The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-10-30
NO REVISION RIGHT
AWAY, SAYS SHAW
Advance Step Not Likely to Be
Taken by G. o. P. Until 1908
Plea for McCleary.

], .Winnebago, Mimi, Oct. 3O.--In his
speech here last night Leslie M. Shaw,
reason for not discussing the tariff agi-
tation his confidence in the republicans
in congress and in President Roosevelt.
He said that when the tariff needed
revision and when the country would
prosper thru revision the republican
party would be sure to look after the
peoples interests. -
e., Strange Feature of Campaign.
zone of the strange features of this
campaign" said he, sis the attempt
among republicans to retire to private
life nearly every one Of the admittedly
big men Of congress. General Grosve-
nor has been retired; Littlefeld has
just won out in the fight of his life;
Uncle Joe Cannon, speaker of the house;
Jim Sherman, chairman of the republi-
can congressional committees. John Dal-
zell, Lacey and Hepburn of Iowa; Bou-
telle of Illinois and McCleary Of Min
nesota are in the midst of severe and
some of them bitter contests.
! cit would be national calamity if
any one Of these men should be de-
feated, for it would take years to de-
velop their equal, however good in nat
ural ability their successors might be.
Finds Still Another.
Zone other strange feature is that
these leaders have publicly professed to
be great admirers of President Roose-
welt. It is past understanding how
man can be an admirer of Roosevelt
and wish his administration we'll, and
at the same time seek to retire the
very men On whom he has relied and
must rely to carry out his legislative
policies.
"To be congressman and represent
lative councils of the nation is a great
calling. It should not be termed
profession and it must not be consid-
cred trade. The fathers builded wise
| ly, and, some have suggested, more
wisely than they knew. They planned
a representative government and not a
democracy.
Harmful to Business.
lowered is Quite Sufficient Mt to disturb isl
business conditions, tho no legislation
is actually passed. During Mi. Cleve-
lands first administration he recon-
mended lower tariff, and the Mills
bill, in harmony with his recommended
ton, passed the house. The senate was
republican and refused to pass it. Pend
ing these negotiations, however, the
price Of live stock sold in Chicago fell
off $36,OO0,OOO, or an everage of over
SIS head on horses, steers, COWS, calves,
pigs and sheep.
"If it be urged that this argument
\ carried to the extreme will prevent
any revision of the tariff at any time, I
answer that it leads no more to such a
conclusion than does the argument that
the tariff should be revised whenever
conditions change lead to the conclu-
sion that the tariff should be revised
each year.
Revision Some Day.
-"No tariff was ever perfect and con-
dltions never remain the same for
eighteen months. If congress were to
attempt to correct every inequality or
to change the tariff to meet every
changed condition, it would do little
else than to revise and re-revise sched-
ules.
GAS a matter Of fact, business ad-
justs itself to- tariff laws much more
readily than can congress adjust tariff
laws to business. The tariff will DO
revised in due time. Its date no one
has a right to say.
" All anyone can say is that the
party in power, and certain to remain
in power, presents well-nigh a solid
front and is in harmony with the presi-
dent that the tariff shall not be re-
vised during the present administration.
McCleary Not Out of Step.
"In this, as in everything else, your
congressman is in absolute harmony
with his party and with the president.
This is sufficient for the present. The
! last platform declared that rates Of
duty should be readjusted only when
conditions have so changed that the
public interest demands their altera-
tion.
"Neither the executive branch nor
the legislative branch Of the govern
ment has yet reached the conclusion
that the time has arrived when it
I should be revised.
Makes a Guess.
eff I were compelled to make a
guess I should say that the next ma
tional convention will promise revision
of the tariff Immediately following the
inauguration; No political party, has
ever attempted to revise the tariff
downward and carried the next election.
comes, the farmers are likely to feel it
as much as any, for the demand for
cheaper food products far exceeds the
demand for cheaper manufactured prod
ucts. The people who want cheaper
wheat from Canada. and the cheaper
meat from Mexico and South America,
cast more votes than those who desire
cheaper steel rails; SO, when that day
comes let the good people Of Mime
sofa look out. ITS. ...
every tariff law presents an aggre'
cation Of compromises. No man gets
everything he wants. Every man has to
yield some. e..
The Party's Attitude. :
&1"I have been asked many times why
I do not refer to tariff revision. It is
not for me to say when the tariff shall
. be revised. It is for the party in, power
to say. ...-. - rs .~-.- ~ g: 80. E,
r"The party in power expressed itself
. in its, last national convention by g
declaration that rates Of duty shoulo
be adjusted only when conditions have
{ So changed that the public interests
demand their alteration. This declara
, ton was virtual reference as to thu
!. time when revision should be under
} taken, to the legislative branch Of thu
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