Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1916-10-06
TURNER DELIVERS
KEYNOTE SPEECH
DEMOCRATIC SENATORIAL CAN
DlpATE FNNORS HIGHER TAR
ItF ON LOCAL PRODUCTS.

Declarations in favor of national
prohibition. woman suffrage and 4 re
vision OF the Underwood tariff to af-
ford more protection to the lumber
dairy and fruit industries of the
Northwest, were voiced by George
Turner of Spokane, Democratic can
didate for United States senator, in
the keynote speech of his campaign
delivered at Seattle Monday.
Judge Turner makes the tariff the
issue in his campaign, and while de-
Tending the principle of the Under
wood law he emphasizes the point
that as far as Washington is con-
cerned the industries and resources of
the state are neglected. He pledged
himself,of elected, to bring all of his
influence to bear on congress to
amend the Underwood law to afford
the industries of Washington the pro-
lection denied them. Referring to
Senator Poindexter, he said:
Industries Deliberately Sacrificed.
II have stated heretofore that our
Washington industries were over
looked in that law, but more careful
examination of the record shows that
they were deliberately sacrificed -
thrown as a sop to Cerberus-by the
junior senator from the state OF
Washington, my distinguished friend,
Senator Poindexter."
The speech marked the opening %
the campaign of Judge Turner, who
will devote considerable time to West
ern Washington. He explained at
length the platform on which he is
making the race for senator, spoke in
terms of praise of Governor Lister
and his administration, and eulogized
Wilson. He expressed himself in
favor of woman's suffrage and ma
tional prohibition and pledged HIM
self to vote for both amendments if
elected to congress.
Turner's Views on Tariff.
Discussing the tariff he said:
II approve the Underwood tariff
law because l believe the high tariff
schedule maintained by Republican
legislation to have been unjust and
oppressive and that reduction of
those schedules was imperatively re-
CURED in the interests of the Ameri.
can people. 1t is a mistake, however.
to brand that law as a free trade
measure. On the contrary, it pro-
ceeded frankly on the theory of at
fording adequate protection to all our
legitimate industries, SO that none of
them might be injured or destroyed.
Meantime, and without reference
to the future, I believe the principle
upon which the Underwood tariff law
was framed would have justified the
retention of fair tariff rates in aid OF
the special and peculiar industries OF
our own state, and I believe that such
rates could have been retained If our
representative in the senate had been
active and jealous in that behalf.
"But instead of that we find Sena-
tor Poindexter conceding in his speech
that neither lumber nor shingles no.
coal needed any protection, and as to
horticultural, dairy and poultry prod
ucts, they were too small matter to
engage his attention. repeat what l
have heretofore said, that all our local
industries ought to have been taken
care of by the Underwood tariff bill,
and that it will be my duty as we'll az
my pleasure, If elected to the senate,
to do all that lies in my power to sea
that they are properly and adequately
taken care Of"
Praises Strike Settlement.
Judge Turner praised the president
for what he termed his constructive
ability in handling the recent threat
ened railway strike. He said the
president did not make the contro-
versy and that it had reached the
stage of an impassee between the rail-
ways and the employees before he
touched it. He said:
1.-The president has never shown his
constructive ability more conclusively
than in the action recommended by
him to congress in that emergency.
That action accomplished three
things. all of them right and all OF
them of value to the nation. First, 1T
settled the strike. Second, it fixed
eight hours as the standard of work
for employees engaged in interstate
transportation. standard generally
accepted by thinking men; and, third,
it afforded a measure Of protection to