The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-27
In an After Dinner Speech at
Kansas City, Speaker Pays
His Respects to Senators
Cummins and La Toilette.
DEFENDS. THE RULES
OF THE LOWER HOUSE
Progress of Prosperity Hin
dered by Criticisms of the
Insurgents of the Payne Bill
and the Republican Party,
TRIBUTE OF Mr.. BOUTELL

Kansas City, Nov. When
Senators Cummins, La Toilette and
BristOw and their so-called progress
sive' following join hands with Mr..
Bryan IN making war upon Republi-
can members Of congress who passed
the tariff bill and upon the President
who signed it, in that contest know
Of only one way to treat them, and
that is to fight them just as we fight
Mr.. Bryan and his following
Such was the declaration of Speaker
Cannon, who delivered the principal ad-
dress before the annual banquet Of the
Knife and Fork club here tonight. Mr..
Cannon said Senator Cummins alone had
read himself out of the Republican party.
He defended the rules of the house OF
representatives, saying they will remain
substantially as they have been and ara
so long as there is congress.
Ever since history began said the
speaker, 'the leader Of the minority has
been seeking some device by which he
could overcome the viii of the majority"
Tariff Law Brought Prosperity.
Mr.. Cannon asserted. that while the
Payne tariff law is not perfect If is the
besl ever passed under Republican leader
snip; that since the enactment of the new
law. production i'm this country and inn
ports have greatly increased. and that
day by day conditions are improving
The Insurgents and their followers.
he said, are seeking to hinder the pro-
gress of prosperity by criticism and de-
nunciatiOn, and This. too. within three
months of the passage of the tariff law.
Only such agitation can halt the pros
pective era Of prosperity. he declared.
The demagOgue, said Mr.. Cannon,
We nave always with us, and, OURS
Is government of the people. the only
way to dispose of him is to move on.
am perfectly willing to trust the verdict
of a prosperous and happy people in the
elections i'm November next. after the new
tariff law has been in operation for more
than d year"
Meant for the Star.
At the conclusion of his prepared
speech, Speaker Cannon INDUCED in
some eXtempOraneOus remarks in which
he became vehement in his objection
to the attitude of a local paper to-
stating today that. Speaker Cannon
realizes that his popularity is on the
wane," and declared in response to
that statement that in ali his long life
he had never turned his back upon a
friend nor his face away from an
enemy.
"WiII you print that2' ne yelled to-
wards the press table, and added:
.
not here to answer me himself
Speaker Cannon deplOred what he
explained as the custom Of some news
papers to mislead their readers by an
ingenious article of headlines and in
timated that the support of newspa pers
was not always necessary for the sue
cess of man in public life. He cited
recent elections in the Sixth Illinois
Congressional district where. ne said.
the successful candidate was opposed
by leading papers of Chicago.
RidicuIing the charge that the Payne
tariff law was enacted for the benefit
of New EnEland's interests. the speak
er cited numerous statistics to support
his declaration that products of New
England manufacturers had shown q
decided increase under Republican pro-
lection policies as compared with the
increase of manufacturers in other
states.
Former Congressman John Allen Of
Mississippi, who also addressed the
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