Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-12-08
THE PRESIDENTS POLICY.
Probable Attitude Of the Republican
Chief on the All-Important
Tariff Question.

The Washington correspondent OF
the New York Tribune gives a forecast
in conspicuous type of what he believes
to be the presidents policy on the
tariff, the trusts and other important
problems during the coming four
years. The president, he says, will
make no suggestion of tariff revision
to the present congress. His message
to the last session of the Fifty-eightn
congress will touch but lightly on the
subject of tariff revision, and what he
has to say will be much in the same
vein as HIS reference to the subject in
his message to the Fifty-seventh con-
gress. In that message he said:
There is a general acquiescence in our
present tariff system as a national policy.
The first requisite to our prosperity is the
continuity and stability of this economic
policy. Nothing could be more unwise
than to disturb the business interests of
the country by any general tariff change
at this time. Doubt, apprehension, uncer-
tainty are exactly what we must wish to
avoid in the interest of our commercial
and material well being. Our experience
in the past has shown that sweeping re-
visions of the tariff are apt TO produce
| conditions closely approaching panic in
the business world"
In regard to the Philippines the cor
respondent says the president expects
to indorse the recommendations of Sec
rotary Taft, and ask congress to reduce
the tariff on Philippine sugar and to-
bacco imports to 25 per cent. of the
| ninolau rotac and IN n1oao oil Otblr i'm
ports from the Philippines on the free
list. Beyond this the president will
not advise the present congress to at
tempt any tariff legislation.
But the correspondent states that the
president regards some readjustment
of existing schedules as essential to
the prosperity of the nation, and adds:
"He does not construe the great repub
lican majorities as meaning that the peos'
| pie want no change in the tariff schedules.
but as indicating their confidence in this
willingness and ability of the republican
party to make such readjustment as may
be deemed advisable. In this opinion hd
does not stand alone. Senator Aldrich,
whose devotion to the protective policy-has
won for him the sobriquet of High Priest
of Protection has expressed his belief
that some changes of certain schedules by
the next congress will become imperative.
Other leaders of both houses of congress
entertain the same views. Some OF the
closest representatives of the president
during the campaign just closed have sug-
gested, if not promised, a REIMBURSEMENT
of some of the Dingley schedules
In Washington, says the Utica IN.
W Observer, it is regarded as prob
able that a special session of the next
congress will be called soon after
March 4. Just what the programme
will be cannot o be determined.
The congress may simply convene, ap-
point finance and ways and means
committees, authorize them to sit dur
ing recess, and then adjourn to meet
again when the committees shall be
ready to report; or the full body may
remain in session until the work is
completed.
Influential members of congress are
already arriving in Washington, and
many of them have already had con-
situations with the president. Among
the advocates of revision who have
called at the white house is Gov. Cum
Minis of Iowa, the originator of the So
called Iowa idea" Together with
Senator Hansbrough, of South Dakota,
he has been telling the president that
what Eugene N. Foss, of Boston, said
concerning the people of New England
is also true of the people of the west
and northwest, namely, that they want
both revision and reciprocity.