Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 13, 1910, Page 1

( F g NEWS SECTION PAGES 1 TO 8, THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE o WEATHER FORECAST. For Nebraska——Fair, For lowa—Fair. See weather report on page 3. VOL. XXXIX-NO. C = #LED CORN TEST TO PREVENT LOSS Omaha Commereial Club Aims at New System to Increase Yield Per Acre. BIG LOSS DUE TO UNTESTED SEED TFully $18,000,000 Could Be Saved by Use of Perfect Grain. MODEL EXHIBITS AT CLUB ROOMS Good and Bad Samples Shown by Farmers and Grain Dealers. CAMPAIGN FOR BETTER HARVESTS Effort Will Be Made to Induce All Farmers to Test Seed Before Plant! d Thus Insure Full Yield. Omaha, through the Commercial club, is taking the lead In a state-wide campaign | to interest farmers in testing seed corn in order to prevent a loss, estimated at $13,- 000,000 to Nebraska and also to Increase the yield of corn per acre. Every newspaper, bank, implement dealer and grain buyer is asked to help. The teel- , Ing Is that seed should aiwiys be tested, ‘rl for seed. . but there Is more reason than ever to test corn this year as some was damaged by early frosts and snows last fall. More than that, the Commorcial club is testing seed corn and expects to show that at least two ears In every twelve will not grow at all, while from four to six ears of corn In & dozen are not capable of pro- ducing good root systems and will grow only inferior nubbins iIf the seed actually produces anything more than a stalk. In the club rooms some model seed corn testers have been started, samples of corn having been obtained from many different parts of the state. The cofn has been se- cured by direct application to farmers and through grain dealers who selected the ears from among those held by farm- Astonishing Results of Tests, The results of these tests are expected to astonish farmers and business men. They | will be made known within a few days. Enough 18 known of some of the samples o show that two ears in every twelve fail to grow. Nebraska plants about 6,500,000 acres of corn every year. If the farmer plants corn which ‘I such poor seed that two ears in iwelve do not grow, it is the same as al- lowing 1,075,0000 acres of the most fertile land in Nebraska to lie idle this year. More than that, argues the Commercial club, the farmers plow and care for the poor corn the same as for that whieh produces ears welghing from ten to sixteen ounces. This idle land would produce’ at least 26,924,000 bushels of corn if tested seed was lanted and between $13,000,000 and $14,000,- to the value of Nebraska's corn crop. f‘l‘lkh‘ rome recent tests as a basis the ommerctal club has published a table showing what every county In the state stands to lose it the corn is planted without testing. Some of the counties will be heavy loser: Lancaster county, for instance, will lose over $500,000, while on its 60,000 acres of corn alone, Douglas county stands to lose $120,000, Figures Show Lowa to State. This is the table sent out by the Com- merefal club in calling attention to the fact that while Nebraska is better off than Towa when it comes to seed corn, the state cannot atford the loss which s sure to vesult from planting untested corn this vear: Tuble stowing estimated Nebraska loss from untested seed corn: Loss of Acres Minimum Usual Plant- Financial Acreage ing Untest- Loss to ed Seed, County. 12176 § 152.200 23,012 1B.u2 16,500 244,487 COUNTY. 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Four Million Dollar Failure Shuts Foundry Company Capitalized at Fourteen Mil- lion Dollars Placed in Hands of Receiver in New York. NEW YORK, Feb. 12-The Central Foundry company, a corporation capitalized | |t §14,000,000, which manufactures o iron | soll pipes and fittings, went Into the hands | | of a recelver today. Judge Hough of the | United States district court appointed | Waddell Catchings as receiver, to continue the business at his discretion. The claims of the petitioning creditors amounted to about $1,20, but the cred- | dtors allege that the llabilities amount | to more than 4,600,000, | The petitioning creditors state that the | compatiy has property worth $1,000,000 and employed 1,500 men. The property of the Central Foundry company consists chiefly of seven operating foundries which are lo:ated in Newark, N. J.; Dundalk, Md.; South Pittsburg, Tenn.; Vincinnes, Ind.; Medina, N. Y., and Anniston and Bessemer, Ala. The company