Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-09-18
INSURGENTS ABANDONED PARTY
Question Discussed at Length to
Prove That There Was Real Revis-
ion Downward in Compliance With
Platform PIedge-Tawney's Adher-
ents Cheer Utterances.
(By Associated Press.l


most important utterance he has
made since his occupancy OF the
White House, President TAFT here to-
night in a speech defended the Payne
tariff bill as the best tariff measure
ever passed by a Republican congress
and hence the best tariff bill the peo
pie have ever known.
The President boldly asserted that
the insurgents who voted against the
bill had abandoned the Republican
party.
Was it the duty Of the members
of congress who believed that the bill
did not accomplish the object that 1t
ought to accomplish to vote for it?
Il am not 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 sup
port Them 81.
Tawney's Adherents Cheer.
To this statement, the crowd in
the Winona Opera House responded
with cheer which could be heard
far down the street.
1t was shouted by the adherents of
Representative James A. 1awney, OF
this district, the chairman of the
house committee on appropriations
who has been On the defensive ever
since the adjournment of congress
because he did not vote with the 9th
er members of the delegation from
Minnesota both in the house and SEN
ate against the bill.
F. ITO make party government effec-
tive" said the President. the MEM
bers of the party should surrender
their personal privileges of COMPARE
tive less Importance
81 am elad,to see that those who
voted against the bin still insist that
they are Republicans and that they
intend to keep up the fight for still
lower tariff rates within the party
THAT is their right and in their
view Of things, is their duty"
Began Fight in 1906.
President Taft in his address a.
the Winona opera house said:
my fellow citizens:
As long ago as 1906 in the con-
gressional campaign in Maine | ven
tured to announce that was tariff
.revisionist and thought that the time
had come fer resdjustment OF the
schedule. 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
the conditions surrounding the pro-
ductions of the ssrm, the factory ana
the mine. and that under the theory
Of protection in that time the rates
imposed in the Dingley bill in many
Instances might have become Excess
sive
Il pointed out the difficulty that
there always was in a revision or
the tariff. due to the threatened dis
turbance Of industries TO be affected
and the suspension of business in
way which made it unwise TO have
too many rtvisions. In the summer
Of 1907 my position on the tariff wss
Challenged and ! then entered into
some what fuller discussion Of the.
matter. II was commended ny the so
called stand patters' that rates be-
ycnd the necessary measure Of PRO-
tccfion we're not Objectionable be-
cause behind the tariff wall comPe-
ton reduced prices on things and
thus saved the consumer.
Temptation TO moaopoIIzc-
But 7 pointed cut IN that speech
what seems to me as true today as
shen was. that the danger q exccs-
ssve rates was in the temptation they
created o. form roro7oiics in the
protccted article and thuz 20 nke
advantage Of thcNcxccssive rates BY
increasing the prices. and therefore
IN order 10 avoid such DANGER u
vas wise At regular intervals 10 cx-
anime the question and learn Of wat
eject the rates had been on TIE IN
dusfrics IN this country and whether
the conditions with respect - the
cost of PREDICTION here had 20 chang
cd a. 70 Warrant a reduction IN the
tariff and 10 make lower rssc NOR