The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1908-10-02
BEEVRiDGE SPEAKS
TWICE in N. DAKOTA

TWICE in N. DAKOTA
Addresses Large Audiences, One at
Fargo, the Other at Valley City
Indiana Senator Compliments State
in His Fargo Speech and Discussed
Labor Talked on the Tariff at
Valley City.
Fargo, N. d.. Oct. 1senator Bey-
eridge of Indiana, spoke to a large
concourse of voters from the end of
the observation car this afternoon on
his way west over the Northern Pa
cif1c He mplimented North Dako-l
ia for her sturdiness and stated that1
her interests were the interests OF In
diana and every other state. He cited
what the republican party had done
for labor and what laws had been
passed.
From here he went to Valley City,
where he spoke on the tariff. There
he said in part:
Tariff Commission.
The tariff is the most intricate,
delicate, far-reaching of fiscal prob
lens. The building OF a tariff means
the expert knowledge OF every indus
try in the country and its relation
to every other industry a knowledge
of the tariff systems of every other
nation and of their relation to our
own. It is impossible that a com-
mttee of congress, working for three
or four months, can find out these
necessary facts; more impossible and
absurd that they can make the re-
quired classi6cations. And tariff
classifcations are as important as
tariff duties themselves. America is
the only modern nation In the world
having no scientific classifications.
A stnaight- t-out revenue tariff would
mot classify any article; the tariff
we have does little better.
Stand Patters 1ntolerable.
For example, we now classify butt
tqns and stoves togslher; bullets
and buggies; lanterns and automo-
biles; farm implements and gold
boxes, carriages and dress trimmings,
tenamelled portraits and railway cars.
because of this classification all
must pay the same duty. Yet uhe
stand-p in our own party insist
ed on keeping them merely because
they did not and will not study. And
the opposition insists on doing worse.
1T Is becauge they do not study.
Both are intole olerable; both should be
rejected. And that is what the re-
publican party asks you to do. Those
who have fought this battle and who
have won ask for modern tariff
that gives no man advantages and all
meen justice; and that Is all the
1average american asks or has right
to ask.
The American tariff question never
can be handled as the American pro-
lducer needs that 1t should be handled
until a non-partisan commission OF
lexperts is establ lished men whose
only business win be to study this
lquestion and no other; who will meet
the same kind Of commissions Of rival
nations; who know as much about
tariffs as the foreign commis missions
know; who will manage our Ameri-
can tariff for the advantage OF the
American factory and farm as skill-
lfully as foreign factories manage
their tariff for the advantage OF their
lfactores and farms. Germany, France,
IIaly, Japan all the world have such
comm issions. America Is the only
lmodern nation that has not.
Tariff is Business Problem.
IN the end the tariff commission
.Iidea is sure to win. but q want every
producer TO know that the only hope
of g tariff commission Is in srepna
ilican success. Let US be American;
Iaet us finish the job while we are
at 1T. Let lls not only revise the
ltariff on modern lines; let us no,
IonIy protect American industry ant
labor and at the same time open new
markets to the American producer;
4 let us also take this tarin auestioi
Iout of politdcs and make II what |
really Is q busIn ness problem reauir