Charlevoix county herald., 1910-10-08

Good Word For Burrows-Says Taft
Is Best President Since Lincoln,
Would Place Angel and Mitchell on
Tariff Commission.
Detroit, Mich, Oct. 6.-Senator VIII
liam Alden Smith, temporary chair:
man of the Republican state conven:
ton, in his address before that body
Thursday, highly praises Roosevelt,
Taft, Osborn, Townsend and Burrows,
and incidentally speaks a good WORD
for the Payne tariff law. His speech.
in part, follows:
american official life should be
clean and pure and wholesome, typi:
flying in the highest sense the foun:
tains from which 1t springs; repre-
sentative in character, it should be
responsive to the public will. This
does not mean that there is force in
every passing zephyr; it means that
candor and sincerity should be the
first requirements for the public sery:
ice, and from long association with
those whom you have trusted, un-
hesitatingly declare that my honored
colleagues from Michigan reject great
credit upon their districts and their
country; temperate, industrious, able
and honest, each has earned the graft
tude of his countrymen and deserves
the confidence of the electorate.
"Mr. Chairman, / am not one OF
those men who decry political affairs
partisanship IS the necessary hand
maid of democracy. and in the solu'
ton Of great problems factional spirit
is kindled and parties arc formed
around which adherents rally for mu
tual encouragement and sympathy
and we should count it the good for
tune of the American people that
party politics, instead of imparing the
fundamental law, actually strengthens
and protects it.
World In Tranquil State.
There is not an unfriepdly cloud
on the worlds horizon today. In such
an atmosphere we are prosecuting d
work for all the future generations Of
men. For 800 years 1t has been the
dream of navigators and empire
builders that the two oceans might
be united at the Isthmus, but it has
remained for the dauntless and in
trepid Roosevelt and Taft to blaze
the way through forest and rocl
until at last the two oceans are one.
II am a firm believer in the active
and intelligent conservation of oul
natural resources.
fractional Strife lmmaterial,
ut has been said that the Repub
lican party is vexed with internal dis
sension and torn by factional strife
This can be said, at times, of ever,
great public tribunal, but our party
continues to move among the politica
forces OF our time, with strength un
diminished purpose undaunted ant
glory undimmed.
Surely no internal controvers!
among ourselves can draw our force,
from the battle line where unrecon
ciliable strife has for a half centur.
challenged our loftiest patriotism l
is said that the national house Of rep
resentatiyes is threatened-the grea
forum Of the people where revenu,
laws must originate and representa-
ton springs directly from their man
date, and Michigan, the birthplace o
the Republican party, whose peopl,
have prospered under Republican rule
must not waver in the fight.
Deserters Greatest Critics.
"The new tariff law has been tn
object Of much unjust criticism an,
misrepresentation. Much of the dis
content has come from those VIII
leave the country when the ship o
state wrestles hardest with the bill
lows, seeking the repose of their ma
tive lands.
while we who made it know tina
1t is not perfect and voted for
under no misapprehension, yet II is
comfort to know that its enactmen
closed no mills, destroyed no fac
tories, left no fertile fields in waste
II did not impair the national credl
or deprive a workman Of his wage
And we hope that IL will at least b
the basis for all future trade laws
and that future revisions may b
made piecemeal, schedule by schedule
as necessity may require
"The high cost of living cannot b
charged to the tariff law.
''The increase in the cost Of Twin
is worldwide, while no Europea
country has gone through geners
tariff revision.
ut is difficult to account for tn
increased cost of living except on tn
theory that increased demand hs
been made by the world on the nece