The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1908-10-02
|SEN. BEVER|OGE OF INDIANA IN FARGO
AND VALLEY CITY TALKS on ISSUES
Delivered Strond Address on Tariff Question at
Valley: City Before Immence Crowd-.Spoke
From Train at FARGO Same Evening.
N n Oct 2-what

Valley City, N. D., Oct. 2-What
proved to be the political event Of the
season was the demonstration given
Senator Alfred j. Beveridge on his
arrival here from the east to deliver
bis only address in tho state here
Thursday evening. Despite tho fact
that notices were received but twelve
hours in advance of his speech, there
was crowd of $500 people in the au-
ditorium to greet him. The tariff
question was handled in a uasterly
manner by the Indiana statesman and
continued applause was accorded him.
Mr.. Beveridge spoke in part as fol-
lows:
America. the most modern Of ma
tons should stand for great reve-
men to be raised because we are great
nation; with the greatest domestic
trade today and the greatest foreign
trade tomorrow; with factories and
farms ready to capture the markets Of
the world, we can not tolerate ancient
tariff systems which all progressive
peoples have abandoned.
THE free-trader is obsolete, the
stand-patter out of date. Both cling
to wornout theories; both declare that
the world does not move. Hospitality
to IDEAS is the method of progress;
traders invite to their intellectual
f1resides single modern thought up
on the tariff or listen to the voice Of
singel present-day fact
"Yet II we are not to yield the
oceans of trade to rival nations; II
We are to win and increase that pros
perity which the sale of our surplus
abroad alone can bring, we must
adopt the best tariff methods which
the experience of the world affords.
The old time tariff teachings on both
sides, compared with up-to-date
theory and practice. are as the old
time hand-sickle compared with the
self-binding harvester OF today.
Tariff Not for the Interests.
ut will not be log-roller's tariff
on the one hand, made by politicians
trading votes for this interest or that;
nor fanatics tariff on the other
hand, sacrificing all interests to an
absurd theory. 1t will be business
like tariff builded on common sense
and Justice and builded for the vel
fare Of the American people alone
Such tariff can be neither a
straight-out revenue tariff nor a
straight-out protective tariff.
"a tariff for revenue only means a
tax on imports that will bring the
most revenue But these are articles
like Coffee, tea, chocolate, tropical
fruits and many other things which
all of our people consume and none
of our people produce. Most ..mcri-
cans drink coffee; but coffee is not
raised in the United States. We must
have it. but we must import it; there
fore tariff on coffee would bring a
greater revenue than on nearly any
other article. So e. tariff for revenue
only means a tariff on coffee-a tax
on the breakfast table. The opposi-
ton proposes revenue-only tariff.
Do they therefore propose tariff on
coffee, which would produce more
revenue than any other article? If
not, the whole riff-for-revenue-only
logic is surrendered. Will Mr. Bryan,
Governor Johnson or any other men,
Der of the opposition explains this
tangle in their reasoning? And what
is true of coffee is true of tea, choco-
late. tropical fruits and scores Of 9TH
er necessary articles like them.
THAT tariff for revenue only
means a tariff upon articles which all
of us consume and none of us pro-
duce-articles which we must have,
but can not raise or make, and there
fore must imports proved not on
ly by logic, but by experience. Hol-
land and the United Kingdom arc the
only two modern nations that have a
tariff for revenue only; and both raise
most of their revenue on articles like
these. Have we lived hundred years
independent OF England, only to begin
to initiate her now?
why will revenue-only tariff not
open new foreign markets to our
products? Because it says to other
nations. you may come into Ameri-
can markets at our lowest possible
rates CT duty, but you need not let
American products into your markets
except at your highest possible rates
OF duty. We give you every trade adj
vantage that we have to give, but we
ask you to give us no trade advantage
in return: Suppose any man dealt
with other men In that way; suppose