White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1910-10-23

. senators worked for the manufactur-
ing industries of their country. Now.
If We had said to them, I'VE will not
do anything for YOU" they would
: have said, All right, we will not do
anything for YOU" and the result
, would have been that We would not
have passed any tariff bill at all, and
the Dingley bill would still have been
in existence, and / say Il you this.
without fear of successful contradict
ton, that in the present bill the gen.
eral average of duties are lower than
the duties under the Dingley bill.
Further, If the Democratic party
were in power today, 1t would have
to raise one billion dollars to carry
on this great government of ours.
When a great responsibility is
placed upon you, you must in some
way assume that responsibility; you
cannot pay bills unless you get the
money from some source. Take il
home to yourself. If you have 500,
to pay you have to get the money
from some source or you can't pay
it. The government is in the same
condition. II the Democratic party
We're in power today it would have to
raise the same amount of money,
true, if might shift the schedules,
but 1t would have to raise the money.
Now, my friends. / simply did there
what | believed 10 be right, and j say
to you frankly that what l did, /
would do again. Neither myself nor
the Republican party claim that the
present tariff bin is absolutely per-
feet, and none ever will be under the
present system, but under President
Taft's recommendation, there is no
! question about ii in the future. The
tariff schedules will be taken up after
data has been secured by a scientific
board, and each schedule will be
taken up separately and either raised
or reduced from time to time as these
experts may recommend. At the pres
ent time, however, We have TO deal
with conditions as we meet them
there, and ii was impossible for us to
do any better than we did. / know
exactly how President Taft felt about
the matter, and ! can say to you good
people here that President Taft today
is one of the best, one of the greatest
and one of the most honest presi-
dents that ever filled the executive
chair.
Referring TO the condemnation in
the Democratic platform in relation
TO his voting for the Dixon amend
ment, he stated that, in effect, ii was
this. mo railroad shall charge more
for a short haul than for a long haul
going in the same direction, unless
there are special reasons for a redue-
ton in the charge, and the showing
Unjust be made by the railroad COM
pany to the Interstate Commerce
Commission" He insisted that this
was good legislation, doing away with
the back haul charge which has for so
long been such a burden on the peo-
pie of Nevada. and stated that there
were Sc senators who voted with him
for this amendment. u who voted
against it, "a being absent. He cited
the following names as some of those
who voted with him: Senator Bever-
idge of Indiana, Senator Gummins,
Senator BristoW, Senator La Toilette,
Senator Bacon. Senator Owen and a
great many others. but particularly
calling attention 10 one who was
known throughout the United States
as the greatest an railroad man in
the Senate, the blind Senator from
oklahoma. Senator Gore. and asking
If he should be condemned simply
because Senator Aldrich voted for the
same thing. lie stated that the truth
of his being a railroad Ia was only
to the extent that he wanted to see
more railroads come into the state,
that he wanted TO see them treated
fairly, but, on the other hand, that
he wanted the railroad to treat the
people right. The Senator referred at
length to his private lie and record
in the state, and gave the prospector
a very large portion of the credit for
his success, stating that he had a
number of prospectOrs out now and
expected to keep them in a search
for another Mohawk. lie called at
tention to the fact that during the
five years he had been in the Senate
he had been instrumental in securing
more appropriations for the state OF
Nevada than all other senator's and
congressman combined for the past
ten years, stating that he had secured
the passage of IA perslon bills, and
Nevada appropriations aggregating
$123, 900, 600; also that he had pass
ed eight or ten postofiee deficiency
bills. to take care of postmasters in
different communities for monies ex-
pended during the boom days in ex-
cess of their government allowance,
one of which was for Ely. He asserted
his absolute loyalty TO organized la
Dor, and, referring to the Goldfeld
strike, during the time when he was
the president of the Goldfed Con-
solidated Mines company, stated.
The last official act | did before ]
left Nevada for Washington. when |
was connected with the Goldheld
Consolidated Mines company, before
the srike and general close down,
was this: To the committee of the
organizations that met with me |
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