The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-04-03
.B0LSTERING UP
TARIFF CAUSE
Secretary Roots Talk Before the
Home Market Club.
RATES MUST NOT BE CHANGED
LODGE DEFENDS CRUELTIEs IN
THE PHILIPPINES.

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Boston. April 2.-EHhu Root. secre-
tary of war, and United States Senator
Henry Cabot Lodge Of Massachusetts
We're the guests of honor and the prin-
cipal speakers tonight at the annual
dinner of the Home Market club at the
Hotel Somerset. The occasion was of
signal interest because me speeches of
Secretary Root and Senator Lodge
We're regarded particularly as the
words of the administration at Wash
ington on the anticipated issues o the
next national canvass. Secretary Root
spoke on the tariff. He said in part:
There is no fetish in the tariff
schedules and NO sacreduess in par
ticular rates of duty. If through
original error or changes of condition
the provisions of the law work III to
the country then at the proper time
and i'm the proper way a sensible peO-
pie viii change the law. If a law is
working well as a whole, common
sense requires that we should endure
some faults, even though they be seri-
Gus, rather than destroy the general
good effect by constant tinkering.
Against Tariff Revision.
"A revision Of the tariff is a great
and difficult task, not TO be undertake
en- except for grave and serious rea-
son. The DEGREES of an absolute mon
archy can make and change the Jariff
laws without discussion or delay, but
l4,O0O,Uu0 voters represented by n con-
greSsmen and ninety senators cannot.
The effect Of this unnecessary discus
sion furnishes the chief reason why
revision should not be undertaken un-
iii 10 becomes "a real necessity.
"A second consideration is that you
cannot get rid of trusts by revising
the tariff unless you are ready to re-
duce the duties i'm the classes of manu-
factuTe i'm which the sO-called trusts
are engaged-that is TO say. in all the
principal kinds Of manufactured
such an extent as to put an end 10 all
American manufacture.
A third thing to be remembered is
that out of no possible revision is any
body likely TO get the kind of tariff
law they want.
In determining when and how re-
vision shall be undertaken. two cardi-
nal rules should be observed.
First, il should be done only when
congress is as free as possible from
the distractions and temptations of an |
active political campaign.
The second rule TO be followed is
expressed by the Oft-repeated saying !
that the tariff should be revised by its |
friends. Whatever principle the peO- |
pie OF a country wish to have embod- |
led In a tariff law the men who be- /
leve in the principle should frame the |!
law. If the American people are ready !
TO abandon the principle .Of protection I
Cd T he fol Of
our present prosperity. which would /.
result then they should /.
hand the revision over TO the Demo I
cratic party, and that is the meaning !
of the men who are crying Revise the /
tariff i'm order 10 destroy the trusts [
Senator Lodges Speech.
Senator Lodge spoke of Canadian /
reciprocity, whose value. he said, had /
been much over estimated, and then /
turned 10 the Philippines. He said:
"A fortnight since certain Democrats /
of this neighbOrhOOd held a cOntinu- /
Gus performance one day at Faneuil /
hall in regard TO the Philippine islands.
Ii is needless, because il is futile. 10 I
put the facts before the persons who /
cultivate this particular topic for pO- .
litiCal purposes. The facts go before /
them and the next day they tell the /
same old falsehOOds, just as if there /
were no such things as facts i'm the I
world. The charge is that I have sup
pressed evidence and baked inquiry
into affairs I'm the Philippines. Ny an
swer is a brief history of what has
been done by the Republican party in
the senate and by the war department.
I've Republicans deeply deplore the
fact that any cruelties were ever COM
Trrff LFr 4 afTfaa4s ms ]
American soldier upon any one in the
Philippines. We believe that any Of
fCer or man guilty of such conduct
should be tried by cOurtuartial. and we
believe that that has been done. But
we also believe that some COnSideTa-
ton should be given 10 the circum-
stances under which these cruelties Oc-
cured. We remember the prOvOcatiOns .
We depiore and ceusure the cruelues
they may have committed but we do
not forget. as the other side fOrgets,
he Cruelties that our men endured.
"They get together and cry out |
against the cruelties inflicted upon the
but they have no word for
Private O'Hearn. roasted all day over Z
2 slow fire and hacked to death with
DOlos: no word of Reproduction for the
Of the wounded American
sailor buried alive IN the sands Of Lu-
zOn: no thought of men who assassi-
mated little NOa, the midshipman
when he asked for water. Why, when
hey are telling Of events in the Phil
ppines, did they pass by i'm silence
he surprise and massacre at Baling-
nga?
"The Republican party has passed
10 both sessions of this congress wise.
legislation for the benefit
IF the Philippines. They viii pass
more I'm the years 20 come. but there
s one thing that the Republican party
win not do: they viii not further seek
% hound down officers and men of the
army of the United States for events
which happened two years ago, and
which have been tried by the courts
md before the country"