Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1912 — An Emersonian. [ARTICLE]

An Emersonian.

Last year Colonel Roosevelt said of the Canadian reciprocity treaty: “I have the peculiar pleasure to say a word of congratulation to y.ou and all of us upon the likelihood that we shall soon have closer reciprocal tariff and trade relations with the gredt natipn to the north of us.” But This year the colonel jubilates over the death of the same treaty: “The reciprocity treaty is now dead. In any further attempt by reciprocity treaty or otherwise to bring about a rearrangement of the tariff, there mtist be no discrimination against; the farmer, no effort to make him pay the entire burden of reduction.” ’< So the colonel is, for it; he is also “agin" it. It is his glorious privilege to occupy both sides of the same question, whether alternately or simultaneously, as suits his convenience. ‘ “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,” says Emerson. The cob onel's mind never gives it a thought? —Milwaukee Sentinel (Rep.).