The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-21
"THAT DAVENPORT PERSON
 SHOULD BE CHASTISED"
 SAYS MRS. ). WATT CURTISS
UNCLE JOE STICKS BY
 HIS GUNS
(specia1 from United Press0

(SDGC1al rom OnIL6Q EG0SS-J
 DanviIle, Ills, Sept. 21-'I have no defense to make of the Payne-A1drich tariff law for it needs none. It is the enactment of the pledges made by the Republican convention of 1908. It is in keeping with the policy of protec- ton which the Republican party has maintained as the correct revenue pol icy ever since the election of Abraham Lincoln: in fact it is in harmony with the very first revenue legislation of the first Congress under the adninis- tratfon of Washington
 Speaker Joseph G. Cannon, in let ter to his Congressional convention today, accepting his 10th nomination as a Representative, thus hurled de hance at the insurgents and Democrats who have attacked the tariff law. As leader of the stand-patters in Congress, Cannon made it clear>that he will con- tinue to stand pat The Speakers s ciaI and industrial conditions in the country in support of his contention that only by such a tariff as Is now in vogue sscan the country's industries be paid, prosperity assured and money raised to conduct the government.
 '"The Democratic tariff failed to pro duce sufficient revenue said the Speaker. ssMore than that it was either directly or indirectly responsible for the depression of business which resulted in commercial failures amounting to more than one billion dollars in the four years of Cleveland's s administration.
 My notion about progress is that it should be a movement forward, not simply a loud noise about the neces- sfty for the movement. nor an extrava- gant promise to accelerate the move nent if given control of the machine.
 Since the repeal of the Wilson tar if law our whole production, both or agriculture and manufactures, has dou- bled in value; our national wealth has greatly increased; our railroads have added 60,O0O miles since 1895 and their employees have doubled in number. The actual earnings of these employees have increased from SAY, 100000 to s1,- OOO O0O OOO''
 Cannon recited at length the accom- plishnents Of the Payne law and con tinued:
 we have the results and the proof of the pudding is in the eating. l want to express my conviction that this is to be a campaign for the ser1- ous consideration of the one national policy which touches every man in the country That is the question as. to how we are to raise one billion dollars a year for the expenses 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 in their agitation for the development of agriculture, the regu- Ia ation of railroads, the inspection of mines, the improvement of rivers and harbors, the care of the national for ests and the reclamation of arid lands.''
 The Speaker declared that the agita- tion to place new burdens on the Fed eral government increases rather than diminishes.
 ssThe agitation for another tariff re- vision or another attempted revolution in our revenue policy is just as dan gerous to the welfare of the whole peo- pie as was that of 1894, when the Will son tariff was enacted was the Speak CTS final conclusion.