The Elk Mountain pilot., 1922-10-05
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- om' watson 6ohe
Tom Watson is dead. Perhaps,
not many will regret his passing.
For his peevish temper. his vitriolic
speech. and his eccentricities in politi-
! cal action made many dislike and dis
| trust him. Yet he was not without
generous sympathies, and, certainly,
he was man of no mean ability. He
served no master And there was
considerable measure of chivalry in
his heart. AS far as he could be con-
sistent in any course, he was con-
sistent champion of weakness. Auto
cratic himself. he hated an autocrat
and all autocratic action. He appar-
emily liked to create sensations. In
| the game he played he was not indif-
ferent to the grand-stand. Politically.
he belonged to the school of Jefferson.
and wrote an admiring Life" of that
great democrat. In 1896 the Populists
in 1908 for President Clamor and
controversy followed him all the days
of his life. But now he is in his
grave.
after lifes fitful fever he sleeps
WELL"
Tempus Fuoit
Many, many poets have sung of the
brevity of life, but 1 do not know
that any one else has touched SO firm
ly the golden note that Ernest Dow
son struck in the lines we print be-
low. To illustrate the variety of
treatment, which poets have given
this theme, we might consider Her
rick, who, in his Gather ye rosebuds
while ye may" hurries us along, as
life itself hurries us along; or Bryant
who glooms US with his funereal
''T h a n to p s s." or Shakespeare,
whose "Out, out, brief candle" fits
only in the mouth of a remorseful.
disillusioned, soul-wearied man. A
dozen others might be cited, each Of
them as in the above cases affording
an interesting effect, but none of
them surprising Dowson in appropri-
ate handling of the theme.
Dowson's lines are marked by re-
straint, and are invested with a sober
ed pathos akin to the mellowed grief
of DEATH The theology of course is
pagan-a fit reflection of the unhappy
hapless fortune of poor Dowson him
self.
They are not long. the weeping and
the laughter.
Love and desire and hate.
think they have no portion in us
after
We pass the gate.
They are not long. the days of wine
and roses.
Out of misty dream
Our path emerges for a while. then
closes
Within a dream
The New Tariff According To Sound
Republican Opinion
1.-THE Outlook is a true-blue Repub
lican journal, yet in its issue Of Sep
tember 20 in an editorial on Pussy
Footing" Che title reminiscent of its
famous contributing editor. Theodore
Roosevelt) 1t says:
1.-THE Senate has adopted a Tariff
Act which is acknowledged to be the
worst hodgepodge that the history Of
American industrialism has yet pro
duced; but Republican Senators, in
stead of voting against 1t. have quiet
Ily shelved it in conference, hoping
that it will die an unnoticed death
and thus relieve them of antagonizine
the manufacturing vote.
THAT is pussy-footing."
ais the Farmer 'coId-Bricked' Again
on the Tariff"
Under the above caption O. NJ. Kile
formerly of the American Farm Bu
reau Federation, writes in "The Out
look" of September 81 in this wise:
: Every time the farmer touches the
tariff he gets burned.
, If the present Tariff Bill goes
through lit is now law) it will i'm
, pose a charge on the American people
of between five and six billion dollars
in excess of the actual amount neces
sary to offset the difference in wages
here and abroad says Gray Silver
head of the organized farmers legis-
lative activities at Washington.
"The farmer seems to have been
out-traded. He has come to the point
where he needs some tariff protection
against few products, such as wool
from Australia, frozen eggs from
China, lemons from Italy, and hides
from South America. Except for
these products and few others