The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-30
HE DISPUTES
TAFT'S VIEWS
PRESIDENTS TARIFF
SPEECH.
Deems Statistics Absurd And
Says He Cannot Be Read
Out of His Party.

point OF view.
The senator from Wisconsin
asserts that the analysis OF the
tariff changes presented by the
President is the one printed in
the Congressional Recor by Ser
emo +. Payne when he laid the
conference report on the bill be-
fore the House, and that no sta
tician would regard the figures
as worthy of consideration. He
says that not even the President
can" decide for the American peo-
pie whether or not the tariff law
is genuine or counterfeit.
Regarding President Taft's re-
marks concerning the ''insur-
gents" who voted against the bill,
LaFollette, who was one OF the
leading spirits among the "insur-
gent" forces, says: No individu-
al has the power to read a repre-
sentative out of his party and
that no party can have higher
purpose than that OF redeeming
its promises.
The article is mild in tone, but
it is followed with another under
the caption, will Mr.. Sherman
Please Explain ?" in which LaFol-
lette comments sharply on the
speech made at Kansas City re-
Gently by the Vice President, say
ing among other things:
The Republican party through
Its leader, promised downward
revision. 1t gave the people up
ward revision. By what logic
can Mr.. Sherman construe that
into 'fulhllment' OF party
pledges? Is it possible that the
Vice President is trying to hand
the middle West a piece OF bun
! combe ?"
Text of the Article.
| The article on the President S
Winona address reads in part as
follows:
1.-The President declares the law
is more than an effort it is a
fulhllment OF the promise OF
downward revision He makes
| this declaration in the middle
| West, where sentiment for down
ward revision is overwhelming
He makes it in section whence
come those senators and repre-
Sentatives who,recognizing clear
Ily the wishes OF their constitu-
ents and knowing how little these
wishes were shared by the lead
els in both houses OF Congress
| found it impossible to vote fol-
the bill prepared under the dom
iination OF Aldrich and Cannon.
THE President comes with this
declaration to the support OF
congressman Tawney, who i;
Tout of harmony with the senti-
lment of his district, and therefore
lin trouble. He comes to the sup
jport of Tawney, who is Cannon
1 chairman OF the House committee
on appropriations-Tawney, who
has been VIGOROUSLY opposed tc
downward tariff revision-Taw-
ney, who stood pat.
Attacks Taft's Analysis.
I'm the course OF his speech thC
| President presented an analysi:
| of the tariff changes effected by
| the new law. This is the same
analysis that was printed in tht
| Congressional Record by Chair
man Payne, when he laid his con
| ference report on the bill before
| the House. This analysis pur
ports to measure the Importance
lof tariff changes by the con
sumption value of the commod
tiles affected.
| '"To attempt to determine tht
| value OF the consumption in thi:
country OF the thousands of ar
| ticles embraced in the tariff
| schedules as there classified is t.
enter into the realm OF pure spec
| ulation. The information doe:
| not exist. No statistician, wht
is more than a mere juggler o
| figures, would regard such cal
culation as worthy the slightes
consideration.
| Quotes Presidents Words.
THE President is reported a:
| having said: 1T was a question
| for each man to settle for him
| self. IN matters of this kind it i
a quest lion with the party repre-
sentative whether he shall hell
maintain the party solidarity TO
accomplishing its chief purpose
or whether the departure from
principle in the bill as he regards
it is so extreme that he must il
conscience abandon the party"
| There can be no chief purpose
of a political party higher thar
the purpose of redeeming it.
promises to the people. 1t is no
the representative who seeks tt
make Legislation conform in lette
and spirit to these promises, whC
abandons his party. 1t is not tht
representative who refuses t.
give his sanction to Legislation
that repudiates these promise.
who abandons his party.