Show PROSPERITY WON UNDER TARifF i j r United States Is the Most Prosperous Nation Ever Known Says Presi I I dent Roosevelt I Chief Magistrate Delivers I a Speech on Tariff I and Reciprocity Treat I ing Extensively on the Cuban Situation St Paul April President J Roosevelt Roose-velt spent but three hours in this city this afternoon before being whisked over lo Minneapolis The Presidents special train was one minute ahead of the schedule after an uneventful run from WInona where a large crowd had listened to him and cheered for fully five minutes On the run up a few minutes were given lo the people at Lake City whose cheers brought out a hearty expression of thanks from the President PRESIDENTIAL SALUTE As the train pulled through the St Paul yards to the Union depot Battery A of the Minnesota National Guard stationed on the other side of the river I boomed out the Presidential salute In which the engines In the yards and the strong lungs oC an Immense crowd Joined WELCOMED TO SlA TEA TE-A committee headed by Gov Van Sanr Mayor Smith and BrlgGen Kobbe U S A briefly welcomed the party who were at once taken for a carriage drive through the downtown streets which had been handsomely decorated with Hags in honor of the cltya guest HEADED BY VETERANS The Grand Army veterans led the procession and after the President came the original Roosevelt campaign club while the remainder of the procession pro-cession included the local companies of the Minnesota National Guard nearly all of them Spanish war veterans vet-erans and the Twentyllrst United States infantry from Fort Snelling I IN THE LEGISLATURE At the capitol the House and Senate in Joint session received the l President with cheers thrice repeated Previous to his arrival Archbishop Ireland had delivered a brief and eloquent prayer for the prosperity of the Nation and > Its Chief Executive and as soon as the legislators were seated after greeting the President Speaker Babcock introduced Intro-duced him In a few wellchosen sentences sen-tences PRESIDENT SPEAKS President Roosevelt spoke at some length on his wellknown views as to good citizenship In the executive chamber a brief reception was held the PresIdent being Introduced to many of the State officers and leaders of the Legislature and others GREAT CROWD IN WAITING A large platform had boon erected i at the east entrance to the capitol where a crowd of many thousands held their places for over two hours before the arrival of the President and stood In place through the time of his speech Inside the capital and during his remarks re-marks outside GIVEN AN OVATION Governor Van Sant Introduced the President almost immediately after his appearance on the stand although nearly five minutes had to elapse before be-fore the cheering that greeted the appearance ap-pearance of the Presidents wellknown figure and features had subsided DRIVE THROUGH CITY From the capItol the entire partY was driven through a I small part of I the residence section lack oC time limiting I lim-iting the drive and at the corner of t j Sclby avenue and Dale streets special cars were In waiting and tho party was taken through the residence section sec-tion that connects St Paul and Minneapolis Min-neapolis to he NIcollet hotel l Minneapolis Minneap-olis where tonights banquet was held At the banquet the President spoko upon the question of trusts He said PRESIDENTS ADDRESS Mv FclIowCIllzons tho special ties shin of the Senate held in March tile Cuban Cu-ban reciprocity treaty was ratified When this treaty goes Into effect it will onCe substantial economic boncilts alike upon Cuba because of the widening of hur market mar-ket In the United States and upon th United States because of thin equal wlfl aiming and the progressive control It wll give to our people In the Cuban niarkc1 Tub treaty t Is beneficial lo both partis and Justlfirti Itself on several grounds In I Continued on Pnjff 0 I I I I PRESIDENT ON TARIFF Continued from Page 1 the first place wo offer to Cuba her natural nat-ural market We can confer upon her i benefit which no other nation can confer and for the very reuson that we have r started her as an Independent republic and that wo arc rich prosperous md powerful It behooves us to atrotch out a I helping hand to our feebler younger sister sis-ter In tho next place It wldena the market I mar-ket for our products t both the products of tho farm nnd certain of our manufactures arid It Is thereforo In tho Interests of our farmers manufacturers merchants uml wageworkers Finally iho treaty was not merely warranted but demanded npart from all other considerations by thu jnllghlened consideration oC our foreign pulley More and more In the future vu must occupy a preponderant position In the waters ami along the coasts In the region south of us nut IL ppsltlon of control con-trol over tho republics of the South hut of control of the military situation so an to avoid uiy possible complications In the future Under tho Platt amendment Cuba agreed to give UH certain naval stations on her const The Navy department decided de-cided that vo needed but two and we havo specified where tlicso two arc to be I 0 President