The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-10-23

men: My friend has taken the liberty
to ask me several questions. 1 have
answered them. / will do it again.
Perhaps it will be out of place if
might, upon this last night. ask him
one question, and perhaps he will do
me the kindness to answer it now. He
| has stated to me. that if the people of
flor speaker of the house he will not
Support him. In order that | may not
make comment unjusty, ! would like
to ask him this question: If Mr.. can
republican party caucus of the house,
land you are a member of the house,
lcus?
| Mr.. McCleary: In order to prevent
the house being organized by the demo-
cratic party, which is the greatest Gala
nifty that i think could happen to- the
| United States, and it is necessary that
Mr.. Cannon should have my vote, OF
course Mr.. Cannon would have my
vote"
| Mr.. Hammond-I have listened with
great interest and care to the answer:
III do not quite understand whether, If
Mr.. Cannon is nominated by the re-
publican caucus, my friend VIII sup
port him. or bolt the caucus, and L take
| it that he desires to make no further
answer.
Mr.. Hammond took the ground, as
he did in previous debates, that the
questions put to him by Mr.. McCleary
We're for the purpose of drawing party
lines and stirring up party prejudices;
| which must become more pronounced
during a political campaign. 1t was
noticeable that Mr.. Hammond was
somewhat nettled by the introduction
| of the questions for the fifth time, ana
again the democratic label was plas-
tered on his breast.
Mr. Hammond answered the queS-
lions as follows
Answers the Questions.
| Men sometimes cannot forget that they
are candidates for office and they cannot
forget that even though the discussion
of some of these questions demands all
a mans energies and all OF his thought
shall answer the questions again, as
answered them before two or three
be considered answered and that my
opponent will feel well repaid for bring
ing into this discussion matters SO
purely personal Do YOU endorse ana
approve the principles and policies or
the democratic party as enunciated in
it's national platform of 1908? My an
swer to this the last time was
as follows and it ro is , my so ame
care the principal declarations OF that
platform. I at one time heard them
all read, but have not made, a
minute study of all of the details, but
fusion and no mistake about it, L an
swer the question, yes
Second: If there are any of those
principles that you do not endorse. will
you kindly indicate them? 1 know of
none of them that l do not endorse
Three: In your campaign speeches
are you announcing and advocating the
democratic doctrines as enunciated in
it's platforms? i do not cover all or
the questions that are contained in the
platforms. There are questions to
vocate, and in the advocacy of those
things, 1 acknowledge the democratic
platform.
Four In your speeches are you ad-
vocating the election of William Jen-
nings Bryan as president of the United
States? In my campaign speeches L
am doing as | have always done, ad-
dressing myself to measures rather than
to men / am devoting myself mostly
to the candidacy of myself for con-
gress. 1 have no hired men and no
other speakers engaged and am try
ing to do the work myself. In speaking
of Mr.. Bryan. when 1 do speak of him,
speak Of him in the highest terms
that he merits and deserves and in or
der that there may be no misunder...
standing, I@'answer the question yes
Would Vote for Republican.
Five: If you are elected to con-
gress will you uvote for the nominees
of the republican caucus for speaker
and other house officers, provided that
Mr.. Cannon is not nominated for speak
er? If the democratic party nomi-
mates a man who will attempt to, carry
out the policy Of Joe Cannon I shall
oppose him and vote for good re-
democratic, party Should nominate a
good man. for speaker and any other
man but Joe Cannon should be on the
other side, who is no better than the
man first named. 1 should not support
the caucus nominee of the republican
party. 1Eur.. 4t a.
1t is now something over one, hun
bred years since this great country Of
con tp6
that united it with the mother country.
At the close of that great war these
thirteen colonies were rich in mem
cries and rich in men; men such as
Washington. the great American citizen
Franklin, Jefferson and Hamilton, but
rich as they were in these memories,
they were poor and poverty stricken
this country and the goods that our
people used came from across the seas
and were put in American markets for
ent upon those people who lived in
other lands and who sent their goods
here. We, all of US. in this country,
come from northern Europe. Remotely
or directly we are all of one great fam
lily. Our ancestors knew that the free
man was the best man, and the noblest
man and in every one OF us by heritage
there is the spark. of freedoms holy
country we ought to have freedom in
our own market, a place where man
could go and buy the goods that were Of
fered to them for sale, and consider
the prices that were offered and test
the quality and the price and then use
the judgment that a bountiful provi-
dence has given, just what might best
answer his needs.
Origin of the Protective Tariff
Well, it was thought best that we
soon build up in this country great
manufactures and it was proposed by
Hamilton and others of his class that
the government should take some steps
towards encouraging the building up
Of these manufactures. One of the
very earliest laws was one providing
for the imposition of tariff duties upon
goods coming in from other countries
in order to protect the manufacturers
here from the competition from abroad
because in it's last analysis the protec-
tive tariff is an attempt to drive away
certain competition or~-to render compe
tition less dangerous. 1t was proposed
then, early in the history of this coun-
try that we impose tariff duties upon
goods coming from other parts, and
now, even though 1t may be rather ele-
mentary, let us consider just what the
effect of the protective tariff tax is
and what it was designed to be. Let
US suppose that an American manufac-
turer is making wooden goods and it
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