The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-04
Tariff Day Ends When 10000 People
Crowd Sioux Falls to See
Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt.
e MATERIAL ISSUE
E,--president Says That Method of
Revision Should be Changed in
Order to Get
Benefits.
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SIOUX FALLS, S. D.. Sept. B.
Tariff day with the Roosevelt special
across the long agricultural ranches
of Iowa Minnesota and South Da.
kota, ended here tonight when 10000
people cheered Theodore Roosevelt S
tariff policies. 1t appears as though
all o. southwestern Dakota had piled
into Siou.. Falls and the thousands
bursting through all bounds as soon
as Roosevelt arrived, practically push
ed his automobile through the streets
Later the crowds. or that portion
that could be, gathered Under a nam
moth tent to hear the colonel speak
here tonight. An attack on the pres
ent system of tariff making by Col
onel Roosevelt came on the heels OF
the endorsement at Sioux City. Iowa
today of President Tafss efforts to-
ward tariff revision by commission
the maximum and minimum tariff pro.
visions and the Philippine clause OF
the tariff law.
The tariff ought to be a material
issue and not a moral one" declared
the colonel here, but II instead of a
square deal we get crooked deal
then 1t becomes very emphatically a
moral issue. The American public
does not wish to see the tariff so ar.
ranged as to benefit a few wealthy
men,
In attacking the present system OF
tariff revision. the colonel went the
whole way when he declared that
very little Improvement follows any
attempt to revise the tariff as we have
been accustomed to revise 1t and that
the thine to do is to Change the
method,
The people know he said, 'that
the system of which the present tariff
law was made, which is the same
system by which its predecessors
We're made, encourage a scramble OF
selfish interests to which the all i'm
portant general interest of the pub,
lie is necessarily subordinate.
The colonel added that there is
grave dissatisfaction with the present
tariff.
With typical Roosevelt suddeness
tne first reference to President Taft
or his administration was made in the
coionel's speech at Sioux City. II
came after Senator Dolliver. one of the
most radical oe the tariff insurgents
mad spent several hours in confer
ence with Roosevelt and the decara-
Ton endorsing the Taft efforts to-
ward tariff revision by commission re.
ceived the approval of the Iowa sen.
ator.
Today was the great day for crowds
and enthusiasm that the Colonel has
lad throughout his trip.
Beginning at Sioux City, telegram
after telegram met the train begging
plm to stop at some little town and
make a speech.
there We're seven regular stops
scheduled between Omaha and Sioux
Falls. but the Colonel was forced to
make fifteen speeches.
Every little water tank town turn
ed out from five hundred to five thous.
ana people to see and hear him. They
came in automobiles, buggies and on
horseback from back in the country
70 the nearest railroad station and
waited for hours to hear a two min
ute speech.
IN the same speech. however, the
colonel endorsed unqualifedly the
amendment which Senator Dolliver
mad offered to the tariff bill, provid-
ing for genuine tariff commission
with fun powers.
The colonel expressed himself as
well pleased with the part OF the
presidents campaign letter which Taft
declared for revision by commission.
The absolute silence which Colonel
roosevelt had maintained up to this
ume Regarding the administration OF
mis- successor had occasioned great
amount of talk and the rumor had got
out that nothing wonld be said during
the trip on this point. II is believed,
however, that Senator Dolliver, VINO
spent yesterday with the colonel at
Omaha and who rode with him as far
as Lemars, Iowa. today, advised the
endorsement.
Fully twenty-five thousand people
were out to listen to the colonel in
Sioux City, which has population of
about $4,000. They filled the great
stands and field of baseball park and