The Washington herald., 1910-09-22
CANNON SOUNDS
CRY OF WARNING
Speaker Calls Tariff Revision
Agitation Dangerous.
GETS TWENTIETH NOMINATION
Stqndpat Policy Reiterated I'm Ac-
cepting Honor Anew-His Ideas ON
should he Movement Forward.
Gets Sarcastic and Humorous.

Danville. Ill. Sept 21.-Speaker Joseph
G. Cannon. in accepting his twentieth
nomination for Congress to-day. said the
present tariff needed 10 defense. and de-
clared agitation for its revision dangerous
10 the welfare of the country. He said,
in part:
Gentlemen. in accepting this twentieth
nomination for Representative l want to
express my conviction that this is 10 be a
campaign for the serious consideration of
the one national policy which touches
every man in the country.
THAT is the policy as 10 how we are
to raise Sl,COO,OOO,o00 year for the ex-
penses of the various functions that have
been put upon the Federal Treasury,
not by one party or one section OF the
country. but by the whole people by their
agitation for the development OF agTi-
culture, the regulation OF railways, the
inspection Of mines, the Improvement Of
rivers and harbors, the payment OF pen
siOns 10 the veterans OF our wars, the
maintenance of the army and navy, the
care of national forests. the reclamation
OF arid lands, and the multiplicity OF
other demands that are made on Congress
for appropriations and supported. as a
rule, by a majority, regardless of po-
litical division.
Talk, but Not Votes.
THE minority party in Congress always
INDUCES in talk about economy, but il
votes for the largest appropriations
There are now in the various committees
of the House Of Representatives bills in
PRODUCED alone which would call for APP
preparations amounting TO nearly $685.
10000 more than was appropriated.
With Mr. Clark as the Democratic
leader Of those who are dissatisfied with
the Payne tariff law, there ought TO be
no misunderstanding as to what the COM
test msans. II is progressive only toward
free trade; II is reactionary as to ali the
progress. we have made under protection
in the last half century.
The agitation for another tariff re-
vision, or another attempted revolution IN
our revenue policy. is just as dangerous
to the welfare Of the whole people as was
that of 1894. when the Wilson tariff was
enacted.
What IL Progresst
my notion about progress is that II
should be a movement forward. 1 have
seen men who promised TO get sixty miles
ont Of an engine that has been making
only thirty miles an hour If they could
only get hold OF the lever. and I have
seen some Of them in their ignorance re
verse the engine. sending 1t and the whole
train backward. I have met the man
Who claimed he could extract gold from
sea water. but have also seen John T.
Raymond play Col. Sellers and heard him
get off that dramatic satire. There
millions in it." And l have measured
the serious pretensions Of the former
with the comedy OF Raymond, as he IL
illustrates the humor OF Mark Twain.
Il may be a little old-fashioned in such
matters, but prefer a demonstration 10
a declaration, and our friends the enemy
who are demanding another tariff revi-
sion TO bring into effect a revenue tariff
in place Of the protective tariff look 10
me like reactionaries who would reverse
the engine and go back over this phe-
nOmenal half century Of progress 10 the
old order before the war"