The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-12
ARRAIGNS SENATE
 BOSS ALDRCH Grinding Middle West and South Between. MillStoneS THE TARIFF JUGGLERS Magazine Writer Lays Bare Tariff Making Machinery of Congress
 the Power of It's Dictator
 In the Senate.

Characterizing Nelson W. Aldrich as
 general manager of the United States"
 and as by far It's most potent and pow
 erful legislator" Judson c. Welliver. in the July Hampton's Magazine, arraigns
 the Rhode Island senator and tariff
 Juggling allies in the most scathing anal
 ysis ever made of the boss of the Sen
 ate" Representing only IA states of
 less than 100000 inhabitants, "the Aid rich phalanx," declares the article, rules
 the republican majority in the Senate;
 and through it to rule the Senate; and
 through the Senate to make tariff
 law.
 '"That law will give to the participat- ing states, such as Maine, New Hamp-
 shire. Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Is
 land, Delaware, Montana, Wyoming, Colo
 rado, Idaho, Nevada Washington, North
 Dakota and West Virginia, all the protec-
 ton they want The lumber of Washing ton, the lead of the mountain states, the citrus fruits of California, the hides of the ranges, the cotton and woolen and | silk and shoe mills of New England, the iron and steel of Pennsylvania-these will be cared for The great rich states of middle west and south will be ground between the upper and neither milistones,' as Nelson of Minnesota declared on the
 Senate floor.
 'aThe combination of small states of far east and far west, formed and d.
 rected by the cold, calculating genius of
 Aldrich, is the power behind this tariff
 revision Senators representing only
 seven millions of people furnish the power with which this colossal boss, from the smallest and most corrupt state,
 makes tariff for our population of ninety millions.
 "Yet even with this devoted array at his back, Aldrich dared not too openly avow his intention of grinding the eighty-three millions between the mill stones of the seven millions. The New England cotton and woolen mills were to
 have their protection-and therefore their
 profit-powerAncr It was unsafe to do this openly and frankly. So Ald- rich reported a bill in which, he said, there was no change in their schedules. It was true as to the figures But Sem ator Deliver sat up a few nights with
 some experts, and found that without changing a figure A1drich had, by silently rewriting the definition of cotton cloth, increased the duties throughout Ald-
 rich and his followers denied it; but Dol liver proved it. And then he proved, 1 further, that Aldrich and his ieuten- ants did not do it: they called in the skilled agents of the manufactures and let them fix up the details, so that the 1 provision would be sure to serve the
 
 1 purpose!
 "That is typical of rariff-making un- der Aldrich. Jokers. snakes, indirections, concealed meanings, definitions which | seem to mean one thing and really 1 mean another, iugglings phrases. con cealment of grain of purpose in a l labyrith of language-these are the sure
 systems with which the business Senator l plays his game"
 Regarding the charges that Rhode | Island legislatures have at times been | openly and frankly purchased outright l Mir Welliver quotes Col. A. K. Mcclure 1 of Philadelphia, who alleged that fin
 making the sugar schedule of the tariff 1 bin Aldrich gave the sugar trust the ben
 eft of one mill added duty on refined 1 sugar which enabled the trust to draw 1 down about $3ooO.00o additional profits l per year by the cheerful process of talk