Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-02
CUMMINS TALKS ON TARIFF
Iowa Senator, in Address at Des
Moines, Says Fight is Only Begun.
CALLS PRoGREssIvEs TO ACTION
He Asks Them TO Send Men to Lower
House who Will Aid Senators
in Their Efforts for Lower
Duties.

DES MONIES, Jan. 1.-Senator Albert r.
Cummins, in speech before the guests at
the Progressive Republican dollar dinner
at the Savoy tonight served notice that the
fight for progressive and Roosevelt princi-
Piles is not ended, insisted that defeat in
tariff revision should not dishearten but
should encourage progressives and urged
progressives in Iowa TO send to congress
from this state men who will support the
senators instead of neutrallzing their eff
forts.
He intimated that the state administra-
tion of Iowa should not be allowed to rest
in the hands of the standpatters when the
sentiment OF the state is clearly progress
slve.
The senator spoke plainly against Con-
gresham Hull insisting that he has not
been as faithful to the business interests
of the district as a congressman would
be interested in securing freer freight
rates as we'll as in securing military tourn-
sments which seemed to be the extent of
tho ambition of the earnest adherent OF
Speaker Cannon who represents this dis
trlct.
State Senator C. C. Dowell presided at
the dinner. Scores of republicans from over
the state were present. Conferences were
and 1t is not unlikely that a progressive
C; ndidate for governor will be brought out
soon against Governor b. F, Carroll.
Judge F. Prouty of Des Moines was one
of the speakers and as the sole candidate
against Captain Hull his faithful support
of the progressive cause was alluded to by
! Senator Cummins.
What Senator Cummins Said.
In the course Of his speech Senator Cum
minis said
! with respect to the tariff. the stand
| patters feel that 1t makes little II any diff
] ference how high the duties are If they
be high enough to exclude expectations
Their first, and have sometimes thought
their only, concern is for the producer
They are so much afraid of hurting him
that they close their eyes to every voic,
save his and assume that, knowing wha
he wants, he will not ask for more thar
he deserves. The echos of the platform o.
1903, which contains the pladges of thu
republican party to the people of the coun
try, have become so faint in their coun
ellis that they are drowned in the cries o.
impoverished manufacturers On the othe
hand, the progressves remember that W,
promised the American people that th'
duties on imported competitive commodities
should be measured by the difference be
tween the cost OF production in this an(
rival lands, and that we made the promis
in order to give at once protection to tht
producer from unequal competition anC
protection to the consumer from a vora
| cious extortion, We know that in many
fields OF industry home competition hao
been substantially destroyed and we in
tended to subject our home producers Il
the fear OF foreign competition If price
were raised above a fair and REASONABLE
profit.
Fight IL Not Ended.
81 do not attempt TO obscure or to mini
mize the extent Of our defeat but II any
one harbors the delusion that the passag,
OF this recent tariff law ended the figh
for fair and reasonable protective duties
II would be wise for him TO at once reform
his conclusion.
THE progressives, after years of strug
gle, brought the convention to a ful
acknowledgment OF justice Of their position
with respect to further regulations o
interstate commerce, the stand -patter oc
cupies just the same position that he hal
always occupied.
1T is sufficient TO say that the agitation
for the strengthening OF the law regulating
common carriers became acute about 1898
II finally resulted in the amendment o
1906. 1t was long. weary campaign. Th
stand-patters were either silent or in op
position.
Cannon, AIdrich and Hull.
Joseph G. Cannon was then, as now
the most conspicuous member Of the ma
tional house OF representatives In Al
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