The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1910-07-21
BRIsTow FLAYS THE
PAYNE ALDRICH TARIFF.

senator Bristow of Kansas. in the
! first insurgent speech since Con
gress adjourned, delivered at Win.
| field, Kansas, on the 9TH inst, pays
his respects t. Senator Aldrich,
charging him with manipul ating the
/ Aldrich-Payne tariff law for the en-
/ richment of himself, his son and a
number of his friends. Among the
latter are Senator Guggeniiiem and
/ his brother Allen, A. Ryan and Paul
! Morton. Here are some of the
things Senator Bristow said
81 voted rs times in the tariff
fight to keep the pledges of the ma
tional platform, but only six of those
votes were east with Senator Aid
rich. "
And now the gigantic monopolies
of this day have representatives in
the halls of Congress whose sole
purpose is to promote their interest
and keep open the opportunity which
! they now have to plumber the Amer
| lean people. This was forcibly dem
onstrated in the tariff fight that oc-
CURED year ago.
"l'nder the leadership of these
men, instead of revising the tariff,
rs was promised, duties were fixed
not with view of protecting Icgiti-
mate American industries or Of Sc
curing revenue for the government,
hut FOR the purpose of promoting the
[ financial interests Of certain indi-
viduals or concerns.
"The new Tariff Bill became a law
on the 9TH of August, 1909 In Sep
TENDER II was discovered that the
organization of rubber trust was
being consummated, with Aldrich' s
son as the executive head.
"tndcr the domination of Cannon
in the House and Aldrich in the
Senate, the pledges made in Repub-
lican platforms are fagrantly vio-
lated and duties fixed not to con.
tribute to the welfare of the Ameri-
can people, but to fill the pockets of
greedy and remorsclcss financial
Spectators. protested against the
enactment of the measure then, and
protest against it now.
Here is one example of how the
tariff was revised upward to enrich
the makers Of the tariff:
"t'nder the Dingley law there was
IA 30 per cent duty ON manufactures
of rubber and crude rubber was free;
the present tariff law passed the
House without any change in the
duty on either crude or nunufaC-
tured rubber; Mr.. Aldrich's senate
committee increased the duty on
manufactured rubber from 30 IT, 81
per cent; during the session, or i'm
mediatcly after the adjournment, he,
IN connection with the Guggcnhcims
and Ryan, organized "A rubber trust,
known as the lutcrcontiucntal Rub
Der Company, with ~ million dol
lars capital stock; Mr.. Aldrich's
SON becomes vice president and gen
eral manager Of the company; inn
mediatcly there were large advances
in the price of rubber, and during
the first three months of the exist
ence of this trust it paid dividends
aggregating 49, per cent Oh the pre-
ferred stock and it is announced
through the financial papers that on
July | general advance is to he
made in the price of crude rubber,
the supply of which the trust abso.
lutcly control. In other words, II
further tribute is to be levied upon
every family in this republic for the
purpose of piling up additional mil
lions In the Golfers ofthis syndicate,
the controlling force of which il the
man who shaped the tariff legisla-
ton. Has there ever been, in the
history of civilized government, IA
more Shameless prostitution of Of
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