Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-12-01
} In REVIEW
is OWN WORK
Talks of the Problems He
Encountered During
His Term.
MODIFY wINONA SPEECH
Its Spirit, but Not to It's
Phraseology.
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CE OF THE INSURGENTS
e Fought for High Duty
ana PInchot for In
sed Lumber Duty in
AIdrich Bill.
ized interview with President
hppear IN the Outlook this
ich the president reviews his
stration, as far as IL has pro-
e OF the things the president
ming his problems and ac-
hts are:
had had some executive eX-
the Philippines and as secre-
It was no adequate prepara-
e multifarious duties of the
My first task was to gather
'r my cabinet"
e been criticised, Mr.. Presi-
the visitor, for bringing two
into a republican cabinet"
lead guilty to one. You must
that l was elected by demo-
Is, probably polling almost as
Mckinley did in 1896 Let's see:
ireater New York, came within
bf carrying Boston, carried MIS-
luding a 1900 plurality in st.
I'D carried one elector in Mary
hree congressional districts in
Carolina, and more than a third
'counties of Georgia OF this last
am especially proud, because my
L political ambition has been, and
Is, to take the sting out OF the rela-
between north and south. / have
Quixotic idea Of being able to break
the solid south myself, but l am try
& to lay in that section a strong foun-
Iation on which our party can build, 80
,5that another decade may perhaps witness
change In appointing Dickinson the
finest type of southern democrat, aimed
to honor the south; but / suspect that
some OF his party friends made him feel
uneasy in what they affected to regard
as false position politically. However,
my selection of Lurton and Lamar for
the supreme bench and my promotion OF
White to the chief justiceship rejoiced
to make because / was giving great
strength to the court and at the same
| time showing to the south that under a
republican administration Its eminent men
we're not denied part in the highest
offices and functions Of government"
MOdifies the WinOnn Speech.
Speaking Of the tariff issue, Mr.. Presi-
dent, II you could begin your admins
tration again, would you repeat your
Winona speech tomorrow"
in phraseology, no. in effect, yes. Had
known as much then as j do now,
should have realized that there are some
things one cannot leave to be taken for !
granted. l dictated that speech to a
stenographer on the cars between two |
stations, and glanced through It only |
enough to straighten its grammar; It was |
sent out by the press with correspond |
ingly little ceremony, so that the papers |
received 1t in all sorts of shapes. II l !
had prepared It two or three weeks be-
fore and revised It deliberately, as /
ought to have done. 1 should have clari-
fled several passages. And, particularly,
should have changed the sentence where
1 proclaim the Payne tariff act the best
ever passed The comparative would have
been a better description than the super
lative: for, whatever its shortcomings,
than It's predecessors, and 1t did, as a
whole. revise the existing schedules down.
word"
"Supposing. for arguments sake, that
your tariff board should bring In re-
port hostile TO any change whatever In
the wool schedule, would you be gov
erned by that conclusion, regardless OF
the position you took on the popGun
wool and woolen bill?"
Wool Tariff Too High.
THE contingency is remote. l think
that even the inner circle of protectionists
concede that the wool and wooden tariff
needs trimming down, the only question
being as to the amount and method.
had no fault to find with either demo-
Gratis or insurgents for trying to reduce
any duties they chose; what l object to
Is disturbing the business OF the country
today, when there is nothing better than
guesswoTk to proceed upon, and then dis
thrbing It afresh six months later when
the best avail able Information is before
u.s. / do not join in the charge OF in
consistency against the democrats for
compromising with La Toilette on the
wool schedule instead OF standing by
their own figures. II they could not get
all the reduction they asked for they
were quite justified in taking what they
could get. My chief criticism on their
tariff activities last session was that they
were willing to send to me legislation so
crude and III digested that they must ,
have known, II they had paused TO think, ,
that l could not possibly approve It."
Tariff aud Cost of Living. L
rs your tariff reduction program based q
on the theory that It will bring about
corresponding reduction in the cost Of
lving?"
Il think that that effect is greatly over
.Iy c.nef objection to a need
lessy high tariff is that It nourishes mo-
nopoly. 1t holds forth a constant temp
tstion to the formation OF little trusts,
which often are more directly oppressive
10 the consumer than big ones. For exc
ample, we have found local lumber mar
kets controlled by retail lumber trusts.
growing out of the big trusts which die
tate prices 20 the wholesale trade ana
which draw their chief support from
duties which l believe quite unnecessary
for purposes OF legitimate protection.
And the same principle holds goo. every. /