Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-08-29

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Beverly, Mass, Aug. 28.-Twenty.
four states Of the union will be visited
by President Taft on the swing
around the circuit, according to q par
TALLY completed schedule at the execu-
tive offices today. The president will
start on September Is, and with the
exception of Ave states and Arizona
and New Mexico. he VIII pass through
every commonwealth wes.5 OF the Mis.
sissippi. Included In the twenty.Iour
are Massachusetts, New York, Penn.
sylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois.
Indiana, Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Ne
braska, Colorado. Wyoming. Utah,
Nevada, California, Oregon, Washing.
ton, Idaho, Montana, South Dakota,
Minnesota, Wisconsin and Maryland.
Among the big towns and cities that
the president will visit are Syracuse,
Erie, Detroit, Chicago, st. Louis
Omaha, Kansas City, Denver, Chey.
enne, Salt Lake, Los Angeles. San
Francisco, Sacramento, Portland, Ia
coma, Seattle, Spokane, Wallace.
Idaho: Butte and Billings, Mont;
Deadwood, Aberdeen and Pierre, s..
D.; st. Paul and Minneapolis, MINI;
Milwaukee and Pittsburgh.
TAFT at Hamilton.
Hamilton, Mass, Aug. 2S.-- Presi-
dent Taft began the presidential cam
paign of 1912 his friends believe, In q
speech here that brought defiance and
condemned the insurgent republicans
and the democrats for combining to
revise several schedules of the pres
ent tariff at special session OF con-
gress just closed.
The president singled out Senator
LaFollette of Wisconsin, Speaker
Champ Clark and Chairman Under.
wood, Of the house ways and means
committee, as leaders OF the at
tempted revision, and charged them
with playing politics"
Several times he referred by name
to Mr.. LaFollette. but mentioned the
other insurgent senator's merely az
LaFollette's Associates"
Mr.. Taft indicated that he regarded
the proposed revision as injurious and
dangerous to business, but made It
plain that il the tariff board in pecem-
ber reported that downward revision
of cotton and wool schedules should
be made he would recommend reduo-
tion.
Refers to Wool Bill.
Speaking about the wool bill, which
he vetoed, the president said: THE
bill is seen to be compromise be-
tween avowed free traders and
avowed protectionists, bill conceived
in an unnatural alliance, a bill, the
product of political log rolling for the
purpose of securing its passage, q bill
framed In ignorance Of the exact ef-
feet of it's operation and bill that
presents only those methods In its
adoption which had been generally
condemned in the making OF previous
tariff bills.
Hits at LaFoiiette.
"Mr. Underwood and Mr.. Clark In
the house and Mr.. LaFollette and his
assistants in the senate, had earlier
been conspicuous in the support of q
measure which was avowedly adopted
for the purpose of securing scientific
information to assist In revisions Of
the tariff. Indeed, they earnestly dep
recated any future revision without an
accurate knowledge Of the facts.
But now in the opportunity pre-
sented by the special session and in
the desire to play politics and crafty
what was supposed to be popular
desire for the reduction Of duties, they
did not hesitate to adopt all the al
legged defective methods Of previous
tariff revision which they had de-
nounced, and to reject as entirely un-
worthy Of consideration the sugges-
ton Of delay until Investigation by an
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