Arizona republican., 1909-09-18
GOOD WORDS FOR TAWNEY
Cordial Meeting With La Toilette at Milwaukee. President Pleased Insur- gents Are Still Strong in Republican Faith

Winona, Sept. 17.-In the most inn portant utterance he has made since president here tonight, in state which is the hotbed of the republican insurgents movement, defended the Payne tariff bill as the best tariff measure ever passed by d Republican congress, and hence the best tariff bill the people have ever known. The president boldly asserted that the in- surgents who voted against the bill had abandoned the republican party.
 Was it the duty of members of congress who believed the bill did not accomplish everything that it ought to accomplish to vote against it" asked the president 'I am here to justify those who answer this question in the negative. I am not here to defend those who voted for the Payne bill. but to support them" To this statement the crowd re- sponded with cheers which could be heard far down the street. It was shouted by the adherents of Repre- sentative James A. Tawney of this district. chairman of the house appro- priations committee, who has been on the defensive ever since the adjourn ment of congress- because he did not vote with the other members of the delegation from Minnesota, both in the house and senate, against the bill.
 Mir Tawney met the president at La Crosse. Wis, this afternoon and nor isa1 hi fVa rn iG RifN TC home town. It had been reported that the president intended defending Tawney for his party regularity, but there was none to predict that the president would go as fur as he did tonight in characterizing the position taken by the insurgent senators and representatives. The persident had met Senator La Toilette of Wiscon- sin one of the leaders of the insurg ent movement, at Milwaukee during the forenoon and had greeted him quite cordially.
 ITO make party government effect i've" said. Taft in his address, the members of that party should sur render their personal predilections of comparatively less importance. I am not here to criticize those who felt so strongly and believed so in tensely that it was their duty to vote against the tariff bill. because it did not contain all they thought it should. It was a question for each to settle for himself. In matters of this kind it is a question with a party representative whether he shall help to maintain the party solidity for ac- complaining its chief purpose. or whether the departure from principle in the bill. as he regards it, is SO extreme that he must in conscience abandon the party I am glad to see that those who voted against the bill still insist that they are republicans and that they intend to keep up the fight for still lower tariff rates with in the party. President Taft's speech was remarkable. plain-spoken defense of the Payne bill.
 President Taft said: As long ago as August 1906, I ventured to an nounce I was a tariff revisionist and thought the time had come for a re- adjustment of the schedules. I pointed out that it had been ten years prior to that time that the Dingley bill had been passed: that great changes had taken place in conditions sur roundings productions of the farms. the factory and the mine and that under the theory of protection in that time, the rates imposed in the Dinglev bill in many instances might have be come excessive; that is, might have been greater than the differences be- tween the cost of production abroad and the cost of production at home with a sufficient allowance for a req enable rate of profit to the American produced I said the party was divided on this issue, but in my judgment. the opinion of the party was crystal izing and probably would rest in the near future in an effort to maks such revision
 "It will be observed that the ob- feet of the revision was not to des- troy protected industries but to con tinue to protect them where lower rates offered sufficient protection to prevent injury by foreign competition. That was the object of the revision as ad- vocated by me and it certainly was the object of revision as promised in the republica platform. l want to make this proposition as clear as I can, be- cause in order to determine whether the bill is a compliance with the terms of that provision, it must be under freestood what the platform means. A free trader is opposed to any protec- five rate because he thinks that our manufacturers, our farmers, and our miners ought to withstand the compe-