The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-03-16
SPEAKER CANNON
fLAYs HIS CRITICS
Terms Them Demagogues Who Gre
ate Dissatisfaction - Points To
Tariff as Best Law Ever Enacted.

WASHINGTON, March l5.--The Tot
( lowing telegram has been sent lN
President TAFT 10 The Illinois Repuhll-
can Editoria! association in session q.
SPRINGFIELD. lis, addressed 10 Georse
G. RANKIN. president ot the assoc'@'
ton.
Il sincerely hope that you will have
a full meeting, that there will be har-
mony. and that the Repu olioan editorS
/ OF Illinois will stand by the action ot
the Republican congress anu the Re
publican administration ia reference
10 the taIif bill and other progressive
legislation. The expression or a meet
ing Ike the one you have called, arls-
ing from a normal, sane and PATRIOTS
Republican attitude Will have much
influence for good in Illinois and the
rest OF the country.
(Signed) WILLIAM Il TAFT.
Speaker Cannon sent i letter which
read in part.
L feel that there is no occasion FOR
me 10 either advise OF encourage the
Republican editors OF Illinois. who
have been a potent factor in the pol
itics OF the state since before the Re
publican party was formally organ
ICED
The Republican party has not dis
carded any OF its principles, nor has II
sought new issues simply for the pur-
pose OF catching the crowd ever ready
for novelties Where IL has added new
planks TO its platforms il has kept It's
pledges That IL is now working into
law the pledges OF the last national
Republican convention is not therefore
surprising. President Taft met the
first pledge in this platform the day
after his inauguration by calling the
sixty-first congress in extraordinary
session TO revise the tariff.
Within six months after its enact
ment, the tariff law has demonstrated
that II is the best revenue produce.
as we'll as the most scientific adjust
ment OF protective duties ve have
ever had. fully justifying the presi-
dents declaration that II is the best
tariff law ever enacted
In carrying out that pledge OF the
platform We enacted tariff in which
there were 645 decreases from the
Dingley law and 215 increases and lis
items OF the dutiable list unchanged;
the articles on which duties were de-
creased represented $4,000, 900
worth OF consumption. while those In
creased had a consumption value OF
less than one billion. The increases
were on Injuries and the decreases
on necessities. and in the first six
months Of the law more than 81 per
cent OF all importations were free OF
duty The increase Of revenues has
been nearly fifty million dollars Ia
six months, making the Payne law the
best revenue producer We have ever
had.
The present congress has been
more energetic and more successful
in carrying forward the work before
II than has any other congress In re-
cent years. More work has been done
In the three months which the session
has now run than was accomplished In
the same time by the ffty-ninth con-
gress. which President Roosevelt said
enacted more wise legislation than
any other congress IN the preceding
half century.
Among the public bills passed By
the house is an amended employers
liability law, statehood bill 10 admit
Arizona and New Mexico. a bankrupt
cy bill. bill TO amend the safety
appliance Law bill to compel railroads
10 report accidents, and a bill 10
create a bureau OF mines, all important
in carrying forward the pledges OF the
party.
The committees have been giving
most careful study 10 the number OF
bills TO amend the interstate com
merce law and other legislation prom
Used in the Republican platform and
think | can safely predict that this
Legislation will be added.
1t is the function OF the Republi-
can editors TO keep the people inform
ed as 10 the work accomplished that
they may not be misled by dema-
gogues whose function is TO complain
and create dissatisfaction: that the
people may fairly judge as TO the fldel-
ity Of the present administration TO
the principles OF the party that gave
| ii power. 10 the end that the president
may continue 10 have the support OF
the legislative department In working
out the policies OF the Republican
party"