New-York tribune., 1910-09-22
CANNON NO JEREMIAH
Has Faith in Good Sense OF the
People, He Says.
TARIFF NEEDS NO DEFENCE
Refers to Those Who Are Ped
ding Novelties in Govern
mental Policies.

DanviIIe, Ill, Sept 2l.-speaker Joseph
G. Cannon. in accepting his twentieth
nomination for Congress to-day. said the
present tariff needed no defence and de-
clared agitation for it's revision dangerous
to the welfare OF the country. He said in
part:
Gentlemen: In accepting this twentieth
nomination for Representative I want TO
express my conviction that this is TO be a
campaign for the serious consideration of
the one national policy which touches every
man in the country That is the policy as
to how we are to raise one billion dollars
a year for the expenses of the various func-
tons 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
agriculture. the regulation Of railways. the
inspection of mines. the Improvement of
rivers and harbors, the payment of pen
s.ons to the veterans of our wars. the main
tenanoe of the army and navy, the care Of
national forests, the reclamation Of arid
lands and the multiplicity of other de-
nands that are made on the Congress for
appropriations and supported, as rule by
a majority regardless of political division.
Democratic Economy Talk.
THE minority party in Congress always
INDUCES In talk about economy, but
votes for the largest appropriations. There
are now In the various committees of the
House of REPRESENTATIVES bills introduced
BIZ Democrats alone. which would call for
appropriations amounting to nearly $780,
600 coo more than was appropriated
THE tariff contest to-day Is just what II
has been for fifty years-a contest between
protection and free trade. We now have IN
command Of the Democrats in the House
of Representatives a man who mas never
attempted TO dodge or explain away the
Democratic position. The honorable Champ
Clark announced himself a free trader
from the sole of my feet TO the crown or
nv head as he expressed II when he came
10 Congress, and he has been consistent IN
that declaration throughout his public ser
vice.
with MI. 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 con-
test means It IS progressive only toward
free trade; II is reactonary as TO all the
progress we have made under protection in
the last half century.
The agitation for another tariff revision
or another attempted revolution IN our
revenue policy is just az dangerous TO the
welfare of the whole people as was that
Of 1894 when the Wilson tariff was enacted.
81 have no defence TO make OF the Payne
law. for il needs none. II is the enact
rnent Of the pledges made by the Repubii-
can national convention In 1908 1t is in
keeping with the policy of protection which
the Republican party has maintained as
the correct revenue policy ever since the
election Of Abraham Lincoln; in fact, il IS
in harmony with the very first revenue
legislation of the first Congress under the
administration OF Washington. That pol
icy is 10 protect the American producer
from the Iuenual competition of the for
eign product In order that we may keep
our labor on a higher plane than Is the
Ia Dor of Europe Asia and the islands Of the
sea.
Conservation OF Credit.
The credit of q nation can be exhausted
as is that of an individual While talking
about conservation. would 1t not be well
70 see that our credit Is conserved? We
must pay as we go
Many talk of economy, but they are
general, not specific. in their statements
We have got beyond the speculative stage
of this question II Is now intensely prac-
teal, or will be after November If a Con-
p--es, is elected commissioned to 60 back
to the reactIonary policy of 1894, with the
business conditions of to-day.
IL am not a jeremiah, for 1 have faith
IN +he good sense of the people, even when
advised by those who are peddling novel
ties in governmental policies, TO keep
sbr.sst of this age of publicity
MY notion about progress is that il