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Show H' THE REACTIONARIES IN UTAH. The following hole, into which President Taft has precipitated H Jiis followers, is disclosed by the Salt Lake Tribune : , B "President Taft's speech at Kansas City on Monday evening M was a noteworthy dcliverancp. In it he reasserted his former state- M ment that wool duties ar6 too high; this being practically the same H I thing that he said in his "Winona speech, that the woolen tariff is H ' indefensible. And, following this declaration, the President said H' j that as soon as he gets adequate information, presumably from his M tariff board, he will recommend a reduction in the woolen duties. B Throughout his Kansas tour the President's speeches have been to H the effect that the tariff must be revised and revised downward, and M especially that the wool duties must be reduced; all this, how- M over,' only on the report of the tariff board, to be made in Decem- H ' ber. This is a complete confession of the unsatisfactory character H of the tariff revision of 3909; and when the President of the United m States, the head of his party, the man who expects to be renom- H inated for his present high office takes this position, those who H bold that the present tariff law is good and right are in opposition H o him; and to be consistent it would not be possible for them to Hj ,. support him for President; because beyond question the tariff issue H will be the great issue of the campaign next year; and those who H stand by the tariff revision of 1909 will be outside of the Presi- H dent'i! position altogether, as a logical proposition. So that any H Republican who wishes to stand by the tariff revision of two years H ago must, in order to be consistent, oppose President Taft. To H- support him, and also to support the tariff law, is a glaring incon- H sistency." H The Stand-patters in Utah will find themselves sorely perplexed. H They are now shouting for the Payne-Aldrich tariff, declaring that K law to be good enough; they are urging the country to let well- H . enough alon6; they arc opposed to any tariff tinkering; and yet H i hero is their President pronouncing against th'c present tariff and H obligating himself to a revision downward. H "What will the Reactionaries do when called on in the coming H campaign to decide for or against Taft; will they reverse them- H selves and stand by Taft and his policies of tariff revision, or will j the; stand by their declaration, that the present tariff should be H undisturbed, and fight Taft's aspirations for renomination? |