Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-21
Speaker Pays His Respects to
"Our Friends the Enemy"
HIS NOTION OF PROGRESS
More Than a Loud Noise About Its
Necessity, He Says.
REN0MINATED FOR CONGRESS
Declares Tariff Contest Is Between
to Peddlers of Novelties.

DANVIII.E Ill., September 21.-Speaker
Joseph G. Cannon in accepting his
twentieth nomination for Congress today.
said the present tariff needed no defense.
and declared agitation for its revision
dangerous to the welfare of the country.
He said in part:
Gentlemen, In accepting this twentieth
nomination for representative. i want to
express my conviction that this is to be
a campaign for the serious considera ton
of the one national policy which touches
every man in the country. That is the
policy as to how we are to raise 81 .OOO.-
COo,Ot0 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
py the whole people by their agitation
for the development of agriculture. the
regulation of railways, the inspection of
mines the improvement of rivers and
harbors. the payment of pensions to the
veterans of our wars. the maintenance of
The army and the navy, the care of ma
iional forests, the reclamation of arid
lands and the multiplicity of other de-
mands that are made on the Congress
for appropriations and supported as
rule by majority regardless of political
division.
Same Old Tariff Issue.
The tariff contest today is just what it
has been for fifty years-a contest be-
tween protection and free trade. We
now have in command of the democrats
IN the House of Representatives man
who has never attempted to dodge or
explain away the democratic position.
The Hon. Champ Clark announced HIM
self free trader from the sole of my
feet to the crown of my head, as he
expressed 1t when he came to Congress,
and he has been consistent In that deciar-
alton throughout his public service.
With MIR. Clark the democratic
leader of those who are dissatisfied with
ire Payne tariff law there ought to be
10 misunderstanding as to what the con-
test means. 1t is progressive only to-
ward free trade; 1t is reactionary as 10
ell the progress we have made under pro-
lection in the last half century.
The agitation for another tariff re-
vision, or another attempted revision In
our revenue policy, Is & Just ,a as dangeroas q as
that Of 1894, when the wilson tarin was
enacted.
Says Tariff Needs No Defense.
II have no defense to make of the
Payne Law, for 1t needs none. 1t is the
enactment of pledges made by the repuo-
lican national convention of 1908 1t Is
in keeping with the policy OF projection
which the republican party has MAIN
tanned as the correct revenue policy ever
since the election of Abraham Lincoln: IN
fact. it is in harmony with the very nrst
revenue legislation Of the first Congress
under the administration OF washington.
That policy is to protect the american
nroducer from the unequal compet1uon OF
the foreign product, in order that we
may keep our labor on higner plane
than is the labor or Europe Asia anu 'he
Islands of the sea.
IT am not a jeremiah, for have faith
in the good sense of the people, even
when advised by those who are peddhng
royeIties in governmental policies. to keep
abreast of this age OF publicity.
His Notion of Progress.
NV notion about progress is that 1t
shoula be a movement forward. not sim
pIy loud noise about the necessity Tor
the movement nor an .extraVagant prom
se TO accelerate the movement II given
control of the machine. | have seen men
vho nromised 10 get sixty miles out OF
an engine that had been making only
thirty miles an hour If they could only
oct mold of the lever, and | have seen
some of them in their ignorance reverse
the engine. sending il and the whole train
~ NAV be little old fashioned in such
matters but / prefer demonstration 10
A declaration, and our friends the enemy.
uho are demanding another tarln revision
,o bring into effect a revenue tariff in
mace of the protective tariff. look to me
like reactionaries who would reverse
the engine and go back over this phe
nomenal half century of progress to the
old order before the war.