also owns foundry property at Wilmington, Del., and controls the Cen- tral Iron and Coal company of New Jersey, and the Central Radiator company of New Jersey. The foundry company has out- standing $3,81,00 6 per cent debenture bonds unsecured and an additional unse- cured Indebtedness of $540,000 and a secured indebtedness of $345,000. Recelver Catchings sald today expected successfully to company. that he reorganize the Guggenheims May Employ a Lawyer Interests Charged with Seeking Alas- kan Coal Monopoly May Enter Ballinger Controversy. WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—~When the Ball- | inger-Pinchot congressional investigating committee resumes its sessions on Monday ‘morning it is expected there will be pres- | ént a - representative of Danfel Guggen- helm prepared to introduce evidence, both documentary jand oral, to show the exact amount and character of the Guggenbeim holdings in Alaska. The clalm has been made in some quar- ters that the Guggenhelms were striving for the control of Alaskan coal and min- eral lands, rallroads and boat lines and that the Cunningham group of coal claims were closely identified with the Guggen- helm interests. Just when the committee will hear thix testimony 1is problematical. It has been determined that when one witness is called bhis story shall be completed before any other phase of the controversy is taken this time, but it is believed beginning with next Monday the inquiry will be pushed rapldly forward. For a time at least daily session will be held. Several witnesses have been brought long distances to the city and they are to be called as early as possible. ' Hermann Case Goes to Jury| Judge Wolverton's Instructions Con- tain 20,000 Words, Covering Law of Conspiracy. PORTLAND, Ore, Feb. 12.—Instructions to the jury which for five weeks has been trying Congressman Binger Hermann on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the gov- ernment of part of the public domain, were delivered today by Judge Charles E. Wolverton in the United States district court. Judge Wolverton covered ex- haustively every phase of the evidence, the instructions containing 20,000 words, The charge sets forth that it is ‘suffi- clent to show that a mutual understanding has been arrived at by twu or more pe: sons to complete a conspiracy. So long as a conspiracy continued, he instructed, and the parties engaged in an unlawful scheme, they must bo deemed as still confederating together, and if any overt act is shown to have been committed within three years of the date of indictment that overt act is sufficlent to support the indictment. Judge Wolverton sald that intent, while an important ingredient of a conspiracy, could seldom be directly proven. There- tore direct evidence was not required. It was not necessary to prove to make tife conspiracy complcte, he continued, that Hermann received elther dlrect or indirect benefit. PACKERS SOUGHT BY MAJOR Missourl Attorney General Calls as Witnesses Officers in Charge of P JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. Feb. 12—At- torney General Major notified the attorney for the packing companies today that he desires as witnesses, February 17, the fol- lowing officers or employes of the Armour, Cudahy, Swift, Morrls and Schwarszchild & Sulzburger packing companies of Kansas city: The superintendent or manager of each plant, the manager in charge of the sales of dressed meats, the best posted man on by-products and on what may be expected trom the average beef when dressed. | ILLINOIS | settlea today and the conferenge will be up. This has caused fome dolay fp tof i RS dlatdel, SWITCHMEN WILL NOT STRIKE Thousand Men in Chicago District Agree to Arbitrate Differences. Four DEMAND FOR MORE PAY Men Want Increase of Five Cents an Hour. BOARD TO ACT Finding of State Officials to Be) Regarded as Final. [ MINERS AND OPERATORS MEET Conference at St. Lou ing to Adjust Differences in the Southwestern Dis- t. is Endeavor- CHICAGO, Feb, 12.