The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-17
HENDERSON TO RETIRE.
Speaker of the National House Declines
Congressional Nomination.

satisfaction of the tariff planks of the last
two national platforms. Continuing. he
says:
For three years have advocated giving
control of trusts TO Congress. In my judg-
ment, proper supervision can never be had
until Congress has power to treat them.
l am glad to see from speeches made by
our fearless and upright chief executive
that he Is advocating federal control over
these corporations, and while in some
quarters they may sneer at 1t, have not
seems at all likely to bring relief. No
proposition has ever been made by the
Democracy excepting to put everything on
the free list and to give the country free
trade. In other words, they propose to
kill the child in order to cure it. They pro-
pose to slaughter every interest in the
United States, whether capital or labor,
in wild and blind effort to provide
remedy for trusts. In my opinion if COM
binations could be regulated and controlled,
We would have very little demand for
strongly the Republican party feels upon
the subject, in its state platform this year,
IL declares in favor of any modification of
the tariff that may be required to prevent
affording shelter TO monopoly.
NOT FREE TRADE.
"Our Democratic friends treat this as
moving into free trade grounds. 1t is moth
ing of the sort. 1t is a bold declaration
that II notifications of the tariff are re-
itself under the wings of protection, then
tariff shall be modified to prevent that
condition. For my part, if any great in
terest in this country is prospering through
protective policies or any other legisla-
tion and is using its advantages, growth
and prosperity to plunder the American
people l. for one am ready to strike 1T
by whatever legal means we may be able
to adopt, provided that in so doing We do
not hurt innocent interests. i am not pre-
pared to say L would be willing to strike
down and destroy American combinations
and let foreign combinations come in and
do the work, but / would like to control
our own corporations so that there could be
fair play among the American people.
II have been more amused than hurt at
the suggestions that l have been against
any changes in the tariff. While I have
been against a general revision, recogniz-
ing the wisdom of President Roosevelt in
his first message to Congress, in which
he advised against 1t, L have never been
opposed to making needed changes, and
L am not now must say and emphatically
that do not believe that a single schedule
of the Dingley tariff law can be so amended
as to relieve the people from the oppression
of trusts or combinations of capital how
ever named, and that such action may
involve the retarding of our expanding
commerce and getting and holding of
foreign markets. Indeed, 1 believe such
plan to be fraught with grave dangers to
the people.
BELIEVES IN RECIPROCITY.
"I am a firm believer In reciprocity.
worked with untiring zeal to secure recip-
rocal arrangements between Cuba and this
country and 1 was successful in passing
it through the House. The Senate did not
act on the bill because consideration of it
would have permitted the opening up of
the whole question of tariff revision. The
House has nothing to say about the rati-
fication of treaties, but the reciprocal rela-
tions upon which Ii legislated In respect
to Cuba were not in the nature of treaties,
but they were reciprocal agreements in
which / think our country would have the
best of the bargain, although, doubtless
they would have been of great advantage
to Cuba.
for favorable action upon bills sent to the
Senate, | still hope and believe that by a
treaty the same result may be accom-
plished and 1 have no doubt that Presi-
dent Roosevelt is now working on the
question of a treaty with Cuba to give that
struggling young republic needed help, a
help, too. in which. while they will be
gamers, we will not be losers.
And now, let me say, and let there
be no misunderstanding as to my position:
believe in protection that will protect
the hand of labor, the wheels of industry,
every farmer and miner, and / am against
wicked corporations that would trample
on the right of the people to fair play
and to the fruits of honest efforts. / am
against unnecessary legislation that would
throw my country into panic and bring
back the horrors bequeathed to us by the
last Democratic administration
I'm conclusion / desire to say that after
a careful study of conditions and political
views in Iowa and in my own district,
am satisfied that I am not in harmony
with great many of the Republican vot-
ers, who believe that free trade, in whole
or in part, will remedy the trust evil I
believe that it will not, but that such a
remedy is likely to involve the Nation in
dangerous results, and so believing / feel
that I should not accept the nomination
for Congress, which was so generously ten
dered me, and 1 have decided accordingly
] cannot part from a people that / have
loved, and that have honored me, without
leaving an expression of my earnest and
sincere views on this and other vital pub
lie questions"