Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-05-08
REPUBLICAN, RECORD.
Continued From Page Eighth
following Immediately upon the inau-

following Immediately upon the inau-
guration of the President.
When revised, it will be revised in
strict accordance with the Republican
theory of protection, so as to furnish
adequate protection to every American
industry and to the wage of every
American workman. Applause on the
Republican side.l If there are now
duties that are no longer needed for
protection, they will be reduced or dis
peESed with. ii there be places where
such protection as l have described
does not now exist, either by reason of
the absence OF duties or by reason of
their being too low, in the one case
duties will be added and in the other
case they will be increased. tApplause
on the Republican side.] In other
words. the tariff will be revised up or
down as may be necessary to make it
really protective. [Renewed applause
on the Republican side.l
Mr.. CLARK Of Missouri Mr. Chair
man. will the gentleman yield?
The Chairman. Does the gentleman
yield?
Mr.. DALZELL: Certainly.
man, | would suggest that the choir is
not yet ready to strike forth with the
chorus
Sound the loud timbril DER land and DER
pAIZE!.L is converted, the country is
free.
Applause on the Democratic side.
Mr.. DALZELL: To which | say
amen.
| believe. fur; hermore with the chair
man of the Committee on Ways and
Means [Mr. Paynel. that we need a
maximum and minimum tariff in order
to meet tine conditions created by for
eign nations which have such systems.
The minimum tariff must be protective
Applause Oh the Republican sidel, the
maximum tariff will be in excess Of
that The two will be 50 adjusted as to
compel our entrance into foreign mar
Kets on as favorable terms as are Civ
en- any other nations. Applause on
the Republican side.
TnCra VIII in no event be any tariff
commits sion. Renewed applause on
tn" Republican side. The mon who
made the Constitution intrusted to the
Representatives OF the people. elected
every two years, the exclusive prerOga-
tive of initiating revenue measures.
During all our history the House OF
Representatives has jealousy guarded
that prcrOgatiVe. never surrend"rlng 1t,
and, both Democratic and Republican
Representatives in this respect stand
ing on common platform, never will.
Applause
What would happen to the tariff if
a Democratic House of Representa-
tives should be elected God only knows.
Laughter and applause on the Repub-
iican side.] Past experience of Demo-
cratic legislation on the subject of tar
in does not afford us much hope.
And there may be danger. My friend
from Missouri Mr.. Clark the olher day
marched gallantly UP to the perform
ance of his biennial task, and elected
a Democratic House of Representa-
lives. Laughter on the Republican
side1 He always does it at this sea-
son of the year The time may vary q
little. Il few days, or a few weeks; it
may be amid the chill blasts of winter
or amid the flowers that bloom in the
spring. but it is always before the first
Tuesday after the first Monday of No
venber. The gentleman is persistent
as well as prophetic. He is not red
headed, but he is hopeful, and has new
er forgotten his boyhGod lesson, IF at
first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Laughter on the Republican side.l
If any such calamity as the election
of q Democratic House of Representa-
tives should be visited upon our people,
sincerely hope my friend from Mis-
souri, will be it's speaker. Prolonged
applause l should enjoy beyond all
things to see the smile spread over his
Roman countenance while his colleague
from Missouri Mr.. ShacklefOrdl de-
nounces him as an autocrat prolonged
laughter on the Republican sidel and
embalms in the Record from day to
day what he does not know about the
rules Of the House.
Now we have had panic, and gen.
tlemen on the other side of the House
seem to enjoy and to glOat over it. My
friend from Missouri and the gentle
man from Tennessee [Mr. Garrett yes
terday tainted us on account of it. say
ing that it was a Republican panic
Well, it was not a Republican panic
nor a party panic Of any kind. Dec
lamation will not fix the panic upon
the Republican party or upon any par
ty If you gentlemen expect to salts
fv the country that this is a Republi-
can panic, the burden is on you to
show the connection of that panic with
some Republican act, either upon the
part of the Executive or upon the part
of Congress. You can not do either
First and foremost, it will be necessary
that You demonstrate that it is Unit
ed States panic. Now, | assert that it
is not a United States panic. but a pam
ic that prevails the world over. and T
am going to repeat the reading today
of what my colleague from Pennsyl-
vania mfr Burkel put into the Record
yesterday:
London warehouses; full-many in
firm paupers boarding at sanitariums
at the seaside.
London, January 90, 1908.
INQUIRIES throughout Great Britain
show that lack Of employ merit Is re-
sponsible for acute distress in many
towns the trades most affected being
building. engineering. and shipbuildina.
Owing apparently to the slackneSs of
trade. the forty warehouses; Of Greater
London are filled to overtlowrg. The
latest returns show that in these work
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