--The possibility of & strike of 4,000 switchmen employed in the| Chicago switching district of eighteen rail-| roads was belleved to have been averted | tonight when the parties at dispute agreed | to submit the question to the Iilinols State Board of Arbitration. The switchmen, members of the Brotherhood of Rallway | Trainmen, demanded an increase of, wages of 5 cents an hour and time and & half for overtime. Both sides signed an agreenient to arbitrate, The men last Tuesday voted for a strike, but F. O. Melcher, vice presi- | dent of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pa-| cific road and chairman of the general managers' committee, sald no strike was now possible. Application for arbitration will be filed at Springfield, i, on Monday, Miners and Operators Meet. ST. LOUIS, Feb. 12—Thomas L. Lewis, president of the Mine Workers of America, began a conference here today with the miners and operators of the southwest. The two organizations, pecording to Mr. Lewis, are ai outs over wage scales and breach of falth o contracis. The questions nder disc: were not continued tomorrow. President Lewls ex- pressed himself as being sure an under- standing will ‘be reached. Attending the conference are James Bi- liott, president of the Coal Operators' as- soclation of the southwest; P. R. Stewart, president of district 21, comprising Okla- homa, Arkansas and Texas; W. D. Ryan, commissioner of the southwest operators' assoclation; F. R. Swinney, vice president of the Southwest Operators’ associatio Charles Batley and George Manuel, presi- dent and secrotary, respectively, of the Missour! Miners' association; Charles 8. Kelth, president of the Central Coal and Coke company of Kansas City, and George Richardson, asslstant commissioner of the SINGLE CASE OF YELLOW ' ~ " FEVER IN CANAL ZONE Disease Becomes So Rare, Isolated Instances Are Made News Features. WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—From having Dbeen a hotbed of yellow fever a few years ago, Panama has bgecome 8o free from that disease that an isolated case pecomes ot news interest to fts citizens. Formerly it was taken .as a matter of course that many cases could be found at any time. A feature of a recent lssue of the Canal Record, however, was an ac- count of a young Englishman who had contracted yellow fever at one of the South American ports, got by the quaran- dne and was then In a hospital. The next issue of the Record, which has Just reached Washington, Indicates that| there has been no spread of infection and that none is anticipated, the medical au- thorities having exercised every DDlllblel precaution. | ORDER HITS HARVESTER TRUST| Kansas Cour | t Enjoins International | from Acts Tending to Destroy Competition. TOPEKA, Kan.,, Feb. 12.—The supreme| court today made a limited ouster order | against the International Harvester com- | pany. The order prohibits the company from making exclusive contracts with agents in Kansas. The court prohibits the company from discriminating or destroying competition or doing other things which the attorney goneral held were violations of the anti- trust law. The court specifically says that it reserves the right to take up com- plaints in the future and settle them Ws it determines, thus retaining control over the business of the corporation In Kansas. The state canngt collect the $60,000 charter | fee asied for by the attorney general the court decided NO CHURCH ADDRESS IN ROME Methodist Association Denies Roose= velt is to Speak im Jts Butld ROME, Feb. 12.—The Methodist assocla- tion denies the published statement that it has been arranged for foriner President Roosevelt to speak at the Methodlst church | during his visit here. It Is only known that Mayor Nathan is prepared to offer the senatorial hall in the capliol for a lecture It Mr. Roosevelt consents to deliver one. Captain Charles H. Downs, 1322 South Twenty-ninth street, one of Omaha's ear- liest ploneers, aetive-in the business life of the beginning of the frontler city, will celebrate his ninety-first birthday Mon- day, Valentine day. Captain Downs came to Omaha in June of 154 and here built the first frame house In the city. This little bullding was erected under the protecting shade of a lonesome tree near the foot of Douglas street close to the river. In those early days the most convenient source of supplies for the upper Missouri country was St. Louls. Captain Downs en- gamed In the traffic In portable wooden |Bouses. One of these struetures was put Only Survivor of First City Council is 91 Years Old up at Fourteenth and Douglas streets and was occupled by the first book store in the western country. This establishment was kept by Byron Graves, son-in-law of George W. Homan. When the first ferry company was or- sanized Captain Downs became a member of it. He was also one of the founders of the smeiting works here, which have £TOWD o be the greatest in the world. For the first five years of the existence of the smelting company he was president. Capiain Downs was elected to mémber- ship In the first city councll which con- vened on March §, 1857, and at the fiftieth anniversary In 1907 he was the enly sur- viving member remalning to cclebrate the day ~ From the Philadelphia Inquirer. SINGLE COPY FIVE CiNTS OH YOU DOVE! CANNON TALKS OF LINCOLN Speaker’s Personal Recollections of the Great Martyr. LITTLE REFERENCE TO POLITICS ! Lineoln by Address Delivered at Memorial Dinner Given Pittsburg Chamber of Commerce. PITTSBURG, Pa, Feb. 12.