Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-07-27
PARTY PLEDGES
NOT REDEEMED
SENATOR CUMMINS GOES INTO
CAMP OF KANSAS REGULAR
TO SPEAK.
DECLARES PAYNE-ALDRICH TAR
IFF A FAILURE-NoT FOR
NEW PARTY.

Council Grove, Kan, July 23.-
Senator Cummins OF Iowa, in a
speech here to chautauqua audi
ence last might, asserted that the
pledge of the republican national
platform for a revision of the tariff
was not fulfilled; that Aldrich and
Cannon and others who took the lead
in framing the tariff bill, had never
attempted and never intended to
keep the pledges of the party.
Senator Cummins came into the
home of one of the Kansas regulars
Representative James M. Miller
to give this message. He said:
Cannon and Aldrich and other
stand-pat leaders were driving the
nation into socialism or cooperative
control and away frim the individual
or competitive theory.
Il am an exponent of progressive
republican ideas" he said. Il be-
lieve that the republican party can
be made the most progressive party
on earth, one that does things for
the good of the whole country. But
the special interest man must be
eliminated. That is my sermon. That
is what talk, and if it helps or hurts
anyone where l may be talking, 1t
does not bother me. For ten years
l fought for progress in Iowa and we
have won and are winning. This is
not local matter at all, but one
covering all the country.
Our forefathers organized this
government on the broad principle
that individual effort is better than
the cooperative or collective theory
of government; that the work OF the
individual is of more Importance and
better for the country than the de-
velopment of the socialistic or mo-
nOpolistic theory of government and
industry.
Cannon and Aldrich are driving
the country into the socialistic form
of government and industry because
of their interest in promoting the
cause of monopolies"
Attacks the Tariff Bill.
Attacking the Payne-Aldrich tariff
Senator CumminS said:
During all the long debate on the
tariff bill, Mr.. Aldrich never attempt
ed to apply the standard of the re-
publican platform pledge. He and
his followers openly and contemptu-
ously repudiated every word of that
pledge. In all the evidence taken by
the house ways and means commit
tee there were not a dozen items of
the 5000 in which a showing was
made as to the cost of production at
home and abroad.
1T was an open and explicit repu-
diation of our platform and a perver-
sion of the protective theory. | am
not an insurgent republican if it is
said I am insurgent against the re-
publican national platform 1 am in
surging against men of the Cannon
and Aldrich stripe, men who are
openly violating the pledges of the
party and are advancing the cause OF
monopolistic control of industry"
He said the republican party
pledged itself in its platform to make
such revision as wouold equalize the
cost of production here and abroad
and make competition possible He
said congress did not even attempt
to do it. He attacked the steel and
cotton schedules, declaring the latter
was actually a fraud.
Mr.. Cummins declared that nom
partisan tariff commission alone could
secure correct information on the
different items of cost, etc. He also
proposed the adoption by congress of
a rule whereby any schedule could
be revised at will without going
through the whole tariff subject.
Not for New Party.
When shown the report from Des
Moines to the effect that he favored
the organization of third party,
Senator CummlEs said:
Il have never thought of a new
party, am not organizing one now,
and do not believe in it,