Show A HOUSE President Taft is doing much for Cannon and Aldrich these but he helping either his party or The president still seems to while he regrets that the stand-patters are the real Is he not mistaken His Bath declaring for tariff revision was responsible for the nomination of Its amplification and emphasis in the campaign at at Des at elected Republicans who had been bound by the protection chain felt that here at last was the chance to break The revision movement had begun under but Bryan had blocked it for twelve years by injecting the false issue of free silver into national On the of then a said at The revision of the tariff which Republicans desire is a revision which shall reduce excessive rates and at the same time preserve the industries of the I wish there to be no doubt in respect to the revision of the On the of then said in New York Unless we act in accordance with our promises we shall be made accountable to the American people and suffer such consequences as failure to keep faith has always been visited It would be better to have no revision at all unless we are going honestly and fairly o revise the tariff on the basis promised by our On the of then president of the United said in New Now I venture to say that if the Republican party does not live up to its and what the people expect of it will be relegated to a position like that of His Majesty's On the of when President Taft signed the Payne-Aldrich he This law is not a perfect tariff law or a complete compliance with the promises made in the Republican strictly On the of speaking again in New President Taft Nothing was expressly said in the platform that this revision was to be a downward I therefore venure to repeat the remark I have had occasion to make that the present custom law is the best that has ever been This last assertion is not only a surrender to the it is a contradiction of the whole course of the president and a reversal of his own express Taft assumed office on a pledge of revision downward the country was ready to back him to the Never did a president have a greater Men were not They knew the chief executive would have a hard time whipping his party into They did not expect All they asked a sincere and earnest effort on the part of the president to obtain an honest Has not the country been disappointed in this the bill was in process of framing the president gave it no A minority in the com on ways and means desired to report a measure that should be real No help came from the House and the effort was The president confessed to his visitors that he knew nothing about the He made no effort to Apparently he felt the need of conciliating his and on the tariff he took counsel only with representatives of the with Payne and These men were wholly out of touch with the people and their views dominated the They saw to it that there was no intervention from the House until it was too late to accomplish anything worth the tariff law was being there was the same frankly admitted system of the same recognition of political the same cynical disregard of party pledges that had existed under the old regime and that had been made odious by new belief in the square Two of the Republican leaders in the senate brazenly denied that there had been any promise of revision and the White House was The country which had expected a rebuke to be administered by the president saw these two senators continue to be called into consultation in the executive while the who working to keep the not only received no but were the tariff bill was signed the nation knew that of the group that surrounded the president not a single man had favored his and all of them had been his enemies all had opposed tariff the president still declares in favor of lower rates on wool and In this he is solidly opposed by the senators and representative from can tell what is the Republican attitude on the tariff |