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VOLUME 11, NUMtiER' 1
WASHINGTON NEWS
(Continued from Pago 12.)
"havo annoyed and burdened tho
farinore to add to tho profit of ex
acting trusts and combinations."
Concerning hoona, band and ties
of iron and steel, barbed wlro for
fencing, etc., tho report says, tho
high duties make tho people depen
dent upon tho "giant steel industry"
which for years has sold products
abroad lower than to domestic con
sumers, 'and declares that placing'
them on tho free list "will bo a long
delayed measure of justlco and
equity." Tho placing on the free
list of all forms of leathor from cattlo
hides and skins, togothor with boots,
shoes, harness, saddlery, etc., tho
committee argues, will bo of advan
tage in manufacturing and neces
sarily of benefit to agricultural pro
ducers, as well as to tho people.
Tho "beef trust" is assailed in
discussion of tho free listing of fresh
moats and moat product. "The ex
isting duties on meats and moat pro
ducts," it is assorted, "are for the ad
vantage of this combination only"
a combination that "controls tho
markets both in buying and selling,
and tho result is a substantial addi
tion to tho high cost of living from
which tho people suffer."
1 Removal of duties on these pro
ducts, it is argued, will place tho
farmers, in a free market as to food
stuffs and food products. For tho
reason that tho public desire "that
no artificial shelter shall be main
tained to protect abnormally high
prices on food articles in any form,"
tho bill also seeks exemption,, from
duty on wheat, flour, semolina, rye
flour, buckwheat flour, cornmeal and
all prepared cereal foods, biscuits,
broad and similar articles not sweet
ened. In discussing freo lumber placed
in tho bill, hardwood excepted, tho
roport maintains that tho ownorship
of lumber in this country has become
practically a monopoly and has
passed for tho most part into tho
hands of groat corporations and in
terests which aro peculating on tho
increasing scarcity.
President Taft is again referred
to, the report quoting from his
speech of February 2G, 1911, in
which he said:
"By giving our own people access
to Canadian forests we shall reduce
tho consumption of our own, which,
in tho hands of a comparatively few
owners now havo a value that re
quires tho enlargement of our avail
able timber resources."
Sewing machines, tho report avers,
aro sold abroad by United States
manufacturers cheaper than at home
and should not bo protected. Tho
manufacturers would havo by the pro
posed bill the additional ' advantage
of freo lumber.
Salt, also included in the free list,
the report urges, should be free from
artificial enhancement in price, tho
domestic supply being dependent
upon a limited number of natural
depositions, controlled by concen
trated interests.
TOM L. JOHNSON
New York Globe, republican:
"Tom L. Johnson, busy, ebullient
Tom Johnson, is the kind of man
who in life gets abuse and afterward
a monument. To a large part of ,his
fellow citizens, particularly those
who take prido in being of the better
class, he was a" blatant demagog.
They attributed his activity to a
mania for self advantage. They said
that he was ambitious and wanted to
hold high political office. They re
fused to believe he was controlled by
other motives than those of vanity
and selfishness. One may imagine
that tho conservatives of Rome
talked tho same way of the Gracchi
in the days when Cornelia's sons
were stirring things up.
"Ho will bo chiefly remembered for
tho work he did during the four
terms that he was mayor of Clove
land. When he came in, Cleveland
had a municipal .government not dis
similar to the bad American average.
Somehow, it got better under his
direction.
"It is fact that in many respects
the city government of Cleveland is
held up as a model to the rest of the
country and pointed to as a pattern
of what other communities can
achieve. One can imagine, although
the matter is a mystery to many, how
it is that Tom Johnson was a happier
man in the years he devoted to dissi
pating than to amassing his fortune."
Pittsburg Dispatch, independent:
"However men may have differed re
garding the views and career of Tom
L. Johnson, and he' was of the ag
gressive type who make, either en
thusiastic friends or bitter antago
nists, all must agree that he was a
remarkable figure in the political and
business world.
-"During his service as mayor of
the Ohio metropolis, although bit
terly assailed by corporate and poli
tical enemies, his triumphant elec
tion for four terms sufficiently indi
cated the faith that the people had
in his administration and good faith.
That he was defeated for a fifth term,
after he had practically won the fight
in principle, must be set down as one
of the vagaries of public opinion."
New York Evening Post, demo
cratic: "He was, of course, a party
man and a politician, and 'played the
gamo' with the best of them, but
in certain matters of high civic im
portance he would not allow the
government to be thought as merely
a dispenser of jobs or a system of
outdoor relief for needy political de
pendants. If the city's water supply
needed to bo overhauled and regu
larised, he put a competent scientist
at the work. So, too, in matters
affecting the police and parks, and
public playgrounds and the lake
front and the much needed union
railway station, Mayor Johnson took
his .stand on large principles more
often than upon small politics. For
all these reasons he deserves to be
thought of as one of the earliest and
most successful to enter upon the
great work of renovating the public
life of American cities."
New York World, independent:
"Because of his hostility to the ac
cepted theories of large property in
terests,' Tom Johnson was execrated
by his opponents as a public menace.
The ridicule and misrepresentation
to which he was subjected were a
.form of tribute to his courage and
force of character. If he had been
nothing more than an agitator and
demagog, as many of his enemies
charged, he would not have suc
ceeded in long fooling the .public.
"Tom Johnson was not a hypo
crite. A self-made, practical ' man,
he was wholly honest in the ideas
that he advocated. The political and
financial elements' he had to fight
were very powerful, sometimes cor
rupt and altogether selfish. He en
joyed power, did not hesitate to use
violent methods and was apt to be
in a hurry. The courts blocked his
plans and public sentiment was
fickle, but his record is onef of con-
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