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...loud then the catcalls across the trenches. Brigadier Bingham protested that, sadly ignorant of tariff warfare and needing counsel, he had followed a natural course. Great-bodied Lieutenant-General Watson, nominal chief of all the Republican forces, cried faintly that his subordinate had done quite right. Tall, thin, generalissimo Smoot tried to tell how he had warned his ignorant comrade to send the man Eyanson away, which was done. But these cries were drowned by the angry outbursts of Insurgent Brigadiers Norris and La Follette...
...Gallery. An eager correspondent snatched at it. The bird soared from his grasp leaving in his hand a single large tail feather. Settling on the architrave above a doorway, the ominous pigeon cooed and looked down the whole day long upon the high, industrial tariff army of Generalissimo Reed Smoot (Utah) and the low, consumer tariff army of Field Marshal Furnifold McLendel Simmons (North Carolina...
Upon one side Generalissimo Smoot led the myrmidons of high-tariff-for-the-manufacturer. Then came stout Republicans one and all. Lieutenant-General James Eli Watson (supposed leader of the Republican army) and Major-General David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania, spokesman of Secretary Mellon, labored incessantly to bring their forces stout-hearted to the fray, casting side glances at stragglers (those Republicans who every now and then hinted some doubt as to the sacredness of their cause). Across the aisle, Field Marshal Furnifold McLendel Simmons of North Carolina urged on the troops of low-tariff-for-the-consumers. Behind...
...shrill of his words had hardly died away when the faint voice of Generalissimo Smoot was heard. Asked he: Had not Candidate Herbert Hoover promised the American people limited tariff revision? He believed that this tariff bill was what the President had promised. The Democratic party was a low-tariff party with its past written all over the pages of tariff history. The Republican party alone ever gave the farmers any protection. No greater calamity could happen to the U. S. than to listen to the low-tariff advocates. So Generalissimo Smoot...
Prophet. If Elijah prophesied today, would it be News? The 14th Edition contains the words of a modern prophet. Senator Reed Smoot of Utah. Writing on the Mormons, of which he is one, he says: "Here [in Jackson County, Mo.] a holy city is yet to be built by the Church, a new Jerusalem, into which will be gathered those of all nations...