Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-08-20
SCORES WORK OF
TARIFF REVISION
LA TOILETTE DECLARES PRESI
DENT TAFT SHOULD HAVE
VETOED THE BILL.
Asserts Rhode Island Senator Deliberate
ly Deceived Congress and People
on True Situation.
SAYS HOUSE NEEDS "REFORMING.'

DIES MONIES, Ia, Aug. 14.-In an
interview with J. ]. Dickinson of the
Chicago Examiner, Senator Robert NJ
La Toilette of Wisconsin spoke firmly
of his determination to carry before the
people of the entire country the fight he
and a handful of Republican senators
made at the special session of Congress
to force their party to live up to its cam
paign pledges for tariff reduction.
In denouncing Senator Aldrlch and
"Aldrichism" he said:
'It was Aldrich who 50 manlpuiateC
the sugar schedule in the Dinghy oll
twelve years ago as to give to that III
satiate trust $3.0OO,OOO year more as
an added expense of the American break
fast table,"
I'm the tariff bill just passed did the
Republican party redeem Its pleoges loi
revisiOn?'
1T emphatically did not" was the re-
Did not President Taft interpret the
platform of the party to be tor down
ward revision"
He certainly did that in his cam
paign speeches"
rs the general effect OF the revision
doWnward?'
ct is not; it is distinctly upward. II
is for the manufa cturers only and even
they don't know how well they are gong
to fare under it. The consumer has been
ignored in nearly every schedule OF the
law" 49,,
IF in your judgment the party has
not redeemed it's pledge, point out ID
what respects the party failed to make
good its PROMISES"
Senator La Toilette laughed.
'"The instances are too numerous to
be hurriedly pointed out. In the last
day of the session l laid before the Sen
ate in tabulated form a schedule or more
than 300 articles that had been changed.
This was to refute Senator Aldrlcn
false claim that the bill tended down
ward.
''My tables showed that in only thirty
five of these articles had the Dingley
rates been reduced, while on more than
go of them they had been increased
They were schedules so adroitly manlpu
lated that on their face they appeared to
bear out the Aldrich claim
Revision Agitation to Continue.
"WiH the subject of tariff revision now
be allowed to rest or will the sentiment
for a revision such as the people thought
they were going. to get in the last cam
paign increasew
Il have tried to impress upon my
hearers in this state, and especially
among the standpatters, the danger OF
permitting the agitation for revision to
cease-a danger not only to the Repub'
lican party, but to the country and the
system of protection itself. We shall
keep hammering away until the people
are aroused. After that is accomplished
the rest will be easy. l have demon
strated in my fights in Wisconsin that
all you have to do to get proper results
is to help the people understand what
is going on, assist them to comprehend
the meaning and full significance of such
vital issues as that of tariff revision.
They can be implicitly trusted to set
things right.
Il could wish that the President had
and thus have presented the issue
squarely and acutely to the country and
the world. He would have been sus-
tanned by the American people"
''In your judgment do not the consum-
ers of this country have to bear more
than their just proportion of the burdens
of the government, while the privileged
classes escape the payment of their prop
er share of taxation"
Yes. And this condition cannot last
much longer. The people are being rap
idly educated. And they will turn on
and rend the men who have been deceiv"
ing them. l have absolutely no misgiv-
ings on that score. They are groaning
under the tremendous weight of unequal
burdens piled upon their backs by the
men who have betrayed them"
Favors Inheritance Tax.
"Would not the income and inherit
ance taxes, both of which are now in
operation in Germany and England and
soon to be applied in France, tend to a
more equal distribution of taxation bur
densY
Undoubtedly they would"
privilege is written in nearly every
schedule of the Aldrich-Payne law. And
the bill does not ernbody the proper prin-
cipIes of protection. This would have
of a doubt had not Senator Aldrich kept
from the Senate an important govern
ment document which was forced upon
the consideration of his committee while
the House bill was being doctored by
the finance committee behind locked
doors. | refer to an exhaustive report
obtained from the German government
through our ambassador to Berlin.
"That report showed unmistably that
the wage scale in many trades in Ger
many was 100 per cent. higher than Aid
rich and his followers represented it to
be to the Senate and the country. 1t was
manipulation of this sort that kept the
real facts of the situation from being
laid before Congress.
W0ulQ ke1OTm the house.
evil a fight be made next year for
the election of a House of Representa-
tives plainly pledged to sincere tariff re-
vision downwardsV
Eyes. And it will be broader than
that It will be made for the reforma-
ton of the House, for the restoration of
that branch of Congress to its original
status. Cannonism must first be de-
stroyed Maybe Uncle joe cannot be
beaten in the Danville district yet. But
Cannonism can and must be destroyed.
His reign, following that of other die
tators of the House under the present
rule, has shown how dangerous to the
interests, yes, even to the liberties OF
the people, IS one-man power"
A Summer Incident.
She mopped her brow,
But nothing more,
It was her Ma