Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-15
SPEAKER IN LETTER TO EDITORS
WARNS AGAINST BEING MIS-
LED BY DEMAeoes.
DEFENDS ALDRicH TARIFF BILL
n AS BEST EVER ENACTED
Declares Party Has Discarded No ls-
sues and That Party Platform
Pledges Will Be Redeemed if Support
Of People is Given-Taft Also Sends
Plea For Support. y

Springfield, ILL.,, March 15.-Speaker
Cannon, in letter read at a meeting
of republican editors here today, re-
newed his attack on the insurgents
and declared that all the pledges of the
platform will be kept by the republican
party if it has the support of the peo-
pie.
1T is the function of the republican
editors" says the speaker. to keep the
people informed as to the work accom-
plished, that they may not be misled by
demagogues, whose function is to COM
plain and create dissatisfaction; and
the republican editors of Illinois can be
of material assistance in presenting the
truth to meet fiction, that the people
may fairly judge as to the fidelity of
the present administration to the prin-
ciples Of the party that gave it power,
to the end that the president may con-
tinue to have the support of the legis-
lative department in working out the
policies of the republican party
No Issue Discarded.
The letter in part follows:
The republican party has not dis
carded any, of it's principles nor has it
sought new issues simply for the pur-
pose of catching the crowd ever ready
for novelties. Where it has added new
planks to it's platform, it has kept it's
pledges. That it is now working out
into law the pledges of the last ma
tional republican convention is not,
therefore, surprising. It was expected,
for that convention voiced the will Of
the majority Of the American people.
President Taft met the first pledge in
this platform the day after his inaugu-
ration by calling the Sixty First con-
gress in extraordinary session to re-
wise the tariff, and the republican ma
jorfties in house and senate, cO-operat-
ing with the president, placed the
Payne tariff law on the statute books
Aug. 5, or within less than five months
from the beginning of the session.
Tariff Law Best Ever!
within six months after its enact
ment that law has demonstrated that 1t
is the best revenue producer, as well as
the most scientific adjustment of pro-
tective duties, we have ever had, fully
justifying the presidents declaration
that it is the best tariff law ever en-
acted. The republican party did not
promise free trade tariff, not down.
ward revision, but revision in which
should be recognized the principle of
protection, with the minimum and
maximum rates to preserve without ex-
cessive duties that security against
foreign competition to which Ameri-
can manufacturers and producers are
entitled; and also to maintain the high
standard of living of the wage earners
of this country who are the most direct
beneficiaries of the protective system.
In carrying out that pledge OF the plat
form, we enacted tariff in which
there were e54 decreases from the
Dingley law. 220 increases, and 1.15o
items of the dutiable list unchanged.
The articles on which duties were de-
creased represented s5,ooo,ooo,ooo worth
of consumption, while those increased