The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-01
What TAFT viii say.

Sioux City journal: A number or
newspaper writer's are specializing on
what President Taft may have to say
about the tariff on his trip west. Adj
vice as to what he should say is free
ly rendered. The Journal is in po-
sition to enlighten those who need
light on the substance OF the Presi-
dents forthcoming utterances.
President Taft will support and de-
fend the record of the Republican
party as made UP in the Payne tariff
bill. He will describe the bill as the
result Of sincere effort on the part of
the Republican party to make a
downward revision and to comply
with the promises of the platform as
they have been generally understood
and as Taft himself interpreted
them during the campaign. The
President will not claim that the
Payne tariff is perfect measure, nor
complete compliance with the prom
Uses made, strictly interpreted. He
will explain, however, that fulfill
ment free from criticism in respect
to subject matter involving many
schedules and thousands of articles
was not to be expected. He will de-
clare that, except with regard to
whisky, liquors and wines, and in re-
gard to silks and some high classes
of cotton-many of which may be
treated as Injuries and proper sub
jects for revenue tarif-there have
been few increases in rates. The
President will 60 on record with the
statement that there has been a great
number of real decreases in rates and
that they constitute a sufficient
amount to justify the statement that
amount to justify the statement that
the bill Is substantial downward re-
vision and reduction Of excessive
rates.
President Taft will say that the
Payne bill is not a free trade bill;
that it was not intended to be; that
the Republican party did not promise
to make free trade bill He will
explain that the party promised to
make the rates protective, but to re-
duce them when they exceeded the
difference between the cost of produc-
ton at home and abroad, making al
lowance for the greater normal profit
on production at home. He will as
sert his belief that, while this excess
has not been reduced in number OF
caSeC in a great N, n iorifv re ooco, ~ =,
rates are such as are necessary to
protect American industries, but are
low enough in case of abnormal in.
crease of demand and raising of
prices to permit the possibility of the
importation of foreign articles, and
thus to prevent excessive prices. The
President will give high praise to all
the administrative features of the bill.
This Is the least the President will
say about the tariff on his trip west.
How much more he will say in de-
Tense of the work of the extra session
the Journal will not attempt to fore
cast. Is there any secret connected
with the information regarding the
Presidents forthcoming tariff utter
ances as outlined above? Not at all
No confidence is violated in giving IT
out. This newspaper knows that Is
the least the President will say, be-
cause he already has said it in prac-
tically the language given above. He
said 1t in statement made public
simultaneously with the signing Of the
bill. Nothing has since developed to
cause any change in the attitude OF
the executive. He is not going to take
back anything now in the record. He
is likely to elaborate the points made
above, and to bear down with special
emphasis UPON the proposition that