The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-10-14
MitcneH Capital
THURSDAY. OCT. IA. 1909.
THE WRONG CONSTRUCTION

THE WRONG CONSTRUCTION.
The Minneapolis journal has it
view on the speech Of President TAT
delivered at Winona at the time O
the presidential visit to that stat
last month. The speech as applied
to Minnesota politics and politicians
that state was viewed in differen'
lights from the fact that a portion o.
the delegation in congress was il
sympathy with the downward re
vision and made a strong fight fol
Il and the very small majority was
with Aldrich and Cannon. The presi
dent took a lenient view of the at.
Htude Of Congressman Tawney on
b esstarih proposition, and as a gen
eral thing it did not set quite well
with the Nelson and Clapp support
ers and the Journal objects to being
read out Of the party. Commenting
on the misconstruction of the Winona
address. the Journal has the follow
Ing comment:
No u~tterances Of a public man in
recent times has been more persis-
tently misunderstood than the presi-
dents address at Winona. 1t has
frequently been held an attempt to
5reed the insurgents who voted
against the tariff bill out OF the re-
publican party. Nothing Of the kind
q to be found in the speech itself.
The president said:
am not here to criticise those
republican members and senator's
whose views on the tariff were SO
strong and intense that they believed
~ their duty to vote against the party
On the tarin bill. 1t Is a question for
each man to determine for himself.
tho question is whether he shall help
e maintain the party solidarity for
accomplishing its chief purpose, or
whether the departure from principle
@ the bill as he regards it is SO ex-
treme that he must in conscience
abandon the party"
This Is the so-called reading-out
passage. The president was talking
shout the alleged departures from
1einciple in the tariff bill. He did
not read anybody out or in. He
simply stated that the Insurgents had
made It 2 matter OF conscience, and
be could not criticize any man for
making important measures matters
q consciencs. Later the president
said.
am glad to see that q number
sof those who thought It their duty
q vote Against the bill, insist that
they : still republicans and intend.
~ carry on their battie FOR lower
Autiss and . lower revision within
thssparty lines.s That II their right
md. In their view OF tAings. their
duty:
How. Il tie president had read
them out ofsthe party. could he rec
ssosnise their Fight 70 act within the
party and their duty to vote against
e. billi II they were put out OF the
Dartys they we're not in It. II they
sswsrs Al II By the presidents own adj
lniI1ton. hs certainly could not have
sid that they were out.
tbs Journal Is seeking to treat
President Taft fairly to read into
his speech his infant. for he is not q
platform expert, He talks frankly.
Certainly. President Taft cannot have
meant that Minnesota ought to
change It's course on the tariff ques-
ton. for that would be asking too
much. The people Of the northwest
are intelligent. They aim to be
fair. They are registering q protest
against . tariff policy that simply
gives large profits to q few at the
the expense of the consumer.
The Detroit Free Press wanted to
test the popularity OF Cook and Peary
the north pole discoveries. so it start
I'D e postal card vote. The reports