New-York tribune., 1910-09-04
ROOSEVELT ON TARIFF
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with the Pinchot- Garfield attitude Win
regard to conservation. and 1t is haroly
likely that he will even commend the
extensive Withdrawals of the pubic 90
main which President Taft has made IN
the interest of conservation and which
include an area more than double that
withdrawn under the Roosevelt admins
tration. Of course. Mr.. Roosevelt Will
not attack the Taft administration, but
It is probable he would have ignored 1t
entirely had not some of his 1nsurgeht
friends suggested that an Endorsement
of the things which he could conscien-
1iously commend would go far to pro-
mote Republican success this fall
At the many stops made during the
day there was invariably crowd large
for the town, and always some evidence
of the high regard in which Mr.. Roose-
Welt is held. For instance, at the little
town of Adrian, Iowa, man jumped on
the step as the train slowed down.
Roosevelt, I want to shake your hand.
I know you from your picture" he said.
The colonel shook his hand, and as he
did SO the man exclaimed with great
fervor. God bless your SOUL. MIR.
Roosevelt inquired his name, which he
said was Lane. When the train stopped
half a dozen little children were held up,
and each handed the ex-President
bunch of flowers On the station. was
crudely drawn picture of Mr.. Roosevelt
shooting lion.
by George" he exclaimed to those
who stood with him on the platform. l
am profoundly touched. This is really
most affecting
When the state line between Mime
sofa and South Dakota was reached
the Roosevelt train was stopped,
and the former President and the cor
respondents in his party posed for
number of pictures. after which Mr..
Roosevelt called for the engineer and
fireman, saying he was a member of the
firemen's union, and had group picture
taken which included them, Captain
Seth Bullock and, indeed. all who were
! on the train. including the local com
mittee from Sioux Falls.
When Sioux Falls was reached the for
mer President accompanied by Seth
Bullock and Mayor Martin, was immedi-
ately escorted to the head of long pro-
cession, which included several com
panies of the national guard, several
hundred automobiles and a long line of
buggies and carriages. After a parade
of about twenty-five blocks through the
principal streets of the city a great tent
was raised-one far too limited in ca
pactty to accommodate the immense
throng which had gathered in the city,
some coming hundreds of miles to see
Colonel Roosevelt. But there was no
lack of enthusiasm. not even among
those who could not hear his speech,
| which follows:
Whenever men just like ourselves-prob-
| ably not much better and certainly no
! worse-continually. fail to give US the re-
suits we have right to expect from their
| EFFORTS, we may just as well make up our
minds that the fault lies not i'll their per
| they work, and profit comes not from de-
nouncing them, but in seeing that the con-
ditions are changed. This is especially
| true of tariff making. IT has been con-
clusiyely shown by experiments repeated
| again and again that the methods of tariff
making by Congress which have now OBJ
| very nature of the case bring really salts
! factory results.
| With the present tariff, made by the same
| methods as its predecessor and as that
! predecessors predecessor, there is grave
| dissatisfaction. The people know that
! there are some things in it which are not
| right and therefore they tend to suspect
| the-aS | thlnk-more numerous things in
| it which are right. They know the system
| on which 1t was made, the same system
| on which its predecessors were made, en-
| courages scramble of selfish interests to
| which the all important general interest
| of the public is necessarily more or less
subordinate0. There was a time when
| this scramble was regarded as the natural
| course in tariff making and was not re
! sented Now the people demand, and right
| ly. that the profit of the special interests
| shall be subordinated to the general vel
! fare in every case. 1t is this attitude of
! the people which must be met in dealing
with the present tariff. and with proposals
to amend the present tariff. Very little
| Improvement, indeed, will follow any at
| tempt to revise the tariff by methods hith-
! erto used. The thing to do is to change
| the methods.