—Abraham Lincoln, as Speaker Joseph G. Can- non knew him, was the youns lawyer travellng a-horseback through the frontler of Illinols, then the bates with Douglas, the presidential nomi- nee of the new-born republican party, and finally leader of the nation through four years of civil war and the starting of re- construction, was pictured on the screen of memory tonight before thé Piltsburg Chamber of Commerce, at its Lincoln memorial dinner. v ‘Speaker Cannon's address was merely & few leaves fram his memolrs of.the mar- tyred president, a few glances and side lights upon an assoclation which began when both were young lawyers practicing before the same bar. Once the reference to politics entered the speaker's words, and that was when he declared the republican party of today was the party of Abrahath Lincoln, and that Lincoln was one of the founders of the party and its first great' leader. “The most fitting monument to Lincoln 1s the party he helped to organize and the achievements of the party he helped to do- velop for the lasting benefit of the whole country, east and west, north and south, white and black, bond and free,” declared the speaker. Republican Principles Unchanged. “The principles embodled in the first platform are still the principles of the party. Lincoln will always be known as the first and, foremost republican. He was a party man, battling for principles which his party represented and which he belleved to be of vital iInterest to -the American people. He led In the contest when, for the first time, a majority of the electgrs endorsed the principles and policies 1aid down In the republican plat- form. The young men who read the repub- lican platform of 1908 will find in it the platform of Lincoln in 1860. The majority of the people have falled only twice in fifty years to sustain this platform. And, after each of these experiments, they have come back like the prodigal son. chastened by their experlence and glad to see the old home again. “When Lincoln returned from the Black Hawk war and became a candidate for the Illinols legislature, though the state was overwhelmingly democratic, he pub- lished his platform: ““I am for a natlonal bank: I am for a high protective tariff and the system of internal improvements. These are my sen- timents and my political prineliples.’ ““Those became the cardinal doctrine of the republican party, and Lincoln probably more than any other one man, by his consistent battle in the west, developed public sentiment and quickened the public consclence that created the republican party twenty years later.” Turning back the leaves of his memory to 1538 the speaker recalled the time when Cannon Mee! Lince! he moved from Indiana to Illinois and be- ceme a resident of one of the counties In which Lineoln practiced lawyer without business, seeking aequaint- ance of members of the bar, he met Abr: (Contls nued on Becond Page) You can get back anything you have lost, through a Bee want ad. Everybody uses them when they have lost anything; even the Salvation Army and House of Hope uses want ads to find lost souls. If you happen to be one of the few people who do not read The Bee want ad pages, you are missing the most interesting pages in the paper. Reading want ads is profit- able, too, as well as interesting. Have you read the want ads, vet. todav1 law. A young! %3 wo Ministers Face Trial On Heresy Charge Kansas City Universalist Leaders Too Liberal in Advocating Union with Unitarians. KANSAS CITY, Feb. 12.