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Show STALWARTS DEBATE OH TARIFF REVISION Trio of Strong Men Discuss Protection Pro-tection at a Boston Dinner. BOSTON, Nov. 9. At the dinner of the lv iiiiniiilf cluh here tonight Con A B Cummins of Iowa in.i Henry M. Whitney, Whit-ney, Democratic candidate for Dleuten-ant-Govornor of Massachusetts In the recent re-cent election, made addresses In favor of revision of the t-irlff. The present tariff Laws were upheld by Congressman James T Mc'enry f Minnesota Tells Wage-Earners' Needs. The revision side opened the debate. Mr Whitney .peaking in behalf of reciprocity a a i n ni reform 'm tariff reform he quoted statistics In which he endeavored to show that of the lzi.n7t.11T wag. ..liners ..lin-ers In the country the (audition of three-quarters three-quarters Of them would be lmpioed by b.-lng able to supply their needs In tho cheapest market. No Revision, Says McCleary. Congressman McCleary, who followed Mr w hltney, opened his remarks by declaring de-claring that he was In exact accord with the Republican National platform and President Koosevelt on the tariff question, ques-tion, believing that there should bo no re- v Islon until the public Interests demanded it. or wer. promoted thereby "And nothing noth-ing has happened since the platform wrus adopted in. I President Koosevelt announced an-nounced hl9 stand In his letter of accep-tance accep-tance to warrant us In believing that Ihe time f..r tutlff revision has now been reached." cald Mr McCleary. ;.. Cummins took up th Iron and Steel schedule and after reviewing the situation and quoting many statistics. said: Cummins Talks on Steel. "if ihe manufacturer of the United States ran sell his products In the markets mar-kets of other countries, and In so doing ho makes a fair profit upon his sales, the man who still holds 'hat our manufacturers manufac-turers need any considsrabls protection surrenders Ids good si-n.se lu his Idolatry at th shrine of that miserable maxim lllched from the language of the gTeat American ..uie "Protection, high or low. with homo competition, will make a market fair to both seller and buyer, and high protection protec-tion without home competition among sellers will make s market in which the sellers are the masters and buyers tho slaves." Gov. Citnimlnn closed with a few words In support of reciprocity. |