Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-09-04
BY Associated Press

Roosevelt broke his silence today
with regard to the Taft administra-
ton. He heartily commended one
phase of it, although he said no.
thing that could be construed as
reference to the administration as a
whole. He confined himself to the
work which Taft has done for the
establishment of principle regu-
lating the tariff through commits
sion, and to the presidents success
in conducting negotiations with
foreign powers for the application of
a new tariff law. The colonel
also outlined his position in regard
to the tariff. He reiterated his be-
lief in the need of a regulation of
the duties by means of commits
should be in the interest of the
workingman, not benefit to a COM
paratively few wealthy men.
The conolel made two speeches
on the tariff today. The first one
was delivered at Sioux City, Iowa,
and contained his reference to the
Taft administration. In the second
speech, made here this afternoon,
he amplified his views on the tariff
by declaring, that although the
Payne-Aldrich law gave rise to
grave dissatisfaction, the fault lay
with the system under which tariff
laws were made, rather than with
the men who made them.
The colonel passed through parts
of four states today, and every
where was received by enthusiastic
crowds. Roosevelt's speech at
Sioux City, in which he referred to
the Taft administration, was writ
ten On the train this morning after
the colonel had long talk with
+, Senator Dolliver, who was on the
train with him. Roosevelt is spend
ing the night 'her and will leave
in the morning for Fargo n. D.,
where he will attend the Labor day
celebration Monday and deliver an
address.
Colonel Roosevelt's S address in this
city was as follows:
Whenever men like ourselves
probably not much better, and GER
tainly no worse-continually fail to
give us the results we have right
to expect from their efforts, we may
just as well make up our minds
that the fault lies, not in their per-
sonality, but in the conditions under
which they work, and profit comes,
not from denouncing them, but in
seeing that the conditions are
changed. This is especially true
of tariff making. 1t has been con-
clusively shown, by experiments re-
peated again and again, that the
methods of tariff making by con-
,gress, which have now obtained for
so many years, cannot, from the
very nature of the case, bring real
" satisfactory results.
with the present tariff, made
by the same methods as its pre-,
decessor, there is grave dissatisfac.
tion The people know that there
are some things in it which are not
right and therefore they tend to
suspect them, as I think, more nu'
merous things in it which are right
They know that the system or
which it is made, the same system
in which its predecessors were
made, encourages scramble Of
selfish interests, to which the all
important general interest of the
public is necessarily more or less
subordinated.
There was time when thl'
scramble was regarded as the natur
al course in tariff making and wa'
not resented. Now the people de
mand, and rightly. that the prom
of the special interests shall be sub
ordinated to the general welfare
in every case. II is this attitude o
the people which must be met II
dealing with the present tarin, an'