| Show s 1 LEGISLATION fO fOj fOi FOR j i TH ii 11 1 Coastwise Trade and Tariff Acts J Criticized by Secy of oft War WaI Taft I t JI jj NO SUGAR INTEREST THREATS I Ie 1 e ik j I 1 I a C IlI I ki kI of 0 r Ju I c WI ii Out 1 t Xi tty Nov No O 2 vt Of WRt Wor Wort t f t It II Tuft Who Win toll tit gu guest t I of honor tre tonight at the annum C banquet ot of the Commercial dill club wild Mid In Jn responding r to the ue ti tut t The rho Philip Philippines 1 pines The are ore ours OUID must mUfit be e ur for tor more than R genera lion It IH III jUito probable that thine f called upon to 1 net act ag 1111 a legislators 10 will willS S not live IIvo to see oo O the any du wh m separation S 4 with tile the WI lit if IC the theL L inn n be made nud The Tl occasion of ot the Willi wt the tho ot of the th II of ot the John JohnJay JohnS S I I Jay Tay commercial WeI j laid for tor 10 O and end the I of ot f tho th lull Jall loom ut itt tin tim Midland hotel VM wai wa I 1 4 taxed tu U ItH 1111 utmost S lt 1 Secy Hoe ee Tuft had hati from St fet StLouis Louis varly arly In the lay day Iii In S With D I U It Frances 8 M Felton Felten pres president ident of t the A Alton AIton lon 3 mil II It Of ot fit St Luul After being belne escorted l from th the Ihu J 1 station by 20 eo red troopers of or the thep p Ninth Fort I wen orth to toS S I the th eluh luh room where a It public reception vi va held hel l he was WIS ten tendered tenS S dered a luncheon and later Inter IlL leI driven over I tho city etty S ot of poison persons created S STan Sey S Tuft Tan during the duy and he hI hei i ilK Is given the tha 4 c J tion Immediately after tho the dinner he het t x left for Chicago on a 1 train over overt t the tho Chicago Alton AIton At the banquet tonight United States StateR q Senator Warner Will was r Seey f fIr l 1 Ir E Taft was given an ovation option when he henro o to 10 speak Mr Ir Tuft saM Hall In part partIn I w In n nit all the laUon for which Ion Con oh 0 urosH gress Is IN affecting the Phil Philippine Island there mw but tWO to nets acts i as u which cnn CLIO be he as a having a I at t motive One Is In what we e might 4 call the coastwise o net act the effect of ot which U Is to require that efter July I 1 f 1906 all freight from the Philippine isi isiS S to the till United ll States and the th re ra I arM vcrne hall Hhall ho bo curried la In n American hot bot bottoms hotl 4 l 1 3 toms Ant And the other It s H tile the law lits by hy which th thero ro 1 11 b Imposed on products of ot 5 the Philippine Islands coming Into lIln the tho theT T i United States 75 Th per fler cent of ut the tho Ding Dingley Dingle 0 ilp Icy ley le rates rn le s St Jr tho the coast wIse act net Is 11 permitted to 5 I come Into effect and 1111 1 the tax upon Phil Philippine products pro la Is nol aoL removed l wo we have 4 I Congress assuming a the utterly Indefensible I t sible Ihle position that fur for the purpose O of ot r w tho the Palo eale of et the Philippine products by bythe b W j the Filipinos the Philippines shall be bei i and ami treated a as a at coun coUtt country try tty while Willie for tor the purpose ot of furnishIng 4 1 business to tho American merchant ma marine mai i 1 5 rine they the shall be treated as lIS a 11 domestic i 4 5 country 1 shaH shall be made to 10 pay pa the till totes rule of ot freight which such a 5 S q coastwise provision entails P und and Implies i 1 The Tha object of or my coming coating to lo Kansas I City It II is to enlist your our OtI r In III un am amS S j effort no 80 an to 10 amend the Constitution Con on ont t i our statute books bool that we hall be ton con on tt I it In our ConduCt of or the Philippines and I not hull itati I I laws which W will vI ii Klu Kluthe In the th lit iii II to III otry HIr of or ill l anti and good fulth fuith In our il with our lIr of nr the thu Thi fh st t halt Pr for toi the tie t r re II reI I lUf it r of ot r the t he Philippine i fl IH lt in t It act art pint r the of ot tin the coastwise t lawn to tho thU trade tin Philippine and a the United II St t 1 1809 1909 the tue reduction of th the DuiC on suat II U l and nn from trona 75 rent 10 to II Si IIi 2 per vr cent ent of Oat the rates and on Ott other ot products of the Ihu Philippines tree CI traid until when i shall hall be b complete fH fice trade In Inthe inthe the lit of either Secy SICY Taft said tid that the t two o eats ests In this country arrayed In iti opposition l tion to 10 frt free o trade with the tho Philippine Island nfl art the sugar Interest st and the tobacco interest Thane rhese are ure o on art the ground that all 1111 the and nil 1111 oh I I tile tho which Wit ich the Iho country try proposes prop liI to confer center r upon the Philippines would result solely In an nil Injury II 1 to 10 tho the and tobacco Interests and at a t their ex cx pen pento o alone without any nn cost 5 to 10 th the n rest t of or tho the country On this point he heBOld BOld iii It 1 t will wit i lit t found that hat t them complain in Interests ate nrc not objecting to measure of nr Justice to the Philippines because It II Is going to causo them Im ioe I o I but bitt because they the suppose I IIII In III yearn to 10 come with the tho I ment that halt the th markets will give gi it to the Ihl th production Oct ion of or lob I HUll and it sugar II II In lit the Philippines there may come Chine a time lime when the tobacco and su u scar r of the ito t I Philippine ii I Ii japin i will w I It enter ent C Into competition with limit thit which they pro produce duce aluce lIce In thiS Olin t 1 The fhe attitude of ot these tiare e men wh vii ho really know tho facia bo hot to described as a other than th Ih tho enco or of In opposing the gradual of ol the tho production tion lion of ot sugar and In the Phil Philippines Philipine by opening the tho American mat mar markt kt kit when shei their teat of ot Injury Is It found founded ed cal on presumption most t Improbable He lIe declared that unless the Philip Philippines pines lInes Importations Into Inlo the United should Increase from lees H than tons Ions ns its It now hiOW no Is to tons It n will not affect the price at which sugar wilt 1111 ba be sold 1 In the United States Stakes Continuing Cont i I rig he JIB said Halll Hut It U III i said that If you rOil open the tho markets market of the Unite United II States to Philip Philippine Philippine Philippine pine sugar the tho Increase In 10 Its production tion will Wilt be unlimited and no one ono can c CI n fl nII pay eay II how bow enormous the tho Philippine pro will become Thom The greatest 1 amount of ot sugar lugar ever produced for ex Ut exportation In tn the tue Philippines was vas as In ISM 1893 when the total exportation roach reach reached ed Cot II tone The total consumed In III Inthe the Philippines Is about tons Now Oll tho proposition that the Amerl Amerlan mei can an market markot Is II goIng to offer otTer such a II mo ma motive tive for fr the production of ot In the tho Philippine Islands as als to Increase Its lis exi exportation from front OOOO tons a n year I to Is ts palpably absurd Other toasts were responded to as us fol follows follows lows Nothing the Matter r with Kan Kansas salt HUB by b 00 13 I E W lloch Hoch of or Kansas Orand Old Missouri 13 D 1 11 H Francis t ot oC Missouri John JohnS r S 8 Wise or of New ew York 1011 former governor ot of Virginia |
