Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-07-19
CANNON TALKS
ON THE TARIFF
ATCHAUTAUQUA
SPEAKER SEES DANGER FOR
COUNTY IN CONTINUATION OF
PINcHoT.

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congress today at the Winfield chau
tauqua. The speaker defended the
Payne-Aldrich tariff act and declared
that the country has prospered un
& der 1t.
An incident of Cannon's Western
trip occurred last night at Kansts City
when the speaker and Clifford Pinchot
We're fellow guests at a banquet.
Mr.. Cannon, who spoke first, said
that the late ]. w. Powell, at one time
director of the government geological
survey, deserved the honor, but Mr.
Pinchot asserted that Theodore Roose
Welt was the father of conservation.
The little debate followed most
friendly meeting betweet the two men
At the close of his speech turning
to Mr.. Pinchot, Mr.. Cannon said 81
have the greatest personal regard for
you, but l understand that you are
now engaged in conservation work
for the organization of a new party.
II tell you, sir" he added, that a
party cannot stand on a single issue,
although our party did stand on sin
gle issue once in that great conflict be-
tween servile and free labor"
Inc WInnSio AQOrS6S.
In his Winfield address. speaker
cannon said in part:
Discomfort of people is not meas
ured by complaints in the press. 1t is
measured in more significant man
ner and makes more indelible i'm
preston than that of penny paper
bought, perused, thrown away and for
gotten. "The pocket nerve" is one OF
the most sensitive nerves in our civil
ization, and that nerve is always the
first affected by any general discomfort
or want of confidence. have seen no
evidence of weakness in "tLe pocket
nerves. here in Kansas, where you
are reveling in high prices for farm
products and showing no sympathy
for those in the east who complain
about the high prices of beef and pork,
of wheat and corn. have seen no eyt
dence of attack on the pocket nerve
anywhere in the west, where business
Is moving with a rush rarely seen be-
fore. There has not been enough of a
disturbance Of this nerve even 10
brighten Wall Street for more than an
hour or two at time, and then the
scare has been produced by some fake
report or a supposed calamity, such
rs fake report of the administration
running amuck among the corpora
items, or the rumor of the death OF
some financial magnate.
'The pocket nerve" was never in
better condition than it Is today, and
that is the real evidence of confidence
on the part of the American people In
the economic policies Of the govern
ment. That nerve shows no sign OF
prostrataion, such as it showed after
the democratic party came into power
and enacted the Wilson-Gorman tariff
act. There was an experience that
shattered the pocket nerve and all
other nerves in our business organiza-
ton.
Take the Tariff Out of Politics.
"Take the tariff out of politics" is
the advice of some; but have noticed
that this advice usually comes from
those who are opposed to the protec-
tive tariff under which this country
has had its greatest development. We
have several times thought we had
the tariff out of politics by the DEM
onstration of the success and the ne
cessity for the protective tariff prin-
ciple.
We thought this principle of tariff
taxation had been firmly established
when it produced the revenue to pay
off the debt of the civil war and at
the same time built up our industries,
not only in the north, but in the south
which had been laid waste by the raw
ages of that war; But our opponents
Nf
years they met in national conventions
and declared that a tariff for protec-
ton was unconstitutional and a sys-
tenn of robbery. They made their
campaigns on that issue, refusing to
allow the system that had been estab-
lished to such great advantage to the
country to stand unmolested. They did
not merely advocate a change of tar,
IN schedules. They insisted that the
system was wrong, was unconstitu-
tional and must be abolished.
The present democratic leader in
the house of representatives has re-
peatedly said:
II am free-trader from the sole of
my foot to the crown of my head and
would tear down every custom
house from turret to foundation
stone"
In that declaration Mr.. Clark was
not speaking as an individual, but as
q loyal, enthusiastic, ardent democrat,
representing the tariff principles of
the democratic party and their unwav-
ering determination not to allow the
tariff to be kept out Of politics.
President Mckinley thought we had
taken the tariff out of politics In 1899,
when the whole country had so pros.
pered under the Dingley law that it
seemed we had at last accepted the
principles of protection, and that he
hoped 1t would be many years before
there would be another campaign
made against it, But in the next year
the democratic party in national con-
vention again took their old position
that the tariff was unconstitutional
and made their campaign against it,
CAS7ORIA ForInfants and CtsAtrsa