The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1910-08-18
SENATOR BR|STOW
LOUDLY CHEERED
HE DISCUSSES PROGRESSIVE e
LEGISLATION TO A LARGE
AUDIENCE.
From Fridays Daily


theatre last evening. Senator Bristow
is tall, slender, wiery and full Of energy.
He wears glasses, dark mustache
and has a voice that is bound to be
heard. He was formerly editor of the
Salina Journal and is new man in
the United States Senate. When the
progressive Republican campaign
came on in Kansas an effort was made
to prevent his election in the legisla-
ture but the result, as it has been IN
Wisconsin for Senator La Toilette,
was overwhelming. Kansas is a great
political state and the issues there are
fought out on their merits, There
were no stories. All he said were solid
facts. He came to the edge of the plat
form again and again with clenched
fists and thundered his arguments
home. The applause was frequent and
many times when he offered to cease
speaking the shouts came to go on. AS
the audience of Republican, Democrats
and other faiths departed one man
was heard to say that it was the best
political speech he ever heard.
The speaker was greeted with ap-
plause when introduced by Attorney
E. F. Dithmar, chairman of the Re-
publican county committee. Senator
Bristow came TO Wisconsin with Judge
Lindsay and others to work in the
interest of Senator La Toilette.
In opening his address he spoke of
hopeful outcome of the present cam
paign. In his state he said that he
went in on the same platform as the
one upon which Taft was elected. Con-
gress has not carried out the pledges of
that platform and has not fixed the
responsibility for it's failure. Mr.. Taft
at Topeka said that the cost of pro-
duction included the raw material, the
labor and the interest on the capital.
These added together and taken from
the cost of an article abroad means
what should be added by way of the
tariff.
The speaker then took up the lead
schedule and said that under the Ding
ley bill the duty on the ore was $50 per
ton and on pig lead $3.50. The differ
ence of $3.50 was for the protection of
the American smelter. He then show
ed that the American Smelling and
Refining company included 13 corpora
tiOns and controlled about 80 per cent
of the entire output of the lead industry.
This means all kinds of lead such as
water pipes, paint for houses and other
products. When the measure came
before congress the superintendent of
the smelters testified that the duty was
high enough but instead of permitting
it to remain as it was an additional
duty was added so that the trust reaps
profit of 2 cents per pound more on
white lead. 1t was Senator LaFOllette
who has fought these tariff schedules
and these interests are doings more to
defeat him than any other American.
Rubber.
When the senator mentioned rubber
everybody laughed. All had read that
Senator Aldrich had announced that
he was making ready reply for SEN
ator Bristow. He showed how Senator
Aldrich and his son are interested in
the raw rubber material. The trust
controls nearly all of the material
brought into the United States. The
company is incorporated to grow rub
Der, build pipe lines, sue and be sued,
establish factories, build towns, handle
real estate and do almost everything
that is done in any civilized COM
munity. Mr.. Bristow said that when
he read the above to an audience in his
home state that one man exclaimed:
"why, they can do everything under
the sun except preach the gospel"
(Great Laughter.) Mr.. Bristow said
that the rubber corporation with
which Aldrich is associated has made
a profit of over Is per cent in three
months or about $4,000. He then
showed how the trust was advancing
prices and that its earnings amounted
to about $400, 900 per month. The mem
bers are so composed that there are no
political lines. He told how the bill
was forced through congress and was
glad to know that there were such
men as LaFollette who would not sub
nit to these interests. s'Sustain the
man, ,"he declared, "who is proof to the
wiles of the interests" (Cheers.)
He told of Cannon coming to his
state and spoke how the people had
left at home those who had betrayed
the party principles.
He then offered to cease speaking