the party
and should control party policy.
Cartoonists Guessing.
When we see the cartoonlsts show
ing the president buried in mass of
work, surrounded by stacks Of docu-
ments on the Mexican question, flank
ed by piles of applications for office,
working hard to pass the tariff bill
and still harder to pass the currency
bill and generally fused up over the
labors Of his position, we cannot help
but laugh little
President Wilson can be seen every
fine day over In Virginia at the Coun-
try club playing golf. About three
summer theaters in Washington and
occasionally takes little trip down
the Potomac The trouble with the
cartoonists is that they think the pres
ident is doing all this worrying and
working himself to death. Mr. Wilson
does not propose to do anything Of the
kind
Broke His Promise. -.....
Il can't stay here today to hear you
make your speech" remarked news
paper friend to John Sharp Williams.
IF you don't stay I won't speak, .
replied Williams.
But he broke his promise. Williams
can't help speaking on the tariff. But
be was excusable that particular day,
because the agricultural schedule was
under consideration and he had charge
Of 1t. Still, it Is unlikely that he would
go whole day during tariff discus
sion without saying something The
strain would be too great
"High School Graduating Exercises"
Senator Clapp Of Minnesota was
making a speech which was several
times interrupted. II am willing to
let In any one with an Illuminating
point" he said, ''but l do not want to
follow up lot Of blind trails. pre-
fer debate and discussion to the usual
high school graduating exercises we so
often have In the senate"
Penrose Philosophy.
Scratch a Democrat" said Senator
Penrose, land occasionally you will
find spotted protectionist The most
vicious, the most indefensible of all
| items in the Payne bill was the duty
on quebracho which was placed there
at the behest Of the Democratic sena-
tors Of Virginia to protect the chestnut
bark of their state'
A Minnesota Opinion.
| ''There Is something about the whole
tariff system ITSELF" said Senator
Clapp, that makes men towards and
which tends to dishonesty. There Is
no feature OF the tariff so apt to pro
duce that phase of mentality than tar
| III for revenue The man who stands
for protection can stand where you can
attack him. But the man who stands
for tariff for revenue, whether his mo-
tive be good or bad, is beyond the
reach of attack"
The Republicans who opposed the
last tariff bill and are opposing the
present tariff bill are In quandary
which is voiced by the statement of
the Minnesota senator
| A Real Hard Job.
| Senator Page, the amiable Vermont
Senator, INDUCED in bit Of prophecy,
as he closed his speech on the tariff
eThere is one legitimate industry in
which think my Democratic friends
are engaged in. They are making a
Republican state out Of Louisiana"
Even the Louisiana senators who OPP
pose the tarin bill win say that Is 4
Iyery hard task