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Show 1 TARIFF ADJUSTMENT I LVBREPUBLICAN PLAN such pretensions. His utterances were entirely en-tirely free from ambiguity. No one could misunderstand them who did not desire to do so. He distinctly fsvored 'sensible, trade arrangements, which will not Interrupt In-terrupt our home productions. " 'We should take from our customers,' said he, 'such of our products as we can use without harm to our Industrie and laborers.' And he further- declared that 'if perchance some of our tariffs are ne longer needed for revenue and to en-ocurage en-ocurage and protect industries at home, why should they not be employed to extend ex-tend and promote our market abroad.' "The reeult of the recent national election elec-tion needs no Interpretation. It plainly signifies that the people have unabated faith in the great principles for which the Republican party has wrought so well. It clearly justifies exceptional confidence con-fidence In the soundness and conservatism conserva-tism of Republican administration. The power committed to u is to be used with prudence. We are to continue to adhere to and uphold the great pollclea which have ao well served us in the past. They are not to be undermined or subverted; they are to be upheld and maintained with wisdom and resolution." Dr. Montague said that the Dominion had tried all forms of trade relations, from reciprocity to free trade. All these have been dropped In favor of protection. Since the time when protection was firmly established the country has seen more prosperity than ever before. . Mr. Long aald: "The simple key to this whole puzzle of the protective tariff, construing con-struing Its principles not narrowly nor with partiality, but liberally and for the general welfare, is In the one word 'adjustment' 'ad-justment' the adjustment of the schedule sched-ule to the needs of the time, shifting at reasonable Intervals aa they ahlft." BOSTON, Dec. 1 Before an audience of more than 3000 persons, Vloe-Presidentelect Fairbanks of Indianapolis defined the attitude of the Republican administration adminis-tration on the tariff question at the annual an-nual banquet of the Home Market club In Mechanics' hall last night - Among the other guests were Gov. John L. Bate of Massachusetts; Former Secretary of the Navy John D. Long, Dr. W. H. Msntague, of Toronto, a privy councilor of the Dominion of Canada; Gov. -elect John M. Lane of New Hampshire, Hamp-shire, and Gov. -elect Henry Roberts, ot Connecticut The speaker were Senator Fairbanks, Gov. Bate, Mr. Long and Dr. Montague. , Former Congressman Robert T. Davis of Fall River, president of the club, aa toast-master, made the opening addreas and In referring to the principles of protective pro-tective tariff, which is fostered by the Home Market club, said that the leading . members of the National House of Representative Repre-sentative and Senate would soon confer with the administration on the subject of tariff revision "And," he added, "we are willing to stand by their Judgment a to the time and nature of such revision." Telegrams of regret were received from President Roosevelt and the Massachusetts Massachu-setts Senator. Vice-President-elect Falrbank In hla "While the tariff question Is an old one, it Is of continual and vital Interest. It roust not be overthrown or surrendered either by lgnorance"or prejudice; It must be maintained by education, by intelligent discussion. . . . - "The Republican party ha revlaed tariff tar-iff schedules In the past when revision wa essential and it will not hesitate In the future to subject them to careful scrutiny and alteration, so that our protective pro-tective system may be Just In it operation. oper-ation. . "Whenever chanee of schedules Is essential es-sential In the public Interest the alteration altera-tion will be made; It will be made advisedly; ad-visedly; it will be made, not In response to mere sentiment, but agreeably to sound economic necessity. Any other policy is obviously unwise and disturbing in It tendency. ten-dency. "The Republican party adhere to the doctrine of commercial treaties, reciprocity, reciproc-ity, which tends to expand our commerce, and to develop American Industry and In Interest of American labor and American capital. It holda the reciprocity which Is the 'hand-maiden of protection' but not to that which is but another form of free trade and which is hostile to the protective protect-ive system. "President McKinley ha been quoted by the enemies of protection ss favoring the Democratic "system of reciprocity. The text of hi great speech give denial to A . |