The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1913-12-17
HEARST ON WILSON.

| VIM. Randolph Heart, who repre-
sents large faction in the democratic
party, has evidently weighed Wood
row Wilson in the balance and found
him wanting, according to his esti-
mate. We print from the New York
American his letter:
Signed editorial in New York Amer
icon: President Wilson says: There
is but one cloud upon our horizon
and describes that cloud as our trouble
with Mexico.
Mr.. Wilson evidently is not an ex
pert in political meteorology.
There is, perhaps, only one cloud on
the distant horizon, but there are sew
eral very threatening clouds hanging
| Immediately overhead, and casting a
very heavy shadow upon the business
interests of this country and upon the
general prosperity of the producing
classes This heavy shadow, with
prospect even of a serious storm, is
due to the presidents exceedingly OBJ
stinate attitude in regard to the mod
ifications of the tariff.
The president is one of those men
to whom success gives hallucinations.
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predestinatiOn.
| He is convinced that he is the d.
rect representative OF the Almighty
on earth, and that, being in more i'm
mediate contact with mundane affairs,
his knowledge of them is, perhaps, a
little superior to that of the Almighty.
This conviction is not uncommon
among men whose sudden rise to pow
err is as incomprehensible to them as
it is to the rest of the community. Not
only politicians have this obsession,
but business men also who attain I'M
usual success or important position
too rapidly.
A conspicuous example Of this hal
lucination was given by George F.
Baer, of the Reading railroad, with
his avowed inspiration and his AFRO
giant action by ''Divine right"
Vanities of this kind would be
harmless enough if they did not so Of
ten lead men to become inaccessible
to facts and impervious to reason, and
if they did not SO often persuade men
that their own fallible opinions were
direct inspirations from on High, not
to be modified or ameliorated by the
opinions Of other men or the actual
conditions which confront them
The clouds which now hang men
acingly overhead and threaten the
prosperity of the nation could have
been dissipated if Mr.. Wilson had TAX
en- a broader and more liberal view in
his policies of tariff reduction.
He should have realized that tariff
reduction, however necessary for the
benefit of consumers, must fall more
or less heavily and disastrously upon
the producers Of the country.
He should have appreciated the ne
cessity of compromising these Ameri-
can producers for the markets which
they would lose here at home by OPP
ening to them markets which he could
easily have secured for them abroad.
The reduction of our tariff barrier
allows our markets to be invaded by
foreign products, and our producers
| to be deprived of a greater or less pro-
portion OF our American markets.
If a policy of reciprocity had ac-
companed the policy of tariff reduc-
ton the markets of foreign nations
| would have been reciprocally opened
to the products of our American man
ufacturers and producers. The ad-
vantages gained in these foreign mar
kets would have compensated our pro-
ducers and perhaps more than COM
pensated for the loss of part of their
home markets.
Mr.. Wilson should realize that the
word "producers" does not mean only
the big business men who conduct
manufactures, but the workingmen,
who are the partners in this produc-
ton, and the farmers, who are the
most important producers of all.
However desirable it might have
been to benefit the consumers, it was
certainly as desirable, or even more
desirable, to benefit the producers in
this country. The greatness of this
country and the wealth of this coun-
try are due not to what we consume,
but to what we produce.
The increase in the creation of