Arizona republican., 1913-04-26
Patience iS PO1OeUul.
 ---Longfellow.
The vexation of Statesmen

.The president in his address to congress under took to settle in eight minutes the problems that have vexed the minds of statesmen for more than years" said Representative Hamilton of Michigan in the course of the tariff debate on Thursday.
 Passing the eXaggeraton the statement of the fact that the president attempting to set tie complex question of the tariff in that ad- dress, come to the humor of the statement re garding the vexations of statesmen especially those who devised and passed the Payne Aldrich law. We their brows corrugated by thought as they list ened to the arguments of the monoposts and would be monoposts who proposed the rates that would give them a cinch-rates which just low enough prevent the exclusion of foreign goods and so deprive the country of needed revenue. yet high enough protect the extortonate prices of the monOposts.
 We must admit that that task of exactly justing the right point between the monopost and the treasury is at times a vexing problem, would have been comparatively simple if the statesmen had excluded the monoposts from their consideration and confined themselves the needs of the government and the people that is. the consumers and the laborers.
 We do mean the problem the tariff be settled offhand. in the twinklng of an eye, but that it be greatly simplifed by disregard ing for protection until inquiry has de  of mathematical problems. rules laid down. and they only be studied understood and then applied. Sometimes the stupid pupil admits unnecessary term and cOmplicates his troubles In the tariff problem the clamor for pro- lection is the unnecessary term.
 The national progressive platform lays down a very simple rule for tariff legislation That rule is intended the quick, the certain solu- of the problem It requires the collection of much information easily obtainable. That informa- ton is a knowledge first, of the need revenue. then of a of tariff that will the differ between the cost of production at home and abroad. We should know what will maintain the American standard of wages and the American standard of living All this information awaits intelligent inquiry by expert commission There is nothing the mind of expert, how ever vexing the subject may be to the mind of the -statesman." It is wonder that the minds of statesmen have been vexed than a hun dred years.
 One tme statesmen undertook in the same way they are trying construct the tariff. construct the Panama canal and it most vexng problem much that of them did expect and any them hoped that they would live it solved If they had kept they would have been vexed, not for more than a hundred, but for more than thousand years, and then the job would have been unfinished They were considering the railroad term which did long in the canal problem any than the monopolist belongs in the tariff problem.
 Seeing that the problem in the hands of the vexed statesmen nsolube, President Roosevelt, impatiently and rudely. took it away and put it into the hands of experts The canal is almost finished. It was gigantic but a simple job. after al for those who knew how
 So it will be with the tariff when the task is rightly undertaken.