Palma has concluded an agreement i agree-ment Riving them to l1sau agreement I which tho Cuban leglshitlvo body will doubtleiu soon ratify In other words the Republic of Cuba has assumed a special relation to our International political system sys-tem under which nbc givea ua outposts of 1 defense end we arc morally bound to extend ex-tend to her in a dogee the bonellt of our own economic system From every standpoint stand-point of wise and enlightened home and I foreign polIcy the ratification of the Cuban treaty marked a Hlcp of substantial progress I prog-ress in tho growth of OUt Nation toward greatness at home and abroad PRODUCTS OF PHILIPPINES I Equally Important waa the action on the tariff upon products of the Philippines Uo gave them a reduction of 25 per cent and would have given them a reduction ot 15 per cent more had It not been for the opposition In the hurried closing days of the last session of certain gentlemen who bv the way have been representing them Iclves I both as peculiarly solicitous for tho Interest of the Philippine people 1 and as Kpuclal champions of tho lowering of tariff duties There IB a distinctly humorous Idc to tho fact that the reduction of duties du-ties which would bonellL Cuba and the Philippines as well as ourselves was antagonized an-tagonized chiefly by those who in theory have bccn fond or proclaiming themselves the advanced yuardlans of tho oppressed natlonulIticH In the Islands affected and the ardent advocates of the reduction of lutlcs generally but who Instantly took violent ground ncalnst the practical steps to accomplish dither purpose Moreover a law was enacted putting anthracite an-thracite on the free list and completely removing the duties on all other kinds of coal for ono year PROSPERITY UNPARALLELED Wo arc now In a condition of prosperity unparalleled not merely in our own history his-tory but In the history of any other nation na-tion This procpcrlty is deep rooted and iitamls on a firm baals because It Is duo to the fact that the average American has In him the stuff out of which victors arc made In the great Industrial contests or the present day Just as In tho great military mili-tary contests of the mist and because he Is I now able to use and develop his quail lien to best advantage under our welles tablished economic system SVc are winning win-ning headship among tho nations of tho world because our people are able to keep their high uveraEO of Individual citizenship I and to aliow their mastery in tho hard complex pushing l life of the age Thcro will be fluctuations from time to time In our prosperity but It will continue to I grow Just so long aa we keep UI this high average of Individual citizenship and permit I per-mit It to work out Its own salvation under un-der proper economic legislation WON UNDER A TARIFF The present phenomenal prosperity has been won under a tariff which was made In accordance with certain fixed and dell idle principles the most Important of which Is an avowed determination to protect pro-tect tho Interests of the American producer pro-ducer business man wageworker and farmer alike The general tariff policy to I which without regard to changes In do t tall I believe this country Is Irrevocably commltt d Is fundamentally based upon ample I recognition of tho difference between be-tween the cost of productionthat is the cost of labor hero and abroad and of the need to see to It that our laws shall In no event afford advantage In our own market to foreign ImlUHtrles over American industries in-dustries to foreign capital over American capital to foreign labor over our own labor la-bor This country has and this country needs betterpaid bettereducated bettor fed andhctterclothcd worklngmen of a higher type than are to be found In any foreign country It has and It needs a higher more vigorous and more prosperous prosper-ous type of tillers of tho soil than Is possessed pos-sessed by any other country The businessmen business-men the merchants and manufacturers and tho managers of the transportation t interests show the same superiority when compared with men of their type abroad The I events of the last few years havo jliown how skillfully the leaders of Amcr icon Industry use In International buslnoss competition the mighty industrial weapons weap-ons forged for them by tho resources of our country tho wisdom of our lawn and the I skill the Inventive genius and the administrate capacity of our people j I J BUSINESS PROPOSITION j It Is of course a mere truism to say that we want to uss everytnmg in our power to foster tho welfare of our entire body politic In other wordii wo need to treat the tariff us a business proposition from the standpoint of the Interests of the country coun-try an a whole and not with reference to the temporary needs of any political part par-t It Is I almost as necessary that our policy pol-icy thould be stable aB that It should be wise A Nation like ours could not long stand the ruinous policy of readjusting Us business to radical changes In the tariff at nhort Intervals especially when uo nov owing to the Immense extent and variety of t our products the tariff schedules