The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-05-20
DoLL1vER is RECOGNIZED


the senate a few days ago on the
tariff question seems to have created
some stir in the east, and the com
ments by the metropolitan press have
ben varied. a good many of the news
papers taking the ground that the
western senator's ideas have got
to be reckoned with before the coun-
try will in any way be satisfied with
the solution Of the big problem. The
senator's discussion has been purely
from a western point of view and
for the benefit of the western people,
whom, he thinks, are entitled to
some consideration in the making of
the tariff on articles which have
been held so high in price that they
have become more or less p%rohibitive.
Here is a comment made by the Bos-
ton Transcript on the attitude of the
Iowa senator:
1T will not do to overlook the sig
nificance of Senator Delivers at
tack on the Aldrich bill as merely an
expression of the western grievance
against the favors which New Eng
land is supposed to derive from the
protective system . Schedule X,
which deals with woods and woolens,
Is identical in the Aldrich bill with
the existing law, barring. the nom
inal exception of goods coming from
the Philippine islands. On certain
kinds of blankets 1T carries a pro-
lection of 165 per cent, measured
In ad valorem equivalents, accord
ing to the finance committees own
statements. But Mr.. Dolliver stood
this without wincing in 1897, when
he was a member of the ways and
means committee. His present OUT
burst Is indicative Of the working of
the low tariff microbe among the
farmers of his part of the MISSISSIPPI
pi valley, and no people in the coun-
try are 81 we'll situated to influence
its affairs as they. Several years ago
they presented to the world what be-
came known as the Iowa idea, in
q state platform declaring opposi-
ton to those tariffs which proved
"a shelter to Monopoly" and they
have since that time retired from
public life, practically without ex-
ception. the men who resisted that
movement within their ranks. They
have sent Cummins, their low-tariff
leader. to the senate, and what is
still more striking. have made his
associate, Mr.. Dolliver, an even more
pronounced exponent of the same
view"
The New York Evening Post con-
tributes its endorsement of the way
in which Senator Dolliver took issue
on the cotton and wool schedules,
which the Post admits we're made
by the men who are directly inter-
ested in what the schedules should be
for their particular benefit. The Post
presents this view OF the matter:
Senator Dolliver is most u%sefully
applying a little western bluntness
and honesty to the tariff debate. His
exposure recently of the way in
which the cotton and wool schedules
have been dictated by the very men
who hope to make money out OF them
and of the tricks and devices and
robber.es with which they are stuff
ed, was most effective. And the good
natured ridicule which he poured
upon Senator Aldrich was refresh
Ing. The nettled Rhode Island SEN
ator retorted of course, that Senator
Dollfver was only a democrat in dis
guise, had private grievances to
avenge and had got his information
from wicked importers; but that is
only the usual abuse visited upon a
republican who dares to tell the
truth about the tariff. What the
country wants to know is, not what
MI. Delivers motives may be,
but whether the facts are as he states
them, is it true as he says, that the
manufacturers who disguised the
ways and means committee with
their hoggish demands, went to Al.
drich and got permission from him
to write their own clause in the
tariff? Is it the fact that the effec,
IF the Aldrich bill would be to con.
denim the masses of the people tt
pay more for poorer clothing?"
Editor Mcleod, of the Aberdeen
News, and Editor Longstan, of tn,
H%uronite. are having a little tarif
discussion in which the News maj
wants to set the Huronite maj
straight on what he should follow
In the matter of tariff revision. Long
stan has a we'll defined idea tina,
The revision should be downward
70 a point where protection ceases
atOsbe a burden and that the platform
#nledges of the PRESIDENTIAL camnaipr