Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1910-10-13
MAKING TARIFFS
Senator Beveridge Exposes a
Few Tricks of the Trade
THE MASTER OF DEALS
Methods Of the Head Senatorial Log
Roller-Men Who Would Like to Be
Fair Browbeaten-How SeIfishness
lnterferes With Honest Government


who knows whereof he speaks. tells
the readers of the Saturday Evening
Post IA few of the tricks of the tariff
making trade Mr.. Beveridge is n
thorough believer in honest protec-
ton. though if what he tells us be
true it will be hard for him to show
that any tariff bill can be honest.
How the 90.OO0,00O of consumers are
divided among the various predatory
interests and led out like lambs to the
slaughter he describes as follows:
Take the last tariff session as an
example of all others. but the very
last example. thanks to the intelli-
gence of the American people and the
demand of the average American pro-
Queer. Let us say there are four or
five enormous interests that have cX-
erciSed dominant influence in building
our tariffs, influences that have been
seen in both great partics-fur exam
pie. our old friend of the Wilson-GUr-
man tariff the American Sugar Re
flung company, known as the sugar
trust. or the American Wooden com
pany. known as the wool trust; the
American Tobacco company, known
rs the tobacco trust, or he New Eng
land cotton combination. known as the
cotton trust. CT the International and
Northern Paper companies, known It's
the paper trust. or the Weycrhaeuser
lumber enterprises. known rs the lunl-
Der trust, and its associate conc ernS.
VERY well. Let us say that there
are five senators who do not want the
sugar schedule touched. ten who do
not want the wool schedule toUchcd
ten more WHO want the cotton seized
ule increased. ten more who think that
the internal revenue laws affecting to
bacco should not he altered, and 50 ON.
Perhaps these various groups of sep
ators do not greatly care about any
schedules other than the one WIN
they are supporting. though il is a
fact that there is Il curious sympathy
among all of them.
But no matter. 4 combination l.
formed among AL of them. 1T the head
of viii h is Il skilled and practiced leg
iSlatiVe Leader, Il very captain Of drals.
IL master log roller" Let us say that
this combination represents forty
votes. You perceive that it is very
powerful array of votes when cast rs
unit. as they always are east.
"The responsible head of this combi-
nation. the master of deals. goes to
the two senators from another state
who are asking for some just and rca-
sonable and absolutely honest protec-
ton for certain industries in their
state-or. rather. they 20 to the master
of deals, for the MASTER of deals in
command of the combination is SO
powerful that he seldom has to go
to anybody. Sometimes he must go
to an unusually stubborn senator, and
when he must go he does 90.
1T may we'll be-oftcn iS-that these
two senators do not approve of the
purposes of this powerful combina-
ton; it may be that they abhor the
schedules that this combination WAS
formed to maintain or put through.
and just precisely this was the case in
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say ~ 'ii'S' TWO Sei'll"rN' YOU can
not navy o"l JuS' "n" hoil'Sl request
put iii'o 'I'S law uhl'SS you a@ree TO
vote with our combination: otherwise
we will beat you on what YOU want
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