Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-12-02
DECLARES THERE'uL BE HONEST
REVISION OF THE TARIFF
WITHOUT QUESTION.
AS TO THE SPEAKERSHIP-WELL,
THAT'S A LONG WAY IN
THE FUTURE.
SHOULD BE BEYOND POWER OF
ANY MAN TO DICTATE TO
CONGRESS.

Washington, NOV. 25.-Declarlng
that there will be an honest revision
of the tariff and that there is no
present need OF .f2estiEg 4-3-aat she
selection of a speaker for the house
in the sixty-frst congress, Speaker
Cannon arrived here from his home in
Illinois for the approaching session
of congress. In a statement issued
yesterday afternoon Mr.. Cannon said.
The election of a speaker for the
sixty-first congress is yet a considera-
BILE distance in the future. When
that congress is about to assemble
which | presume will be some time in
Mareh-the republican members of the
house will hold a caucus, as has been
the custom from the foundation OF
the party, and select a candidate for
speaker, to be supported by the party
at the, organization of the house.
presume that representative will be
perfectly competent to select their
speaker, and l do not see any pres
ent need for fretting about the mat
ter
of course there will be an honest
revision of the tariff. We made the
campaign on that issue, and every re-
publican member was elected with
that in view Every one of those re-
publicans. without exception, will,
believe, strive to the best of his in
telIigence and ability to attain the
tariff results desired by the people
who elected him. All will not have
the same views and each one cannot
have his own way altogether. There
n st be mutual concession and com
prom Sc, out OF which will come the
result which on the whole, is most
acce ptable or least Objectionable TO
all. That is according to civilized
and enlightened government. 1t is the
bar barian who expects to have every
thing his own way without regard to
his neighbor. Whoever is elected
speaker of the next house must SO
perform his functions as to assist the
house in arriving at the results
I'hlch will best represent the views
of the responsible party in the house,
striving to carry out the will of the
people who elected him. In over 80
years experience in the house, some
times under one party control some
times under the other, I have never
seen a responsible political party go
wilfully against what l thought to be
the sentiment of the people. Mis-
takes have sometimes been made, as
IN the case of the Wilson bill enact
ed by a democratic congress but 1
believe the representative in the
house earnestly tried to do what
they thought the people wanted. They
were misied by the hasty judgment
passed on the Mckinley law or 1890,
and which would not in my opinion
have happened. if the republicans had
had more time to explain that bin on
the stump.
Republicans made no mistake
when they enacted the Dingley law
as the long life--as lives of tariff
laws go-of that law shows. / be-
lieve they will make no mistakes in
the bill which they will enact next
summer with the concurrence of the
senate and president
There is one thing of which you
may be sure. Those representatives
will do their best to achieve what the
people want for they must go before
the people in 1910 and account for
their acts. A senator accounts f..
himself Cnce in six years. the presi-
dent once in four years, but the rep
resentatiye accounts once in two
years. The speaker of the house
has a double accounting. to his CON
stituents in his own district and TO
nis associates in the house who elect
him. No representative, and especial
~ no speaker. will fail to do every
thing within his power to carry out
the well-considered. constitutiona1y
expressed will of the majority OF the
people.
This is why I believe we shall get
the sort of tariff revision the people
voted for. do not pretend to
prophesy or dictate It is and should
Re beyond any mans power to dictate
20 the house of representatives. l
merely speak from a long experience
and the teachings of what believe to
be reason and common sense.