Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-04-03
Entertains Sec. Of War Root
and Senator Lodge.
Their Speeches Regarded as Utter
ances Of the Administration.
Tariff, Canadian Reciprocity and SoIs
diers in Philippines.

Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts,
were the guests of honor. and principal
speakers, tonight, at the annual dinner
of the Home Market Club, the repre-
sentative Republican organ of New
England. The occasion was of signal
interest not only because at it, as at all
meetings of the Home Market Club,
was expounded the principles and poll
cies of the Republican party but be-
cause, tonight, the speeches of Secreta-
ry Root and Senator Lodge were re-
garded particularly as the words of the
administration at Washington on the
anticipated issues of next national can
vass.
Mr.. Root spoke upon the tariff and
Mr.. Lodge upon the question of Cana
dian reciprocity and of the charges
made against the American soldiers in
the Philippines. Gov. John l.. Bates
also spoke, although briefly, in the way
of greeting to the guests. All three
speakers were accorded magnificent re-
ceptions. ..-
l. The dinner was held in the beautiful
banquet hall of Hotel Somerset. About
seven representative Republicans were
present, for the most part merchants
and manufacturers.
President Charles N. Hutchins of the
club. acted as POSTMASTER. At his
right sat Gov. Bates and at his left
Senator Lodge. Next to Gov. Bates
was Secretary Root. Others at the
guest table We're Speaker James J. My
ers of the Massachusetts House of
Representatives, Congressman VIM. c.
Lowering, George A. Gordon, Lieut..
Gov. Curtis Guild, Jr., Eben S. Draper,
former Gov. Rollins of New Hampshire.
After prayer by Rev. DR.. Gordon,
POSTMASTER Hutchins introduced Gov.
Bates as the executive who had shown
| himself loyal to the people of Massa-
chusetts. as one who was opposed to
special legislation and true to the prin-
ciples of good government. Gov. Bates
| was received with loud applause, in
| Guiding an enthusiastic three cheers
and a tiger"
After presenting a few statistics to
show the wealth and commercial de-
partment of Massachusetts and the
| whole country, Gov. Bates said it was
a pleasure to greet a club which stood
for principles tending for the welfare of
the country and a club which carried
on those principles with great energy.
AS warm as was the greeting extend
ed to Gov. Bates, that accorded to Sec
rotary Root was, if possible, even more
fervid.
When Mr.. Root arose he addressed
himself to the POSTMASTER, to the
members of the club, and then in a
happy way to the ladies in the balcony,
whom he hailed as the "object of the
Home Market
Mr.. Root said:
Il remember hearing Mr.. Tillman say
| that you put hundred men in a room
and make any proposition whatever to
them, some one of the hundred will
dispute it.
Reducing this, saying to it's lowest
degree of one in a hundred. we must
look for at least 100000 among the peo-
pie of the United States in whose eyes
everything that is is wrong, and what
ever is being done ought not to be done
or ought to be done otherwise.
This useful but trying class of our
fellow citizens has recently turned its
attention to the existing protective
system of the United States. If we had
been a free trade country they would
nave Dtell pIOleCliOlllStS. IL lHGfIl are
joined the members of the Democratic
party who desire a change of admins
tration, and the two demand what they
call a revision of the protective tariff,
but which they really mean to be a de-
struction of the protective tariff.
81 am going to assume first that the
people of protection should be main
tanned. Next l assume it to be true
that the people of the United States
are now enjoying a period of extraor-
binary and unexampled prosperity
and I assume that we don't want that
prosperity to end. The question is now
whether under some other law we
might or might not have become pros
porous. 1t is that the prosperity that
we have now is the prosperity Of pro-
ductive enterprise which has adjusted
itself to the conditions that this Ding
ley law has created and the stability of
those conditions in substance is essen
tial to the continuance of the present
period of prosperity.
IF through original error or change
of condition the provisions of a law
work ill with the country, then at the
proper time sensible people will
change the law. If the law is working
well as a whole, common sense re-
quires that we should endure some
faults rather than destroy the general
good effect by constant tinkering with
the law. 1t is impossible that reduc-
ton Of duties could wipe out trusts ex-
cept as it wipes out American manu-
facture. You would merely have sub
stituted the foreign trusts for domestic
trusts and the prosperity of foreign
workmen for the prosperity of the,
American workmen.
1.-The question is, whether they are
really existing evils to be cured as
great as the evils to be endured from
the long and difficult process of revis-
ion. In determining when and how the
process of revision shall be undertake
en-. two cardinal rules should be OBJ
served. First. it should be done only
when Congress is as free as possible
from the distraction and temptations
of an active political campaign.
The second rule to be followed is ex-
pressed by the oft-repeated saying that
the tariff should be revised by it's
friends
Senator Lodge. who was given a. fine
reception, was introduced as a man