sched-ules carry rates of duty on thousands of different articles Sweeping and violent 1 changon In such a tariff touching so vitally vital-ly the Interests of all of us embracing ag rliMilturu labor manufacture and com morco would bo disastrous In any event uml they I would he fatal to our present wellbeing If approached on the theory that tho I principle l of lh I protective tariff wall to be abandoned Tim business world that K I the entire American world cannot can-not HfTord 1 If I It haH any regard for Its own welfare oven to consider the advisability ot abandoning the present system I CONFORM TO CHANGED CONDITIONS i Vet on the other hand whore the In j dustrlil conditions no frequently change c as with us must of necessity be the case I t It IB u matter or prime importance that w j should bo able rom time to time to I adapt our economic policy to the changed conditions Our aim should be to JIIOMTVO th ° policy of a protective tariff In which tilt Nation us a whole has acquiesced and yet vhi nver mid wlunovor necessary to chan i the duties In particular paragraphs para-graphs or schedules an mailers ot legislative legisla-tive detail If auch dining Is I demanded by th Interval of the Nation aa a whole In malting any readjustment there arc certain Important considerations which cannot be disregarded If I a tarlit law inns I on tins whole worked well and If biJHlwKs has luoajitrrd under ll and Is prospering It may be better t to endure some Inconveniences Inconve-niences and Inequalities for IL llmo than by making chants to risk causing dhi turhnncp and perhaps paralysis In the In duitrlcn and bunlnee of the country The fact that the change In a jlvcn rate of ilutv may bo thought desirable docs not Mtttlo the question whether it in advisa ble to make till changu Immediately Every tariff deals with duties on thou oands of articles arranged In hundreds of jiaragraphs and in many schedules These d > iUcc affect a vast number of Interests I J i which arc often conflicting II 1 necessary for our welfare then of course Congress must consider tine I question ot changing j the law an a wholes or chancing any given rates of duty but vrmtiat remember thai I whenever even a single scheduln IH con I tluorcii some Interests will appear to do 11 mantX r clmngf In almost > ocr ielu lulo f In the law mid when It comes to upset I Uug the cchedulea generally tho effect 1 t r I rH upon the business Interests of the country 1 would bo ruinous ONT3 l PARTICULAR POrNT One point wo must steadily keep In mind The question of tariff revision speaking broadly stands wholly apart front the question of dealing with the trusts No change In tariff duties can mvo any mibstantlnl effect In solving the socalled trust problem Certain great trusts or great corporations are wholly unaffected by the tariff Practically all ho others that ore of any Importance have us a matter oC fact numbers of smaller American competitors and of course a change In tho tariff which would work Injury to tho large corporation would work not merely Injury but de truction to its smaller competitors and equally of course such a change would mean disaster to all tho wagcworkerH connected with olther the large or the small corporations From tho standpoint of those Interested In the solution of tho rust problem such a change would there tore merely mean that the trust was re loveri of tine competition of ItH weaker mtrlcan competitors and thrown only into competition with foreign competitors and thai tho llrst effort to meet this new lomiictltlon would be mado by l cutting down wage and would therefore ben primarily pri-marily at the cost of labor In tho case of Homo of our greatest trusts such a change might confer upon them a posl Ivc benellt Speaking broadly It Is evi dent that the changes In tine tariff will affect the trusts for weal or for woo sinn JIb i ns they affect the whole country The aria affects trusts only an It afftctn all other interests It rnakcu nil these In erests t large or small profitable and Its enellts can be taken from than large only under penalty or taking them from the email also SUMMIXG UP QUESTION To sum up then wo must as a people approach a mailer of mien prime economic mportance as the tariff from tho stand > olnt of our buslncas needs TNC cannot afford to become fossilized or to fall to ccognlze tho fact that aa the ncertH of the country change it may he necessary to meet these now needs by changing cer Win features of our tarlrs lawn Still hess can we afford 10 fall to recognize tine fur her fact that these changes must not be made until the need for them outweighs lie disadvantages which may result and vlien It becomes necessaiy to make their hey should be made with full rncognl lon of the need of stablllly In our eco lomlc iiystem ruid of keeping unchanged the principle of thai system which has now become a settled policy In our na lonal life AVe have prospered marvel msly at homo As a nation vtn stand In ho very forefront in the giant hucrna lonal Industrial competition of the day We cannot afford by any freak of folly to forfeit the position to which wu have thus triumphantly attained WUERE STUDY IS A JOY |