Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-05

said at Logansport, Ind, in 1902:
What we really need in this country
is to treat the tariff as a 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
Mass of aPrty Understood.
''The great masses 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. Use principle to
perpetuate a fraud, and the friend of
the principle thus misused is more
offended than the enemy of the prin-
ciple itself.
Like President Taft, I wanted free
iron ore, of which we have the great
est deposits on earth and which the
steel trust chiefly controls. On iron
ore no protection is needed. and 1
would not stand for the duty that was
proposed and passed; and 1 can not
stand for 1t now. But a majority of
democratic senators did stand and
fight for it, and stand for it now.
Like President Taft 1 wanted free
lumber, out of which the homes OF the
people are builded. 1 could not stand
for the duty proposed and passed on
lumber, and can not stand for It now.
But democratic senators did stand and
fight for it, and stand for it now.
Wool Schedule Unfair.
Like President Taft I wanted the
ancient wooden schedule reduced.-a
schedule AZ years old, which. IL ever
right, long since has served its pur-
pose, and which now gives TO the
wooden trust an unfair control of our
markets; which Expresses the wool
grower, raises the price and reduces
the weight of the peoples clothing.
stood against that schedule when we
tried to reduce 1t, when the bill was
passed, and an against It now.
Il could not stand for an increase
of duties on cotton cloth, the higher
grades of which are used as clothing
by every man, woman and child, rich
or poor, throughout the whole repub-
lie. / could not stand for that without
evidence; and when the manufacturers
themselves formally declared before
the house committee that their bust
ness was thriving, their labor en-
ployed and that all they asked was
that the tariff on cotton should not be
decreased. stood against those in
creases on cotton goods when the
schedule was voted on; I stood against
them when the bill was passed; and
cfond ooofncf T1nuy
Steel Section Vicious.
81 could not stand for an increase
on structural steel, punched and ready
for use, out of which all modern build
ings are constructed and with which
bridges all over the country are
builded; and 1 can not stand for it
now.
Il could not stand for an increase
of duties on those linoleums 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 cannot
stand for them now.
Il could not stand for the obsolete
and Infamous sugar schedule. which
no man in Indiana can read and under
stand 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 per 100
pounds-one-twentie of one cent,
half of one mill, pound-which was
worse than no reduction because it
cannot possibly affect the price and
therefore is a deception. Yet that is
one of the boosted reductions we hear
of.
Cut Articles Not Imported.
at is said that the law has made
reductions on articles entering into
the consumption of the people to the
value of $4,000, oOo. 900; yet those ar
ticles are made up of such things as
lumber, agricultural implements. meat
and food products, petroleum and it's
products, of all of which we are the
greatest exporters in the world; steel
rails and coal, which we export;