Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-09-29


1t ought to say 50, and put the demo
cratic party in power If 1t thinks ths
party can be trusted to carry out an
Affirmative policy in favor Of revt
nue. tariff. Certainly, in the discus
sion in the senate, there was no grea
on the part of our den
ocratic friends in favor of reducin
rates on necessities. They voted
tariff rates on everythin
that came from their particular SCI
ton.
'If we are to have free trade, Gel
tainly it cannot be had through tn
of republican majoritie
In the senate and house and reput
Iican administration.
Defense Of Tawney.
"And now the question arises:
What was the duty of member
of congress who believed in a
downward revision greater than
that which has been accomplish
ed, who thought that the wool
schedules ought to be reduced,
and that perhaps there were
other respects in which the bill
could be improved? ~~.,
"Was it his duty, because, in
his judgment it did not fully and
completely comply with the pro-
misses of the party platform as
he interpreted it, and, indeed, as
l had interpreted it, to vote
against the bill? I am here to
justify those who answer this
question in the negative.
'Mr. Tawney was a downward
revisionist, like myself. He is
low tariff man, and has been
known to be such in congress
all the time he has been there.
He is prominent republican,
the head Of the appropriations
committee and when a man
votes as I think he ought to
vote, and an opportunity such
as this presents itself I am glad
to speak in behalf of what he
did, not in defense of it, but in
support Of it.
Stand by Party.
This is a government by the
majority of the people. 1t is a
representative government. Peo-
pie select some 400 members to
constitute the lower house and
90 members to constitute the up
per house through their legis-
latures. and the varying views OF
a majority of the voters in 80 or
80 million Of the people are, re-
duced to one resultant force to
take Affirmative steps in carry
ing on government by a system
of parties. Without parties Pop
ular government would be abso-'
lutely impossible.
In a party those who join it,
if they must make it effective,
must surrender their personal
predictions on matters compare
lively of less Importance in order
to accomplish the ground which
united action on the most impor-
tant principles at issue. secures. ::
Nov, I am not here to criti-
else those republican members
and senators whose views on the
tariff were so strong and intense
that they believed it their duty
to vote against their party on the
tariff bill. It is a question for
each man to settle for himself. q:
The question is whether he shall
help maintain the party solidarity
for accomplishing It's chef pur-
poses or whether the departure
from principle in the bill as he
regards it is SO extreme that he
must in conscience abandon the
party. -:
,"All I have to say in respect
to Mr.. Tawney's action and in
respect to my own in signing the
bill, that + believed that the in
terests of the country, the inter-
ests of the party, required me to
sacrifice the accomplishment of
many things in the revision of
the tariff which I had hoped for
in order to maintain party solid \.
arity which I believe to be much Y
more important than the reduc-
ton of rates in one or two sched- {,
ules Of the tariff. #
SAVED THE PARTY. s
Had Mr.. Tawney voted against
the hill and there had hean 9TH. "