The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1914-01-29

conclude that the tariff question was
settled or forced out of politics with
the passage of the Underwood bill. It
was not (Mores the PITY The feel.
ing is strong in some parts of. the
country that this was very sectional
settlement of the question, unjust be-
cause unequal, and temporary in pro-
portion as these inequalities become
apparent Farmers complain that the
tariff came off from all they sell and
stayed on for all they buy. Manufac-
turers grumble. Workingmen cease to
be employed. And yet the country
will have none of high tariff and the
voters generally weary of the subject
| as a political issue. But even the dis
satisfied ones turn with hope to the
tariff plank of the Progressive plat
form, which promised definite down
ward revision, but proposed that it
should be done scientifically as piece
of commercial expediency and not hap
hazard as to the galleries by political
sharps.
"If we consider the trusts-it was
was most distinctive and most in ad-
vance, recognizing that big business,
while not necessarily bad business,
was potentially dangerous business.
Just as the factory operative must
have about him guards, controls and
safety appliances to protect him from
the misdirected power of his own ma
chine, SO governments must provide
the checks, balances, controls, and
safety appliances which shall insure
that these new and mightier instru-
ments of human progress shall keep
place as servants of society and not
its masters, as the helpers of man.
kind and not the despoilers thereof.
Closer and Closer to the Peoples
Favor.
ITO the end of being the Progress
sive platform advocated in a modified
form the La Toilette idea of huge
industrial commission which should
have immense powers and rule the
world of business as the Interstate
Commerce Commission now rules the
world of transportation.
Judging from the news, this plan
gains adherents every day. The hint
even comes from Washington that
some such proposal may blow up on
the next breeze from the White
House, and this Notwithstanding GER
tain speeches made by a certain gen
tleman during certain campaign"
Mr. Macfarlane says that in 1916
the Progressive party will have a
congressional candidate in every dis
trct in the United States. supported
by a full local ticket in ell places
where there is the slightest prospect
of success. Concluding his broad
survey, he expresses the conviction
that nothing political seems more
ceMain just now than that the Pro-
gressive party will survive.
Considering Col. Roosevelt as a
candidate in 1916, Mr.. Macfarlane
says: MANY of the Progressive is
sues. when looked at coolly and fair
ly by Republicans generally are not
SO Objectionable as once they seem
ed, nor does Theodore Roosevelt,
viewed in the perspective of South
American jungle. appear 50 Objec--
tionable as once he appeared. This
last is very noticeable in the Middle
West, where there is q distinct drift
to Roosevelt on the part of finan-
cial and corporate interests that We're
bitter gainst him. Part Of this is be
cause with calmer thinking comes q
better Judgment; part is because Of
the vague, unreasOning remembrance
that when Roosevelt WAS President
were the most prosperous years the
country has ever known, and part is
due to the fact that, as between he
growing absolutism of Woodrow viii
son in the White House and the big
stick methods of Roosevelt, they pre-
fer the latter rather because lney
think they know his worst, while
hey have by no means made up
ther minds what this cool person
sitting ON the throne of power might
not do if he only get conscience up
on the subject. | do not know that
This disposition is complimentary 20
| he Colonel, and | do not know that
| it is uncomplimentary to the Presi-
dent, but l do know it is a fact.
But while there is talk that the
Republican party will nominate
| Roosevelt in 1916, it may be taken
for granted that the present party
| managers will not sponsor such II
| tHlnS IL tHGy cdu ppSSiDly Ieip lHcH-
selves. and to guard against having
such IA contingency forced upon them
| from below may be one reason for
the announced decision to limit he
| nomination by primary to those
| States in which it is prescribed by
law.
Yet even supposing that in order
| to save face and secure hanglng-ol
place in the Government for the next
| few years they We're willing to swal-
low this bitter pill. they might a.
bout as we'll join the PrOgressives
| and be done with it. aside from the
possible preservation of the party
| name, for it must be remembered
that the Progressive platform Of
1912 was almost the personal plat
form of Theodore Roosevelt. AS he
made it emphatically clear that he
would not accept nomination from
the Progressive. party if it did not
| indorse his personal platform, it mus
be clear that he could not do other
wise than demand the same platform
from the Republican party. Query
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