Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-18
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| BY SECRETARY WILSON
Opens Campaign in Presi-
dents State With Praise
of the Administration.

KENYON, Ohio. September LITTLE
Ohio republicans opened their campaign
here today, the chief speaker being Sec
rotary of Agriculture James Wilson. The
weather was pleasant and there was q
large crowd.
Growth Under Protection.
Mr.. Wilson said In part:
For half century we have had re-
publican policies. When the party came
factories and little population in the
west. The western country yielded
grains and meats abundantly. but there
were no markets beyond the requirements
OF new settlers. The people were fntelli-
gent, and saw at once that home mar
kets were needed. 1t cost too much to
send crops to Europe. We wanted shops.
encouraging them. A protective system
was adopted that made a home market
into which the outside world has wanted
to enter ever since. Republican policy
then was to give protection equal to the
difference between the cost of production
at home and abroad.
"A further reduction of tariffs generally
would hit the working people first. Eu-
rope has lower wages than the United
States and would promptly take ad-
-
would lose his customers and prices for
both factory and farm goods would come
down.
Get Facts About Tariff.
Congress may not have had all the
information necessary when the tariff
was revised. President Taft desired to
get all the facts, so that IL any schedule
is too high, compared with the cost
of production at home and abroad. 1t
can be intelligently modified. He has
got the money to get the information for
Congress in the future, and agents are
at work getting the facts for the law
makers.
f"For many years this country has
been Disseminated against by several
foreign countries. Power. more or less
appropriate, has been given to several
Presidents to remedy this wrong. The
it these determinations have ceased.
Farm products go now where they have
not gone for many years.
Record of Administration.
"The legislation enacted during the
first fifteen months of President Taft's
administration has no parallel until we
go back to the legislation enacted during
the civil war. He has had well deserved
success. 1t has not happened so; it has
come about through the most intelligent
and tireless efforts on his part. His re-
lations with both houses of Congress have
been of the most amicable nature. with
few exceptions. No tariff bill pleases
everybody, and it is not surprising that
gentlemen in both houses should have
vigorously opposed some Of the measures
found in the Payne bill. In fact, our
democratic friends have opposed much of
our legislation. features of the tariff bill
included. except when they applied to
home interests in localities in which these
gentlemen were interested.
"It is universally conceded that all the
facts necessary for intelligent legislation
were not at the disposal of the two
houses of Congress when they were act
ing upon the tariff. Steps have been
taken to remedy this in the future. A
tariff board. authorized by the Congress
and appointed by the President. is now
at work ascertaining the comparative
cost of production at home and abroad Of
all the articles upon which duties are
levied at our ports Of entry. When this
is secured, if Congress so desires and
arranges its rules to permit 1t, the
schedules can be taken UP. one at q
time, considered and modified. This will
be q new departure in tariff legislation in
the United States"