The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-09-23
President Says New Tariff
Law the Best Ever
Passed.
SPEECH AT wINONA, MINI.
Mr.. Taft's Speech Made in Repre-
sentative Tawney's District Greet
ed With Hearty Applause-Said He
Was Glad That Those Who Voted
Against Bill Are Still Active Re
publicans-WiI1 Urge Establish
ment of Postal Savings Banks I'm
Next Message.

WinOna, Mimi, Sept. 1a.-ln the
most important utterance he has
made since his occupany of the White
House, President Taft here tonight,
In a State which is the hot-bed of the
'insurgent" movement within the
Republican party, defended the
Payne tariff bill as the best tariff
measure ever passed by a Republi-
can Congress and hence the best ia
riff bill the people 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 member
of Congress who believed that the
bill did not accomplish everything
that it ought to accomplish, to vote
against it?" asked the President.
81 am 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"
| To this statement the crowd in the
w IuOud OpOl d-AOuoC ACSpOhoOo "Ath
a cheer which could be heard far
down the street. 1t was shouted BY
the adherents of Representative Jas.
A. Tawney, of this District, the chair
man of the House Committe on APP
propriations, who has been on the
defensive ever since the adjournment
of Congress because he did not vote
with the other members of the dele
| cation from Minnesota, both in the
House and Senate. against the bill.
"To make party government effec-
tive" said the President tonight,
'the members of that party should
surrender their personal predilec-
tions of comparative less import
ance.
II am glad to see that those who
voted against the bill still insists that
they are Republicans, and that they
lower tariff rates within the party
That Is their right and in their view
of things, is their duty"
Favors Postal Savings Banks.
| Milwaukee, Wis, Sept. 17.-Presi.
dent Taft devoted his principal ad
dress in Milwaukee at the State Fail
to-day to the subject of postal saw
ings banks, which he strongly en-
dorsed before large and enthusias
tic gathering that overf1owed thu
grand-stand.
President Taft said that the posta
savings bank plank in the Republi
can platform bound everybody wht
calls himself a Republican.
, President Receives Great Ovation a
Denver.
Denver, Col, Sept. 21.-Makint
his way still further to the West
President Taft arrived In Denver thi
afternoon, and tonight in the Den
yer auditorium, where a year ag,
Mr.. Bryan was nominated as his op
ponent In the Presidential race, face,
a crowd of thousands, that in 1t
noisy welcome and continuing en-
8 thusiasm recalled some of the scene
3 of convention week.
g President Taft, switching from hi
e purpose to discuss the question of tn
l conservation of natural resources i
n his Denver speech, elected to-nigh
e to take up the corporation tax passe
: as a part of the Payne tariff bill an
: to defend it as against the propos
: ton to impose direct income tai
l f1I, =,
= ly to pass the Senate when the col
: poration tax was devised as a con
: promise. The President strongl
n urged that all the States shoul
d adopt the proposed amendment |
l. the constitution, however, to mak
Il an income tax possible in time {
p need.