The Alaska daily empire., 1913-04-30
THE POST-INTELLIGENCER,T THE TARIFF AND
 VILLAGE LAWYERS"

THE Seattle Posntelgencr thinks there gross incom- peence the preparation O. the Underwood o and N as signs as reason the conclusion that nine of the four teen majority members the committee that fashioned the measure resided in of less than i@Oo0 inhabitants before they went to Congress- Or the Postngencer its endeavor to adversely crcSe the tariff b failed to say that all f those men have served lone m Congress where they have touch with governmental affairs But let the seattle paper tell story in its way 1t sums up the tariff makers like this:
 "One comes from Sherman. Tex, town of 124l2
 inhabitants: one from Brunswick, Ga, town of lO-
 lS2 inhabitants; from Jefferson City, Mo, a town
 of II S59 in habitantS: one from Scotland Neck, \. C.
 with less than inhabitants; from Carrollton
 Ill., less than 25O0 people, one from Mount Vernon lnd
 29I5: one from Carthage Tenn. village of some 600;
 one from St James, AJnr. less than 25OO, and one
 from Stroudsburg, Pa. 43I9 These nine village law
 yerS constitute rather than wohirdS of the com
 mttee which framed measure which will directly af-
 feet every employed in manufacturing and in com
 rnerce throughout the whole United States How well
 qualified they are by education by past experience and
 by the environment which surrounded them until their
 entrance into Congress can judged by the simple facts
 recorded above"
 But why this aspersion upon village awyers If we are to infer that village lawyers incompetent perhaps the Post ntegencer will explain how the American Nation came to gro" great for unfortunate might be- the keeping the country has usually been in the residents of villages Jeff eson and Marhsa and Madison, and Dickinson ana Randolph and Ruedge and Livingston the great lawyers of Washing tons time were village lawyers The Father of His Country himself from the farm and had not even village epe fence behind him when he became public character
 Henry Clay the author of protection principle a village lawyer So were Jackson and Benton and Calhoun and Van Buren, Hane and Polk and Cuchanan and Walker and Cass and Corn essende and Crenden and Tyler and Pierce nearly all the other statesmen of the ante0eum days village lawyers, every one of them
 Abraham Lincoln the first Republican President was 50 years of age had had experience outside of village so small of those mentioned by the Posntegencer seem thriving meropoises in comparison Johnson and Grant and Hayes and and Conng and Blaine and Ed munds and Sherman and BstOw and the Hoar and Reid and Cannon and of the other Republican statesmen o ther day were village products.
 The first Republican hgharif bill was the Morrill, bill named for village lawyer and found by the Kelly the "cKnley the "Dmgey and the Payne bills all hig-ar- if and all named for village inhabitants.
 Beginning with Marshall and ending with Waite nearly all of the chief justices and associate justices oO for that mat ter were village lawyers.
 But why go The story would apply to nearly every line of endeavor country The history of the United States is the story achievement by village residents Even Mr. Taylor principal owner of the Posntegencer dent of Everett until few months ago.
 "vilage lawyers" indeed! If that the best the priests of hightari can do the bill will stand the test
 That Essad fellow refreshing He fought like the Turk
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