Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-02
HANDLEY AROUSES
GREAT INTEREST
Congressional Nominee Says
Battle on Again to Redeem
Inherited Liberties
WANTS TARIFF COMMISSION
Federal Ship Line on the Pacific
Coast and. Lower Freight
Rates Demanded
WANTS TARIFF COMMISSION

Prof. Lorin A. Handley. Democratic
nominee for congress from the seventh
district, delivered an address on the
tariff and other issues of national i'm
portance in Maccabee hall, Pasadena,
last evening. Prof. Handley said in
part:
Making a tariff law which en-
bodies justice to our whole citizenshlp
is well nigh an impossible task, but
we can level down the mountainous
inequalities that now exist. The Payne
Aldrich bill only enhanced the taxing
power of q few great corporations in
this country. There was no effort to
have an equitable distribution Of the
benefits OF a tariff It's passage was
a violation, of a solemn pledge to the
people made by both parties to revise
the downward trend in the interests
of the consumer. This bill has actually
increased the Dingley schedules 2 per
cent, and not only this, but the tariff
was not equitably measured accord
ing to the needs of our industries and
for the best interests Of the masses OF
our people.
I'm order to raise revenue for our
government we have placed tariff
duty upon certain imports into this
country. AS long as there is tariff
someone will receive q benefit, and our
problem is the distribution of this ben
eft for the good of the greatest num-
ber. Experience has taught us that
our present system of tariff making Is
impossible of justice. 1t has taught
us that a bartering craftsmanship can
never serve a people well but we must
devise some plan whereby honest tarln
legislation can be made.
TAKE TARIFF FROM POLITICS
I'VE ought to take the tariff out of
politics, create a non-partisan tarn
commission to revise this tariff, sched-
ule by schedule. and let every COM
modify rest upon it's own merit. The
difference in the cost of production
at home and abroad is the natural and
normal basis of a tariff. This meas
ures a real difference in our commerce
and rests upon basis of Justice-ano
this is the only way to do away with
our bartering craftsmanship and Sc
cure wholesome legislation In other
aspects of our national life.
"a tariff commission would put
American industrial life on sound
basis. Congressional and presidential
elections then would not hurl our In
dustrial life into panic every two ana
four years It is a scandal and
shame to American business that every
time we have an election affecting ma
tional affairs that our commercial life
is hurled into paralysis When we take
the tariff from the realm of partisan
jugglery and place 1t upon safe, sane
and lust basis then will our industrial
life rest upon a firm foundation.
Moreover, the seventh district OF
California should seek such COM
mission and such tariff law. our
commodities do not receive justice at
the hands of tariff makers but are
given enough to get our vote for their
extensive trust-made schedules. As
matter of fact we have no real tariff,
that which we call such is nothing
more than a freight rate. Put the
tariff on an honest basis and our
newer and western industries Will get
more benefit than they now receive.
And while 1 am on this subject I
wish to say that what we need is not
so much more tariff as we need less
freight rates. We must demand and
fight for a federal steamship line on
this Pacific coast, which will reduce
our freight rates nearly $20 ton.
want to reiterate that the battle in
this country is not a mere partisan
struggle, but it is fight for supremacy
between true American democracy and
American plutocracy. We must redeem
this government back into the hands
of the people and administer 1t sanely
in the interest of all The problem
before the people is the problem or
CHOOSING Hl6n VI lillClilSOhSO eeiiN
rity, men whose loyalty to the princi-
Piles they advocate cannot be ques-
toned.
'"This is no time for uncertainties-no
time for hedging and trimming--a man
must speak out plainly before the peo-
ple. They must know where he stands.
l invited my opponent to go before the
people with me and discuss these ques-
tions on the same platform. l wanted
him to take a stand in one camp or
the other. He deserted the regulars
and ran on an insurgent platform. He
then deserted the insurgents and Is
now trying to support regulars. He
says he will not vote for Cannon Tor
speaker. Everybody is saying that.
What I want to know and what the
people of this district want to know is
whether Mr.. stephens will vote against
all other standpatters for speaker of
the house. Cannon is only an incident,
any other standpatter is Just as bad.
viii he promise this district that he
will vote against every standpatter for
speaker of the house?
1--WE are fighting over again the bat
tie of freedom. Property power has
trampled down human rights, and we
must redeem our inherited liberties I
have confidence in the virility and
courage of our citizenship, and 1 know
that we will win this battle, and we
will rehabilitate our American institu-
tions with the spirit and the principles
that are fundamentally American"