Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-10-14
GONG. K|NKEADS
PLATFORM CLEAR
AND TO THE POINT
Representative from Ninth Dis.
trict Issues Letter of
Acceptance.

In reply TO the Hon. Edward Rice,
chairman of the Ninth district Demo-
cratic congressional convention, Con-
gresham Eugene F.. Kinkead has sent
the following letter of acceptance;
II received your formal letter of
notification of my nomination on the
Sd instant. and | beg now to formally
thank the convention through you for
this nomination and to state that the
platform adopted meets my views on
the subjects discussed therein.
Believing hat the most important
question to be settled by the American
people on November s to be whether
the present Payne-Aldrich tariff bill
should be continued in all its i~niquity
or not, l requested that this be made
| the primary topic of our platform. l
do not agree with my opponent that
the tariff and the railroads alone are
the main causes of the present high
prices of food and clothing. Another
element enters into the increased cost
of these commodities, namely, the
combinations, trusts and monopolies
that have been fostered under Re-
I j bl1 1llS Elo
contribute more largely to the present
high cost of living than does the atti-
tude of the railroad in favoring GER
tain corporations as against others.
Unquestionably the tariff is the main
cause, but l regard these combinations
and trusts as a secondary cause, and
believing, then, that the railroas, by
reason of their attitude in favoring
e.aIaataI aApaIa a atoms odd 10 fha
burdens of The people, My opponent is
running on two platforms. Possibly
ne is going to draw a line in the Ninth
district n run on the State form,
which commends highly the present
Payne-Aldrich bill, on one side of the
line, then run on his congressional
platform, which demands that the
Payne-Aldrich tariff bill be revised
downward, on the other sid of the line.
Il can easily understand that THIS
would be hard for an ordinary man 10
do, but when we remember my OPP
ponent's political record, realizing that
he has been in his time a Democrat, a
Republican, a Progressive, and now
half a Regular and half a Progressive,
that he will manage to perform This
stunt gracefully If not convincingly.
IN Ills lellef VI dCCcpldltt, MI.
Record, Internationally, perhaps, mis-
states the Republican principle of pro-
lection when he declares that it is a
tariff limited to the difference in cost
of labor between this country and
competing countries. Now, if you will
refer to the platform adopted by the
Republican national convention at
Chicago in 1908, you will see that IN
addition to this a emand is made fer
a reasonable profit besides. Then. if
you will take the time to look up the
Payne-Aldrich tariff bill you will find
that this reasonable profit has some
times equaled 200 per cent. in the case
of wooden schedule, and from so to 100
per cent. in the steel schedule. Now,
Mr.. Record says that a 20 per cent.
tariff would be ample and dismisses
the subject on this same u~nscientific
basis.
Some commodities, in order that
American labor may be fairly treated.
require a tariff of more than 20 per
cent, whereas other commodities
should unquestionably be admitted free
of all duty.
II believe that all meat and meat
products should be placed on the free
llSl. L DeiltNt that luIllDCI ShOuit NC
admitted free. [ believe that coal
should come in TO this nation without
any tariff duty, and when a Democratic
Congress shall have been elected on
November s | will urge my party's
leaders to make a specific statement
to the American public regarding their
intentions. will urge that the bill in
troduced by me placing all meats and
,aa t.rn5t,ptS ~ tho ffoa lief mas
will urge tina the wooden schedule be
reduced one-half and in some instances
to a lower basis, believing that in its
present iniquitous condition this sched-
ule is plain thievery in the interests
of dishonest manufacturers so long
represented in the United States Senate
by men of the Aldrich type. 1 will then
urge thai the steel schedule be re-
duced to an honest figure, believing
that no man can honestly acquire one
thousand millions of dollars, as Car
negle has lone in thirty years Of bust
ness life. Then my suggestion will be
that two other schedules be revised,
one left to the members of the North
and the other to Southern members,
so that an honorable compromise may
be effected without any serious effect
! on the business world. With this as
our basis of action. l will hen urge
that a tariff commission be appointed,
to consist of the cleanest and most ca
pable citizens that can be found, with
instructions hat they report not to
the chief executive of the nation, but
to Congress, the result of their findings.
This will insure receiving first hand
the honest conclusions Of an honest
tariff commission, on which will be
based all future schedules.
believing that Senator Aldrich
spoke %truthfully when he said that
three hundred millions of dollars could
be saved by adopting business meth
DDS in the government of h United
States, | pledge the people of this dis
trict today all that lies in my power
to secure economical government. and
| believing that a tariff is desirable pri-
marily for revenue purposes, it~is APP
parent that as the expenses of the gov
eminent are minimized that the tariff
duties may be proportionately lowered
1.-The extravagances of the Republic
can government in Washington may
be charged in some degree for he
present high cost of living, and will
| endeavor to bring this before the peo-
pie in the Ninth district in mby dis
- 1,.-to-. tha ,ot,Hnfon