The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-10-26
No Doubt He Strength
ened Himself in
State
TAkLs OF TARIFF

NAStSll lliC w OQO-
jet at Banquet In
Aberdeen
Aberdeen, S. D.-President Taf'
concluded his tour of South Dakota
at 12:40so'clock this morning, whcr
his special train pulled out from the
Milwaukee station, eastbound, after
the president had spent seven hour:
and ten minutes In Aberdeen had at.
tended one banquet, and Md. three
talks.
The president and his party arriv.
ed over the Northwestern road
prOmptly at $3.50 p. nj. Monday and
werestaken directly OF the Northern
Normal and Industrial school, where
200 students at the normal and
allc city schools heard a short ad-
dress.
SO At : o'clock tho president reached
the Commercial club, and from the
balcony spoke for twenty minutes
upon the subject of world peace, de-
lending his arbitration treaties, and
pointing out that two centuries ago.
when a. man was sued on q prOmis-
sorry note,Vhe might demand the wage
of battle, and fight his opponent i?
the presence of the court, when If
he won II was to be presumed he
either had never made the note, or
else he had paid 1t. A century ago,
when n man received an aifront to
his honor, no challenged the nun
who had insulted him. If he wounds
co or killed his opponent, this hon-
on was satisfied, but presumably, If
Ne we're himself woundsd, the affront
upon his honor was we'll deserved.
Tho president argued that the GUS
tom Of nations going to war even up
on: questions Of honor, was as great
an anomOly In twentieth century
ciyilization as the trial by battle or
The duel would be.
The address was listened to atten.
lively largescrowd, the size Of
which Ii dificult to estimate. be
;cause Iii was crowde5i in between the
streets and upon the court house
lawn, and the estimates vary all the
way from 5000 to 10000. Applause
was infrequent, hut, hearty when it
did come.
Answers Dryan's Attack.
In the evening at 8 o'clock the
president was the guest of honor at
d banquet and made the only speech
Or the evening. He III introduced
bly. President William Owsley of the
Aberdeen Commercial club, and de-
voted his remarks to the enforce
ment Of the antitrust law, and to the
tarifF and his tarif board. 1T was in
the course of his speech that he re-
ferredss to- the attack OF William
Jennings Bryan upon his appoints
ments to the federal supreme court,
antss denied, with vigor. the asser-
ton Of the Nebraskan that his ap-
pointments to the supreme bench had
been made for political purposes. or
inthe Interests Of "the interests II
am proud" he said, "of the appoint
nients 4 have made on the supreme
bench The records of the men
whom I have appointed to the SUI
preme court are sufficient refutatiM
Of the charge made against them and
against myself. would be more
indignant than j am over the charge
tf 1 believed the people did not al
ready accept the charge Mt its true
worth. IN
The president took up the course
Of the enforcement OF the antitrust
law during his administration, and
upheld, the decision of the supreme
court In favor of a reasonable" in
terpretation of the law. He de-,
clared tho decisions of the court in
the Standard Oil company and the
Tobacco trust would result in
restoring competition amolg tic diff
fercnt companies forming tie tvo
trusts, and insisted that GNsrg his
administration the slt.nssn saw
would be rigiGiv oGfcrtcG and the
big trust forced TO again compete.
Talks Of TIA, liz l.; IS.
Taking up the tariff, tho president
lauglingly acknowledge that he cid
not know what a Pandora's box of
troubles for himself he was opening
when he called the extra session CT
congress, with On adverse majority
none house, for the purpose of pass
ing the reciprocity bill. But he said
he had promised to push through the
reciprocity bill as speedily as posi-
BILE, and the extra session was a ne
ccssity. He upheld his yetoes Of the
wool and cotton bills and the farm
er's free list, showing the absurdi-
ties Of the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
attempt mt tariff revision In several
Instances. In the farmers free list
bill. he stated, through a misundcr-
standing on the part of those who
arranged the tariff on alcohol, the
duty on that commodity IA reduc-
ed from oyer 50 a gallon to s cents
q gallon, the measure reducing the
revenue on Alcohol alone something
like $l7O,00O, 900 annually. On
wool, the bill which finally passed
the two houses reduced the duty low
erSeyen than the Gorman-Wilson tar
I'D. and the reduction in that bill
had paralyzel the sheep ana the
Boolen manufacturing industries.
Onditi0ns may have changed since
the Gorman-Wilson bill. and the
lowered duty might not now serious
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