Speech #580002475

You not only want to give everybody everything ".that they want. like Tittlebat Titmouse. in Ten Thousand a Year. but you want to give people things they do not want. Here we find the National Association of Agricultural Implement and Vehicle Manufacturers met the other day in the city of Chicago and passed certain resolutions with certain preambles. The first preamble is this: Whereas the members of this association and we believe a large majority of the people of the United States believe that our tariff duties in many instances are too high and a gradual reduction should b made. and Whereas that dominant party of the nation has on more than one occasion committed itself in convention platforms and by legislative action to the policy of reciprocity and to the promotion of the commercial treaties. and many of its most brilliant and able statesmen have strenuously urged the faithful performance of this party engagement. and Whereas in the early period of this countrys existence protection to manufacturers was established in order to enlarge our domestic market. encourage immigration. diversify industries. furnish a greater opportunity for a diversified talent. and afford a larger field for enterprise. anti csiabish an independence of foreign nations in supplying ourselves with the necessary military supplies during the exigencies of war. in all of which we have succeeded to a marvelous extent. * - * * * ** Then this resolution: Therefore. be it Resolved. That we urge upon Congress the faithful performance not only of the repeatedly expressed ut the ipled pomises contained n the Republican platform. and the utterances of the Republican leaders who have favored reciprocity. by ratifying treaties already before them and thus eneouraging thonegotiation of other treaties equally desirabme. and carry ott the policy o~f our late lamented President. the Hon.Nillam McKinley. who so ab advocated the principles of reciprocity in his last public addrese. * * e * a e Respectfully submitted. F.