Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1909-12-01
CANNON after
INSURGENTS
Will Fight Them as He Fights
BRYAN and His Followers
A DECLARATION OF WAR

Declares That House Rules Will Not
Be Changed, That Cummins Alone
Read Himself Out of Republican
Party, and That New Tariff Has
Proved Beneficent Despite "Protec-
tionists For Their Own People"
Kansas City, Nov. 2S.-''When
Senators Cummins, La Toilette,
Bristow and their so-called progress
sive' following join hands with Mr..
Bryan in making war upon the Re-
publican members of congress who
passed the tariff bill and upon the
president who signed it, in that con-
test l know of but one way to treat
them, and that is to fight them just
as we fight Mr.. Bryan and his follow
ing"
Such was the declaration of Speak
er Cannon, who delivered the princi-
pal address before the Knife and Fork
club here last night. Mr.. Cannon
said Senator Cummins alone read
himself out of the Republican party.
He defended the rules of the house,
saying that they will remain sub
stantially as they have been and are
so long as there is congress. Speak
Ing of the Republican record in con-
gress, he said:
I'VE have enacted new laws that
were denounced as revolutionary when
they were under consideration, but
which are now looked upon as falling
short of expectations
1.-THE monthly summary of COM
merce and finance, issued by the de-
partment of commerce and labor,
shows that for the months of August,
September and October under the new
tariff law there was a substantial in
ports of the same months in 1908. The
increase in imports amounted to $73, =
900, 900 over those for the same period
in 1908 and S21 900, 900 over the same
period in 1907, the greatest year un-
der the Dingley law. Our exports for
for last year by SAL 900, 900.
'The senators and representatives
who call themselves insurgents and
who voted against the enactment of
the Payne bill, voted to increase or
| maintain the duties on the industries
and products of their own states and
sections. They were protectionists
Cor their own people, but they were
opposed to protection for other peo-
pie in other sections.
There was not one member of the
Republican majority who secured in
the bill as enacted all that he had con-
tended for. President Taft, Senator
Aldrich and myself all accepted more
compromises than the so-called in
surgents' were asked to accept. In
Illinois we wanted free lumber, anG
my constituents wanted a duty on pc.
troleum because they have the great:
est independent oil producing distrie
in the world. We were beaten, bu
We did not make our own interests thu
only Interpretation of the Republican
pledge to revise the tariff. 4
Senator Cummins complains that
have read him out of the Republican
party. Other sensitive gentlemel
made the same complaint agains
President Taft. The senator does m
too much honor. | have not the au
thority to read any man out, nor hav
| the disposition. l think l may sa
the same for the president. l hav
been a member of the Republica
, party since it was organized and
have never known of any man o
group of men being read out of an
party except by themselves. .xg~
stranger-f don't see many dog
around here.
Native-No; we have a cur-few law
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