The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-10-12

American people at present seriously
| advocate free trade or a tariff for rev.
] enue only. / most emphatically do be-
| lieve that il any such issue is raised,
there will be an overwhelming decision
in favor of the policy of such measure
| of protection as that above outlined.
No More LOg-ROlIIng.
Now the question is. how TO accom-
| plish the purpose thus explicitly de-
| clafed. II seems 10 me, and L think
that more and more II seems to the
| people of this country. that the meth
| tariffs Tor a great many years past,
are ineffective in correctly and justly
applying the protective principle as
outlined above. We wish to give proper
protection TO each given business and,
| above all, 10 the WOrkmen in each
given business, as matter of right and
justice. and not as a matter of favor
| or preference, and, above all. not give
/ proper protection as a matter OF favor
| or preference obtained by log-rOlling.
therefore. we feel that there should
ne tariff commission, composed of
| impartial experts amply equipped for
obtaining, not merely from the state
ments or interested parties but by such
investigation as Will satisfy them that
the Facts are accurate. information
/ that will enable Congress in each given
case TO establish the measure of pro-
lection necessary TO carry out the prin-
eiples above set forth.
Moreover. these Investigations
should form a program, each successive
report being treated on its merits, so
that each schedule can be revised by
itself in accordance with the facts de-
velOped by this commission of impair
Ilal experts, and without any heed be-
ing paid TO any other consideration
than the Justice of that particular case.
This VIII prevent log-rolling and ii
viii also prevent the far-reaching dis
tur bance of business which necessarily
comes when all the schedules are re-
Yised in lump.
WOrkingman 10 Get His Share.
Finally. l feel that il should be the
duty OF some government body at any
time 10 Investigate conditions in any
particular industry TO see whether the
Workingmen do actually get the bene-
fit that the tariff is primarily created
TO give; that is, 10 see that the labOrer
gets his full share of the benefit of
the protective tariff in accordance with
what I firmly believe 10 be the pur-
pose Of the American people.
BY enacting into law such a policy
as that above outlined We shall, on
the one hand. do away with the danger
would follow il they were left wholly
without protection from foreign com
petition, and on the other hand, we
make 1t sure that the laboring man
gets the benefit of the tariff primarily
enacted in his interest, do away with
the faVoritism and log-rolling which
under present conditions seem newt
able in the process OF tariff-maklng
and make il certain that the amount OF
protection granted in each case is the
amount actually necessary to cover the
difference in the cost of production
here and abroad and not so exclusive
as TO represent improper favoritism to
any special group of men.
Il think that the surest way to pre-
vent an agreement is TO indulge in use
less recriminatiOn about the past. You
re m ar present tariff made
up by exactly the same methods that
its predecessor was made and that its
Democratic predecessor made, exactly
the methods that have obtained in tar
iff-making for an indefinite number
Colonel Roosevelt then endorsed the
plank in the Missouri Republican plat
form which pledges the party to a
workingman's compensation act.
Appeal for Republican Party.
Colonel Roosevelt closed his speech
with a vigorous attack upon the Demo-
cratic party and an appeal to the peO-
pie to support the Republican party.
Our opponents" he said. stand for
nothing. In one state they claim to
represent a radicalism so extreme and
so foolish that il there were any at
tempt TO apply it in practice II would
invoke the most absolute reaction: In
other staes they stand aVowedly, or II
not avOwediy, they stand in reality In
spite of hypOcritical professions to the
contrary, for open reaction. They have
no coherent policy.
"a party that dominates Mr.. Bryan
as q radical one year and Mr.. Parker
as an ultra conservative next time, and
then Mr. Bryan again, and then waits
to see il somebody won't carry an
election somewhere so they can nomin-
ate him again-that party has forfeited
the right to the respect and support of
independent citizens who seriously wish
well TO their native land.
I'VE have a coherent policy We have
had difficulties We are settling them
not by a compromise of principles, but
by coming together on a platform
which is one of high principle and also
one of proved efficiency. We ask you
to support us. We ask you TO support
us in Missouri as in New York be-
cause we preach the same doctrine in
Missouri and in New York, because
what / say to you tonight is exactly
what I should say in every state in
this union"
Colonel Roosevelt will leave at s
o'clock tomorrow morning for Peoria,
III. where he will spend the afternoon
and evening. making a speech 20 the
Knights OF Columbus.