The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-04-05

meat and food products, petroleum and
its products of all OF which we are
the greatest exporters in the world;
steel rails and coal, which we export:
barbed wire monopolized by the Steel
Trust; nails, manufactured and sold
by an international trust as complete
as the international tobacco monopoly;
yarns and threads; the raw materials
for textiles, on which textiles, when
finished for the peoples use, the
tariff was increased; sugar, which was
not reduced in fact, but only in pre-
tense.
II was for a law that would protect
the wages of every workingman in In
diana and yet enable that workingman
to get his clothing and creature com
forts cheaper-and such a law could
written.
II was for a law that would have
given every manufacturer in Indiana
ample protection, and yet enable him
TO get his raw materials cheaper-and
such a law could have been written,
and 1t shall be written.
II was for a law that would have
taken the tariff out OF the way OF
business for ten or a dozen years
and such law could have been writ
ten, and il shall be written. Business
needs tariff stability, and only a salts
fled people can give tariff stability.
The dictate of justice are better for
business than the dictates of bosses;
for he people obey justice and DEFY
bosses.
THE making OF a tariff, so long as
moderation and justice are followed, is
an economic question; but the moment
excess and injustice are practiced. the
making of a tariff becomes also a
| moral question. So the tariff fight last
year was a moral fight. And who bore
| the battle? l want the people of In
| diana to know that all the real fight
ing that was done for justice in tariff
schedules was done by republicans and
not by democrats. Let me read you
what Mr.. Bryan said of democratic
performances in a public speech.
Said Mr.. Bryan in his FL Paso ad-
dress:
"'There was great tariff contro-
versy in Congress this year, and the
result was that the dissention ended in
the humiliating situation of the re-
form republicans contending for a real
revision of the tariff, while the dem
ocrats were quarreling among them
selves over protection for the products
of their own districts"
| Assuming that honest differences OF
opinion exist--and they do; giving to
| those upright men who voted for the
law as a whole credit for all the sim
cerity that / claim for myself; what
| is the way out of the difficulty? Sure
ly not to turn the Government over to
that grotesque band of politicians IN
public life. and who want to get into
public life, misnamed the democratic
party. The people know what sucf
men did i'm the tariff contest In
Cleveland day, for which Cleveland
rebuked them; what they did IN thu
last tariff contest, for which Bryan
rebuked him.
when | introduced the tariff com
mission bill three years ago l said 4
had no friends in Congress. Today
q large majority of republicans are fo
it, and even one democrat has seer
the light But at the beginning of th'
last session II had only a few friends
i'm Congress. Therefore I felt that 1
was impossible to get full-nedge'
tariff commission enacted into law
and so acted on the theory of gettini
the best could. Mine was fata
faith. For what was the result?
drew the provision authorizing thu
President to appoint persons with ful
power to make tariff investigation
under his direction. Senator Aldricl
would not agree to all of IL. II
struck out or changed vital Language
Yet what remained of my provision
gave to these persons broad powers t
gather necessary facts to aid Con
sress in tariff legislation. In thi
form 1t passed the Senate.
But the Conference Committe
struck out absolutely every word Civ
4 ing tneSe persOilS any poNViS ~ ~
vestigate and collect the facts, leav
ing to the President nothing but TN
authority to employ persons to assis
him in the administration of the max
: mum and minimum section of the law
Senator Hale. the senior member Q
= the Conference Committee. declare
: again and again on the floor of tn
5 Senate that the Conference Committe
, had done this for the express purpos
{ of depriving these persons of any pow
, er whatever to gather facts or to d
D any work which a tariff commissio
e could do. And no senator denied IN
: truthfulness OF Senator Hale's state
e ment as a matter of fact nor his cor
$ rectness as matter of law after b
e had made his determined assault.
D president Taft, by executive con
{ struction, has attempted TO restor
to these persons he is authorized
I employ some of the powers that n
e Conference Committee purposely dc
e stroyed. But executive constructio
cannot restore powers that Congre'
deliberately refused TO give. Even
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