The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-27
NEVER BEFORE
SUCH IGNORANCE
Important Public Interests Dealt
With in Light Hearted Way
at the Extra
Session.
TAFT SCORES MAJORITY
Real Purpose Of Democrats and Real
Motive Of Insurgents Made
Plain to the
People.
TAFT SCORES MAJORITY
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HAMILTON, Mass, Aug. 26.-De-
nouncing as tariff for politics only"
framed by an unnatural alliance"
the work of the democrats and re-
publican progressives in the session
OF congress just closed, President
Taft this afternoon opened his cam
paign for denomination, which he
will continue on his long western
trip. He spoke before the Essex County
Republican Club at the formal launch
ing of the state campaign here.
The president accused Speaker
Clark, Representative Underwood and
Senator LaFollette with passing bills
they did not intend to become laws.
He charged them with inconsistency
in repudiating the tariff commission,
for which he said they had previously
"clamored. Or the democrats, he
said:
They played politics of the most
irresponsible character in respect to
the three tariff bills
Tracing the legislative history OF
the wool bill the president said:
THE bill is compromise between
avowed free traders and avowed pro-
tectionists, conceived in unnatural al
lance; the precedent of political log
rolling for the part of securing its
passage: a bill framed in Ignorance
of the effect of it's operation and a
bill that presents only those methods
in it's adoption which have been gen
orally condemned in the making OF
previous tariff bills.
They had formerly deprecated
tariff revision without accurate
knowledge of the facts but with the
opportunity presented by the extra
session and in the desire to play poll
tics and ratify the popular desire for
reduction of duties, they did not hest.
tate to adopt all the alleged defective
methods of tariff revision they mad
previously denounced and to reject as
unworthy of consideration the sug-
gestion of delay until investigation by
an impartial board could be had.
No tariff bill within anyone's rec.
objection has ever passed with so lit
tie care.
THE other two revenue measures
were purely impromptu aand were
plainly made to appeal to a supposed
popular desire and with the hope
that by the veto, which they had ev-
cry reason to expect, they might In
vite popular hostility toward the
executive and his party, of which he
is the head"
The president then promised to
recommend next December a revision
of the wool and cotton schedules
based on the facts as found by the
tariff board He declared in conclu-
sion:
81 venture to think as | look back
upon the extra session that it has in
ured greatly to the benefit of the re.
publican party because it had made
plain to the country what the real
purpose of the democratic majority
in the house is, and what the real
motive of the coalition between the
democrats and their allies in the
senate is.
Never in the hisory of the govern
ment have important public interests
been dealt with in such light heart
ed way, with such ignorance of the
effect and such willingness to sacri-
flee business as in the present legisla-
ton which has just been defeated"