The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-13

Iahoma, delivered an impasSioncd de-
fcnse of retail dealers against any
charge of cxtoriion,
Senator Gore declared the senate had
turned itself into Il graud jury, land
is here ready to return 4 verdict
against the retail dealers for the high
prices of articles used by the Ameri-
can people, and the senator from Maine
has constituted himself foreman Of this
jury.
'rhc manufacturers and trusts arc
undertaking to hold up the middlcmen
and retailers as a shield 10 protect
themselves against the outraged con
sumers. stand here TO enter a plea
of not guilty for the retailers of this
country
Mr.. Gore named shoes, hats. shirts
clothing and other articles as being sold
10 retailers under contract that they
should be sold at an agreed price.
He said some woollcn and cotton
manufacturers Of New England arc de-
cIarng dividends of 66 per cent, which
WAS greater than the profit of retail
cTS,
Stand Taken by Aldrich,
MI Aldrich contcndcd that the duty
on glass had no relation TO the price
at which glass is sold in this country.
During discussion of the profits Of
window glass manufactures by Mr..
NcwIands, Mr.. Oliver Pennsylvania
objected, saving that there is not a win.
dow glass manufactures in the United
States today who is making anything
like fair profit
81 speak with feeling said Mr.
Oliver. "'becausc within four years I
have invested no small amount of
money in the manufacture of window
glass, and ! tell you. ii disappeared
rs rapidly as though | had put If on
the wrong number at Monte Carlo -
On motion Of Mr.. Aldrich, the see
tion relating To window glass was
passed over temporarily md the senate
considered other sections, agreeing TO
several paragraphs previously passcd
over and which related to various glass
products. Committee amendments rclat
ing To marble and stone manufacturers
were agreed 10.
Senator Crawford Emphatic.
When the section relating to iron
ore, on which the committee had recon-
mcndcd Il duty of % cents a tom was
reached, Mr.. Crawford opposed placing
a duty on natural products of the conn.
try. such as lumber, oil, iron ore and
coal
Mr. Rayner gave notice that he
N'''IN IiloNN W I'Isk'f llDh orc ul IUt
free list.
Mr. Crawford declared that so far
as the cost of labor III Canada and the
United States was concerned, there was
10 difference in the lumber industry
ard that none of thc arguments used
10 jnstIfy the protective tariff could be
applied TO it.
Referring to the oil industry. NJ,
Crawford declared the Standard Oil
company had been shown by the bureau
of corporations to have prosncrcd by
gross untairncss, and the violation Of
every principle of honesty and decency.
Reviewing The history OF the United
States Steel corporation in respect TO
its attitude towards the independent
steel producing concerns, Mr.. Crawford
said:
Zone Of The pathetic things that
have come under my observation here
Is the desperate appeals made to mem.
bers Of this senate by men of small
means struggling along with small fac
tories. imagining that they are really
Independent concerns They are as
helpless as Il little mouse that attempts
10 play on the carpet In front OF a
feline that can crush il with its paw.
When we think VIC arc helping them
we are simply strengthening the bg
corporations that can absolutely crui'i
them at nnr moment