New-York tribune., 1910-05-11
IOWA INSURGENTS RALLY
Senators DoIIiver and CumminS
Chief Speakers.
FORMER FLAYS TARIFF LAW
Charge That Aldrich Is Allied
with Guggenheims and Others
in Gigantic Trust.

Des Moines. Iowa, May 1o.-Denunciations
| Of the tariff bill and the men who passed il
characterized the speeches made tonight
| by Senators Jonathan P Dolliver and Al
| bert y. Cummins, in opening the progress
| sive campaign in Iowa. The coliseum was
crowded with ten thousand progressives.
The meeting tonight followed district
! conferences throughout the day, at which
steps were taken TO reconstruct the old
Cumrlins organization and to organize the
state by counties and precincts
Senator Dolliver referred TO President
f. Taft as the "titular leader" of the Repub-
lican party. which meant, he said, "a good
| man surrounded by people who knew ex-
/ actly what they wanted
Both Senators declared that if the Re-
| publican party continued the policy advo-
Gated by the "reactionary'' leaders 1t would
! spell ruin to the party. Among these lead
ers Senator Aldrich was frequently men
| toned as the man allied with the Gug
geDheins and the Ryans and Paul Nor
ton in a mammoth trust. incorporated as
q rubber company. which is allowed by the
articles of incorporation to participate in
any kind of business anywhere on the face
OF the earth, and which is one of the hold
for the control Of the wealth of Alaska
These are the men who are responsible
for the tariff bill during the extraordinary
session." declared Senator Dolliver. THE
bill is only a scheme to rob the people and
10 increase the holdings of such gigantic
syndicates as l have mentioned
The troubles in the Republican party
have come not because OF what has been
said but Of what has been done. II has
been said that the tariff bill is a good law.
In fact, he have ii on high authority that
It IS the best tariff bill ever passed. But
not only do I denounee such tariff legisle-
ton, but I am not particularly enamoured
Of those who passed 1t.
IF man protests against such a bill
and is derided and ridiculed, what can be
the moral status of such pirates who
threaten Congress and who have become a
nucleus around which the Republican party
is supposed TO rally TO preserve its soli-
carity?
"UnfaithfuI leadership"
THE fight against such unfaithfuI leader
ship in the Republican party is as hot in
Massachusetts as it is in Iowa
Il am not here to criticise the President
or to say unkind words against him. but
count il no reflection on him TO state
that find it sometimes necessary TO disa-
gree with him and those surrounding him.
Men have crowded TO the front in his ad-
ministration who have not had the welfare
Of the party or OF the country at heart
am going to have some trouble in keep
Ing inside the breastworis of the Repub-
lican party, but I know something Of its
doctrines. I do not intend to retire from
it, although 1 have been invited to do So
L do not recognize Mr. Wickersham or
any other man who comes out here into
the West 10 read men out of the Repub-
lican party who were known before he
ever was in it
Analyzing, schedule by schedule and item
by item, the Payne tariff act, Senator Dol
liver declared close scrutiny shows that.
so far as the public is concerned, the
tariff revision in fact carries rates as high
as or higher than the Dingley tariff law
| on most articles OF general use in their
/ finished condition" He went on:
Most of the reductions were so trivial as
to be ridiculous. and were either upon ar
! tcles which We 90 not import to any ex-
tent, but on the contrary, export in eDor-
nous quantities, or were for the purpose
| Of further protecting the manufacturer es-
pecially by reducing the duties on raw ma
! terials.
In fact, a careful scrutiny OF the partic-
ular items that were changed and the exact
| trifling change Of rate in each case shows
! ip order to deceive the public and look like
real revision downward
/ Senator Dolli@er prefaced his review OF
! some Of the schedules and items of the
new tariff law by saying:
/ In the many attempts TO defend the
! Payne-Aldrich tariff frequent use has been
mace Of very remarkable table of figures
quoted by the President at Winona. indi-
eating that duties had been decreased by
the new tariff upon articles consumed IL
1 the United States TO the extent OF about
$500 coo. while the consumption value
/ OF articles upon which duties had been in
1 creased amounted to only about S8TS, $50 o1l
and that most OF the latter were '.luxI-
ries,' such as silks, liquors and jewelry.
Analysis of Figures.
| This would indeed tend to prove most
/ substantial downward revision" if the fig
/ uTes were accurate. Fortunately the neces-
sary statistics to render an analysis com
paTatively easy are available in a public
document prepared under the direction of
the finance committee by of its en-
/ ployes- Such en analysis of the figures will
soon convince any one how deceptive and
misleading this much quoted table really is
/ The cotton manufactures schedule SEN
ator Dolliver stamped as "one of the most
daringly infquitous features Of the new
! tariff, in which the rates were either ad-
vanced or unchanged on articles OF a con-
sunptive value of $500 10000, touching prin-
cipally cotton cloths for womens and chill
dren's summer wear IN further detail
the Senator said:
Schedule \ (sundries) IS the rnasterpiece
however, of cunning tariff jugglery to look
like real revision downward, for here the
Aldrich table claims decreased rates on q
consumption value Of 81, ,1l9, 42S 0S9 AGAINST
! S101. .665 59S increased, and that the increases
were only Oil luxuries. To be sure thew
overlooked the increased rate on rubber
goods. the consumption of which amounts
20 t60,0oooco year
"A great deal Of stress had been laid on
the supposed enlargement of the free list -
said Mr. Dolliver in conclusion, "and vet
the only new items on the free list Of the
Payne-Aldrich tariff are hides, few semi
finished coal tar products. radiam, works
of art more than twenty years old, miners
appliances and Brazil cream nuts"
Senator cummns's Speech.
Senator CumminE, who followed. said in
part:
4 few weeks ago there was held III Des
Moines a caucus of certain persons, and
these men organized campaign with the
aVoWed object of securing q state conven-
ton that would indorse the Republican
national administration The men who
composed the conference have been my
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