New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-16

the interest of interests III tnlo o'ntc niliSh
Theodore Roosevelt has always peen tne
enemy of and always viii De. Ana IN tilat
issue am very proud to stand on the size
of Theodore Roosevelt
Attacks Dis's Tariff Talk.
Another thing that Mr.: Dix has SAID,
which l think we have a right 10 scruunize
and which on the scrutiny Io llat nao s lGi
about the tariff, Now, what ne says apoul
the tariff, its face, sounded very patIi-
otic ! will read IL. i nave MS speech
here. He said
Il believe in order to do away with the
high cost of living from which all OF the
people of the country now so greatly surfer
the governing power must be in the hands
of the Democratic party, tnat we may nav
an honest and downward revision Oh tne
nresent iniuuitous tariff. Sueh a revision
will restore the situation where the aver
age man will be able to save something
from his income after he mas paiu ior Inc
bare necessarieS of life.
Now. there is a great deal to be said in
favor of those sentiments. There is sfeat
deal of room for honest opinion. l 1lysell
believe that one of the best things that has
come out of our last revision OF ths lafllt
is the adoption by Congress INTO law OF
that suggestion of our great fresloent,
William II Taft looking forward to future
revision along more scientific lines. mean
the establishment of revision by poaId
of tariff experts, taking 1t up one ScneduIe
at a time SO as to do away with this log
rolling, this method of interests gong GOWN
to Washington and pulling for one agalnsIt
tariff for a vote from another.
President Taft has adopted method
which will do away with that ana 10 Ih az
extent l think there is a great deal to De
said as to tariff revision But how amour
the sincerity of Mr. Dix's statement? Whal
these yirtuous sentiments that / have read
to you? How long has he thought tha5
there must be an honest and downward
revision of the present Ubiquitous tariff?
Well looked it up. was so struck by those
eloquent remarks that looked IT up, ana
actually revising this tariff this is what
happened so far az Mr.. Dix was concerned
You know he is a business man. the presi
pany and the Standard Wall Paper Com
pany, of Washington County, near Sara
made his wealth out of that business, and
there is a duty on wallpaper. Whieh ms
concern produces, and there was duty on
wallpaper under the Dlngley tariff OF 20
per cent ad valorem.
Dix Sought Higher Tariff Rates.
Now, when Congress, a year and a half
ago, in the Payne Aidrieh revision came to
that schedule, do you think that Mr. Dix
and his company went down to Washington
said: Gentlemen, am in favor Of an hon
est and downward revision of the present
Ubiquitous tariff as he says to-day? DIG
he go down there and say, Gentlemen, l
have had a successful business under the
present tariff. / have made a good dea! OF
money. I am a. millionaire, and 1t Is time
now that some of the benefits of this duty
should be distributed among the consumers
of wallpaper, that they can get wallpa-
per little more cheaply,' and as he says
now. $50 that the average man Will be able
to save something from his income after
he has paid for the bare necessaries OF
This is what he did. and it is record.
1t is on record in the printed report OF tne
hearings before the Ways and Means COM
mittee His COmpanieS-he is president or
one of them and a director in the other
i a11rh NH9
pointed chairman of the Democratic State
Committee since he resigned that p0sltiohLe
those companies-this is what they did:
The Standard Wall Paper Company wrote
letter which Mr. HuppHeh slgng ,. 10 +, me
asked not for a lower tariff on Wallpaper
but for a tariff that should De materially
higher wallpaper, tariff with mini.
mum of 35 per cent instead of % per cent
and a maximum of % per cent AND they
urged at the time when this, as he calls,
been downward and which he now wants TO
turn the Republicans out OF power Tor not
making downward, when that iniquitous
revision was going on. his company and his
mariner went down there and tried to make
it a little bit more iniquitous ,oo+,a,,ar
who has a record like this is entitled TO
come before the people of the state VINO
don't know anything more about him eX,
cept his professions, who has never held
public Office and who has never been before
the people of the state as a, public ofhcer-
credit of the people of the state for abso-
lutte sincerity? ] hardly think so.
Visits His soyhood Town.
Southampton was the last place on the
afternoon schedule, and it was reached
Just before dusk and just before the fog
began to turn into a drilling rain. But
Mr. Stimson passed much of his boy
hood in this neighborhood. and the whole
town was waiting to greet him at the
railroad station and follow him up to
Agawam Hall in automobiles, carriages,
wagons and on foot, with the band lead
ing the way.
Nearly six hundred persons crowded
the little hall that was built to accom-
modate half that number and listened
to ex-Judge Henry w. Howland's eulo-
CYSTIC introduction of the candidate and
Mr.. Stimsons own speech.
Mr.. Stimson's speech here was largely
a repetition of his Carnegie Hall address.
His references to Taft. Roosevelt and
Hughes, whom he coupled as the lead
ars of the party in the state and nation,
were received with frequent bursts of
applause. and there was prolonged
cheering when he said:
1T will be my aim, if elected to main
tain, so far as my ability will go, the
standards set by Governor Hughes
And again, when he took up the cud-
gels once more for Colonel Roosevelt,
there was repeated cheering as he said:
1T has been my privilege to serve
under both Mr.. Roosevelt and Mr.. Taft,
and / never found the slightest diff
Guilty in performing my full duty to
either with absolute loyalty TO the other
| can say with the authority of Presi-
dent Taft that the New York campaign
has nothing to do with the nomination
OF a President in 1912 or with changing
the fundamental doctrines of the Re-
publican party. Now, if Mr.. Taft has
not fear for 1912, don't think that MI
Dix or any of his associates need charge
their consciences with it,
The last speech of the day, the nine
teenth that Mr. Stimson had made since
his train left Long Island City this
morning. was to the factory workers at
Sag Harbor. Mr.. Stimson went there in
an automobile from Southampton after
dinner at the home OF his brother-in-
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