The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-07-03
VICTORY OUT OF
WILSON POLICIES
TARIFF AND CURRENCY BILLS
MEAN REPUBLICAN SUCCESS.
DEPRESSION TO FOLLOW THEM
Democrats Relying on Big Crops to
Pull Them Through - They Cry
About Foreign Markets but
No Attention at Home.

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Pull Them Through - They Cry
About Foreign Markets but
No Attention at Home.
Washington, -. c., July There
was no more interested spectator In
the chamber of the house OF represen.
tatives last Monday, when President
Wilson read his currency message to
the assembled senators and represen.
tatives than was &c. J. Warren Keller,
| OF Springfield, o., once speaker Of the
house. Gen. Keifer was interested
In the proceeding for more than one
reason. In the first place, although
he had been a member of the house
for good many years, he never be-
fore saw president in the chamber
In the second place, the message itself
held a peculiar interest for Gen. Kei-
FIRE, because he Is president of a ma
tional bank in his home city and has
occupied this position for forty-one
years. The political phase of the
OF the situation, too. appealed strong
| ly to the veteran republican, and
when the joint session was over and
the house had adjourned, he talked
with number o. his old associates
and expressed some of his views on
politics.
Let 'em keep up the way they are
going, and We will not even have to
make a fight" said Gen. Keller. The
next election will surely be won by
republicans, for we shall get togeth-
Ier, and the democrats, with their
usual laundering, will nave made il
easy for us. The president has set
the pace for legislation. He has in
sisted that there be a low tariff, with
many articles on the free list; and
it looks as IL the bill pushed by him
will be passed. The president has
failed to see the weakness of his
most recent movement in insisting
that a currency bill shall follow the
enactment OF tariff bill, By insist
ing upon currency Legislation he ad-
mits that a depression in business is
likely to follow tariff revision. The
president, | fear, has not reckoned
right. In my Judgment, and in the
Judgment of numerous bankers with
whom | have talked, the best curren.
cy bill that could be passed--mind
you, | say, the best currency bill that
could be passed---wouId for a time up
set business, even with business con.
ditions in the best possible shape.
What then may be expected when
the democrats get through with cur
rency following tariff revision? The
bankers are certainly not going TO-
take any chances. There will be
tightening of money All along the
line.
Our democratic friends are rely.
ing on the great prosperity OF the
coutry to pull them through. They
tell MS of the big crops--100, 200, 900
bushels of wheat in Kansas--but they
forget that production does not make
prosperity. They are crying about
foreign markets. 1t would be better
II they would turn their attention to
their home markets. Why in 1856,
when | left home, IS per cent of the
people of this country We're more or
less closely connected with agricul-
ture. Even men of wealth had their
little gardens, and were not ashamed
to work them. We didn't have to
send TO the grocers' for everything
We ate. What was the result Liv.
ing was reasonable. Today, Durand,
of the census, will tell you that not
33 per cent of the people are inter.
ested In agriculture. The democrats
have a mighty big undertaking, but,
not satisfied with revising the tariff,
they are going to take up currency
reform. Well, let emf"
A good many democrats in Wash
ington, who for more than three
months vainly have been endeayor-
ing to persuade President Wilson to
supplant republican ottieeholders with
democrats, are not in the least dis.
pleased at the embarrassment the
president finds himself in as a result
of the broadsdes fired at him and
his administration. by United States
Attorney McNab, OF California. AS
a matter OF fact. many democrats are
pleased that the president got this
jolt from a republican thus early.
What else could Wilson expect
with republicans lett on guard?" ask
ed prominent democrat Representa-.
tive who was discussing the case
and predicting that it would result in
executive action on a lot OF recon-,
IF that had been a
democrat handling those white slave
and Western Fuel company cases, in.
stead of McNab, republican, the
serious embarrassment the President
now finds himself in never would
have happened. The democrat never
would have shown such insubordina.
ton nor would he have taken adj
vantage of the attorney general when
that officer laid himself wide open, as
be did" ..- I'd
The experience of the Wilson ad.
in this California matter
Is said to have aroused the president
to the necessity which his political
advisers have been urging, that he
should lose no time IN surrounding
himself in all departments of the gov
eminent with men who are in sym.
pathy with his policies and his ad-
Representative Irwin s. Pepper, or
the Second district, has been invited
to deliver the Fourth of July Grafton 1
which will be held on the farm lying
along Soap Creek, in Davis county,
Iowa, where he was born. His duties
as secretary of the Democratic Con-
gressional COMMITTEES, which he has
just assumed, Will prevent him from
accepting.
Delta's Boast