The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-11
Senators Do||iVer and Cum
minis Handle Party AZ
fairs Without Gloves
PAYNE AND ALDR|CH ARE
BITTERLY DENOUNCED
THE Two Senators Excerinte Their Col
leagues in Congress and Do Not
Fall to Hit Taft and Admin
Istration Tactics

DeeMoines, Ia, May 10.-Ringng de-
nunciation of the tariff bill and the men
who passed it characterized the speeches
OF Senators Jonathan P. Dolliver and AL
bert B. Cummns, who opened the pro-
gressive republican campaign in Iowa to-
night at the Coliseum.
More than 10000 progressive republicans
attended the meeting. The meeting to-
night followed district conferences
throughout the day at which steps were
taken to reconstruct the older Cummins
organization and to organize the state by
counties and precincts.
Even President Taft did not escape the
sarcastic shafts of the two Iowa solons,
while Senator Dollver was particularly
severe In his arraignment of Senator Al
drich in bringing out statistical facts of
the revision of the tariff in which he said
greed and avarice played big part. Sem
ator Dolliver referred to the President as
'the titular' leader of the party, which
meant, he declared. a good man sur
rounded by people who knew exactly what
they wanted.
Both senators said if the republican
party Cont1HutQ lDe pOllcy duVOCdleQ Dy
the reactionary leaders it would spell ruin
to the party.
Among the leaders Senator Aldrich was
frequently mentioned as the man "allied
with the Guggenhems and the Ryans and
Paul Morton in a mammoth trust incor-
. porated as a rubber company, which Is
allowed by articles of Incorporation to
participate in any kind of business. any,
where on the face of the earth. and which
As one of the holding companies In the
Guggsnhenl syndicate for the control of
the wealth on Alaska.
The meeting was presided over by Har-
vey Ingham, editor of the Register and
Leader, who was introduced by Robert
Fleming. chairman of the progressive
state headquarters.
Senator Dolliver was the first speaker.
Analyzing schedule by schedule. and
item By item the Payne Aldrich tariff act.
Senator Dolliver declared that close scrut-
iny shows that so far as the public is
concerned the tariff revision in fact car
ries rates as high or higher than the
Dingley tariff law on most articles of gem
eral use In their finished condition.
Most of the reductions said the SEN
stor, were so trivial as to be ridiculous
and were either upon articles which we
don't import to any extent, or on the
contrary export in enormous quantities.
or were for the purpose of further pro-
tecting the manufacturer. especially by
reducing the duties on raw materials"
Continuing, he said:
In fact careful scrutiny of the par
ticular items that were changed and the
exact trifing change of rate in each
shows how cunningly the revision was ar
ranged In order to deceive the public"
Senator Dolliver prefaced his review of
some Of the schedules and items OF the
new tariff law by saying:
In the many attempts to defend the
Yayne-Aldrich tariff frequent use has
been made of a very remarkable table OF
figures, quoted by the President at Wi
mona, indicating that duties had been de-
creased by the new tariff upon articles
consumed In the United Sttaes to the
extent of about $5,oo0.0 900, while the
consumptfve value Of articles upon which
duties had been increased amounted to
snly about $s7s. 10000 And that most of
the latter were luxuries. ] believe, such
~ silks. liquors and 1ewelry.
This would, indeed. tend to prove
most substantial downward revision II
tho figures were accurate. Fortunately
the necessary statistics to render such an
analysis comparatively easy are available
in a public document prepared under the
direction of the finance committee by one
Of Its employees. Such an analysis of the
figures will soon convince anyone how
deceptive and misleading this much
quoted table really is
Taking up schedule A, chemical oils
and paints, Senator Dolliver asserted that
two-thirds of the showing of reduction
estimated at $433, .SA was made from
the consumption value of petroleum and
AA~ ,,<~ v,r,k ,I,roo o~a IL, 1,,I. A
Of the present tariff, or the old law. and
used for the manifest purpose of padding
the amount of the alleged reductions"
In conclusion Senator Dolliver said:
"A great deal of stress has been laid
upon the supposed enlargement of the
free list, and yet the only new items on
the free list Of the Payne-Aldrich tariff
are hides, a few semi-inished coaltar
products, radium, works Of art over 20
years old, miners appliances and Brazil
cream nuts.
III we keep on revising the tariff up
ward on finished articles the difference
between the values of importatlons of
Autiable and free goods will inevitably in
crease and the average rate of duty col
1ected will decrease even though none
Of the necessities are put on, the free
list. For example rates on necessities
seem to have become prohibitive and the
free list allowed to remain at present IN
state or CONFUSION that mas an enect
upon the prices of finished articles and
consequent cpst of living to the people"
Senator Cummins was given a tremen-
aous ovation when he arose to speak. He
secondsd the speech of Senator Dolliver
and urged the progressive republicans to
return progressive congressman to Wash
lngton. and to support Warren Garst for
governor
After explaining that an extraordinary
condition now exists and this alone was
excuse for his being In the state at this
time to plead for the insurgent candi-
date for the republican nomination for
governor Senator Cummins traced the
development of corporations in the United
States and said that the present repub-
lican leaders are in league with those
corporations He said:
Most Of them have been brought up
With these influences AL around them, and