The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-01-02
BATTLE FOR REVISION AND PRO-
cREssIvE PRINCIPLES TO
BE CONTINUED.
TOCS|N OF WAR SOUNDED
cummins Delivers Address Before Pro-
sressive Republican Organization in
Campaign Of His Faetion-Utters His
Def to Conservative Element.


sive principles will go on more zeal
ously than ever and will win in the
end"
Thus declared Albert +. Cummins in
an address here tonight at the pro-
gressive republican organization din
ner. Much interest attached TO the
senator's address, as 1t was regarded
as furnishing the keynote for the pro-
gressipe fight in this state. \ large
number heard his defiance of the
conservative element in the republican
party. 1t was said this address was
the opening of the campaign to be
waged in Iowa by the progressives.
with respect to the tariff" said
senator Cummins. the standpatters
feel it makes little. If any difference
how high the duties are if they be
high enough to exclude importations.
When they approach their subject.
their first, and l have sometimes
thought, their only concern is for the
producer. They are so much afraid
of hurting him that they close their
ears to every voice save his and as
sumo that knowing what he wants,
he will not ask for more than he de-
serves. The echoes of the platform of
1908. which contains pledges of the re-
publican party to the people. have be-
come SO faint in their councils that
they ere drowned in the cries of i'm
poverished manufacturers. On the
other hand, the progressives remem-
ber that we promised the American
people that the duties on imported
commodities should be measured by
the difference between the cost of
production in this and rival lands and
that we made the promise in order to
give at once protection to the producer
from unequal competition and protec-
ton to the consumer from extortion.
We know that in many fields of in
dustry home competition has been sub
stantially destroyed and we intended
to subject our home producers to the
fear of foreign competition if prices
We're raised above a fair and reason
able profit.
Il do not attempt to obscure or to
minimize the extent of our defeat, but
II anyone. harbors the delusion that
the passage of the recent tariff law
ended the fight for fair and reason
able protective duties. it would be wise
for him at once to reform his con-
elusion.
JGstice Of Position.
'',Hhe proGressises. after years of
struggle, brought the convention to a
full acknowledgment of the justice of
their position. With respect TO fur
ther regulations of interstate COM
merce. the stand-patter occupies just
the same position that he has always
occupied. 1t is sufficient to say that
"A ha Sfr h cf
the law regulating common carriers
became acute about 1899.
1t finally resulted in the amend
ment of 1906. 1t was. long, weary
campaign. The stand-patters Were
either silent or in opposition. Joseph
e. Cannon was then. as now. the most
conspicuous member of the national
house of representatives. In all those
years | never heard of a single utter
anee from him that could by any
possibility be construed into friendli-
ness toward the cause that was strug-
Cling on through all these difficult
ties.
'AlGfIch was lnen, as now, one of
the leaders of the senate and If any
stand-patter can discover a solitary
expression upon his part that helped
the movement to its final frutition l
would be glad to have it pointed out.
Hale, Payne. Dalzell We're then. as
now. prominent in the congress of the
United States. but / challenge the
memory of all who hear me, to recall
one single sympathetic word in the in
terests of the people I'm their struggle
with the railways.
Anti Trust Laws.
Congress in 1880 adopted what is ]
known as the antitrust law. Ii is
clearly seen. however. that it needs
The spirit of the statute
is to preserve the force of competition
in business. l have referred to- these
things in order to call your attention
to the fact that the stand -patters are
not helping to solve the problems
They cenent themselves with the con-
slant reiteration of the fear that il
We touch any of these things We may
overturn the fabric of commerce and
destroy the prosperity for which all
lovers of the human kind are seeking
When it is proposed further to reg
ulate railway rates. they shudder lest
We may hurt the railways.
sThe progresslves shudder lest they
suffering the injustice of rate systems
that are admittedly indefensible. / am
quite ready TO admit progressives
try TO do things that are
but without them nothing
would be done. wise or unwise. II
the stand-patter can justify his exist