Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1910-05-12
iowa SENATORS
DENOUNCE TARIFF
SCHEDULES and their MAKERS
ARE ATTACKED.
Senators DOlliver and CumminS
Handle the AldriCh- Cannon. .payne
Tariff Law without Gloves. Franz
ed to Rob the People and Fatfen
SvndiCateS Says DOIliver.

DES MOlNES, Ia, May 1O.-De-
nunciations of the tariff bill and the
men who passed 1t characterized the
speeches of Senators Jonathan F.
Dolliver and Albert Cummins, who
opened the progressive campaign in
Iowa tonight at the Coliseum.
The meeting tonight followed dis
trict conferences throughout the day
at which steps were taken to recon-
struct the old Cummins organization
and to organize the state by counties
and precincts. Senator Dolliver re-
ferred to President Taft as the "titu.
lar leader" of the Republican party,
which meant, he said good man
surrounded by people who knew ex-
actly what they wanted"
Senator Aldrich was frequently
mention as the man "allied with the
Guggenheims, Ryan and Paul Morton
in a mammoth trust, Incorporated as
a rubber company, which is allowed
by the articles of incorporation to par
ticipate in any kind of business, any
where on the face of the earth, and
which is one of the holding compan-
les in the Guggenheim syndicate for
the control of the wealth of Alas
ka."
Critcises the President.
"These are the men who are re-
sponsible for the tariff BILL" declared
Senator Dolliver. "The bill is only
scheme to rob the people and to
increase the holdings of giant syn
dicates.
"The troubles in the Republican
party have come not because of what
has been said, but of what has been
done.
81 am not here to criticise the pres
ident or to say unkind words against
him, but | count it no reflection on
him to state l find it necessary some
times to disagree with those sur
rounding him.
"Men have crowded to the front in
this administration who have not had
the welfare of the party, or of the
country at heart.
Attacks Mr.. Wickersham
81 am going to have some trouble
in keeping inside the breastwOrks of
the Republican partry, but | know
something of it's doctrines. l do not
intend to retire from it, although l
have been invited and have declined
the invitation. | do not recognize
Mr.. Wickersham or any other man
who comes out here to read men out
of the Republican party who were
known before he ever was in it.
Analysing, schedule by schedule
and item by item, the Payne-Aldrich
tariff act, Senator Dolliver declared
that close scutiny showed that, 80
far as the public is concerned, the
tariff as revised carries rates as high
or higher than the Dingley tariff law
on most articles of general use in
their finished condition"
Productions Are Trivial"
"Most of the reductions" said the
senator, "were so trivial as to be ri
diculous, and were either upon arti-
cles we do not import to any extent
but, on the contrary, export in enor-
nous quantities or were to further
protect the manufacturers, especially
by reducing the duties on raw mater
ials.
"In fact, careful scrutiny of the
particular items changed and the ex-
act trifing change of rate in each
case shows how cunningly the re-
vision was arranged to deceive the
public.
Move Toward Prohibitive Tariff
"If we keep on revising the tarl1f
upward on finished articles, the dif-
ferences between the values OF I'M
portation of dutiable and free goods
inevitably will increase and the aver
age rate of duty collected will de-
crease, even though no new articles
are put on the free list. For exam
pie, if the rates on all articles now
dutiable were made absolutely prohi-
bitive, and the free list allowed to
remain as at present, all OF our i'm
ports would, of course, be free, but
what would be the effect upon prices
of finished articles and consequent
cost of living to the people,"