Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1910-07-21
Jour COUNTY DADS SENATOR BRISTOW
HURLS A STARTLING CHARGE AT
ALDRICH.
Says Rhode islander Manipulated
Rubber in Tariff Bill, Then COOily
Helped Organize Rubber Trust.
StandpatterS Are OumbfOunded by
Charges of Insurgents.

TOPEKA, July 1S.-Kansas stand
pattery has been knocked silly; it's
six congressman are just coming to
after Senator j. L. Bristow's Winfield
speech. Other stand-pat congressman
and senators in other states are like
ly to experience similar sensation
when they realize the significance of
Bristow's charges; Bristow practical
ly places them in the light of helping
Aldrich to plunder the people.
insurgency in it's most earnest and
triumphant form overrode the Kansas
stand-patters; they were helpless
against it.
What could they do against an in
surgency that would cause one senator
to openly and publicly accuse anoth-
er senator as Bristow accused AID
rich? It's an absolutely new thing
for a senat0rnto "muckrake" another.
as they say. But BristOw was fresh
from his visit to Roosevelt at Oyster
Bay; it was his first speech since
meeting T. r. How much power lay
behind him as. in his ringing tones
he smashed senatorial courtesy to
atoms and told 5000 Kansas citizens
of the perfidy of Aldrich?
Hit the Standpatters
Senator Curtis and the six stand
pat congressman didn't know eactly.
but they realized that there was plenty
of both power and inspiration.
Senator BristOw's charge against
Aldrich, his fellow senator, was cold
blooded and startling.
Under the Dingley law, he said
crude rubber was free, and there was
duty of 80 per cent on rubber manu-
facturers. Aldrich's senatorial COM
mittee left crude rubber free but rails
ed the duty on manufacturers from 80
| to 35 per cent.
During the session, or after ad-
jOurnment, Aldrich, in connection with
the Guggenheims and Ryan, organic
ed rubber trust known as the Inter-
continental Rubber company, with
$40,000,O00 capital stock. Aldrich's
son became vice president and general
manager of the company. Immediate
ly there were large increases in the
price of rubber articles, and during
the first three months of the existence
of the trust it paid 1872 per cent in di-
vidends on the preferred stock, and
it announced that general increase
on the price of rubber articles is to
be made shortly. Aldrich's trust, says
BristOw, actually controls the manu-
facture of rubber articles, many of
which, before the passage of the re-
cent tariff bill, were brought into this
country.
Levy Heavy Tribute
In other words, according to Bris-
tow, further tribute is to be levied
upon every family in this republic
for the purpose of piling up addition
al millions in the Golfers of this syn
dicate, the controlling force of which
is Aldrich, who, as supposed SER
want of the people, shaped the tariff
legislation that makes the new rub
ber trust possible.
"The new tariff bill became a law
Aug. 5, 1909," said BristOw, land in
September is was discovered that the
organization of rubber trust was
being consummated with Aldrich's
son as the executive head. In Nov.
1, 1909, the International Rubber Co.
became effective, with the following
board of directors: e. B. Aldrich,
Nelson w. Aldrich (senator), Herman
B. Baruch, Henry A. Bingham, Daniel
Guggenheim, S. r. Guggenheim. Paul
Morton, Allan Ryan and VIM. Sproule.
And Prices Go Up
"Since the organization of this trust
there have been rapid advances in
the price of every rubber product
from automobile tires to babies rat
ties. Profits that this gigantic mono
poly is making for it's incorporators
and promoters, the Aldriches, the
Guggenheims and the Ryans, are Illus
trated by the dividends that have been
paid since the merger became effec-
tive"
Bristow showed how the Kansas
standpatters had stood behind AID
rich during the passage of the tariff
bill, and said it was shame that
Kansas had had share in the legis-
lative crime.