Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-05
BEVERIDGE SCORAS
PAYNE TARIFF LAW
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Infamous Sugar Schedule.

man. in Indiana can read and under
: stand, but which the sugar trust cal
read and understand; yet efforts t;
!. change that schedule were opposed b.
, democratic votes. We reduced the tar.
! iff on refined suger cents per 10t
poundS-one-twent of one cent,
half OF one MILL pound-which wa:
worse than no reduction because it car
not possibly affect the price and there.
fore is deception. Yet that is one
OF the boosted reductions we hear Of
Ut is said that the law has made re-
auctions on articles entering into the
consumption of the people to the value
or i've billion dollars; yet those articles
are made up of such things as lumber,
agricultural implements, meat and food
products, petroleum and it's products,
OF all or Which we are the greatest ex-
porters in the world; steel rails and
COAL which we export; barbed wire,
monopolized by the steel trust; nails,
manufactured and sold by an interna
tlonal trust as complete as the inter-
national tobacco monopoly; yarns 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.
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slaughter by the conference committee
of the moderate beginning of a tariff
commission which i wrote into the bill
that passed the senate; but all save
one OF the democratic senators were
the enemies of any tariff commission
then, and are its enemies now.
| These are examples. I was against
! them ALL am against them now.
Compromise on purely economic de-
tails is often wise; but compromise
with sheer injustice is always wrong
I was for a law that would protect
the wages of every workingman in
Indiana and yet enable that working
man to get clothing and creature COM
forts cheaper-and such a law could
have been written, and it shall be writ
ten.
was for law that would have CIV
en- every manufacturer in Indiana
ample protection. and yet enable him
to get his raw materials cheaper-and
such a law could have been written and
it shall be written.
was for law that would have TAX
Ell the tariff out of the way of business
for ten or a dozen years-and such a
law could have been written, and it
shall be written. Business needs tar
if stability. and only satisfied people
can give tariff stability. The dictates
of justice are better for business than
the dictates of bosses; for the people
obey justice and defy bosses.
Voted For PIishted Honor.
I voted against the bill and for
plighted honor. 1 voted against excess
and for protection. I voted against |
the interests and for the people. |
voted and fought for the genuine re-
publicanism of Lincoln, the founder of
our faith; of Morrell, the father of our |
tariff; of Garfield, the interpreter Of our |
principles: OF Mckinley, the apostle of |
projections; of Roosevelt, the soldier of |
RICH teousness.
Assuming that honest differences of |
opinion exist-and they do; giving to |!
those upright men who voted for the !
law as whole credit for all the sin |
certify that i claim for myself; what |
is the way out of the difficulty? Surely |
not to turn the government over to
that grotesque band of politicians in
public life, and who want to get into
public life. misnamed the democratic
party. The people know what such |
men did in the tariff contest in Cleve-
lands day, for which Cleveland re-
buked them; what they did in the last
tariff contest, for which Bryan re-
buked them. What honest democrat
what honest citizen-approves or trusts
them?
Remedy in Tariff Commission.
Where, then, lies the plain remedy?
In tariff commission. Senator Bever-
idge, speaking of what he designated
the so-called tariff board" said:
When / introduced the tariff COM
mission bill three years ago / said it
had no friends in congress. Today
large majority of republicans are for
it, and even one democrat has seen
the light. But at the beginning of the
last session it had only few friends
in congress. Therefore / felt that it
was impossible to get a full-fiedged
tariff commission enacted into law: and
so 1 acted on the theory of getting the
best 1 could Mine was a fatal faith
For what was the result? / drew the
provision authorizing the president to
appoint persons with full power to
make tariff Investigations under his I
direction. Senator Aldrich would not
agree to all of it. He struck out or
changed vital language. Yet what re-
NAMED of my provision gave to- these
persons broad powers to gather neces-
sary facts to aid congress in tariff
legislation. In this form it passed the
senate.
But the conference committee struck
out absolutely every word giving these
persons any powers to Investigate and
collect the facts, leaving TO the pres {
dent nothing but the authority to en-
oloy persons to assist him in the ad-
n inistration of the maximum and min
mum section of the law. Senator Hale. {
he senior member of the conference
committee, declared again and again {
IN the floor Of the senate that tho
conference committee had done this 1
or the express purpose of depriving
hese persons of any power Whatever
% gather facts or to do any work !
which tariff commission could do d
And no senator denied the truthful l
less of Senator Hale's statement as a
natter of fact nor his correctness al
matter of law after he had made his i
assault.
President Taft. by executive con- I
'truction, has attempted to restore to :
hese persons he is authorized to en- Z
10y some of the powers that the con- c
erence committee purposely destroyed.
But executive construction can not re-
tore powers that congress deliberate g
Y refused to give. Even il it could, an
'ther president might construe 1t diff I