Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-15
SENATOR OWEN FLAWS MAKERS
OF ALDRicA-PAYNE TAR
lFF MEASURE.
DESIGNED TO MAKE RICH
RICHER, AND POOR POORER
Owen Advances Now Argument and
Declares That American Tariff sys-
tenn Lowers Instead of Increases
Wases-speech Replete With Do
nunciation of Republican Policies.

the masters of monopoly in the United
states were in control; that the tariff
bill was written to serve their purpose
to make the rich richer and the poor
poorer, and to benefit the few at the
expense of the many, Senator Owen
today held the attention of the senate
for several hours with speech replete
with denunciatlon of the republican
protective tariff policy and of the ma
jority members of the finance commit
tee. Responsibility for the unrest of
recent giant monopolies, engendered
by the prohibitive tariff"
Senator Owen opposed the bill in Its
entirety because he said 1T was con-
trary to the will of the American pe,-
pie. when point out the unavoid-
able effect of extreme poverty as the
necessary complement OF unlimited
wealth in the hands of the few accum-
ulated under the shelter of the law"
he declared, Il wish 1t distinctly un-
derstood that the dark picture of hum
an misery which the truth compels me
to portray breathes from me of no
spirit of pessmism. because I am an
optimist. 1 recognize the immediate
dawn Of better things and an early
remedy"
Bill Violates Pledge.
Among the reasons assigned by him
for being an optlmist. Senator Owen
said that he believed that the Amer
lean people. who loved liberty. who be-
lieved in self government, who believed
in mercy and charity as we'll as in In
dustry and providence, will see to 1t
that this government is so conducted
by their representatives that in the
future there shall be more equitable
distribution Of the proceeds of human
labor: that We shall change the pres
ent policy, whose inevltebie tendency
Is the useless. the vulgar: and insane
enrichment Of the few at the expense
Of the misery and sorrow and OF the
physical and spiritual degeneration Of
millions of men. women, and children
who are now submerged by the COM
mercial devices of Mammon" In his
opinion. he asserted. the bill should not
pass because 1t violated the pledge OF
the republican party and OF the repub-
lican leader during the last campaign.
The republican party platform, he de-
clared, was "unequivocal," and it's rea.
sonabie and na:ara! Interpretation was
plain.
Senator Owen. revertng to the de-
bates In the senate on the tariff, said
that when he had sought to ascertain
why the difference in the cost Of pro-
duction at home and abroad had not
been compiled as basis for the draft
ing Of the bill, Senator Gallinger rises
In bis place and solemnly advises me
that my inquiry is absurd" He would
not. he said, question the intelligence
of Mr.. Aldrich nor would he reply to
him In kind, but, he said. ~ appeal
from him to the American people, who
will not hold him guiltless for his call
lous and reprehensible conduct In this
matter" The failure OF MIR. Aldrich
and his colleagues to furnish the sem
ate with the difference in cost of pro-
duction at home and abroad. he Bit
terly denounced, remarking that the
request had been met with Super
cilious Indifference"
Tariff Lowers American Wage.
soSIii toi OWEN charged tnQl
the high tariff had lowered the wage
Of American workmen. He devoted
considerable though. to this question,
furnishing nnumerable statistics to
support his contention. "'rhe monopo-
list" he said "can not and does not
consume his profit. So that the result
Is that the capital of monopoly is roll
Ing UP Hike huge SNOWFALL, picking
UP every opportunity offered by God
to mankind In our natural resources:
and labor. the creator of wealth, lam
guishes and grows weaker as the cre-
ture of wealth grows stronger and ex-
ercises natural but unrestrained ap-
petite by acquiring the titel to every
visible and invisible. resource" He
favored the growing organization Of
workngmen. Monopolies. he said. pre-
ferred unorganlzed labor; "They prefer
that labor should be helpless and In
capable of making effective any de-
mand for Its comfort or convenience
or for Its rights" He maintained that
the law should firmly and unhesitat-
ingly demand and require OF labor, or
gnnized or unorganized. strict obedi-
ence to the law, "but 1t should also
demand and require Of monopoly con-
siderate and decent treatment of labor
and Its rights both as producer and
consumer"
LOCAL FIRE INSURANCE AGENTS.