Arizona republican., 1910-09-04
THE SIOUX
 WERE WILD When Colonel Roosevelt Became Their Guest SIOUX CITY AND THE FALLS
His Talk On the Tariff In Which He Approved Idea of Taft's Commission, Which He Would Apply to Other Legislation

Siolx City, Sept. 3.-The crowd al- most swamped the police on the ar rival today of Colonel Roosevelt and it cheered continuously, as hard as it could. After a parade the colonel was taken to a huge circus tent, which had been set up in the middle of the city. The rows of seats that extended up to the canvas covering of the tent were filled and crowds which surged into the center, their eyes on the colonel who stood high above them on a platform.
 When he appeared on the platform q roar of cheers burst out which lasted for several minutes and it took him a good deal longer than he had eX- pected to make his speech, because the people spent as much time in cheer ing as they did in listening.
 Colonel Roosevelts speech at Sioux City, in which he referred to the Taft administration, was written on the train this morning after the colonel had a long talk with Senator Deliver, who was on the train with him
 In his speech relating to the tariff, he said:
 As means toward the attainment of the end in view we have as yet de- vised nothing in any way as effective as tariff commission. There should be a commission of we4l-paid ex- perts; men who should not represent any industry; who should be masters of their subjectss of the very highest character; and who would approach the matter with absolute disregard of every outside consideration. These men should take up in succession each subject with which the tariff deals and investigate the conditions of production here and abroad; they should find out the facts and not merely accept the statements of in terested parties, and they should re- port to congress on each subject as soon as that subject has been GOV cred. Then action can be taken at once on the particular subject con cerncd. while the commission imme- diately proceeds to investigate an other. By these means log-rolling would be avoided and each subject treated on it's merits, while theeI would be no such shock to general in dustry as it implied in the present custom of making sweeping changes in the whole tariff system at once Finally. it should he the duty of some governmental department or bureau to investigate the conditions in the various protected industries, and seC that the laborers really are getting the benefit of the tariff supposed tC be enacted in their interest. More over to insure good treatment abroad we should keep the maximum anC minimum provision.
 "The same principle of first clas: outside commission should be applied to river and harbOr legislation. A present a river and harbor bill. like { tariff bill. tends to he settled by { squabble among a lot of big. selfisl interests and little, selfish interests, with scant regard to the one really vital interest, that of the genera public"
 Four hundred persons attended ; dinner given to Colonel Roosevelt thi! evening. The colonel is spending thu night here and will leave early in tn morning for Fargo. North Dakota where he is to attend a Labor Da! celebration on Monday and deliver al address