The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-04-01
DON'T TOUCH TARIFF"
So Declares Roosevelt in Speech at
apols-Cuban Treaty
Given a Roast.

President Roosevelt was enthuastl-
cally welcomed in the Twin Cities
st. Paul and Minneapolis. From the
time he arrived at ST. Paul in the
morning until his departure from Min
neapolis near midnight for the west,
the president was the recipient of a
continual ovation. the streets through
which he passed in both cities being a
mass of people, while armory hall was
crowded.
The speech at the armory on the
tariff and reciprocity was ell receiT-
ed The president touched on the CT
ban situation, declaring that we mus.
have military control OF southern wa
ters and saying that the United
States was the most prosperous ma
ton known to history. Every pause
in the delivery of the address was re-
plete with approving cheers. He spoke
in part as follows:
"At the special session of the sen
ate, helG N March. the Cuban recip-
rocity treaty was ratified When this
treaty goes into effect, it will confer
substantial economic benefits alike
upon the Cuba, because of the widen
ing of her market in the United
States, and upon the United States
because Of the equal widening
and the progressive control it will
give to our people in the Cuban mar
ket
THE treaty was not merely WarTah-
ted but demanded, apart from all 9th
er considerations, by the enlightened
consideration of our foreign policy.
More and more in the future We must
occupy a preponderant position in the
waters and along the coasts in the re-
gion south of us; not a position OF
control over the republics Of the south,
but of control Of the military situa-
ton so as to avoid any possible CON
plications in the IuJure.
The republic of Cuba has assumed a
special relation to our international
political system, under which she
gives us Outposts of defense, and we
are morally pound to extend to her in
a degree the benefit of our own eco,
nOmic system.
Equally important was the action
on the tariff upon products Of the Phil
ippines. We gave them a reduction OF
% per cent, and would have given
them a reduction Of Is per cent more
70 n
the hurried closing days of the last
session. of certain gentlemen, who, BY
the way, have been representing
themselves both as peculiarly solicit
GUS for the interests of the Philippine
people and as special champions o.
the lowering of tariff duties.
1--WE are now in a condition of pros
perity unparalleled not merely in our
own history, but in the history of any
other nation
THE present phenomenal prosper,
ity has been won under tariff which
was made in accordance with certain
fixed and definite principles, the most
important of which is an avOWed dc
termination to protect the interests OF
the American producers, business
man, waga-worke., and farmer alike.
The general tariff policy, to which,
without regard to changes in detail. |!
believe this country is irreVOcably
committed, is fundamentally based
upon ample recognition of the differ
ence between the cost Of production
that is, the cost of l2bOr-here and
abroad. and Of the need to see to it
that our laws shall in no event afford
advantage in cur own market to fo:-
eign industries over American capital,
to foreign labor over our own labor