Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1902-08-21
TO SOUND KEYNOTE,
Secretary Shaw to Make the First
Cabinet Speech.
WILL REFLECT PRESIDENTS VIEWS.
How the Republican Party Stands on the
Question Of Tariff Revision = Strong
Ground to Be Taken Against
Retail Butchers' Demands.

s}rOun0 70 10 TAken A8elost
Retail Butchers' Demands.
Washington, Aug. 1s.-Secretary
Shaw will deliver speech to-mor-
row at Morrisville, w., his native
town, at the request Of the repub-
lican campaign committee Of that
state. The speech will be devoted o.
most exclusively to the tariff and
will take strong ground against any
general revision of rates at the COM
ing session of congress. The secre-
tary left Washington Friday morn
ing and stopped at Oyster Bay to
talk with the president about the
points Of his speech. It Is generally
understood that several members OF
the cabinet will take part in the fall
campaign, at least to the extent Of
making a few speeches on national
questions in which the attitude Of the
administration will be explained.
1t is very probable the forthcom-
ing speech Of Secretary Shaw at the
Vermont town tomorrow will be the
keynote to the utterances which cab
met ministers will put forth dur
ing the campaign, and that It will
faithfully reflect the views Of the
president on the question Of tariff
revision. Secretary Shaw will give
emphatic approval to the declaration
Of the Iowa republican platform on
the tariff. He will declare that the
republican party Is not welded to
schedules, but that II will not en-
ter upon a general revision, because
conditions may require that rates In
any one schedule In whole or In part
should be changed. He believes the
Iowa platform sets forth the views
Of the great bulk Of republicans on
tariff revision and expresses conf
dence that the republican majority
in congress will not be stampeded
into entering upon movement that
will threaten the great business in
terests simply because the democrats
have started campaign cry for re-
vision. 1--WE favor such changes In.
the tariff from time to time as may
become advisable through the prog
ress Of our industries and their
changing relations to the commerce
Of the world" is the declaration OF
the Iowa platform which Secretary
Shaw will quote and approve.
With regard to the bill which Rep
resentative Babcock introduced in
congress providing for radical
changes in the iron and steel sched-
ule, Secretary Shaw will take the
ground that there is no good reason
for its passage and that II passed 1t
would fail to accomplish the object
intended, which is the limitation Of
the power of the United States Steel
corporation to control prices. He
will direct attention to the fact that
this great corporation is threatened
with very lively competition with
in the coming year, and that upon
the completion of the steel plants
now in course of construction the
United States corporation will be
confronted with a competitor armed
with the most improved and mod
ern machinery and with capacity
to turn out as large product as the
trust. He believes the people of the
country, and especially the farmers,
have nothing to fear from the steel
trust, and attention is directed to
the fact that this corporation makes
d full statement at stated periods
of its business which is given wide
publicity, thus doing that which it
is believed by the president and 9th
ers will preclude any corporation or
combination of capital from seriously
deceiving any considerable number
Of the people.
The secretary will also take strong
ground against the demands made
by the retail butchers at their re-
cent national convention held in this
city for abolition Of duty on fresh
meat and live cattle and will recon-
mend that the free admission OF cat
tie from Mexico and South America
would not remedy the evil complained
Of, while on the other hand It would
seriously lessen the profits Of the
cattle raisers throughout the coun-
try. In this connection the secretary
| will point out that the butchers have
the same opportunity to purchase
from the farmer as the packers have,
and will declare that no representa-
tive in congress from a district in
which there are any agricultural in
terests will ever be so bold as TO
vote for a bill striking of duties from
fresh beef and live cattle.
George Gardner KnocEs 06t Jack Root
Salt Lake City, Aug. 1s.-Georgs
Gardner, Of Lowell, Mass, last night
decisively defeated Jack Root, OF Chi
cago, who defeated him several
months ago in San Francisco, by
knocking him out in the seventeenth
} round Of fight remarkable for its
speed and gameness under punish
ment shown by both men. Gardner