The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-05-07
And Lamp Post for Giant
Capitalists
WARNS AGAINST GREED
Tells the Party Leaders They Cannot
Fool the People in Pending Meas
ure-The Bill Must Be Sat-
isfactory.

washington, May ff-~4qtH1toi Yum
minis Of Iowa created a sensation on the
door yesterday afternoon in the course
Of notable speech attacking the tariff
bill as reported by Senator Aldrich from
the finance committee. Departing in the
heat Of debate from his prepared manu-
script, he suggested iamppost and a
rope as a possible method Of dealing
with giant capitalists il their grip on
business became extreme In colloquy
with Senator Depew about the concen-
tration of control Of business and Of
capital, he said he had never allowed
himself to think that time would come
when one giant mind Or one set Of men
would control the business Of the coun.
try.
IF that time does come" he said,
there will still remain the lamppost
and the common people"
Senator Cummins predicted that a
failure to pass a tariff bill providing
lower duties on imports would provoke
political contest for another revision
Of the tariff.
In commencing the course Of his col
league, Mr. Dolliyer, in attacking the
pending bill, AFR. Cummins turned to
Senator Aldrieh and said that the man
who challenged the Republication Of
senator's because they seek to revise
the schedule Of duties forty years old,
was taking a most remarkable course.
Have we arrived at that lavish state
Of public opinion" he said, 'in which
it becomes question Of political fealty
to insist upon the corrections Of SEIZED.
ules made forty years ago, when we
consider them in relation to conditions
existing te-dayf'
"The bill now before us, which, II
may be assumed, presents the views Of
the finance committee respecting the re-
vision OF tn tariff" he said, evil not
be accepted BY those who have favored
a revision Of the tariff as either a fulfll-
ment Of the party pledge Or as a settle
ment of the controversy. II this bill,
or anything substantially ike il, becomes
a law, I predict that campaign for
lower duties viii begin the moment the
extraordinary session Of Congress ad-
iourns, and win continue with increasing
zeal until the Judgment entered in the
court Of the public conscience Is also en-,
tered in the journals Of Congress.
1T gives me no pleasure to utter this
for have earnestly hoped
that the revision now in progress would
end the dispute for years to come, and
that the business Of the country would
enjoy the peace and tranquility which
is impossible during the existence Of
movement to materially change duties
upon imports.
who insisted upon tariff revisioni It
was not the manufacturer, the lumber
man, the coal man, The iron and steel
man, the glass man. the cotton or the
wooden man, or the oil man. The demand
came from those who believed the duties
upon many articles and commodities
were too high; who believed that excess
i've duties coupled with other conditions,
we're enabling favored few to reap
profits; and they demanded
a substantial reduction
There was no question, he said, that
the Republican party had promised ro
vision under demand for lower duties
Mr.. Cummins couted the idea that ad
nerence to the whole schedule was neces.
sary to the whole schedule was necessary