Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-04-09
TOUR WAS CON-
TINUAL OVATION
President Speaks on Trusts at
Minneapolis.
TARIFF REDUCTION NO TRUST CURE.
His Argument Was Along the Same Line OF
Secretary Roots Speech in New Eng
land lie Says to Cut Down Duties
is to Cripple Industries.

is TO cripple INDUSTRIES
Minneapolis, Mimi, April 1.-The
most enthusiastic reception ever rendered
in the Twin Cities was that to President
Roosevelt today. From the time he ar
rived tonight until his departure from
Minneapolis at IL o'clock for the west, be
was the recipient of a continual ovation,
the streets through which he passed In
both cities being a solid mass of people,
and Armory Hall, at the University OF
Minnesota, being crowded to its limited
capacity.
The speech, which was on tariff and re-
ciprocity, brought out much enthusiasm,
the President treating extensively OF the
Cuban situation, declaring that we must
have military and naval control of southern
waters, and saying that the United States
is the most prosperous nation ever known.
1t was considered great speech, and the
crowd pushed forward to shake his hand
which was denied them.
Thousands Of persons lined the route OF
the electric cars that brought the dstin-
gushed guest and party from St. Paul,
perhaps 200 600 persons altogether having
seem him in the two cities.
Before going to the armory, the Presi-
dent was prevailed upon to address the
students of the university in the chapel
The hall was crowded to its limit, and MIR.
Roosevelt spoke to the students briefly
after the tenor of bis two speeches to col.
lege students in Chicago. he was then
driven to the armory, where he was intro
duced by President Northrup, Of the
Minnesota University.
PRESIDENTS SPEECH.
My Fellow. Citizens:
At the special session of the Senate held
in March the Cuban reciprocity treaty was
ratified. When this treaty goes into effect
it will confer substantial economic benefits
alike upon Cuba, because of the widening
of her market in the United States, and
upon the United States, because of the
equal widening and the progressive con-
troll it will give to our people in the Cuban
market. Ibis treaty is beneficial to both
parties and justifes itself.
From every standpoint of wise and en-
lightened home and foreign policy the
ratification of the Cuban treaty marked
step of substantial progress in the growth
of our nation toward greatness at home
and abroad.
PHILIPPINE TARIFF.
Equally import ant was the action on
the tariff upon products of the Philippines
We gave them reduction of twenty-five
per cent, and would have given them
reduction of twenty-five per cent more
had it not been for the opposition.
We are now in a condition Of prosperity
unparalleled, not merely in our own his
tory, but in the history of any other
nation. This prosperity is deep rooted
and stands on firm basis because it is
due to the fact that the average American
has in him the stuff out of which victors
are made in the great industrial contests
of the present day. Just as in the great
military contests Of the past and because
he is now able to use and develop his
qualities to best advantage under our es-
tablished economic system.
PROTECTIVE POLICY
The present phenomenal prosperity has
been won under tariff which was made
in accordance with certain fixed and de-
finite principles, the most important OF
which is an ayOwed determination to pro
tect the interests ofthe American producer,
business man, wage-worker. and farmer
alike. The general tariff policy, to which,
without regard to changes in detail, be-
lieve this country is irrevocably commit
ted, is fundamentally based upon ample
recognition of the difference between the
cost of production-that is the cost ol
labor-here and abroad, and Of the need
to see to it that our laws shall in no event
afford advantage in our own market tC
foreign industries over American indus
tries, to foreign capital over American 'capi
tal to foreign labor over our own labor.
1t ls, of course, a mere truism to say
that We want to use everything in ou
power to foster the welfare of our entire
body polite. In other words, we need t
treat the tariff as business proposition
from the standpoint of the interests of th'
country as a whole, and not with reference
to the temporary needs Of any politica
party. 1t is almost as necessary that ou
policy should be stable as that it should b
wise.
The business world, that is, the entir
American world, can not afford, if it ha
any regard Tor its own welfare even t,
consider the adyisabiity of abondoniul
the present system.
CHANGING CONDITIONS
Yet. on the other hand, where the IN
dustrial conditions so frequently change
as with us must of necessity be the case
it is matter of prime Importance that W
should be able from time to time to adop
our economic policy to the changed cor
ditions. Our aim should be to preserv
tue policy of protective tariff, in whic
the nation as a whole has acquisced, an
vet wherever and whenever necessary
change the duties in particular paragraph
or schedules as matters of legislative detai
if such change is demanded by the inter
ests of the nation as a whole.
If a tariff law has on the whole worke
well, and if business has prospered unde
it and is prosoering, 1t may be better
o.,d,,ro Gonna incon vanipncpG and inP0uali