Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-16
SPEAKER CANNON
OPENS CAMPAIGN
Delivers Address at the COnven-
ton Which Today Renomi-
mated Him For Congress
TARIFF AND LABOR UNIONS
Take. Position That Tariff Cannot
be Successfully revised in Times
OF Prosperity-Repiies to the Crit
ici.m Of Gompers-Attitude of La
bor-other News.

bor-Othef News.
Danville, Ill.,, Aug. 16.-Hon. Joseph
g. Cannon was given splendid well
come here today upon the occasion Of
his appearance before the eighteenth
republican congressional district con-
vention. Cannon delivered the follow
Ing address:
The speaker began by calling the at
tention of the audience to the period
s Of remarkable prosperity which the
people are enjoying and continued:
This remarkable prosperity under
the Dingley law has not been for one
class, but for all the people. 1t has
touched the artisan, the farmer, the
manufacturer, and the common labor
of the country. All have felt it's ben
eficent influence, and l measure my
words when I say, that the produce
tion from all kinds Of business enter
prise has doubled since the memoir
able year of 1896, when the country
in its distress turned to William Nc
Kinley, the champion of protection, as
the advance agent of prosperity. The
capital employed in our industries
has doubled; the total wages paid for
labor have more than doubled in these
ten years; the farmers have lifted
their mortgages and are enjoying the
embarrassments of surplus in the
savings bank; and laborers have ceas-
ed to hunt for jobs, and have become
the hunted by she jobs; in spite of
large immigration from other lands,
there is more work than workers in
this country today. Capital is cheaper
than ever before, and money can be
had at less interest than anywhere else
In the world.
1.-The sun of prosperity is shining
on every part of our immense stretch
OF territory from the Atlantic to the
Pacific and from the Great Lakes to
the Gulf and the Rio Grande. We are
/ at peace with all the world, and our
influence for peace, whether it be be-
tween two great powers in the orient,
or among the small republic on the
American continent, is felt thruout the
world.
Revenue Legislation.
"All legisla ton, and especially rev.
Nnue legisla tion, is the result of COM
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order to command, as, of course, is
necessary, a majority vote in both
house and senate. Ut is, therefore, inn
possible to secure perfection In each
schedule of a tariff bill; but / have no
hesitate in saying that the present
revenue law, known as the Dingley
law, all things considered, is the most
perfect and just customs revenue law
1yCfraSQ
and industrial conditions prevailing
thruout the country at the time OF its
enactment helped ito make 1t so, pc
cause it brought all the people togebh-
er. In times Of prosperity when 1t is
attempted to enact tariff legislation,
the selfishness of the people is appeal
ed to, but when there is industrial
depression, different interests are
more inclined to get together for the
general good. The Dingley hill was
substantially the first legislation un-
der the administratio of William
Mckinley. 1t was enacted at a time
when the revenues of the govern
ment were short; when all our peo-
plS on farm, in mine, and In FACTORY,
were unable to realize reasonable
profits upon their respective products,
and when consumption was at min
imutn for the want Of steady en-
ployment by our people at fair wages.
In it's opera tons that law has spreao
more .evenly and justly over all pro-
= 1,1cfion in the United States than
any tariff law previously enacted. Un-
der its workings there came nope,
confidence employment, profitable
nrodncthon. and universal prosperity
which has grown and increased from
wear to year up to the present time
Under it the people worked out their
own salvation.
TT did not, and does not, please
the democratic party That party de-
nounces the policy of protection as
robbery and declares for tariff for
revenue only. This has been the po-
sition Of the dem ocratic party for
rrany wears; it is it's position today,
and the position of all it's leaders in
Guiding William j. Bryan and John
Sharp Williams, the leader OF the
minority in the house of representa-
ttyes. who time and again during
the late session Of congress procfalm-
ed the policy of his party to be, II
clothed with power, not to destroy
protection absolutely at one fell
swoop-over night. as he expressed 1t
but to Journey towards tariff for
revenue only. He would not XIII the
patient outright, but would gradually
starve it to death.
"Such policy means less wages Tor
labor. both skilled and unskilled, IN
every avenue of production; and. with
decrease of wages and slack employ
ment. the great mass of the people
would become less valuable customers
to all other producers. Such poilcy
would act and react upon all our peo-
pie who are customers for each other,
and we would have the. nightmare"
of 1893 and 1897 repeated.
Tariff revision in time of prosperity
always has, and always will, halt BUS
iness activity, production and COM
merce. The manufacturer will lessen
his output, for he fears to pile up his
vroduct undess there is a reasonable