Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-06-29
Lodge
Stands by Tariff,

Somerville, Mass, June 28.-Declar-
ing that he believes the Payne Aldrich
tariff bill which became a law year
ago was as good a bill as could be
made under crude and unscientific
method" and urging the voters to
await the result of the Investigations
OF the tariff board created under the
bill rather than to put the Democrats
in power and allow a complete Eevis-
ion Of the tariff and the consequent
throwing Of business into confusion
and suspense" Senator Henry Cabor
Lodge addressed a large gathering at
monster Republican rally held in the
largest hall in the city tonight.
Other speakers included Congress
man Nicholas LongwOrth. son-in law
Of ex- President Roosevelt, Gov. Eben
T7raper and Congressman Samual W.
Mccall. Senator Lodge devoted his ad-
dress entirely to a discussion of the
tariff. and urged that the result of the
Investigations of the tariff board Gre
ated by the Payne-Aldrich act be
awaited before another revision Is I'M
dertaken. He said in part:
1.-The practical question which con-
fronts the country at this election is
this: Shall another general revision be
undertaken based upon the old and de-
fective methods of an outworn sys-
TEN. or shall we await the work OF the
tariff board and proceed to deal with
the tariff in whole or in part as that
information is furnished to us from
expert and DISTINGUISHED sources?
1.-The; extreme protectionists of
certain tyne has no desire for the tar
iff hoard because he would exclude
everything of foreign manufacture
which competed with our own manu-
features. by prohibitory duties If need
full. On the other side is the Demo-
cratic party. and they are opposed 10
the tariff board because they desire to
revise the tariff without any regard
to facts and to make one of their own
upon the old and bad system. The
Democrats do not want the facts.
Their demand is for tariff for reve-
nue. only That is mere phrase ana
in practice is an impossibility. A duty
EXPANDS according to the desire OF d
particular locality for protection.
THE Democrats ask you to put them IN
power in order that they may enter
complete revision of the entire tariff
throwing business into confusion and
suspense, and they propose to do it on
the old and discredited methods. The Re-
publican party. which is quite aware
that no tariff is permanent. that condi-
lions change and the rates of duty must
from time to time be altered. ask you 70
await the information of the tariff board,
SO that when we revise one schedule or
all the schedules we may do 1t intelli-
gently and scientifically and not by the
old and wrong methods.
II shall have something to say in the
months that lie ahead of us in regard 10
the tariff bill which became law year
ago and which l believe to be as good a
bill as could be made under a rude and
unscientific method"
Congressman Longworth in his address
lauded the work of the session of Con-
gress which has just closed. He declared
that it would go down in history as the
most remarkable on record for legisla-
tive activity and that an enormous
amount of legislation, progressive and
constructive in it's nature, had been
enacted.