The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-05-04
FIRST SHOT FROM kRM0RY
An Old But interesting Story; School
masters Amendment Given
frosy Reception.
FREE PRESS BUREAU.
WASHINGTON. ID. c. April 20.

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the New Willard last night
There are lot of people in my dis
trict who are talking about revision OF
the present shedules of the Dingley tar
ifl," he continued, 'iust as there were
plenty of people who talked free sill
yer decade ago. As an old farmer
wrote a friend of mine the other day,
If there is to be no talk of revision
there must be no tariff at all, for as
long as there is tariff some people will
want it reduced"
Il took the stand early in the free
silver fight and let my constituents
know it. And just so | shall this time
tell them of my position and my ex-
plicit reasons when the campaign comes
on
The above interview appeared in The
Washington Post of last Sunday and is
authentic for Mr.. McCleary is quite free
in talking to The Post.
1t is the first statement he has made
since it has been known that he is to
have opposition for the nomination and
may, of course, be taken as the first
shot from the congressman's armOry of
standpat ammunition.
Mr.. McCleary comes forward with the
~, nf nd will ha
no tariff revision. Presumably he meant
at the present session of congress, al
though he does not say so, and so far
as he is concerned he wants no revision
anyway unless it be of the kind pro-
posed in two bills he introduced last De-
cember when the standpat element in
the house of Representatives were in
much better fettle than they are at this
writing.
Old But Interesting Story.
Those two bills introduced by Mr.. Me-
Cleary proposed to raise the Dingley
schedules twenty-five per cent and were
aimed at Germany which at that time
was making arrangements to put new
tariff act into effect whereby American
products would have to pay more duty
from and after March lst than had been
exacted prior to that date.
This proposition of Mr.. McCleary to
raise the tariff against foreign importa-
tions twenty-five per cent is, perhaps,
becoming an old story.
Yet, the voters of the second congress
sional district who are thinking serious
ly on this question:; who know and feel
that the time has come when the repub-
lican party must assume the duty of
lowering the rates of duty on several
schedules of the Dingley bill; who from
the past pledges and promises of the re-
publican party have faith and believe in
the declaration of the republican plat
forms and in the positive statements of
President Roosevelt that with our wage
workers and their compensation properly
provided for and the present scale of
wages maintained that several schedules
should be changed; these intelligent and
patriotic voters of the second district
will bring it home to Mr.. McCleary and
hammer their arguments with fact and
figure to show that his position is wrong,
in introducing bills to raise the tariff;
in declaring that the tariff is not to
be revised; in proposing that if it is re-
vised it should be revised upward.
BY What Right, Horatio?
What great prerogative does Mr.. Nc
Cleary possess. that he should stand in
the luxuriant lobby of the New Willard
Hotel in Washington, the abiding place
of millionaires. and the scene of such
splendid feasts that the oriental ele-
gance of foreign capitals is eclipsed-
by what right has he to declare that the
tariff is not to be revised
The Honorable Joseph G. Cannon,
speaker of the house of representatives,
does not go that far. He is the very
incarnation or has been so considered, of
the 'let alone" policy.
And yet our 'Uncle Joe" is free to
admit that the tariff is to be revised
and he goes on to state that it cannot
be done piece meal, as many would like
to have it, but that when once attempt
ed there must be a general revision.
OF course statesmen and citizens differ
as to that, but at all events Speaker
Cannon, shrewd and r-seeing states
man., can see the hand writing
| And it is observed that there are nc
more standpat speeches in the house
since Mr.. Cannon made his frank admis
sion.
Mr.. McCleary says: "There are lot
of people in my district who are talk
ing about revision" etc.
| Evidently he thinks it is all talk anC
nothing more. But there is to be day
of voting.
Mr.. McCleary does not fear the out