The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-09-22
Agitation For Tariff Re.
v..sien Menaces Country
SPEAKER CANNON.

DANvILLE, ILL.,, Sept al have
no defense to make Of the Payne
Aldrich tariff law, for 1t needs none.
II is the enactment OF the pledges
made by the Republican convention
of 1908. 1t Is in keeping with the
policy of protection which the Repub-
lican party has maintained as the cor
rect revenue policy ever since the
election of Abraham Lincoln; In fact,
II Is in harmony with the very first
revenue legislation OF the first con-
gress under the administration OF
Washington"
Speaker Cannon, in q letter to the
congressional convention, today &C.
cepted his twentieth nomination as
representative, thus hurled defiance
at the insurgents and Democrats who
have attacked the tariff law. AS
leader of the standpatters in con-
gress. Cannon made 1t clear that ne
will continue to stand pat.
The speakers letter dealt exhaus-
lively with commercial and industrial
conditions In the country in support
OF his contention that only by such
tariff as Is now In vogue. Can the
country's industries be paid. prosper
ity assured and money raised to coll
duct the government.
"The Democratic tariff failed to pro
duce sufficient revenue" said the
speaker. more than that is vas
either directly or indirectly respon-
sible for the depression OF business
which resulted in commercial failures
amounting to more than one billion
dollars in the four years OF Cleve-
lands administration.
my notion about progress Is that
II should be movement forward, not
simply a loud noise about the neces-
sity for the movement, nor an ex-
travagant promise to accelerate the
movement IL given control Of the ma
chine
Since the repeal of the Wilson
tariff law our whole production, both
OF agriculture and manufactures. has
doubled in value; our national wealth
has vastly increased; our railroads
have added $4,000 miles since 1895,
and their employees have doubled In
number. The annual earnings OF these
employees have increased from SAT-
| 600 900 to one billion dollars"
Cannon recited at length the accom-
plishments Of the Payne law, and con-
| tinued:
I'VE have the results. and the proof
OF the pudding is in the eating.
| want to express my conviction that
this Is to be campaign for the seri-
Gus 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 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 coun.
try. but by the whole people in their
| agitation for the development OF agri-
culture. the regulation of railroads,
the inspection of mines. the improve
ment OF rivers and harbors. the care
Of the national forests and the reclaim
alton OF arid lands"
The speaker declared that the aeita-
ton to place new burdens on the fed
eral government increases rather than
dim'nshes.
| 1.-The agitation for another tariff re-
vision. OF another attempted revolu-
| ton in our revenue policy, is just as
dangerous to the welfare Of the whole
people as was that OF 1894 when the
Wilson tariff was enacted" is the
speakers final conclusion.