The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-12-01
I'm his Winona speech the president

I'm his Winona speech the president
declared:
1.-The Payne tariff bill is the best
tariff bill the Republican party has
ever passed.
Senator Cummins declares that the
issue from now until the national con.
vention in 1912 is: Shall the men now
in control of party destinies be per-
mitted further to disregard plain party
platforms?
president Taft is the recognized
leader of the Republican party and the
great majority of Republicans are his
followers. The president and the Re.
publican majority in congress coop
Grated in the legislation that has been
written on the statute books. With
whom did Senator Cummins coop
crate? Let the record of the votes on
this legislation from beginning to end
decide.
Only Way to Treat Them.
"Mr. Bryan wants the war against
the Republicans who enacted this leg
islation to 60 on; Senator Cummins
also wants it to 60 on. When Lincoln
found an army marching on the ma
tional capital from the south and a
body of sympathizers in the north en-
couraging that army, he said it was
difficult to determine which was the
most threatening to the welfare of the
nation. History repeats itself, and
when Senators Cummins, La Toilette,
Bristow and their so-called progress
sive' following join hands with MIR.
Bryan in making war upon the Repub-
lican members of congress who
passed the tariff bill, and upon the
president who signed it, in that con-
test know of but one way to treat
them, and that is to fight them just as
we fight Mr.. Bryan and his following"
Speaker Cannon next took up the
defense of the rules of the house, and
incidentally said some scathing things
about Champ Clark, adding:
"The rules will remain substantially
as they have been and are SO long
as we have a congress, and the ma
jority party, whether Republican or
Democratic, responsible to the people
for legislation will be their defenders.
The opponents of the rules have al
ways been the men who did not feel
responsibility for the transaction OF
the business laid before congress.
Ever since history began the man
in the minority has been seeking some
device By which he could overcome
the will of the majority, and we have
popular, if not absolutely reliable,
antedating history whose fiat was:
Better to reign in hell than to serve
in heaven There was our first great
insurgent, and he was pitched over
the battlements of heaven. Since the
creation of man there have been those
at work on earth to encourage in.
surrection against order, which is
heavens first law.
"A word in conclusion: The country
waited from March until August for
the enactment of tariff bill. During
that period, on account of the uncer
tainty, it has been conservatively es
timated that the loss due to the halt
ing of business and production
amounted to ten million dollars $50,
OOO,O00) a day. Since the enactment
of the new law production in our own
country and imports from foreign
countries have greatly increased, and
day by day conditions are improving
The farmers, who comprise one-third
of our population are stepping high
and some Of them are riding in auto.
mobiles. In mine and factory as well
as in transportation and commerce op.
portunities for employment are daily
growing better The revenues of the
government are constantly increasing.
The Payne tariff law is not perfect
perfe ction resides in Deity alone
but l agree most heartily with Repre-
sentative Payne of New York and with
the President of the United States in
his Winona speech that the new tar
if law is the best one ever passed un-
der Republican leadership.
Neither Bryan, Cummins, La Fol-
lette, Bristow or their followers claim
that it can be changed during the COM
ing four years, but they all agree in
one thing, namely, that they will agi-
tate-and they are agitating-for adj
ditional tariff legislation, and, as the
car of prosperity drawn by ninety mil
lion people moves on, they are seek
ing to hinder it's progress by criti-
cism and denunciation, and this too
within three months of the enactment.
"The demagogue we have always
with us, and, as ours is a govern
ment of the people, the only way to
dispose of him is to move on. The
proof of the pudding is the eating Of
it, and l am perfectly willing to trust
the verdict of a prosperous and hap
by people in the elections in Novem-
Der, 1910, after the new tariff law has
been in operation for over year."
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