The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-08-31
HIS RECORD TO DATE.
Mr.. Taft at Chicago, Sept. %. 1908. I


| lican party, and is pressed forward
by members of the republican party.
The revision which they desire is a
revision which shall reduce excess
i've rates and at the same time pre-
serve the industries of the country.
This sentiment has been crystalized
and the party is determined to see
that this revision shall go on. |
wish there to be no doubt in respect
to the revision of the tariff. l am a
tariff revisionist.
mir. Taft at Milwaukee, Sept. -,
! 1908.
! Tariff revisions should be immed-
late and on the whole there should
! be a substantial revision downward.
MIR. Taft at St. Paul, Sept. 20, 1908.
! There must be tariff revision at
once and a correction of the sched-
| ules found to be too high.
MIR. Taft at Fit. Dodge, Ia, Oct.
3, 1908.
Tariff duties ought to be reduced.
If l am elected, as l expect to be, l
shall exercise all the legitimate in
tuence that President, as head Of
! the republican party, can exercise to
see to it that the plighted faith OF
the party on this subject, in letter
and in spirit, is observed.
MIR. Taft at New York, Dec. 49,,
1905
Unless We act in accordance with
our promises, or if we only keep the
word of promise to the ear and break
it to the hope, We shall be made &C
countable to the American people
and suffer such consequences as
failure to keep faith has always been
visited with. 1t would be better
to have no revision at all unless we
are going honestly and fairly to re-
wise the tariff on the basis promised
by our party.
Mr.. Taft, from the White House,
July 16, 1909.
I am committed to downward re-
vision of the tariff to the last limit
within protected lines. I have prom
| Used this and l am obliged to look at
the matter not from the standpoint
of any particular district, but from
the standpoint of the whole people.
I have always understood the repub-
lican platform to mean downward
revision in many instances.
Mr.. Taft on the Payne-Aldrich Tar
if, Aug. s, 1909.
The law is a sincere effort on the
part of the republican party to make
with the promises of the platform.
The bill is not perfect bill
or complete compliance with the
promises made, strictly interpreted.
It suffices to say that, except
with regard to whiskey, liquors and
wines, in regard to silks and as to
some high classes of cottons, there
have been very few increases of
rates.
j mfr. Taft at Winona, Minn., Sept.
II, 1909.
! I will admit that there have been
no reductions in the cotton schedule.
~ With respect to the wool
schedule I agree it is too high and it
ought to have been reduced. =
| The wool schedule resulted from a
com bination of Western wool grow
ers and Eastern manufacturers Of
, wool. It is the one important de-
feet in the present Payne bill.
Mr.. Taft at New York, Feb. ~,
1901
{ The one substantial defect in COM
pliance with the promise of the
platform was the failure to reduce
the duties on woolens.
MIR. Taft in McClure's Magazine,
June, 1910.
1t was perfectly clear to me that
I could achieve temporary personal
popularity by vetoing this tariff bill.
AS it was, by signing it, I
kept the friendship and cooperation
of the conservative republicans (the
standpatters) in Congress only
section where opposition might have
been expected to develop-for my
general program of legislation
[Mr. Taft at Springfield, ILL.,, Feb.
IL, 1911
The very existence of the policy of
protection depends on our abolition
of the tariff where it is not really
needed. If we persist in retaining 1t
in these times of high prices and
base our retention on protective prin-
ciples, we shall rouse an opposition
that will know no moderation and
"ill not cease radical economic
changes until it has removed from
the statute book the last trace of a
protective tariff.
Mr.. Taft to Chicago Association,
Dec: 3, 1910.
We are bound to promote the
prompt elimination of instances of
injustice in the tariff law.
Mr.. Taft on Many Occasions.]
The wool and cotton schedules of
the Payne-Aldrich law are indie
fensible
mir. Taft's Official Action, Aug. 10,
1911.]
Veto messages killing the nom
partisan congressional revision down.
ward of the "indefensible" wool
schedule and the bill charging the
farmers free list, the reasons given
being that the action of Congress
was hasty and that nothing should be
done about matters of so much i'm
portance without consultation with
the Tariff Board.
NOT A CANDIDATE.