The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-08-31
PRESIDENT TAFT SPEAKS PLAIN

President Taft will surely come un.
| der the searching tongue OF the Dem.
ocratic politician and we have no
doubt that our windy. vaporous friend
down the street will profoundly tell
the people of Logan that the president
knows not whereof he speaketh," af.
| tea reading that Massachusetts speech
of last Saturday, but the fact will re-
main, that the chief executive Is keen
| in his discernment of right and wrong.
Credit was given the Democrats for
their work on the reciprocity measure.
and that If they had rested their la.
bors at that point (as that was what
the extra session was called for) no
harm would have been done. But
when they stopped to monkey with
the tariff especially in view of the
present uncertain condition OF the II.
nancial and trade marts OF the Unit.
ed States. the president evidently hit
the nail on the head and knew what
he was talking about when he said:
Mr.. Underwood and Mr.. Clark in
the House and Mr. Iafollette and his
assistants in the Senate had earlier
been conspicuous in the support of
measure which was avowedly adopted
Ia Of
Information to assist in revisions of
the tariff. Indeed they earnestlyy de-
precated any future revision without
an accurate knowledge of the facts
But now. in the opportunity present
ed by the special session and in de.
sire 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
impartial board should be had
no tariff bill within anyone's rec
objection has ever been passed with
so little care. They declined to wait
ninety days TO hear report of "A fun
investigation on schedule X, which the
previous Congress, by "A united vote OF
the Democrats and Republicans, in
Guiding the insurgents, mad directed tn
be made on the first of December II
is true that this statutory direction
was specifically made to tariff board,
created under bill which ultimately
failed of passage, although supported
by all the gentlemen who We're promi-
nent in the passage of this WOODEN
bill
still that same Congress gave me
money enough to create a board to do
the same work It Is board of exactly
the same personnel as that which the
tariff commission would have had,
for ON II I have put three Republicans
and two Democrats and made ii "a
non-partisan board in the same sense
that the tariff commission bill re-
quired, II is a board that in every re
I spect Is the same as the statutory
tariff commission, except that 1t Is
not permanent and has not the power
tn summon witnesses and this 1t finds
unnecessary because it can secure all
the information It needs without doing
So
1T Is the same board which Messrs.
Clark and Underwood and Senator la.
toilette and his associates were de,
/ handing. | submit that the congress.
sional history of this legislation tax.
en- with the previous Inconsistent po-
sition OF Mr., Underwood and Mr.. Clark
Mr.Iafollette and associates is enough
to show why the wool bill ought not
to have been signed and II Is enough
10 convince the people OF this com,
p monwealth that the party in power IN
, the lower house and the combination