The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1909-07-17
WILL BE MADE IN CONFER.
ENcES.
ALDRICH HOLDS WHIP HAND
Is AS Much in Charge of the Bill
In Conference AS He Was When
Measure Was On The Floor Of
The Senate,
The Senate.

Washington, July I6-Whife It IS
expected there will be numerous
changes made in the tariff bill IN
| conferences, it is not anticipated
here in the National Capitol that the
general character of the measure
will be changed.
Minor concessions will be made
in an attempt by the tariff juaglers
to make the people believe the bill
has been greatly improved, no
doubt These apparent improve
ments, if they materialize, may be
expected to be drawn along the
same lines as the countless number
of jokers.
So far as the bill being revision
downward or a revision upward, OF
the Ding!ey tariff. the die was cast
when the Senate cast its vote under
the whip and SPUR of Boss Aldrioh
The Rhode Island Senator is as
much III charge Of the bin in con-
ference as he was when the measure
was on the floor of the Senate. as
Aldrich's co-workers, Speaker Can
non, appointed to the conference
committeeman dominated by the
same influences served by Aldich.
The tariff bill over which Aldrich
: holding farcial conference is not
a revenue bill, nor a protective bill,
/ in the largeer sense of the protee-
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vance, not the general business in
!; terests of the country, not the in
terests of the public as a whole
not even the interests of the gov
ernment 1t is bill TO benefit
combinations, to advance prices, to
monopolize industry and business,
and to give to the special interests
represented especially by Senator
Aldrich, greater privileges than ever
before
f Every trust that has gained atten-
ton in the last ten years by its
growth and increasing control of
some form Of industry or business,
is carefully provided for. The
Standard Oil Trust. through the
, adroit manipulation of Boss Aldrich,
won back in the Senate all If lost
when the House placed its products
on the free list The lead trust.
! the wooden trust, the paper trust,
the great combination of cotton
manufacturers, and every other or
ganization of great capital and m
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the character of protection which it
has demanded to continue its work
of monopolization and extortion.
The men and boys of the United
States will pay $I2o.ooo,ooo more for
their clothing in 1910 than they
:, have paid this year, as a result Of
Il the new tariff bill This is the
statement Of the National Associa-
ton of Clothiers, produced in the
Senate by LaFoliette of Wisconsin.
u The association includes Of per cent.
= of the leading clothing manufactur-
u ers OF the United States, doing a
. business amounting to 100000 900
annually The effect of the Dinghy
u tariff on wool, the statement says,
has been to reduce the quality and
i diminish the weight of the goods
;, used. thereby making clothing less
durable.
"These advanced prices on wor-
steds,' the statement declares. "fol-
!. lowing the steady deterioration OF
: fabrics in weight and quality, re-
: sulting from the operations of the
= Dingley bill, will add to the retail
: price approximately $3.50 on STo
= suit of clothes. S. on SIS suit, and
= IS on a $50 suit, or from 20 per cent
to p per cent. to the cost of cloth
ing to the wearer thereof
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