Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-08-20
SCORES WORK OF
TARIFF REVISION
Ia 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.r

SAYS HOUSE NEEDS "REFORMINGr
DIES MONIES, Ia, Aug. lin al
interview with J. j. Dickinson Of The
Chicago Examiner, Senator Robert N
La Toilette Of Wisconsin spoke firmly
IF his determination to carry before the
people Of the entire country the fight ht
and handful Of Republican senator:
made at the special session Of Congress.
10 force their party to live up 20 its cam
paign pledges for tariff reduction.
In denouncing Senator Aldrich anC
"-Aldrichism" he said:
1t was AldriCh who so manipulated
he sugar schedule in the Dngley bll
twelve years ago as TO give 10 that III
satiate trust $3.O0O.O0O "A year more az
an added expense Of the American break
last table
In the tariff bill just passed did th'
Republican party redeem It's pledges LoI
revision?"
1T emphaticaIIy did not, was the re
ply.
platform Of the party to be for down
ward reyisiOnY
lie certainly did that in his cam
paign speeches"
rs the general effect Of the revision
downwardY'
1T is not: it II distinctly upward. Il
Is for the manufacturers only and ever
they don't know how well they are going
to fare under il. The consumer has beer
ignored in nearly every schedule OF th(
law"
If in your judgment the party has
not redeemed its pledge. point out IL
what respects the party failed to make
good its promises?
Senator La Toilette laughed
The instances are too numerous e
he hurriedly pointed out. In the last
day of the session | laid before the Sen
ate in tabulatcd form a schedule OF more
1hau 300 articles that had been changed
This was to refute Senator Nldrich'
fa.Se claim that the bill tended down
ward.
My tables showed that in only thirty
f. Of these articles had the Dlnglcy
rates been reduced, while on more thai
$50 Of them they had been increased
They were schedules so adroitly manipu
lated that on their face they appeared Il
hear out the Aldrich claim"
Revision Agitation to Continue.
will the subject of tariff revision now
he allowed to rest or will the sentiment
Tor a revision such as the people though
they were going to get in the last cam
p3ign increaseg
Il have tried to impress upon my
hearers in this state, and especially
among the standpatters, the danger OF
permitting the agitation for revision tC
lcease-a danger not only to the Repub
lican party, but to the country and tn,
system of protection itself. We shall
keep hammering away until the people
ere aroused. After that is accomplished
~, Ia 4
%trated in my fights in Wisconsin tina
all you have TO do to get proper results
Is TO help the people understand wha
Is going on, assist them 10 comprehend
She meaning and full significance of sucl
vital issues as that of tariff revision
They can be implicitly trusted to Sc
things right.
! could wish that the President aac
vetoed the miserable Aldrich-Payne bill
and thus have presented the issu,
squarely and acuteiy to the country anC
the world. He would have been sus
tanned by the American people"
In your Judgment do not the consum
scrs of this country have to bear more
than their just proportion of the burden:
of the government, while the privileged
classes escape the payment of their prop
-cr share of taxation ?"
Yes. And this condition cannot las
much longer. The people are being rap
idly educated And they will turn or
and reud the men who have been deceiv
ing them. l have absolutely no misgiv
]ngs on that score. They are grooming
under the tremendous weight of unequa
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 II
operation III Germany and England ant
soon TO be applied in France, tend to 3
mere equal distribution of taxation bur
slens:
Undoubtedly they would"
Privilege is written in nearly every
schedule of the Al1rich-Payne law. AnC
she bill does BOT embody the proper prin
ciples of protection. This would have
been demonstrated beyond the shadow
OF a doubt had not Senator Aldrich KEPT
from the Senate an important govern
ment document which was forced upo1
4he consideration of his committee Will,
the House bill &as 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 lha
she wage scale in many trades in Ger
many was lee per cent. higher than Aid
rich and his followers represented it t.
be 80 the Senate and the country 1t wa:
manipulation of this sort that kept tn,
real facts of the situation from beins
laid before Congress.
Would Reform the House.
viii a Gght be made next year fo,
the election of a House of Representa-
fives plainly pledged to sincere tariff re
vision downwards q
Yes. And il wiii be broader thar
that 1t will be made for the refarma
ton Of the House, fer the restoration o.
that branch of Congress to its origina
status. Cannonism must first be de
stroyed. Maybe Uncle Joe cannot b.
beaten in the Danville district yet Blu
Cannonism can and must be DESTROYED
His reign, following that of other die
tatorS Of the House under the preseu
rule, has shown how dangerous TO III,
Interests, yes. even to the liberties Of
The people. Is one-man power"
The Ever-Deiicate Question
''How old are you. madam" asked
4he crOSs-pSamiDiup lawypr The wOm-