Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-25
Speaker Cannon Says Popular
Wish Will Be 0beyed.
APPREHENDS NO MISTAKE
Declares There Will BE Honest
Tariff Revision, of Course.
THERE MUST BE COMPROMISES
Believes That the People Will Get
the Sort of Tariff Changes
They Want.

LAS fine as a fiddle is the way Speaker
Cannon says he feels after his strenuous
carnpaign-and he looks the part 1t is
an old-fashioned expression. much In
vogue in the western reserve and along
the banks of the Wabash and the Sanga-
mon years ago. and expresses the upset
figures of fit condition. OF course, In us
ing It the Speaker did not intend any
play upon words. reference to possible
music in the air. or anything like that.
you know. However he looks il he
may be able to keep up with any jig-step
that may be set.
Speaker Cannon arrived from the west
at $40 o'clock last evening and opened
his home on Vermont avenue. He will
remain in Washington from now on. To-
day he visited some of the departments
on business for his constituents.
In response to urgent solicitation for
an expression on impending tariff legisla-
ton Speaker Cannon last night gave out a
statement. which. he said today. will con-
stitute his public utterances al this time
on public questions
The Speakers Statement.
The text of Speaker Cannon's statement
follows:
The election of Speaker for the Sky
first Congress is yet a considerable dis
lance in the future. When that Congress
is about to assembIe-which | presume
will be some time in Marct-the reput-
Ican members OF the House OF Rspre-
sentatiyes Will hold a caucus as has been
the custom from the foundation of the
party, and select candidate for Speaker.
to be supported by the PARTY al the or
Sanization of the House
Il presume that the representatives will
be perfectly competent to select Their
Speaker, and / do no1 see any present
need for frefting about The matter
Honest Revision. Of Course
"Of course, there will be an honest re-
vision Of the tariff. We made tie cam
paign on that issue. and every repub-
l!can member was elected with that IN
view Every one of those republicans.
without an exception. will. believe.
strive to the best of his intelligence and
ability to attain the tariff results desired
by the people who elected him.
All VIII not have the same views and
each one cannot have his own way alto
gether- There must be mutual conces-
sion and compromise, out OF which will
come the result which, on the whole, is
most acceptable or least objectionable to
all. That is according to civilized and en-
nghtened government. 1t is the barbarian
who expects to have everything 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 tire
result which will best represent the views
of the responsible party in the House,
striving to carry out the will of the people
who elected him.
Public Sentiment to Be Obeyed.
Tn,
House, sometimes under one party con-
troll. sometimes under the other, I have
| never seen the responsible political party
go willfully against what it thought to be
| the sentiments of the people
Mistakes have sometimes been made
as in the case of the Wilson bill en-
acted by the democratic Congress but I
believe that the representatives in the
House earnestly tried to do what they
miSled by the hasty judgment passed n,
the Mckinley law in 1890. and which,
would not in my opinion have happened
had the republicans had more time to
explain that bill on the STUMP
The republicans made no mistake
when they enacted the Dingley law. az
the long life-as the lives of tariff laws
go-of that law shows | believe they
VIII make no mistakes in the bill which
they viii enact next summer with the
concurrence of the Senate and tho
President.
Popular Will to Be Observed.
There is one thing of which Won
may be sure. Those representatives will
do their very best to perform what the
people want. for they must go before
the people in 1910 and account for their
acts.
A senator accounts for himself once
in six years. President once in four
years: but the representative accounts
once in two years. The Speaker of the
House has double accounting-to his
constituents in his own district and 10
his associates in the House who elect
hlm No representative, and especially
no Speaker. will fail to do everything
within his power to carry out the well
considered. constitutionally expressed
will of the majority of the people.
This is why | believe that we shall
get the sort of tariff revision the peopIe
voted for. | do not pretend to prophesv
or dictate. 1t is. and should be beyond
any mans power to dictate to the House
of Representatives | merely speak from
long experience and the teachings OF
what | believe to be reason and common
sense.