Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-17
CAN REVISE TARIFF
Republicans Pledged to No
Schedule.
TO REGULATE TRUSTS
RECIPROCITY WITH CUBA BY
TREATY.
Decision as to Party Policy Reached
at the Conference at Oyster :
Bay.
ecial from Staff Correspondent.

| Special from staff Correspondent.
| NEW YORK, September 17.-From noon
yesterday until 10 o'clock last night the
President of the United States and a group
of big men of the party in the Senate sat
| ill conference at the Presidents country
home discussing questions of party policy
which are to be touched upon by the execu-
| tive in his forthcoming swing around the
circle.
| The first thing developed was that the
position Of the President toward the trusts
has the hearty support of his party, at
| least outside of New York city, and the
policy previously declared by him will be
| continued and emphasized during the cam
paign.'
Special attention of the people is to be
called to the fact that the government has
| already instituted proceedings against the
beef trust and the railroad combine. The
people will be asked to bear in mind the
fact that the decision OF the court IL these
cases will demonstrate whether constitu-
tional amendment is necessary; whether
Congress can legslate further, or whether
the present laws are sufficient to give the
people relief from the expressions of the
trusts. The President will stand his
record in this regard. and will not be led
away into any theory of regulating the
trusts by hostile action through the tariff.
Cuban Reciprocity to Be Reafiirmed.
The principle Of Cuban reciprocity is to
be reaffirmed and urged during the Presi-
dents western trip. He will outline his be-
lief that this be accomplished and the
Cuban matter especially settled during the
coming short session of Congress by the
negotiation and ratification of a reciprocity
treaty with Cuba.
In regard to the tariff, the President and
campaign speakers generally Will plant
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the republican national platform of 1896,
which declares strongly for the principle OF
protection to American workmen, but
which at the same time declares that the
republican party is not committed by any
schedule. and that the question of rases is
a detail to be settled from time to time, by
Cong ess.
On this basis the President and campaign,
speakers will declare in favor of revision
of the tariff only in cases where most Of
tie production has be en- lowered by chlnged
conditions SO that protection is no longer
necessary. 1t was agreed that there will
be adherence to the theory that the
tariff can be should be reduced merely
because certain articles were produced by
the trusts or any monopoly. The effort will
be made at all times to keep the tariff and
the trusts separate questions, to be dealt
with on their merits. The plea will be
made and insisted upon that any reviS on
or readjustment of the tariff should be
made by the friends of protection and not
by free traders, and the country will be
perity by turning the tariff over to its enc
mics
Wide Range to Conversation.
The conversation took wide range, but
the three principal topics were the trusts,
the tariff and reciprocity with Cuba. Dur
ing the talk the fact was sufficiently DEM
onstrated that the Presidents position on
the trust question had the entire support
of the members of the conference, who rep
resent not only different sections of the
country, but widely diversified commercial
and agricultural interests The President
was urged by his callers to lay more stress
on the work already done under his per-
sonal direction to investigate and regulate
certain specific combinations of capital 1t
was said that the democrats were calling
attention to the fact that the President
had declared himself in opposition to the
trust, but had never offered to the coun.
try any adequate remedy. He was advised
to tell people that he has shown his good
faith by personally directing the prcsecu-
tion of two of the most widely known and
most strongly intrenched corporations III
the country.
1t was decided that the President would
declare that the republican party still
firmly adhered to the general principle or
protection for protection of American labor
as the foundation of development and pros
perity. The keynote to be struck during
the Presidents trip will be that the re-
publican party is already pledged 10 revise
necessary.
The st. Louis Declaration.
Attention will be called to that section
of the republican national platform adopted
at ST. Louis in 1896, when Major Mckinley
was nominated which says: 1--WE are not
pledged to any particular schedules The
question of rates is practical question to
be governed by the conditions of the tine
and of production. The ruling and urcom-
promising principle is the protection ana
development of American labor and In
dustry."
The President will insist that When the
tariff needs revision it shall be revised by
it's friends. Regarding immediate revision,
the sentiment of the conference was that
any such action would be wholly out OF
place and impossible at the coming session
of Congress, which lasts for only three
months, and which has an abundance OF
work before it of a pressing nature, in
cuding the annual appropriation bl'. which
will take up almost all OF the entfre time.
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