The Sentinel=record., 1909-11-27
CANNON JUMPS
 PROGRESSIVES
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(Contlnued from page one) tection, produced prosperity at home, expanded foreign commerce and en- abled the government to expand it's operations to meet many of the aspi- rations of the people, who clamored for internal improvements, expansion of the army, modernizing the navy, protecting the forests and developing the vast places in the arid regions"
 In short, Mir. Cannon said the Ding | ley law did what the Democratic tar if bill failed to do--produce the nee essary revenue for even democratic simplicity in administration.
 He said many new laws had been enacted, which had been denounced as revolutionary when they were un- der consideration, but which are now looked upon as falling short of ex. pectations.
 Continuing MT. Cannon said:
 |Singularly the critics who insisted that the tariff should be further low cred are the same critics who are dis. satisfied because we have not gone faster and farther and appropriated more money.
 T believe that the new tariff law will protect our industries and pro- duce the necessary revenue for car. rying forward the great policies upon which the government has entered
 Again directing his remarks toward the prosperity of the country, a pros perity surely indicated by the actiV ity in railroad circles, he declared:
 Now, gentlemen; there is only one thing that can halt this confident move forward to give the country an. other era of prosperity such as we had from 1897 to 1907 and that is agi. tation for the mere purpose of agita. tion for the mere purpose of agitation without any well conceived, healthy purpose in view.
 The senators and representatives who call themselves insurgents and who voted against the enactment of the Payne bill, voted to increase or maintain the duties on the industries and products of their own states and sections. They were protectionists for their own people, but they were op- posed to protection for other people in other sections"
 Tn speaking of Senator Cummins, who complained that he, Speaker Can non, had read him out of the Repuoli- can party, MT. Cannon said that the senator did him too much honor and that he had no authority nor did he know of any one man holding such authority to read Senator Cummins or any other man out of the Republican rarty.
 He also paid his respects to the Hon. Champ Clark who took issue with Speaker Cannon in the fight against the rules of the house. MT. Clark claiming that the fight was to prevent tariff legislation
 Mir Cannon said the rules of the house, which had been so much dis cussed had been found convenient lsubject for misrepresentation Spe CT Cannon claimed that the rules now in effect had been used for the past twenty years, with the exception that a few months ago two changes were made at the suggestion of the so-called Insurgents"
 At the conclusion of his prepared speech, which he read, Speaker Can non indulged in some extemporaneous IremarlSs, in which he became vehem- ent in his objection othe attitude of a local paper toward him.
 He quoted the paper as stating in today's issue that Speaker Cannon realizes that his popularity is on the wane," and declared in response to that statement that during his long life he had never turned his back upon af riend or his face away from an enemy.
 'Will you print that?' he yelled to- wards the press table, and added:
 T am sorry the editor of the paper Is not here to answer me himself'
 Speaker Cannon deplored what he explained as the custom of some newspapers to mislead their readers by an ingenius arraignment of head lines and intimated that the support of newspapers was not always neces- sary for the success of a man in pub I lie. He cited a recent election in the Sixth Illinois congressional district where, he said, the successful candi. date was opposed by many of the leading papers of Chicago.
 Ridiculing the charge that the Payne tariff law was enacted for the