Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-13
FAR WESTERN STATES LINE UP
WITH ALDRIcH FOR HIGH
TARIFF.
HIGH PROTECTIVE ZONE
NO LONGER IN EAST
Mountain and Pacific Coast States Join
Hands With New Ensland-RepubIi-
cans Worried Over Outcome Of EIec-
tions Following Enactment Of New
Tariff Law.

OF I3O9 is the discovery that New Eng
land is not without rival in its claim
to be the center of high protection
sentiment in the United States.
For many years, New England, with
a mandatory of some kind in every
village, town and city, has typified to
the average American the extreme of
high protection. And latterly, Senator
Aldrich has come to personify this
sentiment in the popular thought From
his position of advantage as leader of
the senate and chairman of the great
committee which has jurisdiction over
tariff bills. he says, Simon says
thumbs UP" or Simon says thumbs
down." and Immediately there is a
great wagging of thumbs on both sides
of the senate chamber.
TO many persons it has seemed more
than strange that this one man, no
matter what his ability or his influ-
ence, could always command majority
OF the senate. Assuming, so far as the
tariff is concerned. that New England
is the only section of the country
where high protection sentiment runs
hlgh at all times, the average man in
The street was at a loss to understand
the secret of Mr.. Aldrich's power
The trouble has been with men who
lave thus been SO confused that they
made a wrong assumption. New Eng
land, 1t is true, does favor high duties.
II ~
bills discloses that it probably doesn't
favor them any more strongly than do
the mountain and Pacific states of the
far west And the trouble with getting
revision downward at the present time
Is that senator's from those far west
states have formed a combination, an
offensive and defensive alliance, thru
which all are to support the particular
schedules in which any one of them is
Interested
Eight Coast States Combine.
There are eight states in this combi-
nation, California, which is interested
in increasing the duty on all citrus
fruits; Colorado, which Is interested in
high duties on lead, sugar and hides:
Oregon, which is interested in fruit
and lumber; Idaho, which is interested
IN lumber and lead; Utah, which is IN
terested in wool and hides: Wyoming,
which is interested in wool, coal and
hldes; Montana, which Is interested in
lumber. wool and hides, and Washing
ton, Which is interested in lumber.
| Here are sixteen members OF the
senate. all of them republicans but two.
Chamberlain, of Oregon, and Hughes
of Colorado. The understanding is that
they are to vote as unit on all sched-
ules affecting the western section Of the
country, and it is pretty safe to state
that. with New England to help them
they form a majority OF the senate
not counting the numerous democratic
votes which any high protection meas
ure in the senate will get from southern
states which have lumber, sugar AND
hide interests.
The combination of far western sem
ators causes the face of Senator
Aldrich to wreath itself in smiles.
These westerners, however, are not
playing the Aldrich game because they
love Aldrich No indeed. They are
rejecting home opinion, and the fact
that they happen to get into the same
wagon with Mr.. Aldrich and his New
England interests is quite accidental.
Tariffs Strange 6edfeIlows.
Between New England and it's neigh
boring states on the one hand and the
mountain and Pacific states on the
other, and hemmed in to the south b,
the states below the Ohio, lie the states
OF the central west, where the center
OF population is to be found, and ir
whose keeping is the scepter of polit
lcal power in this country. Unlike the
sections which surround her on three
sides. her politics is always more O,
less of an uncertain quantity. New
England and the east, speaking broad.
ly, are reliably republican, excepting il
rare instances. The far west ant
Pacific states, with similar compare
lively rare exceptions, are also reliabl,
republican: while the states O
the south are even more reliabl,
democratic.
All three of these sections are thi
year developing marked high tarif
notions. This was of course to be ex
pected in New England and the east
because this is their historic attitude
1t was not so much to be expected iron
the sparsely settled and agriculture
and stock raising west, where there ar
scarcely no manufactures of wide rep
utation or great output. Least of a
was it to be expected from the state
: Of the south.
But politics makes strange bedfel
lows, now as formerly, and here ar
found the manufacturing east, tn
grazing west, the fruit growing Pa
cific slope and the south, where tariff
for-revenue doctrine for many year
has been a synonym for free trad,
standing together and demandin
practically the re-enactment of tn
present Dingley rates as to lumbe
wool and woolens, coal, lead and iro,
hides, sugar and citrus fruits, these be
ing the schedules in which the countr
as a whole is most interested. An
their combinations, apparently, will b
Il strong enough to give them what the
want
d Middle West Stands Alone.
s The states of the central west-Ohi
q Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsi
v Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, Soul
il Dakota; Nebraska, Kansas-contain
greater diversity II industries Of s
kinds than any other section Of IL
country, while in point Of wealth The
; exceed any other section with Ne
!. York omitted. In manufacturing thu
equal New England; in wool GROWN
they equal the mountain states Of Il
west: On lead and iron they are Il
richest section Of the country; in agf
cultural resources and farm produc
} generally. they. are banner states. Ne
1 England and the far Hest and the son