Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-05-19
INDIANA /, il, Aims
Senator Beverage, the Insur-
gent, Endorsed
THE ALDRICH LAW IGNORED

Tho Coming Battle" Says Beverage,
as Between the Rights Of the People
and the Power of the PiIlagers"-A
Telling Exposure of Deceptive Sched-
ules and Sham Reductions.
Indiana has raised it's potent voice
against the Payne-Aldrich tariff. The
Republicans of that state have en-
Enthusiastically Endorsed the action of
Senator Beveridge, who opposed the
bill through thick and thin. They
have adopted platform which, while
it advocates a protective tariff ''meas-
ured by the difference between the
cost of production here and abroad"
significantly ignores the Payne-Aldrich
law altogether.
Senator Beveridge in appealing for
support did not soften in any way his
antagonism to the bill, but loudly pro-
claimed it. In fact, he made it the
head and front of his offending. The
following extracts from his speech IL
lustrate what the Indiana senator
thinks Of ''the best tariff bill we ever
had" After President Taft's mag
unanimous defense Of the Payne-Aldrich
law it is singular that Mr. Beveridge
should have mentioned him so con-
spicuously as a co-insurgent on the
tariff question. Senator Beverage said:
Like President Taft, l wanted free
iron ore, of which we have the great
est deposits on earth and which the
steel trust chiefly controls. I could
not stand for the duty that was pass
ed, and cannot stand for it now.
Like President Taft, l wanted on
the free list many raw materials that
needed no protection. Yet only one
was so treated. l could not stand for
the duties on these articles, and can
not stand for them now.
Like President Taft, / wanted the
ancient wooden schedule reduced. It
gives to the wooden trust unfair con-
troll and raises the prices and reduces
the weight Of the peoples clothing. I
stood against this schedule when the
bill was passed, and stand against it
now.
II could not stand for the duty on
lumber when the tariff bill was passed,
and / cannot stand for it now
81 stood against the increase Of the
duty on cotton goods, and I stand
against it now.
1.-THE reduction Of the tariff on re-
fined sugar is a deception, because it
cannot affect the price. Yet that Is
one Of the boosted reductions we hear
of.
'These are examples Of increases.
was against them then, and I am
against them now.
From few, If any. Of the decreases
do the people get the slightest benefit.
'EXtortion is not protection.
"The coming battle is not so much
between political parties as such as
between the rights of the people and
the powers Of pillagers.
Il believe that the reasonable pros
perity of the few dozen American citi-
zens should depend upon the common
prosperity Of all American citizens.
"Swollen and dangerous fortunes are
not necessary. to good wages to the
workingman, fair salaries to the clerk
or commercial traveller or honest prices
to the farmer.
eve want no Lord North or King
George. no Bourbon or Romanoff
methods in American life. whether in
government or laws, whether in enact
ing tariff or managing party.
"a political party is not group OF
politicians, each with his following,
combining to win the spoils Of place
and power. Such an organization is
not a party. 1t is band Of brigands,
and its appeals in the name Of the
party are mere attempts to beguile
and defraud the voter for it's selfish
purposes. Such organizations and
men are the tools and agents of law
less interests which know no party,
attempt to use all parties and practice
only the policies of profit
II was for a just law That could
have been written, and it shall yet be
written.
II could not stand for the obsolete
and Infamous sugar schedule, which
no man in Indiana can read and I'M
derstand, but which the sugar trust
can read and understand, yet efforts
to change that schedule were opposed
by Democratic votes. We reduced the
tariff on refined sugar cents a hun
dred pounds-one-twentiet Of l cent,
half Of l mill, a pound-which was
worse than no reduction because it
cannot possibly affect the price and
therefore is q deception. Yet that is
one Of the boosted reductions we hear
Of
''It is said that the law has made re-
auctions on articles entering into the
consumption Of the people to the value
of $1,000, 100000. yet those articles are
made up Of such things as lumber, ag-
ricultural implements, meat and food
products, petroleum and its products,
Of all Of which we are the greatest ex.
porters In the world: steel rails and
coal, which we export: barbed wire,
monopolized by the steel trust; nails,
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