The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-27
DEFIANT TALK Of
PRESIDENT TAFT 7
Executive Begins Presidential
Campaign Of 1912 by Speech
in Massachusetts.
Continued From Page One.

ufactures. This compromise was
adopted. Thus the bill is seen to be
compromise between avowed. freel
traders and avowed protectionists, a
Dill conceived In an unnatural alliance,
bill, the product of political log
rolling for the purpose Of securing it's
passage; bill framed in ignorance of
the exact effect Of its operation, and a
bill that passed only by those methods
IN the making of previous tariff bills.
Scores Coalition.
Mr., Underwood and Mr.. Clark in
the house, and Mr.. La Toilette and his
assistants in the senate, had earlier
been conspicuous in the support of Il
measure which was avowed]y adopted
for the purpose of securing scientific
information to assist in revisions Of the
tariff. Indeed, they earnestly depre.
Gated any future revision without an
accurate knowledge of the facts.
But now, in the opportunity pre-
sented by the special session and in
desire to play politics and crafty
desire for the reduction of duties. they
did not hesitate to adopt all the nj.
legged defective methods of previous
tariff reduction which they had de-
nounced, and to reject as entirely un-
worthy of consideration the sugges-
tion Of delay until investigation by
an impartial board should be had
No tariff bill within any one IS
recollection has ever been passed with
so little care, They declined to wait
ninety days to hear report Of full
investigation on schedule K, which the
previous congress by a united vote of
the Democrats and Republicans, includ-
ing the insurgents. had directed to be
made on the first of December It is
true that this statutory direction was
specifically made 10 tariff board,
created under bill which ultimately
failed of passage, although supported
by all the gentlemen who were promi-
nent in the passage Of this wooden bill.
The Tariff Board.
HStill that same congress gave me
money enough to create board TO do
the same work, 1t is board of eX
actly the same personnel as that which
the tariff commission would have had,
for on it | have put three Republicans
and two Democrats and made it non
partisan board in the sense that the
tariff commission bill required, 1t is n
board that in every respect is the same
as the statutory tariff commission, ex-
cept that it is not permanent and has
not the power to summon witnesses and
this it finds unnecessary because it can
secure all the information it needs with
out doing so,
tIt is the same board which Messrs.
Clark and Underwood and Senator La
Toilette and his associates were de- !
manding. submit that the eongres
sional history OF this legislation, taken
\, tlo rnpaISiGnf noSlflOn
Of Mr.. Underwood and Mr. Clark, Mr..
La Toilette and his associates is enough
to show why the wool bill ought not to
have been signed and il is enough TO
convince the people or this common
wealth that the party in power in the
lower house, and the combination which
was temporarily in power in the upper
house, ought not to receive from them
a vote of confidence.
Impromptu Bills.
''The other revenue measures were
really impromptu and were SO loosely |
drawn that to have put them on the |
statute books would have been seri- |
GUS reflection upon congress responsible
for them. They would have produced
the utmost confusion In the collection
of the revenues, would have made very
different changes in, the rates from
those which the authors Of the bills in
tended and were certainly not measures
that any congress would have been
willing to be responsible for, il they
had been framed with bona fide pur-
pose or expectation of making them
INTO law.
"They were plainly measures made to
appeal to supposed popular desire ana
with the hope that by the veto winch
they had every reason to expect, they
might invite popular hostility toward
the executive and the party OF which
he was the head. These are the SIM
pie facts in respect to the tariff leg
isIation attempted in the house and in
the senate.
s'I am here to speak the truth as