East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-04-05
Indiana Senator Makes Ad-
dress Before His State Re-
publican Convention.
Is EARNEST ADVOCATE OF
A TARIFF COMMISSION
Prominent Law Maker Sets Forth
His Solution of the Protective Tar
iff Question-Declares Tariff Conn
mission is Only Remedy-De-
nounces Injustice of Present Tar
iffs-Says Aldrich Robbed His BIZ
of Vital Force.

indianapolis, April 5.-The repub-
lican state convention to decide upon
the issue of the approaching congress
sional campaign opened here today.
The fight of progressives in congress-
against the regulars practically began
with the championship of the progress
sive cause by Senator Beveridge.
The resolutions committee endors-
ed the following measures: Protec-
tive tariff, selection of a tariff COM
mission with full advisory powers.
conservative laws, enlargement Of
constitutional authority for taxation
in time of war, with an immediate
amendment of the constitution to pro-
vide for the same, national legisla-
tion to stop child slavery in mines.
sweat shops, etc, pension for old SOL
diers, widows and orphans, an un-
qualified endorsement of the Taft ad-
ministration endorsement of Senator
Beveridge and the principles advo-
Gated by him. The Payne-Aldrich
bill, the bone of contention, will have
been endorsed or rejected by the re-
publicans before the convention ends,
The resolutions committee also sub
mitted a report providing for the en-
dorsement of the various issues upon
which, it is believed the next repub-
! lican presidential campaign will be
based. Foremost in this report was an
unqualified endorsement of the poll
cies of Roosevelt.
Beveridge's Address.
Senator Beveridge was one of the
principal speakers before the conven-
ton and today made an address on
the protective tariff.
THE republicans of Indiana" he
said, are for a protective tariff which
covers the difference in the cost OF
production here and abroad. Lea
than that is unjust to American labor
ers: more than that is unjust to Am-
erican consumers.
Injustice is the only foe that pro-
lection needs to fear. 1t was to re-
duce the Dingley tariff to meet
changed con Iitions and secure justice
that we undertook its revision.
Like President Taft, 1 wanted free
iron ore, of which we have the great
est deposits on earth and which the
steel trust chiefly controls. On iron
ore no protection is needed and
would not stand for the duty that was
proposed and passed; and I cannot
stand for it now.
Like President Taft, wanted free
lumber out of which the homes OF the
people are built. I could not stand
for the duty proposed and passed on
lumber. and 1 cannot stand for IL
now.
Like President Taft, I wanted the
ancient woolen schedule reduced-e
schedule ~ years old, which, if ever
right, long since has served its pur-
pose and which now gives to the
woolen trusts an unfair control of our
market. l stood against that sched-
ule when we tried to reduce 1t when
the bill was passed, and I am against
it now.
1T is said that the law has made
reductions on articles entering into
the consumption of the people to the
value of five billion dollars; these
articles are made of such things as
lumber, agricultural implements.
meat and food products. petroleum
and its products. all of which we are
the greatest exporters in the worlI;
steel, rails and coal, which we ex-
port; barbed wire, monopolized by
the steel trust; nails manufactured
and sold by an international trust as
complete as the international tobac-
CO monopoly; warns 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 pretense.
Democrats Oppose His Plan.
above all, could not stand for
the slaughter by the conference COM
mittee of the moderate beginning of
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