The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-25
THINGS LOOK FAVORABLE.
 FOR ULTIMATE CONSUMER
View of Experienced Observer on Trend Of Legislation At
 Washington.
Special Interests No Longer Rule the Roost At Nations Capitol
 Some. Good Onaens.
(By our Staff Correspondent.)

(By our SLaIT COfT6SpOnQ0nL.)
 ashington, D C., July 25.-Pro- l tected Privilege met it's Gettysburg on July ', 1913-just four days after the hftieth anniversary Of the turning s point in the conflict between the States. ie
 On that date 49 Democratic Senators agreed to pass the Underwood Tariff Bill without material amendment of the important schedules. Of course, i the verbal fusillading will continue for weeks in the Senate. The repre- 1 sentatives of special interests will make a few more desperate stands in the hope Of saving something from the 1 wreck. But to all tntents and pur- poses their backbone was broken on July 2, and recovery is impossible. Lee fought on after Gettysburg, but he knew Appomattoz was inevitable. I suppose the inside story of this fight for an honest revision of the tar if will never be written. The victors are disposed to be generous and the vanquished are not seeking publicity. As I have pointed out in these letters, the sugar and woolen schedules ~consti- tuted the Bloody Angle of the bat tie. To carry that position, we had to muster 48 Democratic votes in the Sen ate-deserted to the enemy before a gun was fired. That left us with 49- just one more than enough. For weeks and months the sugar and woolen in terests-baeked up by a hoard of other tariff nterests-moved Heaven and Earth in an attempt to drive two or three Democratic Senators into the protection camp.
 THE MEN THEY WANTED.
 shafroth of Colorado, Walsh of Mon tana, NewIands Of Nevada and Thomp- son of Kansas, were the men they hoped to get. The testimony before the lobby Investigating committee shows in a measure the character and intensity of the pressure to which these men were subjected. The bene- Hciariee of the tariff never made d more systematic fight They probably never spent more money or exerted stronger Or more varied influence in a struggle Yet they 1osti Lost for the first time in the history of tariff legfs- Ia ation in this country.
 It is the most notable defeat stis- tained by the forces of special privf- Iege in the last half century. The re- suit is due to two induences-a aW4k- ened public sentiment, and the remark ably able leadership with which the Democratic party is blessed today.
 With Wilson, Bryan, Clark, Under wood, Kern, simmons and Owen work ing in complete harmony with an eye single to the public welfare, it is diff ffcuIt for the opposition to offer efec- tive resistance.
 A REPUBLICAN, VIEW.
 One of the leading Republicans in the House described the situation very accurately while chatting with me in the cloak room the other day:
 God seems to be on the side of the Democracy this time, and for the life Of me I cant see much hope for the Grand Old Party.
 You have disappointed us in a most exasperating way. First, we thought your leaders would be at each others threats before Wilson had been in the White House 60 days Instead they seem to be conducting a continuous love feast. Billy Bryan permits Will son to lead the orchestra while he smiIingly scrapes away on seeond-fid- dle Clark and Underwood, who by all the rules of the game, should be waiting around the corner with a base ball bat ready to swat the Commoner, seem to be lying awake nights trying to figure out new scheme to show love for him. Bryan comes right back at them and insists on placing laurel wreaths on their brows.
 s'I cannot believe this harmony will last, but if it does we are lost
 And then, 1cok at the crops! Think Of old mother nature giving us good crops-ti1e best we ever had-when the Democrats were in control of the gov efnment! How can you start a panic when the farmer is prosperous, and how can we ever convince him again that his happiness is based on the tar if when all this money is pouring in