Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1909-09-23
LAINLY SPOKEN
Synopsis Of the Great Speech Of the President
of the United States at Winona, Mime
sofa, Friday Of Last Week,
He Declares That the Payne Law Is Good
Measure and Makes Large Reductions
in Tariff Duties on Necessities.

i bill were too high. 1t was found ear
~ In the fight. however, he asserted,
that the wooden manufacturing in
terests in the country were so strong
that any attempt to change the Ding
ley rates would result in the defeat
OF the bill.
Fl am sorry it Is thus, and wish
It could have been otherwise. 1t is
one Of the important defects in the
bill and in the performances Of prom
ises OF the party platform. That
II will increase the price Of wooden
clothes or cloth. however, very
much doubt" I
AS to cotton goods, the president
asserted that 1t was found by the
careful and pOtracted taking Of
evidence that ON the lower grades
Of goods manufacturers were maxi
ing only decent profit. AS to high.
er grades. 1t was found that through
court decisions rates had been re-
duced to a point below those charged
ON lower grades. This called for
the readjustment and change from
adsalorem to specific rates.
AS to whether rates ON cotton
goods are higher than they ought to
b." said the president. lit was a
question Of evidence. l will not de-
fend the evidence, but we hope soon
to know more about the taritf than
We did at the beginning Of this big
asht." ~
President Taft dwelt at some
length upon his Interpretation Of the
duties and scope Of activity Of the
new tariff commission. which it has
been asserted in some quarters was
made into an innocuous body by the
senate amendments to the bill. Mr..
Taft has maintained all along that
the commission. rs finally authoriz-
ed. could accomplish all that could
be desired. He said tonight that the
commission would collect evidence
at home and abroad, would ascertain
the price Of producing here and
abroad and would gather into an
encyclopedia expert information ON
every question and every article en-
tering into the tariff bill. .hs.
The president, by means OF a table,
showed that the. tariff had been in.
creased on articles whose consump-
tion In this country amounts yearly
to, 1851 100000 and Of that amount
S57e. 00O. 900 is represented by such
luxnries as silks. wines, liquors, per.
fumes and pomades. leaving bal
anee Of $272,oO0. 900 representing in
creases on articles not luxuries.
Against this. the president set forth
with great emphasis In his delivery
the fact that THE TARIFF HAD
BEEN REDUCED ON ARTICLES
MOSTLY NECESSITIES, WHOSE
CONSUMPTION IN THIS COUNTRY
AMOUNTS ANNUALLY TO FIVE
BILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
The president went into details of
every schedule of the tariff bill
dwelling especially on schedules
which were subjects Of the greatest
fight, and which developed more
strongly the insurgent movement.
The president said 1t would be
utterly useless and distressing to
business to bring about further dis
cussion Of the tarin during the pres
ent or the next session Of congress,
ana added that 1t would require
three years of his administration
for the commission to collect facts
which would enable them to justify
the taking up Of tarif on more scien-
tific basis than ever before.
BY that time, he asserted, the
party would be ready to go before
the people again with a definite
proposition. The president answer.
ed with much warmth the assertion
that the tariff is responsible for the
high cost OF living. He declared the
tariff. as embodied in the Dingley
law. remained unchanged for eleven
years. while the cost OF living, not
in America alone. but in free trade
and protected countries abroad as
we'll, kept climbing higher and high
Or. The greatest enthusiasm of the
Presidents address was aroused
when he declared that IL the people
wanted free trade-if they wanted
tarin for revenue only-if they
wanted to close down the factories
and to have cheaper prices at the
sacrifice Of many business interests
they ought to put the democratic
party in power The president said
ne doubted even II that would sue
coed for the democrats in the senate
voted strongly for protection.