Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-10-21
HOT SHOT FROM CANNON
DISCUSSES PROTECTIVE POLICY
AND THE NEW TARIFF BILL.
Shows How Country Has Prospered
Under Protection and Stands For
The Payne Tariff Law

w heH speaker IannOn came 10 Knox
vile to make an address ut their :" Home
Coming he discussed the rules of the
lower house of Congress and showed
they We're not made by the Speaker but
by majority of the body which they
control. He also talked of protection
and the new tariff law rs follows;
Now. my friends, what about the pro-
tective policy of the republican party?
That policy was born under the leader
ship of Abraham Lincoln and written
upon the statute books just about the
commencement of his administration. At
that time we did not have many facto-
ries. The war was upon MS and we were
almost powerless except for the strong
arms and brave hearts of the people who
loved the union. But the first tariff bill
was rich in its results. Ii brought forth
revenue in great streams, as the rod of
Moses brought the water from the rock
when Gods favored people were perish
ing us they passed through the desert.
Since that time, with the exception of
three years when the Wilson bill was
in operation, the republican doctrine of
protection has been in force. Under it
factories have sprung up rs if by magic
and our industries have become so diver.
sitied that today we are capable of pro-
ducing almost every. article that civil
lied country needs. The great war
debt of ~, 900, 900. 900 has been practi-
cally extinguished. We have progressed
marvelously.
THE RAILROAD QUESTION
There were at that time less than 80 600
miles of railroad i'm the United States:
today there are 240, 900 miles of railroad
and under the leadership of Theodore
Roosevelt legislation was enacted, to he
perfected under the administration of
William ii. Taft, to correct the abuses
which have crept into the transportation
system of oc" country SO that today sub.
stantially all men, under similar condi-
tons, rec Give equal treatment and under
the op eration of economic forces the
avelags charge for carrying heproducts
of tins country on the railroads is seven
mills per ton per mile, which is less than
half the charge for transportation in any
other country in the world might say
in this connection that we have ne-half
of the railroad mileage of the world and
and onethird of the products of the
whole civaliZed world are made ON the
farm, in the factory and in the mines of
the United States. Yet you hear people
talk about legislating for Europe and
letting their products into this country
free of duty; products made ut labor
cost half of what it is in this country
Who supports our schools? Who pays
our taxes? Who builds our railroads?
Surely it is not the foreigner, and why
should we give him our unrestricted
markets?
THE PAYNE TARIFF LAW
Now / want to say little as to the pas
sage of the Payne tariff bill After three
weeks of consideration in the house il
went to the senate and for three long
weary months il crawled its way along
There was much talk, much of criticism,
much of defamation and something of
bad blood. A tariff bill, as you know
is taxing bill, and affects in greater or
less degree everybody in the country
do not believe in free raw materials. God
made free raw material, but whenever
the Industrious hand of labor makes mat
ter assume shape different from its natu-
raj state that moment is-ceases to be
raw material and becomes some man 3
finished product. Yet Bailey and Bryan
hear are going to hold % joint debate
as to whether raw material should be on
the free list They might as well save
their trouble. There is no raw material
after the hand of labor has touched it.
The new tariff act did not suit me entire
ly. If ] were supreme / would change it
in several respects and would do so and
could get itexactly to suit me. doubt,
however, if had changed it TO suit me
it would exactly sui. any other citizen
Of the United States