The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-12-01
CANNON REPLIES
TO SEN. CUMM|NS
VIGOROUS ADDRESS By SPEAKER
AT KANSAS CITY CLUB
BANQUET.
THE INSURGENTS ARE PRODDED
lnsincere in Their Fight Against
the Passage of the Payne
Tariff Bill.

Kansas City, Mo-, Nov. 27.-Speaker
Cannon last night stood up before the
members of the Knife and Fork club
and their guests and delivered his re-
ply to the attack on him and his meth
DDS made recently in Chicago by Sen
ator Cummins of Iowa. Uncle Joe's
speech had been eagerly anticipated,
and in it's vigorous defense of the Re.
publican majority in congress and it's
lively prodding of the insurgents" it
did not disappoint his auditors.
After reviewing the wonderful mate
rial progress of the country since the
adoption of the Dingley tariff law and
the progressive legislation of the last
~ years, Mr.. Cannon dwelt at length
on the necessity for greatly increased
revenues to meet the expenditures re-
quired by the great policies upon
which the government has entered.
The new tariff law, he said, would pro-
tect our industries and provide this
revenue.
Insurgents as Agtators.
Coming then to the insurgents"
the speaker continued:
"NOw, gentlemen, there is only one
thing that can halt this confident move
forward to give the country another
era of prosperity such as we had from
1897 to 1907, and that is agitation for
the mere purpose of agitation, without
any well-conceived healthy purpose in
view.
"The senators and representatives
who call themselves insurgents and
who voted against the enactment of
TIE Payne bill, voted to increase or
maintain the duties on the industries
and products of their own states and
sections. They were protectionists for
their own people, but they were op-
posed to protection for other people in
other sections.
Their Sincerity Impugned.
Senator La Toilette did not vote to
increase the duties on lead and zinc,
but he defended the finance commit
tees schedules on those products in
i opCCSACoS say lA6 IAAVy WAX Aot LIS IL
enough, explaining, however, that he
could not vote on the question because
he said he had a personal pecuniary
interest in the outcome.
Senators La Toilette and Bristow
and the other insurgents voted to in
crease the duty on barley and barley
malt for the reason that their constit-
nofc hor In fh 0y 0,1c,
these gentlemen who call themselves
insurgents voted with the Republic
cans on schedules that protected the
products of their constituents and with
the Democrats on schedules that pro-
tected the products Of other sections
of the country. THAT was their right,
but when they voted with the Dem.
ocrats against the final enactment Of
the bill they voted to maintain the old
schedules of the Dingley law, and
were not supporting the pledge of the
Republican platform or the pledges
made by President Taft.
"The senator, think, APPLY recalled
the story of the three tailors of Tooley
street who met and prepared the pre-
amble, We, the people of England.
That is good illustration OF the ego
that often dominates the minority
everywhere, in town meetings, state
legislatures, federal congresses, in
churches, and in every place where
men must cooperate. The tailors of
Tooley street are ever with us, and
when we cannot be we, the people,
in action as we'll as in the preamble,
they take it out in resolving and de-
claiming.
An Example for cummins.
"There was one gigantic struggle in
the Republican party which is mem
orable as the greatest convention of
strong and manly men that has ever
been known in this country. That
was the national Republican conven-
ton of 1880, when the followers of, the
Silent Soldier of the Appamattox and
the admirers of the Plumed Knight
from Maine were pitted against each
other. After many days of balloting
the followers of Blaine and other can
didates opposed to Grant united on
Gen. Garfield, who then received the
majority vote of the convention and
became the candidate for president
The famous 306 went down with col.
ors flying, but not to don sackcloth or
sulk in their tents. Those men had
the same fidelity to the principles that
governed the party that the old guard
of Granite which many OF them had
belonged-had in war, and they
marched out of that convention to
take up the Garfield banner and carry
it to victory. Let me commend the
history of that one political battle to
the senator.
President Taft VS.. Cummins.
Senator Cummns declares that
the Payne law is Reputation of the
Chicago platform. President Taft
when he signed the BILL made public
statement in which he said:
"'There have been a great number
of real decreases in rates and they
constitute a sufficient amount to tvs
hat I,