The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-04-20
ALDRICH GETS OUT.

oil MS present term, which ends Mare
Srd next year. These reports hereto
Iore have hecu discrcdited, however
because of Mr.. Aldrich s absolutcl
sure grip upon the Republican part,
oil Rhode Island, and perhaps ever
more because Of the programme o
work laId out for him as Senator.
President Taft distinctly announced
IN his speech making of last year, thai
The currency question would be dealt
with under the leadership of Mr.. Al
drlch, and measure of currency re-
FORM be reported and passed by Con.
Cress as Aldrich s crowninc work. Even
then 1T appears as if both the Presi.
dent and Mr.. Aldrich recognized that
The newly-passed tariff law would not
serve as crowning work for ANYBODY,
30 that the currency measure was held
IN reserve 10 serve that end
The tariff bill is distinctly an Al
drlch measure; more so nv far than
any Dill that has ever been enacted
by Congress. 1T seems incredible. how
ever, that Mr.. Aldrich, or that anv.
body. should have considered = mons.
ure OF that kind their crowninp work
or as IN any way settling the tariff
question 1t has merely served. on the
contrary, TO omhittcr tariff disnutes
ANA the practical operation of the
Ia" shows 1T TO be an absolutely ono
SIded measure. IL is framed in tho
interest of Now England entirely. and
80 iar as any Legislation can do if
'n'S law puts the remainder of the
country under tribute distinctly and
directly to New England Immediate.
~ upon IT'S passage, the New ENGLAND
cotton mills formed a combination and
raised prices on cotton goods The
''il'' p'I made an enormous advance |
IN some Of the cotton schedules. and |
N mat advance tho New England cot.
.oh mliis are getting a complete mo.
loPolF OF the cotton goods marke, in
ms country. That market is an onor.
nous one and the New England cotton
manufacturers arc doing as 7hev please
WIN II. They arc curtailing the prod
I't ana raising prices in n wav that
obs everybody in the United States
'no mas to buy cotton goods.
The tariff bill has wiped ont tbc
Feater part of our balance of trade {
n ioreign account. causing heavy gold
nlPments to Europe. Ii did not IN
ny way touch the great combines or 5
rust interests of the country, but on !
nc contrary helped them to conquer t
nd aided IN rivctine the bands in I
inch they had already bound the I
Duntry. h
IN othcr ways. TOO. the new tariff /
w is source of menace and discon- X
mt everywhere. II omitted the gold :
ause from the authorization of bonds, {
1d tins omission had to be cured at r
lc regular session by sncaking an Z
henaatory bill through Congress with e
e least possible attention directed Il
it. r.
Although our steel industry is tbe v
eatest IN the world it is still treated +
an infant, and is accorded nutritivo
otectIon as such. t.
Inc sugar schedule was framed with al
c'eaF purpose of confirming the big ~, ~
gar trust in its monopoly of the NJ
nerican sugar market, robbine the d,
ople of this country Of scores Of Ii
llions year. OF
Inc natural result follows: the tariff tr
Y so far from settling the tariff b'
estion, accentuatcs its bitterness, and n,
ere is greater demand for the re. ti'
SION OF this new tariff law than there TO
IS Tor the revision of the Dinrlcy
v which 1t supcTsedes. Such a sec -,
nal, intrm, and Inexpcrt law as nr
S surely cannot rebound to the credit <,
Senator Aldrich or of the Republican -,
rty; II is treated with Just contemp, ~
'oughout the country at large. Oh
With respect TO the currency uucs- q,
n. Mr., Aldrich, with much inpenuous ;e
IS, confesscs that he does not know sn
ch about 1t. This is curious con.
sion to come from man 10 whom 90;
'sldent TAFT cntrusts the whole mat. :,
and whom the President recon- a.,
nded TO the country as a great ex- ~,
~ ''N e'pi' ~ SplNc IllumDha0tIN tb
Puzzling question. But it has been 70,
dent right along that Senator Al. 81
ch has gwen up the currency prob. ~,
as bad job. He has been at "a,
rk on 1t for long time; has been ho'
work with the monetary commits 1an
n which made a visit TO Europc &c
year for the purpose of inquIrinq ~
the financial systems OF the diff. b;s
ent countries there: and still there II,
othing from that commission or from o1a
Aldrich. -
here cannot possibly be anything dis
n them, or either of them. at the on;
sent session Of Congress. we
'ext session VIII be what is called mn,
short session. and of course will III,
innate on the 3rd Of March. II of
It's on the first Monday in Dccem- dro
, but nothing is done TO amount FIJI,
before the HOLIDAYS. After l..
holidays there VIII remain but two I;,.;
'ths IN which TO do the work of the CON