New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-16
Mr.. Wilson Puts All the Administers
TONS Troubles Up to Few
NAUGHTY Accelerators.

NJ Williams answer 10 the Democrats III NoH
=. ,rho want n 90 home is characteristic DC
.ous than, that they are not speaking their own
tide nor the minds of their constituents, Dut are
simply the mouthpieces of disgraceru cohsph".S
oF "acceleration" Since his runin year ago VIII
yUosb,notons rag-tag and bob-tai army of legsla
4ro "accelerators" the President has had one un-
r.-v,ro exclamation of the hostility which mas
deveoped toward his various policies mat no'
tlity has been DUE according to bis hxeo ldea' "
the malevolent operations of subsidized puolcH9
agencies.
Yesterday with a great show Of satisfaction ne
exhibited to the correspondents at washington
ccpy of ready made protest against further ieslS
laiye activity distributed 0y an acceleraon agency
calling itself Ia Pictorial Review Company. IL was
in the ordinary style of the Sign TINS circular
affected by the mysterious moulders of pubic
opinion who make a shadowy living somewhere on
the TOP floors of Washington office buildings some
body NAV have invested few hundred dollars III It,
Yet to that shabby bit of acceeraton the PreSuent
is willing to attribute the vast volume OF sentiment
which has accumulated hostile to the further prose-
cution of a legislative policy which the business
world rightly regards as irritating and dangerous.
WHY are most of the Democrats in Congress
anxious to 60 home? Why has Mr. Underwood
ventured to draw on himself the wrath of the
Democratic partys ruthless taskmaster by saying
that Congress deserves a rest from White House
dictation and the country deserves rest from Con
gress? Is it simply because the Pictorial Review
Company has succeeded in persuading Congress OF
the psychological" Importance of a summer recess!
Mr. Wilson is the victim Of a strange delusion
II he thinks that there is frmer basis than that
for Congressional and popular dissatisfaction with
his programme of still more upsetting legislation
Disapproval of the work Of his administration
strikes deep all along the line. The tariff revision
has produced no noticeable reduction in the cost OF
living 1t has increased imports discouraged
domestic production. converted balance OF trade
in our favor into a balance Of trade against us,
scared investors and led to reduced working hours
in many branches Of industry. The railroads nave
been kept on starvation ratons and been obliged
to skimp operating expenses and to lay off tens
Of thousands of employees. The dawdling, inverte
brate "watchful waiting policy in Mexico has hung
like wet blanket over the country. Finally, the
underhanded, tricky methods followed in juggling
with the antitrust laws-the administration trying
to hand gold brick" to labor and labor trying to
hand one TO the administration-have Disguised and
alarmed those who want to see prosperity return
and business allowed to adjust itself in good faith
to conditions.
These the powerful impulses which have set
public opinion against the President. He is blind
if he cannot the storm Of disapproval gathering
Even so devoted a friend THE Evening Post
is now telling him that he is sef-deceived. But
the armor of self-opinion which Mr.. Wilson wears
is impenetrable. He will cheerfully sacrifice the
Democratic majority in Congress to his own ideas
Of what the country needs. He will never change.
To the Senators and Representatives slaughtered
next November through his obstinacy he will be
ready TO give certificates that all they suffering
from is psychological confusion at the hands of
the accelerator-in-chief of the Pictorial Review
Company.