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

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gency Laboratories. 80 West 18th street, New
York city.
when the bill was passed, and l stand
against them now.
Il could not stand for an increase on
structural steel. punched and ready for
use, out of which all modern buildings
are constructed and with which bridges
all over the country are builded; and l
cannot stand for 1t now
i could not stand for an increase of
duties on those linoeums which are the
poor mans carpet; Or on zinc, which is
UNIVERSAL necessity: or on silk, which is
a part OF the clothing or adornment of
every American woman. rich or poor; and
l cannot stand for them now
Il could not stand for the obsolete and
infamous sugar schedule, which no man
in Indiana can read and understand. but
which the sugar trust can read and I'M
derstand; yet efforts to change that
schedule were opposed by democratic
votes. We reduced the tariff on refined
sugar cents per 100 pounds-one-twen-
tieth of one cent, half of one MILL
pound-which was worse than no reduc-
price and therefore is deception. Yet
that is one of the boasted reductions we
hear Of.
Small Benefit in Reductions.
1T is said that the law has made re-
auctions on articles entering into the con-
sumption of the people to the value OF
$5,OOOOOo.OOO; yet those articles are made
up Of such things as lumber, agricultural
implements, meat and food products. pc
troleum and its products, all Of which
we are the greatest exporters in the
world: steel rails and coal, which we ex-
port; barbed wire. monopolized by the
steel trust; nails, manufactured and sold
by an international trust as complete as
the International tobacco monopoly; yarns
and threads: the raw materials for tex
tiles, on which textiles. when finished for
the peoples use. the tariff was increased;
sugar, which was not reduced in fact, but
only in pretense.
Above all, l could not stand for the
slaughter by the conference committee of
the moderate beginning of tariff COM
mission which l wrote into the bill that
passed the Senate: but all save one of
the democratic senators were the enc
mics Of any tariff commission then, and
are its enemies now.
These are examples. was against
them then-I am against them now.
Compromise on purely economic details
is often wise; but compromise with sheer
injustice is always wrong.
Il was for q law that would protect
the wages of every workingman in In
diana and yet enable that workingman to
get his clothing and creature comforts
cheaper-and such a law could have been
Need Is Tariff Stability.
II was for law that would have given
every manufacturer in Indiana ample
protection, and yet enable him to get his
raw materials cheaper-and such a law
could have been written, and it shall be
written.
Il was for law that would have taken
the tariff out of the way of business for
q Wy
could have been written, and 1t shall be
written. Business needs tariff stability.
and only satisfied people can give tariff
stability.
L want the people of Indiana to
know that all the real fighting that was
done for justice in tariff schedules was
done by republicans. and not by
democrats Is1ne ats, Let me me read you what Mr.
in public speech. Said Mr.. Bryan, in
his FL Palso address.
There was great tariff contro-
versy in Congress this year, and the
result was that the dissension ended
in the humliating situation of the re-
form republicans contending for a real
revision of the tariff, while the demo-
selves over protection for the products
of their own districts
Tariff Board Weakened.
Speaking of what he designated "the
so-called tariff board" Senator Beve-
ridge said:
When 1 introduced the tariff commits
sion bill three years ago l said it had
majority of republicans are for it, and
even one democrat has seen the light. But
at the beginning of the last session it
had only a few friends in Congress.
Therefore l felt that it was impossible
to get a full-fledged tariff commission
enacted into law; and so 1 acted on the
theory of getting the best 1 could. Mine
was a fatal faith. For what was the
result? l drew the provision authorizing
the President to appoint persons with
full power to make tariff Investigations
under his direction. Senator Aldrich
would not agree to all of it. He struck
out or changed vital language. Yet what
remained Of my provision gave to
necessary facts to aid Congress in tariff
legislation. In this form it passed the
Senate.
But the conference committee struck
out absolutely every word giving these
persons any powers to investigate and
collect the facts, leaving to the Presi-
dent nothing but the authority to en-
ploy persons to assist him in the ad-
ministration Of the maximum and mini
mum section of the law. Senator Hale
committee. declared again and again
on the floor of the Senate that the
conference committee had done this for
the express purpose of depriving these
persons of any power whatever to
gather facts or to do any work which
q tariff commission could do. And no
senator denied the truthfulness Of Sen
ator Hale's statement as a matter of
fact nor his correctness as a matter of
law after he mad made his determined
assault
Taft Tries Improvement.
President Taft by executive CON-