—Rev. Paul Jordan Smith, minister of the First Universalist ¢hurch of this city, and Rev. Dr. G. E. Cunningham, secretary of the Missour| Universalist churches, will be tried In this clty during the week of February 20, for alleged heresy, the charge against the two ministers having been flled against them by the general officers of the church. Dr. Cunningham and Mr. Smith addre: ing the convention of the church at De- troit last fall, advocated the union of the Universalist and Unitarian churches, it s fharged, and also opposed revival services as a means of increasing the membership of the church. These utterances, with their all liberal ideas regarding the ultimate .ot man, led to the charge of heresy against them. The board of inquiry to hear the charg will be composed of Dr. W. H., McLaugh- lin of Chicago, Charles' Hutchinson, a Chicago financler and one other man yet to be chosen. Rev, Mr. Smith's father s the pastor of a Methodist church in Chattanooga, Tenn. He was educated at the Congregational seminary in Atlanta, Ga., and later at- tended the Universalist seminary in Gales- burg, T “It is certain that I will never cease to preach the things I belleve,” Rev. Mr. Smith said. Dr. Cunningham, who is now In Little Rock, Ark., was formerly a Methodist minister, Farmer Dragged by Vicious Horse Foot Catches in Stirrup as He Falls— Skull is Fractured in Two Places. ( ‘WOOD RIVER, Neb., Feb. 12.—(Special Telegram.)—L. M. Hodges, a prominent farmer living two miles south of here, was dragged by a vicious horse this morning, with the result that his skull was frac- tured and it is probable that he will die before night. He had started for a nelgh- bor's on horseback and the animal ran under some trees, striking his head agalnst an overhanging branch. He was knocked from the saddle, his foot catching In the stirrup. His skull is fractured in two places and doctors have no hope of his recovery. | MICHAEL GILLOOLEY MISSING |Secretary to Thomas F. Ryan Disape pears Under Circumsta Suggest Foul Pla NEW YORK, Feb. 11—Michsel Gillooly, confidential man for Thomas Fortune Ryan, the traction millionaire, has disap- peared and Mr. Rysn authorized a state- ment tonight that “it seems there is some- | thing more than a possibliity that the iman has met with foul play.” Glllooly disappeared on Christmas even- Ing, taking practically no money with him and leaving behind him uncashed a check for $1,000 given him by Mr. Ryan for Christmas gift. He had obtained a ai- vorce about a month before, unusual in that & priest was named'as co-respondent. | BRYAN FOR COUNTY OI’TIOlEj Comes Out for This Issue and Eight‘ 0'clock Closing I.‘uw. DOUGLAS SENATORS CONDEMNED ! Declares in Editorial to Be Used in Commoner that Liquor Interests Controlled Them nnd Forced Their Acts. (From a Statf Correspondent.) LINCOLN, Feb. 12.—(Special)—Willlam J. Bryan has announced in favor of county option and in favor of the 8 o'clock closing law wherever there are open saloons in the state. The editorial in which he commits him- self to county option will appear in next weelk’s {asue of the Commoner and i the same editorial Mr. Bryan takes a hot shot at the Douglas county Aenators by saying that the only blot on the late democratic legislature was put there by the liguor Intefests which controlled. cnough of .the serators to defeat the passage of the initiative and referendum btil. "he publication . of the editorial prompted at this time, sajd Charles W. Biyan, because of the unusual actiyity of the liquor interests, The editorial is one of the series Mr. Bryan wrote before he went to South America. Tt Is quite lengthy and contains, among ofher thirgs, the following: ““The right of the government to regulato the sale of liguor cannot be questioned. and the right to regulate includes the right to prohibit the open saloon. Conditions differ in different states. In Nebraska we bave a high license law—one of the hest of its kind in the union—but there is a growing sentiment in favor of enlarging the unit of legislation. Under the existing law each city or village has the rizht to licerse or prohibit the sale of liquor, the minimum license and the maximum houra being fixed by statute. It Is quito evident that a majority of the voters of our state favor a larger unit, and such as Ohlo, Missourl, Texas, Indiana, Kentucky and a number of other states now have, has been suggested. What ob- Jection can be made to it? “It is sometimes objected that prohibl- tion by the act of the county suspends the right of the precinct or city to declde the question for itself. But this 1s not a valld objection, “It is also objected that county opt'on is only a step toward state probibition. This would not be a valid objection, even