The Cairo bulletin., 1910-09-24
Cu||om Requested Convention to
Leave His Out Praised Taft
In Speech
Defended the Payne Tariff Law---Uacle Joe En-
oyed Himself Hugely Made a Speech, With
Vehement Gestures--PrincipIes Ex-
pressed in Platform

ion of the Dfngley law there were
some Republicans who said we could
not make scientific revision: that
we did not know enough. we did not
have sufficient information, and they
would get up ana pick out one sched-
ula or one item In the great measure
that includes 5000 items and de-
nounce it and pound 1t and stamp it
together. II they had their way we
would not have kept the Republican
platform pledge, because of lack OF
information, and yet we received cur
instructions from. the national con-
vention to enact new tariff law.
want to say that so long as the race
survives, when it comes to making
a great tariff law that will ass st IN
gathering eight or nine hundred mil
lion dollars to carry on this govern
ment that must be presented by the
majority of the house and senate, rep
resenting territory stretching SOTO
miles from one ocean to the other,
with complex and diverse interest
nobody ever has or ever will or ever
can enact a perfect revenue law The
older | get and the more I see OF my
self and of other men, the more
strongly convinced | an. that perfec'
] tion resides with God alone together
with all power.
Saw Five Revisions.
"There was period of uncertainty
and slackening of industry while We
we're considering the tariff. 1islik'
ito see the business of the county
halted for any reason, and that is VIII!
am sometimes called 'standpat
ter | have been through five revis
ions of the tariff and | have seen the
! decentralization that ensued pending
and sometimes following the change
in the revenue law, If had all power
! and all wisdom | would revise the tar
III every day withou; notice to an,
body.
Under the Payne law the free lis
lis larger than 1t ever was under an,
tariff law, and the average yaloren
rate on the importation list and tarii
law for the last sixty years. We re
(, duced rates here and abroad. Reve
nues have increased until th
breeches and vest meet, and there ar
5 $26,001,00 surplus for the apron. Bt
: fore that there were idle cars, an
! many men were out Of employment
I Our friends, the enemy, and the gres
; metropolitan press, or portion of i
7 do not print long editorials settin
t forth the facts. From pride of opil
y ion or otherwise they put off in tn
: corner in fine type any statement tha
l. may be favorabeI to the tariff Law
s and pile up headlines on headline
J. that in the main give the lie to I'll
n Dispatch and the dispatch fr
D quently only tells half the truth.
s Not Abusing the Press.
n 'Do not let any man thing | a
n abusing the press. 1T has its legi
Wdlt pace IL "Sio " "o"sc
e even though had to live to be as 9
a. as Methusaleh, God knows new
D. would get even with 1t. If there
- any council that is necessary to
le taken at this time in our history, wi
r many false prophets abroad, with
W nunciation and with hot fire
e. over the country, with our Democrat
ID opponents attacking us and seeki
" to tear down what they never have
ut my lifetime demonstrated any ca
&c city to build up--if there was til
in peace when the command given
the children of Isreal to move +
is, ward should be heeded 1t Is now