The Washington herald., 1907-01-17

Speaker Cannon late yesterday after
noon. in a speech 10 delegates attending
the convention here for the extension Of
American foreign commerce. 0utIined his
attitude on a maximum and minimum
tariff The delegates. 90 or more IN mum
Der, were received in the House lobby.
and were presented by ". NJ McCarron.
president Of the New York Board 0f
Trade and Transportation Stipulating
that he spoke merely as a Representative
from Illinois, and not as Speaker. Mr..
Cannon In part said:
We should follow the cardinal priuci-
pie which viii develop our resources and.
so far as practicable. monopolize the home
market first, and secondly seek a foreign
market for our surplus
a maximum and minimum tariff. I be-
lieve. is practicable. bur the man who ar
ranges the schedules. OF the committee
which arranges the schedules. has great
Investigations 20 make. II you do It hori-
zontaily upon the principal schedules that
we have. there IS not a manufacture
within the sound Of my voice but who
would swear that We were raising the
prices Of his raw material or affecting his
products
Speaking FOR myself. as a member OF
/ the House, and II ] understand the CON
census Of Republican opinion I'm the
country. when ] speak about maximum
and minimum tariff. I speak about a
minimum tariff that should run 10 all
nations. and TO all peoples. so adjusted IS
| TO offer ample protection to every Ameri-
can industry and 70 Every man that lives
( in this republic. tApplaUse)
Big stick Tariff.
when we obtain that. then I would
make maximum tariff-10 per cent, II
you want it. or - per cent higher-and
what for? I would make # so that II
anybody Disseminated against Uncle
Sans children the Executive would be
clothed with the power Of aseertainiug
that fact. and not 10 discriminate by way
of set off In other words, that would
I be the big stick daughter and ap-
! plause)
Such a tariff. as ] understand II. Ger
many has. and France has. and possibly
other countries ] viii tell you what
country does not have IT, and that is
Great Britain She takes 0ne-haIf Of our
total exports. Now how could YOU have
.
that would Jet in French or German tex
tiles or manufactured products more
cheaply than We would let in British
products, because you must rec0llect
that she has in competing products no
I tariff at ali
1t could be very readily managed If.
with time and Investigation. you could
make a minimum tariff that would be
Of sufficient protection and then have
maximum tariff with which We could
punish somebody that was treating us
badly
There are many people who are fer a
minimum and maximum tariff 7 have
some in my minds eye now There are
some Of them in my St8te-very clever
people. and ! do not speak djsrespecuuIly
Of them. When you talk about o mini
mum tariff that affords ample protection
TO American industries. and that you
would make q maximum higher. those of
them who are not Christians would say
damn and those of them who are would
shake their heads. Laughter and ap-
plause) SO. you see. there is great deal
TO think about regarding this maximum
and minimum tariff.
Subsidy Good Thing.
Continuing the speaker took Up the
subject of subsidy. and after describing
the situation. said il had been well known
that his position had long been that
money should not be taken from the
United States Treasury without proper re-
turn therefor He said he had investi-
gated the subject Of upbuiding the Amer
lean merchant marine, and that those
members who had had 10 deal with the
subject had come TO the conclusion that If
the bill which was acted upon by the COM
mittee yesterday were TO become a law,
that it would benefit the merchant marine.
He assured the delegation that It would
have his support. and concluded by thank
ing them for the interest which they had
manifested in legislative matters and for
the honor tIfey has done him in calling
upon him and presenting their views.