if the fact were admitted. If the people of a state have a right to prohibit the sale of liquor over the entire state, they have a right to authorize the counties to prohibit within their borders. If the coun- tles can justly clalm the right to regulate {the Mquor traffic, In the absence of state prohibition, It Is not just to deny them this right merely out of fear that the ex- ercise of the right may lead to the adop- tion of state prohibition: “The present law requiring the saloons, wherever saloons are licensed, to close at 8§ o'clock has worked well in practice and | should be continued. A later hour might be more convenient for some, but many are injured by late closing compared with the few who are inconvenlenced by early closing, %o that the evils of late closing outwelgh the advantages. Penalty on Saloon Man, “We have a law against treating In Ne- braska, but it Is universally ignored. We should have a statute placing the penalty on (he saloonkeeper and providing that it shall ‘be cause for forfeiture of license if (Continued on Page Two.) CHICAGO, Feb. 12.—Revenge 1s now be- lieved t0 be the motive for the murder of Charles Wiltschire, the wealthy glove man- | ufacturer who we® fourd last night in his factory with thirty-seven stilleto wounds in his body. About a month ago Wlitschire caused the arrest of two Itallans for having sold him stolen property. One was sentenced to serve a term In the house of correction and the other was dismissed. It is the belief of the police that the freed man, who is | now in eustody nned to murder Wilt- schire for reven; This bellef Is sub- | stantiated by the identification of the stil- leto sheath, which was found near the body, as the property of a brother of the suspect. The brother is sald to have gone to Milwaukee, where the authorities have been asked to aswist in the search for him. Wiltschire's body was discovered near the front door of his faetory. The door pad- Rich Glove Mrerchant Deéd with Thirty-Seven Wounds lock and keys were found near by, indicated that he was attacked while clos. ing his factory and the police are working on the theory that the murderer plannea to slay Wiltschire while no aid was near. The men under arrest are Lorenc Bar- tell, 24 years old, and Frank Ebbole, 27 years old. The police are searching for the latter's brother, Chris Ebbole. The police say the stilleto sheath found by Wilt- shire’s body is the property of Chris Eb- bole. Nelther of the men arrested would make & statement. Chris Ebbole was drawn further into the case when his wife and daughter, unaware of the murder, identified the stiletto sheath #s belonging to him. His deughter told the police she had found the stlletto and sheath some time ago and gave them to her father. Both sald that Ebbole carrled the stiletto in its guard when be left home last night. county option, | This | TAFT'S ANSWER TO WALL STREET | Business Methods Not Consistent with Enforcement of Law Must Be Changed. AUDIENCE CHEERS UTTERANCE | President Makes Address to Repub- 1 lican Club of New York. | AMENDING AUTO ' TRUST LAW No Piatform Promise Made Exocept to Strengthen It. LAW I8 Execcutive Shows that i Redueed Rates Except on Luxuries, and thut 1t Produces More Revenue. | DEFENDED { | | | TARIFF ! | NEW YORK, Feb. 12.—"If the enforce- | mont of the law Is not consistent with tho | present method of carrying on business | then 1t does not speak well for the prosent | methods of conducting business and they {must be changed to contlvm to the law.'" | This was President Taft's answer to | wyyyyyyyyommmmeceecesogeccee Wall - hiy | Wall Street and its cry of “panic.”” It was | made to a cheerlng audlence of hundreds |of prominent republicans gathered tonight at the annual Lincoln Day dinner of the republican club of this city, held at, the Waldorf-Astoria. Govirnor Hughes shared the honors of the eveniny with the presi- dent. iy Mr. Taft adhered to his purpose of dis- cussing platform pledges and how they should be kept. It was at the conclusion of a detalled argument as to how the republi- can paryt Is redeeming its pledges that he {came to a discussion of the antl-trust law and Wall Street, on which his utterances had been awaited with the greatest in- terest. The president declared that the ad- ministration would not “foolishly run | amuck in business and destroy values and | confidenca Jjust for the pleasure of dolng so. “No one," he continiied, “‘hes