New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-04-06
Mr.. 6everIdqe's Stand


Repeating IS a text I could NOT stand
TOT " tnen and cannot stand for in nov -
MI. beVeridse made an inpassi defence
81 the counts upon which he had based
ms vote IN the Senate against the PAYNE
A''fich tarin bill. which he did not call
by name
In ringing voice he sent his short SEN
fences through the hall:
LIKE President Taft I wanted free iron
ore. of which we have rha e,rsa+os. II ~ ~
posits on earth and which the StesI TT.
ChleHy controls. / could not stand FOR tbs
1uty thaf was passed and [ cannon stand
Like President TAFT wanted on the frae
/ Iist many raw materials thar needed no
protection ret only one was so treated
] could not stand for the duties ON these
articles. and / cannot stand for tbe,, rt
Like President Taft I wanted the anriaDt
Woollen schedule reduced. II gives to tba
w oOHen Trust unfair control and raises ths
prices and reduces the weight OF the Me-
pies clothing I stood against this seized
uie When the Dill was passed and stand
J could NOT stand for the duty on lumber
Wnen the tariff bill was passed and I can
not stand for II now
I stood against the increase OF the dut,-
on cotton goods and I stand against IL
now -
The reduction Of the tariff on refined
sugar is a deception. because it cannot AZ
feet the price Vet that is one Of the
boasted reductions we hear OF
These are examples of Increases 7 was
now
From few. If any. Of the decreases do the
people get the slightest benefit
I was for a law that would have mo
teCted the wages Of every wOrkinEms1 in
Indiana and vet enable that vOrlinrr,ar
10 get his clothing and creature comforts
chea per-and such a law could have haen
written. and 1t shall be written
Mr.. Beveridge continued.
The Republicans of Indiana are for
protective tariff which covers the difference
IN the cost of production here and abroad
Less than that Is unjust 10 American labor
ers- more than that Is unjust to American
consumers. Injustice II the only foe that
protection needs TO fear II was to reduce
the Dingley tariff TO meet changed condi-
tions and secure justice that we undertook
its revision.
] could not stand for the obsolete and in
famous sugar schedule. which no man in In
diana can read and understand. but which
the Sugar Trust can read and understand.
yet efforts 70 change that schedule were
opposed oy Denlocrauc woes. We reduced
the tariff on refined sugar. i've cents a loo
pounds-oue-twentieth of one cent = half
of one mill. pOund-whiCh was worse than
no reduction because il cannot possibly az
feet the price and therefore is a deception
Yet that is one of the bOasted reductions
we hear Of.
1t is said thai the law has made reduc-
tons ON articles entering into the con-
sumption of the people to the value OF S.
Oo0 600 600. Vet those articles are made ND
of such things as lumber. agricultural i'm
plementS. meat and food products retro
leum and ill., products. of all OF which We
are the greatest exporters in the world.
steel rails and coal. which export:
harDed wire, mpuOpullZed by the Steel
Trust. nails. manufactured and sold by an
international trust DIS complete as the in
Jernatioudt tobacco monopoly. yarns and
threads. the raw materials for textiles on
whicu textiles. when finished for the peo-
pIe'r use the tariff was inCTea Sed. sugar
which was not reduced in fact. but only in
prctenCe
was Tor law that would have taken
the tariff out Of the way Of business for ten
or a dozen years-and such law could
Business needs tariff stability. and only q
satisfied people can give tariff stability. The
dictates o. justice are better for business
than the dictates Of bosses; for the people
oIev Justice and defy bosses
Assuming that honest differences Of Opin-
ION exiSt-aud they do. giving TO those IN
credit for all the sincerity that 7 claim for
myself, what Is the way out Of the diff
Guilty" Surely not To turn the government
over 20 that grOtesque band Of politicians
i'm public life. and who want 20 get into
puhliC life. miSnamed the Democratic party.
The peOple know what such men did i'm the
tariff contest in Cleveland's day. for which
Cleveland rebuked them. what they did in
the last tariff contest. for which BRYAN re
bukad them. What honest DemOCrat-what
honest citizen approves or trusts them?
Where. then. lies the plain remedy In a
tariff commission.
a commission OF experts as permanent
as the Bureau Of Labor. with duties fully
described in the law itself, a commission
safe from the accidents Of politics, secure
from the differing opinions Of changing
Presidents. q commission equal 10 that or
Germany or Japau-that IS what the gov
eminent needs. that Is what the nation de-
mands. and that rs what we viii have.
When George \ Cunningham Of Evans
VILE. permanent chairman. then called for
the report Of the Committee IN Resolutions
and 10 was read. the chairman at once nut
the question Of the adoption Of the report
and on viva VOCe vote the motion was
carried. although there was a chorus OF
noes from different parts OF the hall.