Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1910-09-21
CANNON PUTS
HIS 0. K. TO The
PRESENT TARIFF
Says 1t Needs No Defense and
Declares Agitation Is
Dangerous.

DANVILLE, H.. Sept. 21.-Speaker
Joseph G. Cannon, in accepting his
twentieth nomination for Congress to-
day, 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 twen-
tieth nomination for representative, I
want to express my conviction that
this is to be campaign for the seri-
Gus consideration of the one national
policy which touches every man in the
country. That is the policy as to how
we are to raise one billion dollars a
year for the expenses of the various
functions that have been put upon the
Federal treasury.
1.-The tariff contest today is just what
is had been for fifty years-a contest
between protection and free trade. We
now have in command of the Demo-
Gratis in the House of Representatives
a man who has never attempted to
dodge or explain away the Democratic
position. The Hon. Champ Clark an
nounced himself free trader from
the sole of my feet to the crown or my
head as he expressed it when he came
to Congress, and he has been con-
sistent in that declaration throughout
his public service.
Ought TO be No misunderstanding.
"With Mr.. Clark as the Democratic
leader of those who are dissatisfied
with the Payne tariff law, there ought
to be no misunderstanding as to what
the contest means. 1t Is progressive
only toward free trade; it is reaction
airy as to all the progress we nave
made under protection in the last half
century.
1.-The agitation for another tariff re-
vision or another attempted revolution
in our revenue policy, is just as dan
gerous to the welfare of the whole peo-
pie as was that of 1894. when the VIII
son tariff was enacted.
II have no defense to make of the
PAYNE law. for it needs none, 1t is the
enactment of the pledges made by the
Republican national convention In 1913.
1t Is in keeping with the policy or pro-
lection which the Republican party
has maintained as the correct revenue
policy ever since the election or Aora-
ham Lincoln; in fact, 1t is IN harmony
with the very first revenue legislation
of the first Congress under the admin
istration of Washington. That policy
is to protect the American producer
from the unequal competition OF the
foreign product, in order that we may
keep up our labor on higher plane
than is the labor of Europe and Asia
and the islands of the sea.
THE credit of a nation can be eX-
hausted as is that of an individual
While talking about conservation would
it not be well that our credit is con-
seved? We must pay as we go.
Il am not jeremiah, for have faith
in the good sense of the people, even
when advised by those who are peddling
novelties in governmental policies, to
keep abreast of this age of publicity. l
may be a little ld-fashioned, but l pre-
fer a demonstration to declaration,
and our friends, the enemy. who are
demanding another tariff revision to
bring into effect a revenue tariff in
place of the protective tariff look to me
like reactionaries, who would go back
over this phenomenal half century of
progress to the old order before the
war"