The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-03-29
ROOSEVELT
DISCUSSED
The TARIFF I
First Minnesota Speech at
Albert Lea Today
Hundreds From Northwest Go
to st. Paul to Hear Him
Will Be at Sanity City This
/ Evening

st. Paul, March 29.-FolIowers of
Roosevelt from all parts of the north
west are gathering here today to greet
the former president and candidate
for another nomination. Delegations
are announced as on their way from
nearly every county in this state and
from North and South Dakota. A
special train left st. Paul this morn
ing carrying the Roosevelt reception
committee to Albert Lea, where Roose-
Welt made his first speech in Minne-
sofa today.
The st. Paul contingent will escort
the party back to st. Paul, arriving
here at $50. The Roosevelt party and
the reception committee will be met at
the train by band and escorted to
a local hotel where he will take din
ner with members of the Roosevelt
state committee, discussing the Min
nesota situation.
Following an address in the auditor
ium at 1880 this evening, the colonel
will go Immediately to Minneapolis,
where he will address an audience in
the auditorium. At 10:30 he will leave
for Chicago.
Speech at Albert Lea.
Albert La. MINI. March 29.-Theo-
dore Roosevelt delivered an address
here this afternoon on the tariff. His
train stopped at Albert Lea for a brief
period on its way from Cedar Rapids
TO st. Paul. Colonel Roosevelt spoke
as follows:
"On Sept. 3, 1910, / spoke as fol-
lows on the tariff at Sioux Falls, hav-
ing gone over the speech most care
fully with my lamented friend, the
late Senator Dolliver, whose ideas it
expressed as well as my own:
Whenever men just like. ourselves
possibly not much better, but prob
ably not in the least worse--continu-
ally fail to give us the results we have
a right to expect from their efforts
we may Just as well make up. our
minds that the fault lies. not in their
personalities, but in the conditions
under which they work; and profit
comes, not from Sienouncing them, but
from seeing that the conditions are
changed. This is especially true of
tariff making. 1t has been conclusive
ly shown, by experiments repeated
again and again, that the methods of
tariff making by congress, which have
now obtained for so maUy years, cam
not from the very nature of the case,
bring really satisfactory results. With
the present tariff, made by the same
methods as its predecessor and as
that predecessors predecessor, there
is grave dissatisfaction. The people
know that there are some things in
1t which are not right, and therefore
they tend to suspect the. as think,
more numerous things in it which are
right. They know that the system on
which 1t was made, the same system
on which it's predecessors were made. |
encourages scramble of selfish in
terests, to which the all Important
general interest of the public is neces-
sarily more or less subordinated. |
There was time when this scramble
was regarded as the natural course
in tariff making, and was not resent
ed. The people demand, and rightly |
that the profit of the special interests |
shall be subordinated to the general
welfare in every case 1t is this at |
titude practically a new attitude-of |
the people which must be met in deal |
ing with the present tariff, and with |
proposals to amend the present tariff. |
Very little Improvement, indeed, will |
follow any attempt to revise the ta-
riff by methods hitherto used. The
thing to DO is to change the methods. |
believe that this country is fully
committed to the principle of pro-
lection; but it is to protection as q
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the interest of the standard of living
Of the American workingman. / be- /
lieve that when protection becomes.
not principle but privilege and a
preference or, rather. a tumble of /
privileges and preferences-th the
American people disapprove of it. Now
to correct the trouble it is necessary.
in the first place. to get in mind clear
ly what we want; and, in the next
place. to get in mind clearly the meth
od by which we hope to obtain what
we want. What we want is what r i
nave already said-a square deal in
the tarin as in everything else; a
square deal Tor the wage Garner; a
square deal for the employer, and
square deal for the general public To
obtain IT, we must have a thoroughly
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mission.
The tariff ought to, be a material
issue. and not moral issue; but IL.
instead Of square deal, we get
crooked deal then it becomes very en-
phatically a moral issue. What we de-
sire when I saw we / am speaking of
the American peoplein tariff Is
such q measure or protection as win
equalize the cost of production here
and abroad: and as the cost of pro-
duction is primarily labor cost, this
means primarily q tariff SUFFICIENT to
make UP for the difference in labor
cost here and abroad. The American
public wants the American laboring
man put on an equality with other
citizens. so that he shall have the abil-
ity to achieve the American standard
Of living and the capacity to enjoy: /
and to do this. we must see that his
wages are not lowered by improper
with Inferior wage work
ers abroad with wage workers who
are paid poorly and who live as no
Americans are willing to live. But !
the American public does not wish to
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