The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-25
LOWER TARIFF
AFTER ELECTION
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direction have been greater than at
any prvious period in our history, and
signally successful"
The president then cited figures of
our exports and manufactures for last
year and contrasted them with the
figures for 1896, the last year under
the Wilson tariff law, as administer
ed by democrats.
These figures seem to be suffi-
Client reply to Governor Wilson's
talk about the Payne tariff law being
straight-jacket for American energy
and industry" Taft said.
Taking up the high cost OF living,
President Taft said:
keir Hardie. the English labor
leader. said in Chicago that SO percent
OF the European workingnen were
facing starvation. AS the population
OF Europe is three hundred and eighty
millions, Mr.. Hardie's statement sug-
gests an appalling condition That
condition must Indicate a much higher
hFlng cost in comparison with earn
lngs than prevails in the United
states, Increased prices in European
Citles have led to riotings. Savings
banks in the United States show de-
posits of over four billion dollars. or
$40 per capita OF the population. Th.s
would Indicate that American workers
are not only not facing starvation. but
are able to pay the cost of living and
also put something aside for a
rainy day'-such as the election or a
democratic president and congress.
which would mean four years Of
rainy days
The Payne Law has had NO more
to do with the advancing cost Of liv-
ing than the latest tlantic cable tar
IF. On the contraf It has enabled
the American worker to meet the cost
OF living and maintain his family in
comfort TAFT continued.
farmers were never better OFF
Every legitimate industry is looking
forward to still greater prosperity
provided the nations progress shall
not be halted by the bcnumbing gla-
! cier of free trade or the destructive
/ lava stream of anarchy.
Most certainly ! hold out not only
hope but the certatnty OF tariff feyi-
sion, provided that revision shan not
be haphazard but hhaSed upon the rate
OF duty necessary to prevent destruc-
tive competition from European conn
tries. and must add, also from
Japan The democrats presented to
me for my s1Enakure wooden bill
and cotton bib both which. II al
lowed to become lave would have
made such ,adical cut III The -ates
on many wooden and cotton manufac-
lures as seriously 20 interfere With
those Industries III this country and
would have forced transfer or the
manufacture to England and Germany
and other foreign countries.
Il did not get time to visit the
/ democratic chamber OF horrors, as
they call their tariff exhibit, but
friend told me funny story
about 1t. A workingman was looking
at the products there, with their tags
! showing the price were the tariff
duty removed. He noticed coat on
which the 81 price was remarkably
/ low. Why. he said, that would be
less than get for making such a
coat. Where would l come in?' Yes,
where would he come In?
With the election Of the republi-
can candidates for president and con-
gress, revision will proceed at once
along the lines indicated by the work
of the tariff board
Asked if that meant an extra SEES
sion of congress, the president re-
! piled:
MY statement is sufficiently expli-
cit
AS to banking and the Aldrich cur
rency plan the president said.
Il have not changed in the slightest
4 my view as to the necessity of none
I tary reform or of the great value and
! Importance of the work done by the
monetary commission. or which form
/ er senator Aldrich was chairman"
Continuing, he said:
lhere uae >been some crluc1Sm or
alleged Intervention in Nicaragua
There was no Intervention there. I'm
der conditions of anarchy and lawless-
ness and with the consent of the law
full government, American marines
were landed in Nicaragua to assist in
the protection of the lives and prop
erty of the Americans. While / am
in the white house, the independent
sovereignty of every republic on this
continent will be respected as full as
we mean that our own shall be re-
! spected by other nations"
! On equal suffrage he said:
Suffrage for women is an issue to
be decided by the states and there
can be no doubt whatever, that when
ever majority of the women impress
upon their fathers, husbands, sons,
brothers and beaux that they want to
vote, they will get the right to vote.
1t is too noble, too serious, too sacred