The daily sentinel., 1912-03-14

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Washington, d. c., March 1.-THE
following is the major portion of the
stirring speech delivered by Con-
gresham Edward T. Taylor of Col
orado in opposing the metal sched-
ule:
Mr.. Chairman: This is the first
time during the three years that II
have been a member of this house
that | have ever refused to be bound
by our party caucus or opposed the
concerted action of the Democratic
membership of this body. and | am
exceedingly reluctant to do so now.
But this bill does not give Colorado
square deal This schedule in its
present form is an unfair and unjus-
tifiable discrimination against the
mining industry of the west.
The democracy of Colorado and
her delegation in congress stands
squarely upon the national platform
adopted in the city of Denver. We
have, relatively speaking, as many
importan protected industries in our
state as any state in the Union, and
we are ready and perfectly willing
to take our full share of all the
tariff reductions our party has prom
lsed the country. But neither our
national nor state platform nor any
candidate ever promised to put all
of Colorado's products on the free
list. There should be some common
sense and Teasonableness in all
things. No matter how high or un-
necessary a duty may be, there is
such a thing as fair treatment in
legislation affecting vast industries
that have grown up under protect
i've tariff. The country demands and
expects us to substantially reduce the
tariff, but thoughtful people do not
ask or expect us to recklessly wipe
1t all out at one fell swoop. Our
national platform demanded and
promised the people a gradual reduc-
ton of the tariff to a revenue ba-
sis. And our Colorado platform saws,
we favor and demand reductions
or the tariff schedules in accordance
with the national platform adopted
at Denver. But those provisions
sounded no warning to the people
who have honored me with a seat in
this house that sugar, and wool, and
lead, and zince, and tungsten. and
hides, and all other Colorado pro-
ducts were to be at once put upon
the free list | have been given no
commission here to say that Colorado
is free-trade state. But do have
the authority to say that she is not
Payne-Aldrich, stand-pat, high-pro-
lection state.
Colorado is in favor of a fair and
equitable revision of the tariff down.
ward; and the democracy of our state
belleYe that the tariff can be equit-
ably reduced to the necessary rev.
ig TO
government without discrimination
against or injury to any legitimate
industry We are compelled to raise
3 y million dollars per day to run
this government Most of that comes
and must come, from the tariff du-
ties on imported articles; and no mat
ter how much most people would
like to, we can not very much re-
duce the aggregate amount of our
tariff receipts. But we can choke
OFF some of the CRAFTS and infamous
robDer1es OF the people. and readjust
the tariff schedules so as to take
some of the burdens off of the COM
mon people of this country and put
them onto those who can better af-
ford to pay the taxes; and in that
read justment we believe every in
lustry that may be at all entitled to
1t can and will receive all the in
sidental protection it deserves.
But there may be Just as much
politics. selfishness and local favor
ltism in tariff readjustments or re-
tuctions as there were in the origi-
nal increases. While neither in
freases nor reductions can be made
exactly ohrizontally, nevertheless it is
lot equitable to reduce the products
~.
state only about 10 or 20 per cent
nd in the same bill reduce the equal
y important products of another
tate from 20 to 100 per cent.
can not in the few minutes al
owed me discuss this bill generally.
or even go into a discussion as to