a motive as strong as the administration in power, to | cultivate and strengthen business confl- dence and prosperity. “Lut there was no promise on the part of the republican party to change the anti- trust law except to strengihen it. Of course, the govirnment at Washington can be counted on to enforce the law In the wdy best calculated to strengthen public { confidence in business, but it must epforce the law goes without saying. , President Taft's Address. | President Tult sald: “Mr. President, Gentlemen of the Repubs liean Club and Fellow Guests—The birth- day of the man whose memory we cele~ brate tonlght Is an appropriute. occasion or renewing our expressions of respect and i arfection for the republican party, ‘and our pledges to keep the part which it plays in the history this country as high and as useful as It was during the | aaministration of Abraham Lincoln. The | trials which he had to undergo as presi- dent, the political storms which the party had to weather duging the civil war, the divisions in the party itself between the radical anti-slavery element and those Who were most conservatiye in cbserving the cons stitutional limitations, are most Interesting reading and serve to dwarf and, minimize the trials through which the republican party is now passing, and restore a senso of proportion to those who allow them- selves to be daunted and discouraged, in the face of a loss of popular oqnfidence thought to be indicated by the tone of the | press. “In what respect has the republican party falled in its conduct of the govern- | ment and the enactment of laws' to per- | form its duty? It was returned to power a year ago last November by a very large majority, after a campaign In which it | made certain promises in its platform and | those promises It has either substantially complied with, or it Is about to perform within the present session of congress, Promises in Platform. | “Let us take up these promises in order: | “In the republican platform of last year {upon which the campalgn was made ap- !pears the following plank in regard to the tariff: “‘The republican party declares unequi- vocally for the revision of the tariff by a speclal session of congress immediately following the inauguration of the next president and commends the steps aiready taken to this end in the work assigned to the appropriate committees of congress | Which are now investigating the operation [ and etfect of existing schedules. ! ““n"all tarift legislation the true prine I'cipal of protection 1§ best maintained by the imposition of such dutles as will equal the difference between the cost of produg- tion at home and abroad, together with & reasonable profit to American industries. We favor the establishment of maximum | and minimum rates to be administored by the president under limitations fixed in the | law, the maximum to be avallable to meet discriminations by forelgn countries against Ameriean goods entering their markets and the minimum to represent the normal me, ure of protection at home, the aim and pur- pose of the republican policy being not only to preserve, without excessive duties, that | security agalnst forelgn competition te | which American manufacturers, farmens and producers are entitled, but ulso to | maintain the high standard of. living of the | wage earners of this country, who are the | most direct beneficlaries of the protective system. Between the United Statey and gh Philippines we believe In a free Interchange of products with such lmitations as to sugar and tobacco as will afford adequate Lprnlefllnn to domestic interests.’ | “We did revise the taritf. It iy impossible | to revise the tariff without awakening the active participation in the formation of the | schedules of those produ | ness will be atfected by a change. This Is | the ininerent ditficuity”In the adoption or revision of a tariff by our representative | system. Tariff Revised Downward, “Nothing was expressiy wgid fn the plat- form that this revision was to be & down- ward revision. The Implication that it was to be generally downward, however, was fairly glven by the fuet that those who upheld & protective: tarltf system de- fend it by the ciaim that after an industry has been established by shutting put for- elgn competition, the domestic competition will lead to the reduction In price so as to make the original high tariff unreces. sary. “In the new tariff there were 4 ds