The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-04-22
Republicans and Progressiues Are
United Against Free Trade
With Fe,U Democrats. &

Then the senator went on to declare
that there had been disposition among
! BcpubliGans to confine their criticisms
of PresidentSWiison and the Democrats
to their attitude on the tariff as con.
tTasted with the Republican attitude Of
protection, but that it was too evident
that President wilson is making the
tariff bin at the White House and that
his consultations with his legislative
colleagues are evidences of courtesy
without the colleagues having much to
do with the matter in the final anaiysis.
here was time when there wastS
terrible howl in this. country.ift the
White House applied pressure TO cop-
gress, went on th,s senator; '-bpt con.
gress is getting to be little more than
nn honorary body, with the laws all
made from the White House : L believe
there is immense dangerito free insti;
buttons in the continuation OF this
course, and that the people wilf,soop1r
Or later become aroused to the MENACE
of it all.'' t5ftT! "a 5tdt.s
President Wilson is prepared. for the
light along these lines. He, thought il
out long ago and came to the sconclns-
ion, as announced while Governor Of
New Jersey, that the people, selected
him as their leader and that he repre.
sents them with responsibilities to
them alone. 80 4 '.fNjtt.
Wilson True to Pledges.
Without in the slightest rejecting
upon congress, the President believes,
his friends say, that the country will
look to him Tor a Tariff Bill embodying
The promises of the Democratic plat
form adopted al Baltimore. IL, -,
No one or dozen congressman will
be singled out and held responsible ii
the bill is unsatisfactory. 1t will he
the President who must carry the
blame. .t,t go:
If he is to shoulder that blame, along
with his party; if he is partsof the law.
making power in having to alix his
signature before there is law, he pro
poses to take an active interest in the
raining of it, Lut, his friends declare,
it is untrue that he will dictate the en-.
tire bill. ~. Z.
There are provisions of it, such as
sugar and wool, that he feels totehes
every human being in the country.
While the Democratic party must not
deliberately wreck great Industries, il
must also, in the President s. opinion,
consider the rights of the people, the
constantly increasing cost of living
and all the other things that daily
touch the lives of the misses Many
of the provisions of the Tariff Bill the
President will bother little about, but
he will insist that bill is enacted that
will suit the people, if that is possible,
and if what the people want Is reduc.
ton of duties on the necessities Of life.
The Republican expectation is that
the President will carry out hts an.
nouncrd intention of going to the Pres.
ident s room in the senate and, confer
RIM frequently with the lawmakers,
and thew are prepared tn use this, along
with his vigorous tariff position, to
turn all their batteries locse.l ~
Exrect Wilson to Stand Pat.
No official word came from within
the executive offices today as to the
final stand Of the President on the
sugar schedule. There was little donbt
IN the minds of the well informed. how
ever. that the President will stand pat
for free sugar. after three years ut one
cent n pound tax. and that he also will
stanfl pot for free wool.
The President told the Loiiisiana
senators that he constr'es the pledges
of the Democratic nlatform as mean,
mo free snca- for the peonie and tat
'hir r'rst he the fHal outcome. He his
NJ dosire 10 ruin 'he zane ~ beet tuoxr
'"1vst-ios nv inf1iet rrr"t loss rpnT
them Int he ia satisfied he-cnd da.,bt
'hat 4hren wears win rive those inter
"e."l i these Industries evN.v orpaY-
.'ritr thev noc1 N adi"s. Themselves
n 80 conditions. THE I,nuisisna
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