Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-30

to Justify legislation to which his ad-
versarlcs are both opposed. For whom
his adversaries shall see what has
been wrought by President Wilson
they will rise together and overthrow
him.
The president must and does as
sumo the responsibility for both the
legislative and executive acts of his
Congress, until re-
Gently, has only registered his oX-
ccutlve DEGREES. Tho first sign of leg
islatlye independence cvokes a threat
against congress that disobedicnce to
his orders will bring deep bitterness
to them
Law Thrown Aside.
These are not tho words Of a con
president sworn TO perform
his duties They are the lawless
proclamations of man who has
thrown aside the order and procedure
OF government by law and substituted
the uuregulated will of the arbitrary
and accidental man.
The president assaults the United
States senate In language the senators
are forbidden TO use toward each other
even in the acrimony of personal de-
bate. While his attack is on the Re
publican minority 1t reaches all sen
utors who do not agree with him.
I'm dealing with men nothing is
gained by peremptory orders to shut
up. This language may be used in
the kindergarten. An executive who
applies It to the United States senate
betrays his inability to grasp the diff
ference between an Independent leg
islatlve power in the conduct Of hu-
man affairs and the absolute domin-
ion of his arbitrary impationce.
Can't stop Deficit.
"'Cease your talking he says. You
arc misguided, blind, ignorant
have settled everything. | have
cleared the decks He has said how
the business Of the country shall be
done, how the Philippines shall be
governed, how our water powers shall
be handled, how the resources of the
public domain imprisoned by excess
slye conservation shall be unlocked,
how the government freight boats
shall be run by the government at a
cost or profit and then sold out to the
minority shareholders or somebody
else and not be guilty of a subsidy
condemned by the Democratic party
for a half a century. He can do eV-
cTything except keep the deficit from
stalking through the treasury build
ing
still, the Republicans are ignorant
and have not had a new idea in thirty
\ ears Republican senator's were
elected by a direct vote of the people
in Connecticut Vermont New Hamp-
shire, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Iowa, North Dakota Kansas Utah,
Idaho ard Illinois. why
should the chief magistrate stlgmatize
them was ignorant? They represent
their constituents"
call the roll of thirty years." con
tnued Senator Sherman. Labor
only by the idleness of
Democratic administrations; manu-
facturers were active; our foreign
commerce rose with every year,
neither was it dependent ON war sup
plies for its volume; continuance or
trade balances Restraints Of trade
ana mOnopOHes were curbed. The
first great antitrust act was drawn
by Republican. 1t is the sane level
from which the heights and depths of
legislation have since been
After enumerating measures enacted
during the greatest chapters of
American history, written in the years
Of Republican ascendancy," the SEN
ator compared them with recent leg
islation criticising the present tariff
law, the federal reserve act, the trade
act, the antitrust bill and
the Mexican policy
"The civil strife in that unhappy
land he declared, lis directly charge
able to the lacillating, nerveless, pur-
pOseless course Of President Wilson's
administration. He undertook to de-
eide on the moral title Of various mill
tary dictators struggling for suprem-
lcy. What choice is there between
villa and Huertl? If Jesse James
we're alive he could be substituted as
A great moral improvement on both"
If the Republican party were re-
turned to power, Senator Sherman
lit will restore the pro-
.ective tariff; confidence will follow
and the army of the unemployed will
1isperse. Business will again move
in its accustomed channels and enter
prises no longer halt by the wayside