Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-04-05
Republican Convention Greets
With Applause His Tariff
Declarations.
OPPOSED TO THE NEW TARIFF
For Protective Law Covering
Difference OF Cost at Home
And Abroad.
Platform Adopted In Accord With
His Niews-Taft's Ndmini--
tration Endorsed

indianapolis, April when Senator
Bcveridge. I'm his speech as temporary
chairman Of the Indiana Republican
! convention today declared his aatagon-
| ism to the new tariff law. De was greet
ed by great applause.
Repeating as text. u could not
stand for 1t then. and { cannot stand
| for e now" Senator Beverdge made
/ an impassloned defense OF the counts
upon which he had based his vote iu
the senate against the Payne Aldrich
tarin bill. which he had not called by
name.
Like President TAFT ! wanted free
| iron ore, Of which we have the great
est deposit on earth and which the
steel trust controls" be- said Il could
not stand for the duty that was passed
and ! cannot stand for IL now.
Like President TAFT I wanted many
raw materials that needed no protec-
ton put on the free list Yet only one
was SO treated
Like President TAFT, / wanted the
ancient wooden schedule reduced. IL
gives 10 the wooden trust unfair con-
troll and raises the price aud reduces
the weight Of the peoples clothing. /
stood against this schedule when the
bill was passed, and ! stand against 1t
now.
II could not stand Tor the duty on
lumber when the tarin bill was passed
and cannot stand for IL now.
i stood against The Increase OF the
duty on cotton goods and / stand
against il now
From few, II any, Of the decreases.
do the people got ms slightest benefit
was - q. a. 4hat-Nould have
protected the wages of every working
man In Indiana and yet enable that
workingman TO get his clothing and
creature comforts chcapor-and such "a
law could have been written; il shall
be written
4 could not stand for an Increase OF
duties on those linoleums which are
the poor mans carpet" Senator Bey-
eridge continued, cor on zine which Is
a universal necessity: or on silk. which
IS "a part of the clothing or adornment
Of every American woman, rich or
poor ana / connot stand for them
now.
II could not stand for the obsolete and
Infamous sugar schedule which no man
in Indiana can read and understand
but which the sugar trust can read and
understand. yet efforts 20 change that
schedule were opposed by Democratic
votes.
we reduced the tariff ON refined
sugar cents per 100 pounds-one-
twentieth of one cent. a half of one
mill "a pound-whiCh was worse than
no reduction because IL cannot possibly
affect the price and therefore is a de-
ception. Yet that is one Of the boast
ed reductions we hear Of
ct is said that the law has made
reductions on articles entering into the
consumption Of the people 10 the value
Of $1,000 000O 600. yet those articles are
made up OF such things as lumber
agricultural implements. meat and
food products, petroleum and lis prod
ucts, Of an of which we are the great
est exporters in the world; steel rails
and coal. which We export. barbcd
wire. monopolized by the steel trust.
nails manufactured and sold by an in
ternational trust as complete as the
international tobacco monopoly; yarns
and threads. the raw materials for
textiles. on which textiles. when FIN
ished for the peoples use, the tarin
was increased sugar, which was not
reduced in fact but only in pretense
SLAUGHTER by CONFERENCE
COMMITTEE.
Above an, j could not stand for the
slaughter By the conference commit
tee of the moderate beginning OF "a tar
IN commission which 1 wrote into the |
bin that passed the senate. but an /
save one of the Democratic senators /
were the enemies OF any tariff COM |
mission then, and are its enemies now.
These are examples. / was against |
them then-I am against them now. |
Compromise on purely economic details |
Is often wise. but compromise with /
sheer injustice Is always wrong.
The Republicans OF Indiana are for /
a protective tarim which covers the diff /
ference In the cost OF production here /
and abroad. Less than that Is unjust /
20 American laborers, more than that i
is unjust 90 American consumers. In /
Justice is the only foe that protection /
needs TO fear. 10 was To- reduce the /
Dngley tariff To- meet changed condi- |
tions and secure Justice that we under /
took ia revision.
Every economic policy every Do |
litica system, almost every govern /
ment has been destroyed because ~ \
excuses and iniustices that crcpt int, /
IT, The way 10 keep secure "a policy /
a system or "a government that i'm n /
self Is good H. 10 administer IL with /
Justice and wisdom. The only v.tv i
to keep "a party solid and growing ls |
10 keep II right and progressive
Assuming that honest differences ~ |
opinion eNist-and they do: giving Z, /
those upright men who voted Tor mo /
law as "a whole credit for an the aim
certify that / claim for myself what
rs the way out Of the difficulty? surely
not 10 turn the government over 20 that
gratesque band OF politicians in public
life. and who want 10 get into public
life msnamed the Democratic part,-
Tho people know what such mon ala !
in the tarif contest In Cleveland's dav
for which Cleveland rebuked them.
what they did In the last tarln CON
test. for which Bryan rcbuked thor,
What honest Democrat-what honest
citizen-approves or trusts them?
where then, lies the plain remoiy9
In a tarin commission
a commission OF experts as per-
manent as the bureau Of labor. with |
duties fully described In the law itself: