The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-04-14


ing the Insurgent leaders.
The action of this Convention shows that
the rank and file Of the party cares nothing
about the party's success In the coming Con-
gressional elections, If such success means a
continuation of present conditions.
It is the first gun fired by the Insurgents
in the coming campaign, and it begins one of
the hottest political battles waged in many
years.
To see just how far the Indiana Conven-
ton did go against the Payne Aldrich tariff,
one has to read Senator Beveridge's speech
before that body.
He declared that he wanted free iron ore,
Of which we have the greatest deposits on
earth, AMI which the Steel Trust chiefly con-
trolls, and for that reason voted against
tariff on it: he wanted free lumber, and for
that reason voted against tariff on it; he
wanted the ancient wooden schedule reduced
because it gives the Wooden Trust control of
our markets, Expresses the a0oolgroa0er, and
raises the price and reduces the weight OF the
peoples clothing. He opposed an increase on
cotton cloth, and voted against it; he opposed
an increase on structural STEEL punched and
ready for use, and voted against it, as he
voted against the increase on linoleum, zinc
and silk. He also denounced the Infamous
sugar schedule, and explained why he voted
against It,
In conclusion, Mr.. Beveridge said:
81 could not stand for the obsolete and infa-
sugar schedule, which in Indiana
read and understand but which the Sugar
Trust can read and understand; yet efforts to
change that schedule opposed by Democratic
votes. We reduced the tariff refined sugar
cents per 100 pounds one-twentieth of 1 cent, a
half of l MILL pOund-which than
no reduction because it cannot possibly affect the
price, and therefore, is a deception Yet that is
of the boosted reductions we hear Of
ut is said that the law has made reductions
on articles entering into the consumption Of the
people to the value of 5000, 600 900; yet those
articles made up of such things lumber,
agricultural implements, 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 export; barbed WIRE mo-
nopozed by the Steel Trust; nails manufactured
and sold by an international trust complete as
the international tobacco monopoly; yarns and
threads; the materials for textiles, on which
textiles when finished for the peoples use, the
tariff was increased; sugar, which not
duced in fact, but only in pretense."
A pretty good speech for any Democrat to
make on the tariff, we admit, but so far we
haven't heard of Democrat taking advan-
tage of the opportunity.
What has just happened in Indiana is al
most sure to take place in Iowa, Senator
Cummins' State; the same line will be fol-
lowed by the Republicans of Wisconsin, La
Follette's State; while in Kansas Nebraska,
Colorado, the Dakotas and other States,-you
just keep your weather eye on the situation.
In that section of the country there are
thousands of old Populists Of the Nineties
who are waiting and watching for the OPP
portunity to come again.
These men are the ones who went back to
the Republicans, after they were ditched by