The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-05-11
TWO SENATORS
FLAY TARIFF
Deliver and Cummins of Iowa
Hurl Thunderbolts in Cam
paign at Des Moines.
PROGRESSIVES BEGIN
FIGHT FOR REELECTION
Declare That Payne-Aldrich Law
Was Conceived in Iniquity and
Meant to Cleverly Deceive
Public-Reductions Nil.


Ringing denunciation OF the tariff bill
and the men who passed it, charac-
terized the speeches of j. p. Dolliyer
and Albert Cummins. who opened the
progressive campaign here tonight
The meeting followed district confer
ences throughout the day at which
steps were taken to reconstruct the
old Cummins organization and or
ganiZe the state by counties and pre-
cincts. Dolliver referred to the
president as the "Titular LEADER OF
the republican party which meant
a good man surrounded by people
who know exactly what they wanted
Aldrich Friend of Trusts.
Aldrich was frequently mentioned
as the man ''allied with the Guggen-
helms. Ryan and Paul Morton" who
he said are allied to rob the people
and to increase the holdings of the
great syndicate
Senator Dolliver stated that so far
as the public is concerned the Payne
| Aldrich law carried rates as high OIL
higher than the Dingley law on most
articles in general use. Most Of the
reductions made by it," the speaker
continued. "are SO trivial as to be
ridiculous"
Taft Also NIisled.
He said the bill had been cunning
ly devised to deceive the public. He
alluded to Taft's Winona speech and
| the remarkable table quoted by him.
which showed a decrease in articles
| consumed to the value of five billion
| dollars while the consumption
value" of articles was increased by
| less than. a billion dollars and tina,
| most of these were luXuries. Dol
liver said this would be substantial
| reduction of the table accurate but
he said the examination showed it tc
be deceptive as stated in schedule A.
that two thirds of the reduction in
the tariff claimed on consumption
value, amounting to $433OOO 1000, is
on petroleum glass ware on which the
consumption value is placed at $12S,-
100000 decrease, mostly on the large
sizes plate and silvered glass.
Crack at Sugar Trust.
The purported decrease on sugar
| on which the consumption value i,
| 1901, 900, 900, he said, is too great a
| joke to receive serious attention. He
81 benefit from the reduction even if
the trust gave it to him, the consum-
er would have to eat a ton of sugar.
| The speaker said that on the cotton
| manufactures, on which the consump-
| ton value is $600,000,OO0, is either
advanced or unchanged
Schedule N (Sundries) was g
| master piece" Dolliver declared He
claimed decreases was on the con-
| sumption values of $1,700.000, O0(
against SOL, 900 increase ION lux
uries' overlooking, he said among
| the increases was the rates on rubber
goods, ION which the consumption
value is 60,000,000 per annum, Dol
liver said that included in the de-
creaSes to the amount of 1894, 00O,-
900, the consumption value is btu
minous coal of which we export more
than seven times what we import
Cummins for Fight to Finish.
Senator Cummins said he haG
come most in the interest of others
but he was not wholly unselfsh. H,
said he hopes to have the endorse
ment next year, of the republican
| convention of Iowa He referred t,
| the recent republican conference il
| Des Monies, which he claimed was
| to effect an organization to capture
| the republican convention to endorse
the administration policies Cummin:
| said that the prime movers of this
conference had been men who had
| fought him in every election for the
past ten years. Cummins said h,
| did not object to the men who Tough
him in the open, and he proposed
| tonight, only to ask them to politely
| do so.
Charges Trickery.
If they decline, he said, he would
unmask them, and tell that they were
| trying to get into the convention ir
order that Aldrich can say "Dollivel
and Cummins have been repudatet
| in their own states" Cummins sale
that the republican leaders in con
| gresS were in league with the cor
pora lions. The leaders do not ash
when a measure is introduced if i
will help the people, but do the cor
| porationS want it He said he Woult
no hesitate to name the leaders il
| congress. In the senate, he said, i
was Aldrich. and in the house it wa
| Cannon. After them came Payne
Dalzell and "a few others of the sam,
| type.