The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-09-18
Words Characterized as Most I'M
portant Utterance Since He
Was Elected
Declares Payne Bill Best Tariff Measure Ever
Made--Greatest Defect is That WooIen Rates
Are Too High.-Defends Tawney.-Winona
Speech Big Surprise

party We're so strong that any attempt
to change the Dingley rates would
result in the defeat of the bill.
I'm sorry this IS So said the
president, q wish it could have been
otherwise. II is the one important
defect in the bill and / nthe perform
'ance Of the promises of the party
platform. That it will increase the
price Of woolen cloth or clothes, how
ever, | very much doubt"
Taft dwelt upon his Interpretation
Of the duties and the scope of the
new tariff commission. said the COM
mission would cC.tecr evidence at
home and abroad, ascertain the cost
of producing here and abroad and
tther into an encyclopedia expert in
formation on every question and
every article covered by the tariff
Taft said it would be utterly uselsss
and distressing to business to have
n further discussion of the tariff dur
ing the present or next session of con
gress, and added that it would re-
qrire three years OF his administra-
ton for the commission to collect
facts iustifying the making of q tariff
on n more scientific basis than ever
before. BY that time the party will
be ready to go before the people
'again with definite proposition.
Taft answered. warmly the assertion
that the tarifi was responsible for tie
high cost of living, and declared the
tariff remained unchanged ten years
while the cost of living in Ameri a
and free trade protection countries
abroad, kept climbing fhe greatest
enthusiasm was manifested when the
president declared that if the people
wanted free trade, or a tariff for reve
nue. only if they wanted to close the
manufactures and have cheaper
prices at the sacrifice of many bust.
ness interests, they ought to put the
Democratic party in power. The
president doubted, however, even if
that would succeed, for Democratic
senators voted strongly for protec-
tion on articles produced in their
states.
The president goes to Minneapolis
and st. Paul TOMORROW and will
spend two or three days in Minnesota.
Favored Free Lumber.
I favored free lumber because
didn't think that if the tariff was
taken off there would be much suffer
ign among the lumber interests. In
the controversy the house AMI senate
took a middle course, and who can
say they were not justified? In the
Payne tariff bill. our party conceded
the necessity of following changed
conditions. 1t is a substantial achieve
ment in the direction of downward
revision and ought 10 be accepted as
such. If had vetoed the bill /
would have received the applause of
the low tariff Republicans and all
Democracy. The Democrats would
Ni'N'' ia FC ltihSiC'l III iiltlls SLEEVE at
the conditions in the Republican party
but waiving considerations of party,
where would the country have been
att 1t would have left the revision
of the tariff open, suspended the set
Element of all business and held up
the coming prosperity, besides failing
to meet the deficit in revenue which.
under the Dingley bill, seemed in,
eyitable.
The inquisitorial revenue pro
visions of the act are mild but eff
fective, and we look not only for
revenue but for the means of obtain.
Ing supervision over corporate meth.
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