The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-11-13

J sun Of a new day, a new era OF prosperity
1 has arisen. Our mills are all running. Oul
the country and over this state especially
/ With an abnormally good crop, taking
the country as a whole, The farmer Is re
eeiving phenomenally high prices foI
ing Ia value. His products are Using IN
value. The sun Of prosperity shines
brightly over the whole land, and the
| shadow OF want darkens no mans door
| We have secured that which all asked for
prosperity and an assurance for the future
How Should q Mans Vote BE Judged
Should 1t be judged by the standard OF
L right and wrong or by the standard OF
how some one else votesf
We have In this country good, honest
papers. We have some that are worse
than criminal. We have papers that vii,
stand up for right and will not attempt Ia
deceive their readers. We have some that
there are many men who declare that all
Is fair In war and Ia politics. I deny it.
The man who will be dishonest In politics
will be dishonest In other respects. The
/ man who Will steal your good name wi
steal your pocketbook IL he has a chance.
\ The man who will place you In an unjust
ana unfair light In any publication, thus
oeprVmg yo1 OF that which Is to your
spects that which he knows belongs to
| You. The greatest prayer that / have ever
heard, appropriate to present conditions,
WAS u @nOTL one uGlGNEEGu the mouse In
these words: Lord give us honest men
and deliver us from the liar and the dema.
\ gogue."
The action Of the president and the vote
| OF Senator Johnson and myself should be
| judged by what 1t stood for and not By
| whether some one else voted for or against
/ the bill
And yet IL / were to read some Of these
| papers and even some of the magazines the
sole test would be whether senator Al
| drich also voted for the same bill or the
same way on any particular amendment.
1t is not part of this address, on a
question Of tariff, to either assault or de-
fend any senator. It Is enough to know
| that all Of a sudden the press OF this sec.
| ton Of the country and many OF the mag.
| aEines started TO create an intense senti-
I shall not 60 into the question Of
! whether right or wrong now. They sue.
ceeded. So these papers, taking advantage
OF that sentiment, seek to lnjure by con-
the same way that Aldrich did. They do
not say that Aldrich voted the same as
| hfty-four other senators. As I have stat
ed, when we got In the committee the best
not only the duty Of Senator Aldrich but
| the duty Of every other member who COM
promised on every schedule to vote &C
eording to his agreement. Ny vote and
the vote Of every other senator would have
\ been the same whether Aldrich had been
4 on the committee or not Why not be
| honest then and say, tMcCumber or John
son voted the same way as Cullom or
Burrows Of Michigan, or as any other re-
| publican member Of the committee?' 1t is
| Fegrettably sad condition that we can
! not In all Of our newspapers speak fairly
| and honestly Of every issue. One Of the
reporters Of great paper has been a
personal friend Of mine. During the dis
cussion OF the tarin bill did not see him.
! saw a great many things from his pen
| which were not true. he avoided me. One
4 day II mo In he 4.
II have not seen you very much lately. /"
! mo" he said, II have been very busy. .
replied: II notice that" Then I said
Mr.. -, heretofore you have often
come to me for information Did / ever
give you anything but the TRUTH mo"
| Then when you want to publish some
/ thing about my reason for doing this and
that, or my reason for what l am going
get the truthT His answer was: THAT
Is not what / am after. Ny paper is de.
handing certain stuff. l have got to get
| what 1t demands, and IL can get some
too closely into the truth of It." We'll
might we all pray: God give us honest
men and honest papers and deliver as from
/ commercial press"
! But the state OF Rhode Island elected
| Senator Aldrlch to the senate. / did not.
The state OF Rhode Island keeps him there.
DO not. This senator has been a mem
! Der of the senate for thirty years, and
chairman of the committee on nnance for
many years. / could neither put him on
nor put him of that committee. As chair
man OF that committee he Of course has
| charge Of any bill that comes from It. He
could not be deprived of that right. The
chairman OF every committee has charge
| OF the bill that gets out Of that commit
tee. Senator Aldrich comes from a state
| whose whole industries are manufactur-
| ing. he naturally sees things through tht
atmosphere IN which he lives the manu-
featuring atmosphere. ! live In an agri-
cultural section and naturally see things
from the standpoint Of the agriculturalist.
| We diner on a great many things. He
may want higher tariff and 1 q lower
one or none at all. But when we have
compromised our differences, OF course both
| or us are expected to vote for the com
promise effected If we do not no tariff
bill could ever be enacted. 1t is but fair.
however, to say Of Senator Aldrich that
there are several members Of the com
mittee who might be called higher tariff
men than he is. II his influence was felt
! In holding tariffs on cotton and wooden
textiles, 1t must also be felt In lowering
the iron schedule very materially
Examples Of Criminal Libel.
Let me give one or two Illustrations of
the utter deprayity of some Of these hired
papers. / labored all Of the special SEES
sion for free lumber. At one time | made
an address Of about three and n half
cussed the subject several other times, In
the course of debate in the senate. / am
not q lumberman. In order to get full
data and be able to meet every question
that might arise In the discussion OF the
many phases required weeks OF study and
research. This work must be done for
the most part at night as my days are
busy. When the bill came finally before
the senate I moved and voted to place
lumber on the free list. That motion was
defeated by very decisive vote. I then
moved for a very low tariff 1t was de-
feated. then passed the subject for the
day because / knew that II some member
Of the senate would move to make the
duty the same as the Dingley law there
would be enough votes to carry IT, So
l got 1t back into the committee and got
the best possible compromise so that
might have the weight Of the influence of
the committee to back me, and we got II
through the senate at rates, very much
below the Dingley rates, and still lower
rates when 1t got into the conference com
nIittee. | made every possible effort to get
free lumber Now some on might intro.
dnce an amendment putting q whole lot
Of things on the free list that ought not
to be put on the free list including inm-
Der. / OF course would vote against that.
and In big type comes the announcement,
"McCumber votes against free lumber
Some one then may make a motion to place
| pianos, mahogany and rosewood on the
free list. was of course not looking
for rosewood to build homes, and of course
| / would vote against 1T, and again comes
the announcement that McCumber voted
against free lumber
| Again we reduced the duty on many ar
ticies In the committee. Some one moves
/ to make the duty on q certain article
still lower. / vote against further reduc-
tion. And then that paper again an.
nounees that McCumber votes to raise the
duty on that article, when as matter
OF fact the duty which / voted Tor was
| lower than In the Dingley law.
The committee left many things fust as
they were without either raising or re-
ducing them, and OF course / voted e
keep them so. voted against a raise
and voted against a reduction But
each time this paper announces sMcCunl-
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