Life — September 19, 1912 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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1810 Woodrow Wilson HE soothsay will be V war are hushed, the ballots are counted, and a pale, panicky people are emerging from their cyclone cellars in the ides of November. Woodrow is a scholar, schoolmaster and spouter; not a scolder, shouter and soldier; he comes with the benediction of aise of the Progressives; he and the p ing that Woodrow the wise Ison the winner, when the winds of Pp “LIFE cudo- ted the wrath of Roosevelt and the woe atterson; he has rejected the rocks of and turned away the temptations of Tam- many; he would reform the tariff, the trusts, the currency and the New science the gipsy moth, the bubonic flea, and W. Hearst; and those who know him best a he believes in universal college educa- tion, free rural delivery of garden truck, high prices for sellers and low prices for buyers, steam-heated coun- try roads, and the appointment of T. R. as superintendent of the Gulf Stream, with permanent board and lodging on the job. Woodrow is as persuasive a progressive; he is reasonable and re- sourceful enough to reassure the re- formers and reconcile the reaction- aries; and he can m the popular heart without chilling the spine of trade and commerce. He is the prod- uct of many generations of plain Irish Presbyterianism, with a Scotch flavor or two thrown in to cool the blood and restrain. the impulses. While this strain is somewhat warmer than an ice floc and, perhaps, more impetuous in winter weather, it has seldom produced political pyromaniacs he is than molasse: or reverherating evolutionists; and while its respect for vested rights, its reverence for law and order, and its regard for constitutional traditions might not, perhaps, meet with the ap- proval of T. R. or the approbation of the TI. W. W., they will not unduly alarm the man with a bank account or 2 dinner pail, Woodrow has a cold, blue eye, a tough spine, a polite de meanor and a nice discriminating mix- ture of eloquence and reticence. It would be prudent on the part of Fresident Taft to take up the slack of his waist-band and keep an eye on Woodrow Wilson Joseph Smith, gland con- he would abolish the hookworm, SHADE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN ! Latest Returns from the Tariff Commission Wasutncton, September 17. HE Tariff Commission met to-day Everybody was present. The session lasted nearly half an hour. Much was done. A long letter from President Taft was read approving of everything He advised the Commission to g slow, however, as any information about the tariff which reached the public only made matters worse. The words ad valorem were dis- cussed and the suggestion that, perhaps, some other words more vague and meaningless might be substituted in their pl After considerable discus- sion it was voted that inasmuch as ad valorem had been in use now so long, and nobody understood how it affected the revenue, it was. after all, the best expression that could be obtained. Reports from Europe were received id placed in the safe. A letter from several manufacturers was read, thanking the commission for its efforts in keeping any information about the tariff from the unthinking pe ee |