Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-05-11
INDIANA Up IN arms N
Senator Beveridge, the Insur-
gent, Endorsed
The ALDRICH LAW IGNORED


"The Coming Battle" Says Beveridge,
lis Between the Rights Of tho People
and tho Power Of tho PiiIasers"-A
Telling Exposure Of Deceptive sched-
u!es and Sham Reductions.
Indiana has raised its potent voice
against the Payne-Aldrich tariff The
Enthusiastically Endorsed the action OF
Senator Beveridge, who opposed the
bill through thick and thin. They
have adopted a 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 H.
lustrate what the Indiana senator
thinks of 1.-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 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. could
not stand for the duty that was pass
ed, and l 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. | 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. 1t
| gives to the wooden trust unfair con-
troll and raises the prices and reduces
the weight Of the peoples clothing.
stood against this schedule when the
| bill was passed, and I 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.
II stood against the increase Of the
duty on cotton goods, and l stand
against it now.
1.-The reduction Of the tariff on re-
fined sugar is 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 l am
against them now.
From few. If any. of the decreases
do the people get the slightest benefit
'fExtortion 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.
not necessary to good wages to the
workingman. fair salaries to the clerk
or commercial traveller or honest prices
to the farmer.
1--WE want no Lord North or King
George. no Bourbon or Romancff
methods in American life. whether IN
government or laws. whether in enact
ing tariff or managing party.
"A political party is not a group of
politicians. each with his following.
combining to win the spoils of place
and power. Such an organization is
not party. 1t is band of brigands.
and it's appeals in the name of the
party are mere attempts to beguile
and defraud the voter for its 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 un
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 5 cents hun
dred pounds-one-twentie Of l cent
a half Of mill, a pound-which was
worse than no reduction because II
cannot possibly affect the price and
therefore is deception. Yet that is
one Of the boosted reductions we hear
Of
ut is said that the law has made re
auctions on articles entering into the
consumption Of the people to the value
of $4,000. 100000, yet those articles are
made up Of such things as lumber. ag
!. ricultural implements. meat and food
products. petroleum and it's 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
manufactured and sold by an interna
tional trust as complete as the utter
national tobacco monopoly: yarns and
, threads. the raw materials for textiles
| on which textiles. when finished fol
the peoples use. the tariff was increas
ed: sugar. which was not reduced il
fact. but only in pretense."
I'm licked" said Boss Aldridge
when he heard that he was defeated