The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-02-01
SPEAKER CANNON ON RECl-
PROCITY AND A DUAL
Tariff.


Mi, Cannon said: Mr.. Presideat,
and gentlemen, as Representative
In Congress, nave listened with
much interest to what you have said.
AS the Speaker of the House, feel
Vhat / am complimented, ano, |
might<say, the House has been ccm-
plimemed, if i be its representa-
tive, chat you have paid your re-
spects to the House, as believe
y,u intend 60 do, for nnder the
rules you could not be admitted to
the floor, and you have done the
next best thing and assume that I
am for the purpose of this gather
F;ng a representative of the House.
ION thepart of the 'House, there
fore, as we'll as on behalf of myself.
l thank you.
Touching the matters that you
have referred to, general in terms,
all would agree that if you will lie
good, you will be happy. -Laugh'
ter and applause.l You cannot get
a dissent from that statement any
where in the country; but as to the
best way be good we may find
something of dissent, first, as to
what constitutes the highest good
and the best road to take to get to
1t, While | am a member of Con-
gress and the speaker of the House,
Yeti desire to recall to you the fact
that our Government is a govern
ment through parties. ! am mem
Der of the Republican party. The
Republican party is in power, and
is responsible for the policies of the
Government, as we haYe the Presi-
dent, the House, and the Senate.
Protection and the Republican
party. The policies of the Repub
lican party toac hing the question of
Protection are IN full force. No
body has ever claimed that all the
Deily-but it has always been, from
the time the Republican party came
into power in 1861 to the present, a
cardinal doctrine of that party that
we should follow the policy that
would develop our resources, and,
so far as practicable, dominate, first
the home market, and, second, for
the surplus, establish foreign mar.
ket.
You gentlemen kpow-quite as well
as | do that statistics show that in
round numbers 95 per cent. of our
total production finds a market
without going outside of our bound
aries.
You gentlemen know as well as |
do that one third of the manufact-
ured and agricultural products of
the civilized world is produced and
substantially finds market within
the borders of the Republic.
You gentlemen know as we'll as
do that the little S per cent which
goes abroad makes us the greatest
exporting nation on earth.
He would be, from my stand
poin, bold man, aud it would be
a bold party, that would assent for
a moment to so change this pol
icv that in seeking foreign markets
we would lose more of the home
market than we would gain of the
foreign market.
If you have good thing, keep it,
and Thea reach out and get as much
other good as you can. Zap.
plause
The word "reciprocity" is a sweet
word. What it means depends up
on the man who uses it and upon the
party that uses it,
Under the leadership of James G
Blaine, when he was Secretary of
State and a great leader, and
William Mckinley, author of the
Tariff law of 1890, we had recipro-
city-a little of it-with other ma
tons. 1t was the bette noir of our
friends in the opposite party. who
did not agree with us, as you will
recollect, when il was enacted and