Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-17
CANNON BOOM is LAUNCHED
Residents Of "Uncle JOe's" District Name
Him for President.
SPEAKER TALKS TO HIS CONSTITUENT;
For Eighteenth Time He Accepts
Nomination to Congress and
Tells why He Favors Re
publican Policies.

NNAN tSNcS opOn TIE occasion OF MS appear
ance before the Eighteenth republican con
sressional district convention. Mr.. Cannon
after the applause had quieted enough for
him to speak began his address, which was
as follows:
MI: Chairman and Gentlemen of the
conventions; L thank you for this express
sion OF of~confdence and | CONGRATULATE YOU
Un m tne prosperous condition OF the country
under republican administration The re-
publican party has followed the teachings
~, t Sne parable OF the wise servant. who re-
~ NE hs1 10 20 ms master the talent entrusted
W ms care multiplied tenfolu. clothed with
responsibility Tor the administration of the
government OF S0,OO0,00O people, we have
those who entrusted the talent to our care
we nave succeeded in making two blades
iieah sdS,,9Sis, SL0w iuxuriantly under reppb-
peIore under the democratic administra-
Under the administration of the Dingley
tarln law there has been a greater devei-
opment in all forms of Industry than has
ever peen reached under any other revenue
ihe schedules of that law are not sacred,
out the principle there embodied is funda-
revenue law under Washington down TO
tne present time the periods of prosperity
nave ne oeen under protection and the periods
OF adversity have been under the policy
or free trade or tariff for revenue only.
This remarkable prosperity under the
Dingley law has not been tor one class,
put Tor all the people. 1t has touched the
MaItlsan, Al the farmer. the manufacturer and
tne common laborer of the country. All
nave telt Its beneficent influenza and 1
measure my words when 1 say that the
production OF all kinds of business enter
prise prise has isos doubled since that memorable
year or 1885, when the country, in its dis,
tress, turned to William Mckinley, 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
nave lifted their a an
loying the embarrassments of a surplus
In the savings banks, and laborers have
the hunted by the Jobs; in spite OF large
immigration from other lands there Is
today. Capital is cheaper than ever be-
fore and money can be had at less inter-
est than anywhere else In the world.
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
II be between two great powers in the
world
and only certificate for continued employ
servant of the people, stands today in this
The census shows that in the hye
years from 1900 to 1905 the increase in the
The nSer IN 1850 and 70 s ota
wages paid 30 per cent greater; In other
words words; the increase in the total wages
increase in employment. TO my mind
there could be no more complete answer
to the complaint that wages have not ad-
But the most significant figures in the
new census are those which show where
the greatest increase in industrial plants,
| capital employment. wages and output
took place. 1t was in the central, western
| and southern states, which few years
ago were designated simply as agricultural
sections of the country. OF the $500 ,0O0, ,0O0
Of new capital put into industrial plants
| II was in the central, western and south
ern states. New England increased its in
die Atlantic % states @ s sSsS5SSoo and me i the
southern states $685. 10000. the central
states N.ll4,OOoOOO and the far western
crease were: New England, "a per cent;
middle Atlantic states, 10 per cent; SOUTH
western, 70 per cent While the increase
| in the old manufacturing centers of the
east was normal and healthy, the increase
was in the nature of great boom in the
Industrial development The comparative
much greater in the west and south than
| in the old manufacturing centers of the
east. The increase in wage earners in New
than 10 per cent and the total OF wages
| paid 1874 per cent. In the middle Atlantic
'ss een toss per
Southern states: Wage earners, p per
cent; total wages, 4s4 per cent. Central
wages, 80 per cent. Western states: Wage
earners, 2s per cent wages, % per cent.
Our farm trade has been along the same
double track lines our imports increasing
from $3.50. 900, 900 in 1896 to 81, ,227 100000 in
1905 and our our exports P from ~ sSSS ,occ.GOc IN
ume OF our foreign trade in 1896 amounted
to 8, ,ss2, 10000 and in 1905 to s2,s70.OcO 900,
Add to that our trade with Porto Rico,
amounted to s75.0O0,0Oo and we have in the
last year grand total OF SO45, 100000 as
people OF the United States and the rest OF
the world. This is greater than the for
eign commerce of any other nation, Great
Britain alone excepted, and that because
that nation fnsports It's food products, its
imports being almost double its exports.
while our exports exceed our imports by
Under the policy of protection the United
states produces one-third OF the manufao-
ilized world. Our labor receives double
the compensation that labor receives in
pensation paid TO labor on the continent OF
Europe. Ninety-three per cent OF this
i product is consumed by our own people,
goes abrodd makes us the greatest export
ing nation on the earth. In the rapid de-
veIopment of the country we not only live
/ better than any other people. but from
the savings of production We have become
the weaithiest nation on earth: -
come In less than decade of republican
administration, and the Dingley tariff law
has demonstrated that II Is revenue pro-
ducer both for the people and the govern
ment we occasionally hear the old wall
that the tariff Is the mother of trusts
u and the shelter of monopoly. The tariff
revisionists are. however, answering their
The DingIey bill was substantially the
hrst legislation under the administration
! OF William Mckinley. 1t was enacted at
time when the revenues of the govern
ment were short; when sll our people, on
farm, In mine. and In factory, were unable
TO realize reasonable profits upon their
respective products. and when consumption
was at a minimum for the want of steady
employment by our people at fair wages
In its operations that law has spread
more evenly and Justly over all production
In the United States than any tariff law
previously enacted Under its workings
there came hope. confidence, employment
profitable production and universal pros
from year 20 year up to the present time.
Under II the people worked out their own
IL did not and does not please the demo
cratic party. That party denounced the
policy of protection robbery and de
clares for a tariff for revenue only. This
has been the position OF the democratic
party for many years; II Is its position
today and the position OF all its leaders
including William j. Bryan and John SharI
williams the leader Of the minority II
the house OF representatives., who time
and again during the late ession Of
10 be, II clothed with power, not 10 de
| zfroN nrofGctfOn abSDlfefalV AT one fei