Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-12-14
OPPOSES REVISION.
SPEAKER HENDERsoN's POSITION
CLEARLY DEFINED.
The Time Has Not Yet Come When We
Should Abandon Even Modify the
Policy That Ha Wrought Such Splsn-
did Results in This Country.

The address by Speaker Henderson
at the Republican rally at Manchester,
Iowa, removes all doubt as to the posi-
ton that gentleman will take on the
proposition to revise the tariff at the
coming session of Congress. Eastern
papers have been counting on Mr. Hen
derson to take advanced grounds on
this subject, even intimating that he
would be found ready to make radical
changes to the end that American ex-
porters might have a more open field
for the exploitation of their products.
In short, Mr.. Henderson was one of
the men who were expected to advo-
cate free trade"
In terms that cannot be misunder-
stood the leader of the lower house an
nounced that he did not interpret the
Buffalo speech of President Mckinley
to mean that the policy of protection
was to be abandoned or even modified.
He does not believe that one industry,
or one business enterprise, should be
called upon to make sacrifices in order
that another industry or enterprise
may extend it's trade abroad. He be-
lieves that NO policy has done so much
as protection for the development of
our country, for the elevation of labor
on the farm and in the shop as this
great policy" He cannot now see why,
having called back from the brink of
ruin the commercial and industrial in
terests of the nation, having estab-
lished all on a firm footing, having
won the favor of those who hope to
develop a new South, having, in fact,
worked a miracle during a brief term
Of Ex-o = If fI0 Init aA
States should now hesitate when the
proposition is presented to them to
change their policy for one that has
never yet failed to bring ruin OF threat
of ruin in it's wake.
1t may appear strange that many
who have read the address of the late
President Mckinley, together with
President Rcosevelt's speech at Mime
apoiis, should have put into the words
of those two leaders a meaning that
| they did not contain. Both stated in
distinct terms that, while using every
effort to extend our trade abroad and
dispose of our surplus product, no in
dustry which required protection
should be abandoned. This is the I'M
derstanding Speaker Henderson has OF
| these addresses. This is the line upon
which he has pledged the Republican
Congress to work so far as his inf1u-
ence can be made effective
In discussing this matter Republic
ans should remember that in the past
those who have asked for a reduction
or a removal of the tariff have had
something to gain where others would
lose. The producer of one state is
willing that commodities of another
state in which he has no interest
should be put on the free list; or the
finished product of one industry which
is his raw material he believes to be
entitled to admission without the pay
ment of customs duties. In this way,
item by item and industry by indus
try, the whole list of dutiable goods,
which now comprise but three-f1fths
of our importations, may become sub
| ject to attack. and in the confusion
that would follow the weak would go
to the wall.
| No man can justly assert that a tar
iff schedule can be so perfectly drawn
that it will not require revision from
time to time. But the fact remains
that, whenever it shall become neces-
sary to revise the Dingley law that
revision should be made by protec-
tionists and at no time should the
principle of protection be lost sight
of. In making up his committee on
ways and means Speaker Henderson
has it in his power to see that the
Democratic minority on that commit
tee cannot, by uniting with two or
three Republicans, dictate the major
ity report. and, judging from his Man
chester speech, he will take measures
to that end.-Milwaukee Sentinel