The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-10-20
MADE MASTERLY SPEECH
ON ISSUES OF CAMPAIGN
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thousands of articles on the dutiable
list to that difference.
The work of tariff rivision is
already begun. Under resolution
passed last May the finance COM
mittee of the senate and the ways
and means committee of the house
have been at work securing the
necessary data for an intelligent and
honest division; but the democrats
ignore this fact, or else that have
not yet heard of it.
The speaker claimed some credit
for this first step in revision because
of int1 oducing a tariff, commission
bill in the last and present congress,
and the resolution under which the
work is now going on is a result of
the general demand in some quarters
for a tariff commission to do this
work.
Our candidate for president, Mr..
Taft, is in hearty sympathy with
this movement and was the only
aspirant for the republican nomina-
ton who had declared himself for
revision before the national conven-
ton met.
The speaker stated that the hi
pocracisy of the democratic criticism
of the house of representatives and
it's rules will be appreciated when
we recall that they themselves
adopted and enforced these same
rules when they were in power.
Mr.. Stevenson stated that he had
long favored the modification of the
rules so as to take away from the
speaker the power to appoint com
mittee on rules and increasing this
committee from five to twenty-one,
so that the different sections of the
country could be represented.
The hostility to the speaker had
originated since his last election,
during the last session and is due to
his opposition to measures favored
by President Roosevelt.
The record of the republican
party is not confined to the re-estab-
fishing of prosperity and financial
integrity and is characterized by
number OF reform measures includ-
ing control of interstate commerce
and the fundamentally thereof.
These measures notibly the rate
bill, the amendments to the anti
trust law and anti-rebate law, meat
inspection and pure food laws-are
so we'll known that an extended dis
cussion of them would be unneces-
sary. These measures of reform and
the vigorous enforcement of the law
constitute the distinct Rooseveltian
policies, which have made him the
most popular man that ever sat in
the White House.
To the charge of extravaganza we
reply that none can be shown, and
that the increased appropriation is
due to the growth of the country and
the continued demand for increased
service on the part of the federal
government.
The speaker spoke of the postal
service and its great increase along
the line of usefulness. 1t took
S4O,0OO,000 year in order that the
daily mail may be delivered to every
home upon the farm. This was a
good investment. No democrat
would dare to propose a discontinue
ance of this service.
So it is with interstate commerce
commission, the department of
agriculture and it's work, the interior
department and other departments
of the government where it requires
big appropriations to extend the
service; and yet under our admirable
customs and revenue laws the funds
for this great work have been
sufficient.
Mr.. Bryan,in his speech of accept
ance, quotes Mr.. Taft as follows:
The strength of the republican
cause in this campaign is the fact
that we represent the policies
essential to the reform of known
abuses to the continuance of liberty
and true prosperity and that we are
determined, as our platform declares,
to maintain them and carry them