The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-22

with wall that allowed the American
 manufacturer to exact profits from the
 American people, and when we had de-
 yeloped this business to a point where it overspread the American market, then
 they created combinations and continued
 the monopoly and were enabled to con tinue to fix the prices.
 NOW I represent great manufactur- ing district myself. I represent the
 greatest manufacturing district of this fair southland of ours; district which
 by reason of the proximity of the coal
 and iron together, will one day not only
 stand foremost in the markets of Amer ica, but will one day stretch it's arm of
 commerce to the Orient and Occident and
 dictate the price of iron and steel goods
 in the markets of the world.
 Will Not Protect Profits
 There are men in my district who believe in a protective tariff; who be- lieve in protective. profits. l have said ] to them that i will not protect my own profits: that l saw no more. reason why the man who has got his money invested in a steel wire mill or a wire mi't should
 have his profits protected than ] saw
 reason why the banker or the merchant
 or the farmer should have law on the
 statute books to protect his profits. Do you see any difference?
 NOW. my fellow kentuckians, as a
 Kentlnkian born and, bred, proud of
 my native state. equally, proud of my adopted state in the far distant south, have stood for the principles I learned at the knee of Henry Watterson. 1 have
 stood for the principles that your great distinguished senator, Beck of this state,
 fought for many years; have stood for
 the principles I have heard enunciated
 by the silver-tongued orator, William c. P Breckinridge of this district.
 Has Stood for Principle ''I have stood for an honest tariff for revenue onlt in the interest of the gov ernment and not in favor of tariff that protected the profits of any man. Today. as the chosen leader of the democratic party in the House of Repre- sentatives with my party. l have stood for those principles. The republican par tY has stood and is standing today for
 the protection of profits; for the contin- uation of tariff wall that is so high that competition cannot enter this coun- try and regulate prices.
 Nov when this election comes on the 7th of November, it is for you Kentuck- ians of the Ashland district to say wheth-
 CT you are going to stand as endorsing William Howard Taft, or whether you are going to stand for the principles of a Watterson and a Beck and a Brecken- ridge. That Is the issue before you. II is not only where you are going to stand that will affect your own state, but we are on the battle line of the nation M the House of Representatives; the way that you go may throw the side to vic- tory t,s -r3 ta Battle ct Mot Fought ;rhe battle is not yet fought. We nave only met the enemy on the slxirmsh line; until you have a democratic President and a House of Representatives and major ity in the United States Senate, we can not settle this question right and in the interest of the American people. You have a governor to elect. There may be a vacancy in the United States Senate while he is governor. and he will have the opportunity to appoint another; if he is a democrat, a man in favor o1 an honest tariff at the customs house. if he is a republican,, a man who Is in favor of protecting profits.
 | You are to elect a legislature. The way that this county may go may de- tern:ine whether United States senator shall be elected who believes In an honest
 revision of the tariff or one who goes there to uphold the doctrine of a a-republi- can administration or reflects the voices of Cannon and Aldrich. That is an inn portant issue. This question of who your governor may be may be of vital import ance to you locally, but the other issue is Of Nltal, equally Nitai, 1fhportance to lhe entire nation. A
 The Free List Bill
 My friends, we passed what was known as our free list bill. Every, item we put | on that bill was practically raising no rev enue for the United States government, | or so little that 1t amounted to nothing, and yet it had tariff tax there standing as a wall to enable home manufacturers | to chrge more for their goods at home | than they charged in the markets of he l world. f
 | ."We put agricultural impliments on the 1 free list. Was there any danger of in l turing home industry? The great manu-
 lecturers of agricultural implements of | the United States are shipping more than
 one-third of their products into the mar
 llets of the world. paying the freight. coni- | peting with the foreign countries, going
 into Canada and competing with England, where they have to pay an adverse tariff
 rate of one-third more than the English .nanufacturer. @
 Met English Manufacturers
 That is because Canada. gives the En- 1 glish manufacturer the benefit of a pref erentisl rate of free tariff rate: and yet | the niamfacturers of agricultural imple- ments. blows. harrows. wagons and otner
 implements of agriculture, went into nc