The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-07-23
Iowa Senator Says Men Like
Cannon Are Driving Peo-
pie to Socialism.
IGNORE PARTY PLEDGES
10 THE CHARGE cUMMiNs MAKES
AGAINST THE GLARS OF CON-
cREss, WHEN THE TARIFF BILL
WAS FRAMED.


tor Albert B. Cummins Of Iowa, in
speech before a Chautauqua audience
here last night asserted that the
pledge Of the republican national plat
form for a revision of the tariff was
not fulfilled, and that Senator Aldrich
and Speaker Cannon and the others
who took the lead in framing the tariff
bill, had never attempted and never
intended to keep the pledges of the
party.
Senator Cummins came into the
home OF one of the Kansas regular
congressman Representative James
M. Miller-to give this message. The
senator was cheered tor q minute
when he started his speech.
II am an exponent of the progress
i've republican idea." he said. Il be-
lieve that the republican party can be
made the most progressive party on
earth, the one that does things for the
good of the whole country, but the
special interest man must be elimi-
mated.
THAT is my sermon. That is what
I talk, and II 1t helps or hurts any one
where l may be talking, 1t does not
bother me. For ten years fought for
progress in Iowa and we have won and
are winning.
Entire Country Interested.
This is not q local matter at all.
but one covering all this country and
affecting other countries. SO that any
focal matter is of small consideration.
Speaker Cannon and Senator Aid
rich are driving the country into So
cialistfc form of government and In
dustry because of their interest in pro-
noting the cause of monopolies.
They are unwilling to take meas
ures to prevent the rapidly growing
tendency toward monopoly or to dis
integrate and destroy the monopolies
already in existence, whereby the
prices of commodities are fixed not by
the usual law of trade, but by the will
of single man or group Of men.
Monopoly does not mean single
factory with absolute control OF one
article, but a combination OF factories
making the same article, whereby the
prices are the same in all, whether or
not the factories are owned by one
company or are controlled through a
trust agreement.
1T is only within the last few years
that the lack of competition between
American and foreign goods has be-
come SO marked that the people began
to talk about the tariff duties being
too high.
Prices In Trusts Hands.
People have found that the absence
of foreign competition has made 1t pos.
sible for the American manufactures
to increase his price at his own sweet
will and without regard to the actual
market conditions.
In the republican platform there
was no technical promise to revise the
tariff downward or upward. The party
simply pledged itself to make such re
vision of the tariff as would equalize
the cost of production here and abroad
and make competition possible in this
country in many lines.
1T was the duty of congress to make
this revision. Congress did not do It.
Under the leadership of Cannon and
Aldrich the tariff was revised without
the slightest heed to the cost OF pro.
duction anywhere.
I'm many cases the charges were
left SO high that the price on many ar
ticles was increased In the face OF re-
duced tariff, and because the domestic
manufacturers were not afraid Of for
eign competition.
During all the long debate on the
tariff bill Senator Aldrich never at.
tempted to apply the standard Of the
republican platform pledge. He and
his followers openly and contemptu.
ously repudiated every word Of that
platform pledge. In all the evidence
taken by the house ways and means