Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-05

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, April DE
nouncing the Payne-Aldrich tariff law as
not carrying out the true principles of
protection but pointing out that the fight
in Congress for justice in tariff schedules
was done by republicans and not by
democrats" Senator Beveridge delivered
before the Indiana state convention today
a speech that it is believed, outlines the
platform upon which the republicans hope
to regain the state and upon which he
stands for reelection to the Senate.
II fought and voted against it (the new
tariff law and for pl!ghted honor, Mr..
Beveridge said Il voted against excess
and for protection. l fought and voted
against the interests and for the people.
/ fought and voted for the genuine repub-
licanism of Lincoln. the founder of our
faith: of Morrell, the father Of our tariff;
of Garfield, the interpreter of our prin-
ciples; Of Mckinley the apostle of protec-
ton: of Roosevelt. the captain OF the
great movement for Righteousness In
American government and American life"
Becomes a Moral Question.
Again, he said: The making of a
tariff so long as moderation and justice
are followed, is an economic question;
but the moment excess and injustice
are practiced the making of tariff be-
comes also a moral question. So the
tariff fight last year was moral night.
And who bore the battle? l want the peo-
pie of Indiana to know that all the real
lighting that was done for justice in tar
if schedules was done by republicans and
not by democrats.
Senator Beveridge devoted the greater
part of his address to the tariff question,
explaining why he voted against many
of the important schedules in the bill. He
came out strongly in favor of a tariff
commission.
THE republicans of Indiana are for a
protective tariff which covers the differ
ence in the cost of production here and
abroad he said in taking up the tariff
discussion, Less than that is unjust to
American labOrers; more than that is un-
just to American consumers. injustice is
the only foe that protection needs to fear.
1t was to reduce the Dingley tariff to
meet changed conditions and secure JUS
uce that we undertook its revision.
Injustice Begets Destruction.
Every economic policy, every polit-
ical system, almost every government
has been destroyed because of excuses
and injustice that crept into it. The
way to keep secure a policy, system or
a government that in itself is good is to
administer it with justice and wisdom.
The only way to keep party solid and
growing is to keep it right and pro-
greSSiVe.
Mckinley saw this when he declared
in his last speech that in tariff matters
the period of exclusiveness is past
Senator Morrill,, the father of the
war tariff of 1864, saw it when he de-
clared in 1870: 1t is the mistake of the
friends of a sound tariff to insist on
extreme rates proposed during the war If
less will raise the necessary revenue.
Theodore Roosevelt saw it when he
saiu at Logansport, Ind, in 1902. What
we really need in this country is to treat
the tarin as business proposition from
the standpoint of the interests of the
country as a whole and not from the
standpoint of the temporary needs of
any. political party.
The great m asses of republican voters
understand it today when they refuse to
permit the great doctrine of protection to
be used to excuse and cloak tariff excess.
the friend of the principle thus msused
is more offended than the enemy of the
principle itself
In Line With Taft.
Like President Taft, l wanted free
iron ore, of which we have the greatest
deposits on earth. and which the steel
trust chiefly controls. On iron ore no
protection is needed, and l would not
stand for the duty that was proposed and
passed: and l cannot stand for it now.
But a majority of democratic senators
did stand and fight for it. and stand for
it now.
Like President Taft, / wanted free
lumber, out of which the homes of the
people are builded. l could not stand
for the duty proposed and passed on lum-
her. and l cannot stand for it now. But
democratic senators did stand and fight
for 1t. and stand for it now.
Like President Taft, l wanted the
ancient wooden schedule reduced-a sched
ME forty-two years old. which, IL ever
right. long since has served it's purpose.
and which now gives to the wooden trust
an unfair control of our markets; which
Expresses the wool grower, raises the
nrice and reduces the weight of the peo-
p,e's t,lOthing. / stpod against that
Schedule when we tried to reduce it,
when the bill was passed, and am against
it now.