The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-04-05
TARIFF SCORED
!. BY MR.. bEvER|DCE
Opens Republican State Con-
vention in INDIANA With
Roar of Verbal Artillery
SAYS PRESENT LAWS
ONLY FOR "INTERESTS"
Convention Endorses Creation OF
Tariff Commission Clothed With
Full Powers-Also Endorse
Taft Administration.

lNIDIANAPOLlS, IND. April o.
Emphatically explaining his reason
for opposing many of the provisions
OF TIM Payne AIdriCh tarin bill. Sena-
toe Albert ]. ReNeridge.- as TEMPORARY
chairman of the Indiana Republican
State committee, here to-day launch
ed his boom for Reelection by the
mex State Legislature.
II voted against the present tarin
law. and for plighted honor" he said.
land l voted against excess and for
protection. l voted against the inter
ests and for the people,
Mr. Beseriase also explained at
length the tariff commissions idea.
for which he stands sponsor. and
which IL made prominent factor in
the State platform, which Will be
adopted this afternoon. He said:
THE Republicans of Indiana are
fer protective tariff which covers
the difference in the cost OF produc-
y ten here and abroad Less than that
L. unjust to American laborersi more
than that Is unjust To American con-
sumers. IT Was to reduce the Ding
ley tariff to meet changed conditions
and secure justice that we undertook
Its revision.
Lake President Taft, 1 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 i
would not stand for the duty that was
proposed and passed.
Like President Taft / wanted free
lumber. out OF which the homes OF
S the people are bu!lded.
Like President Taft, ! wanted the
ancient wooden schedule reduced-a
schedule forty-two years old. which.
Ii ever right. long since has served
it's purpose, and which now gives to
the WOODEN trust an unfair control OF
our markets; which Expresses the
wool grower. raises the price and re-
daces the weight of the peoples cloth
Ing.
II could not stand for an increase
4 ~ duties on cotton cloth, the higher
grades Of which are used as clothing
g. ~ every man, woman and child, rich
or poor throughout the whole repub-
Tic. could not stand for that with
out evidence and then the rnanDfac-
turers themselves formally declared
before the House committee that their
bus,ness was thriving. their labor en-
Stoyea and that ait they asked was
that the tariff on cotton should not
- increased.
~ could not stand for an increase
or duties On those ltneoleunas which
are the poor mans carpet: or on
sine, wHlGh IS a uIilhtTstAi httSSStts Pf
nm silk which Is u part Of the cloth
Ing or adjournment of every American
Woman. rich or pour. and / cannot
stand fer them now.
Sugar Schedule Infamous
II could not stand for the ooso"
lete and Infamous sugar scheoule.
which no man IN Indiana can READ
and understand, but which the sugar
Trust can read and understand, Yet
,taF IA ssNhrdtIiR were
opposed by democratic votes. We re-
duced the tariff ON refined sugar i've
cents per one hundred pounds-offe-
twentieth of one cent, nail OF one
mill pnnnd---Mh ach MAS MORSE Inan
no reduction, because it cannot pos
stbly affect the price. and therefore
IL a deception. Yet that Is one Oh
the bnasted reductions We hear OF,
..These are examples. was against
them them am against them now.
Compromise on purely economic De
tails in often wise; but compromise
with sheer injustice Is always wrong
II was for law that would pro-
toct the wages of every workinsmah
infndiana, and yet enable that work
.Sflgman 10 get his clothing and Great
n ure comforts cheaper
81 was for a law that would nave
rtven every manufacturer in Indiana
ample protection, and yet enable him
70 get his raw materials cheaper--and
Uuch law could have been written.
and Il shall be written.
ssI was for law that would have
taken the tariff out of the way OF
business for ten or a dozen years
and such law could have been WRIT
ten. and IL shall be written. Bust
ness needs tariff sta bility. and only
q satisfied people can give tariff sta
biiity. The dictates of justice are
better for business than the dictates
OF bosses; for the people OBEY IN
Justice and defy bosses
Where, then. lies the plain reme-
dys In a tariff commission.
"A commission of experts as per-
manent as the bureau of lahor,~with
duties fully described In the law 1T
self: commission safe from the ac-
cidents OF politics, secure from the
differing opinions OF changing Presi-
dents. commission equal to that OF
Germany or Japan---that Is what the
government needs; that Is what the
y nation demands: and that Is what We
Will have
Policies Adopted.
The committee on resolutions FIN
ally framed the platform for submis-
sion to the convention. SO that the
Il Following policies are emphaticaly. en-
i dorsed:
Protective tariff, to be enacted from
u the report Of an advisory tariff COM
mission, clothed with fun powers; pos
tive conservation of all natural re-
sources: enlarged constitution author
1 ity for taxation In time OF war with
1 an Immediate constitutional amend
ment to the Constitution to legalixe
Il; Inhalation OF the power OF the
tntucntion: national legislation to stop
nhfId labor IN mines or sweat shops;
penslons for soldiers. their widows
and orphans
Th0 resolutions qualifedly endorse
. ~ Taft administration. endorse Sem
Nor Iaseridge, and appeal to the
n n 66lx to elect legislature which
mn rA-eiect him,
ES There Y = possibility that minori-
~ x91orx 1Avosing complete local OPP
mi M nh ~ introduced by George b.
~ the eleventh district.