Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-12-02
SPEAKER CANNON'S
SIDE OF The STORY
Says There VIII be an Honest
Tariff Revision Made
Speaker Must Assist in Doing What the
Late Election Has Shown the Peo-
pie Want Done.

OF the ldIln anu ludt nOAC - III t1Co-
ent need Of ''fretting' about the selec
ton Of the Speaker of the house in the
Sixty first conrgess, Speaker Cannon ar
rived here from his home in Illinois late
today for the approaching session OF
congress. In statement issued this
afternoon Mr.. Cannon said: The
election of a speaker for the Sixty
first congress is yet a considerable
distance In the future. When that
congress is about to assemble. which
[ presume will be some time in
March, the republican members of the
house will hold 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 the representatives are per-
fectly competent to select their
speaker and I do not see any present
need for fretting about the matter.
WILL REVISE THE TARIFF.
''Of course there will be an honest
revision of the tariff. We made the
campaign on that issue and every
republican member was elected with
that in view. Every one of those re-
publicans without exception, will, [
believe, strive to the best of his in
telligence 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
must be mutual concession and COM
promise, out of which will come a
result which to the people is the
most acceptable or least Objectionable.
ANTICIPATES \ COMPROMISE.
THAT is according to civilized and
enlightened government. 1t is
barbarian who expects to have every
thing his own way without regard to
his neighbor Whoever is elected
speaker of the next house must SO per-
form his functions as to assist the
house in arriving at results which
will best present the view Of the
responsible party in the house, striv-
ing to carry out the will of the people
who elected him.
in over thirty years experience in
the house, sometimes under one party
ntrol and sometimes under the
other, have never seen the re-
sponsible political party go wilfully
against what they thought to be the
sentiment of the people.
THE DEMOCRATIC MISTAKE.
mistakes have sometimes been
made as in the case of the Wilson bill
which was enacted by a democratic
congress, but l believe the representa-
tives in the house earnestly tried 10
do what they thought the people
wanted. They were misled by the
hasty Judgment passed on the Nc
KinIey law in 1890 and which would
not in my opinion have happened had
the republican had had more time to
explain that bill on the stump.
"The republicans made no mistake
when they enacted the Dingley law.
1t has had long life-as the lives of
tariff laws 90, and believe they will
make no mistakes in the bill which
they will enact next summer, with
the concurrence of the senate and the
president.
MUST DO AS PEOPLE BID.
''There is one thing which you
may be sure. These representatives
will do their best to perform what
the people want, for they must go
before the people in 1910 and &C
count for their acts. A senator ac-
counts for himself once in six years
and the president once in four years
but the representatives account every
two years. The speaker of the house
has the double accounting, to his con-
stituents in his own district and to
his associates in the house who elect
him. No representative and especial
Iy no speaker, will fail to do every
thing within his power to carry out
the weII-considered. constitutionally
expressed will of the majority of the
people.
This is why l believe we shall get
the sort of tariff revision the people
voted for. l do not pretend to
prophecy or dictate. 1t is beyond the
power Of any man to dictate to the
house of representatives.. [ merely
speak from long experience and teach
ings of what believe to be reason and
common sense.