The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-18
ALDR|CH ANSWERED
SENATOR 6RisToW REPLIES TO RHODE lsLANDER's STATE.
 MENT AT MILWAUKEE.
HIS CHARGES WERE ADMITTEY
Kansas lnsuraent Showed Ills Audi ence Wherein Aldrlch Admitted tho Truth of What Was Charaes Against Him-That sherret Letter.


 Milwaukee, Aug 15.-"He admlts.S That is the motive in the formal re ply of Senator Joseph Little Bristow, the Kansas firebrand, to Senator Nel son w. Aldrich, who in a long state. ment denied that the Payne Aldrich tariff law had worked to the direct advantage of the Aldrlch family in i's effect on the rubber trade.
 Senator Bristow analyses the Al drich statement and though he quoted only from memory, having left all his memoranda of the controversy at hi. Kansas home, he punctuated his reply Repeatedly with points in which he shows where Senator AldrIchs own statement admits the truth of what Senator Bristow has charged
 Speaking for LaFoIiette.
 He made his formal reply to the Eastern senator and tariff fixer before big crowd of IaFollette followers whom he addressed in the West Side Turned hall
 Mir Brlstow said in part:
 MT Aldrich declares that the Tn. tercontinental Rubber company Is not trust and at the same time admits that it is holding company which controls numerous subsidiary organi zatlons that were organized for the purpose of handling the crude rubber business in various parts of the wol,
 He says that neither he nor his family has proilted directly or indi, rectly by the tariff on manufactured rubber, yet he admits that he Is pro ducing millions of pounds of crude rubber per annum. selling it to Ameri can manufacturers and that he in. creased duty on their products when they did not need 1t for protection and when they already had control of the American market and were exporting manufactured rubber; that Is. he in. creased the duty. enabling the manu. facturers to advance the price. yet he says that he nor his family has not profitcd directly or indirectly. He admits that dividends had not been paid before the consolidation of the various companies into one and that after the consolidation enormous divi. dends were paid, as stated in my speech.
 Ignored all But Rubber.
 Mir Aidrich takes exception to my remarks in rubber duty. especially He ignores the other features of my speech.
 T stated that the Tntercontinental Rubber company owned the capital stock of five other companies In addi- ton to those absorbed by the mergers referred to. and that, through some of these companies it owned several mil Hon acres Of land in Mexico and was producing from it's factories from S00.. 9o0 to I.l00.000 pounds of crude rubber per month. This Mir Aldrich admits.
 T stated also that tho Intercon. tinental Rubber company owned {, stock of the American Congo com. pany, organized through tho concas- sion given by the Belgian government ard that it controlled under this con ,ossion 2,500.000 acres Of land on the songo in Africa This Mir. Aldrich neither afIlrms nor denies but he knows 1t Is true.
 Mir Aldrch further admits that the increased duty on manufactured rubber 'esulted in decreased importatlons; {; hat annual production cf from $50. lc0.0O0 to s40,000.000 worth of crude 'ubbcr produced on hls plantations In Mexico comca Into the Un'tsd States without paying any duty or taxes to he general government. and he says le increased the duties on the prod icts Of the American factories. his customers. enabling them to pay him better prices.
 The long letter submitted from Sharrets Is one of those redlculous statements this man Sherrets is ac. custom to make to suit the con venience of MT Aldrici when there is any explanation in regard to the tariff bill It Is long. involved efrort tn mislead and deceive"