The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-11
REVOLT IN IOWA.
DolIiver and CumInins Hoist Standard
of Rebellion.

Des Moines. Ia. May 11.-Ringing
| denunciations of the tariff bill and the
men who passed it. characterized the
speeches of Senators Jonathan r DOL
| liver and Albert B. Cummins. who
opened the progressive campaign IN
/ Iowa at the Coliseum over 10000
! progressives attended the meeting
The meeting followed district con-
| ferences at which steps were taken to
reconstruct the old Cummins organi-
zation and to organize the state by
counties and precincts.
/ Even President Taft did not escape
the sarcastic shafts of the two Iowa
solons, while Senator Aldrich was
named as the leader of corporate
greed. Senator Dolliver referred 10
| the president as the titular leader of
the Republican party which meant. he
said, "a good man surrounded by the
people who knew exactly what they
wanted.
Both senators declared if the Re
publican party continued the policy
advocated by the reactiOnary leaders 1t
would spell ruin to the party.
Among these leaders. Senator AL
drich was frequently mentioned as the
man allied with the GuggenhelmS
and the Ryans and Paul Morton in a
mammoth trust incorporated as a rub
Der company which is allowed by the
articles of incorporation to participate
in any kind of business anywhere on
the face of the earth and which is one
of the holding companies in the Gug-
genheim syndicate for the control of
the wealth of Alaska.
These men are the men who are
responsible for the tariff bill during
the extraordinary session" declared
scheme to rob the people and to in
crease the holding of such gigantic
syndicates as 1 have mentioned. I am
not here to criticise the president or
to say unkind words against hln L
count it no reflection on him to state
that 1 find it some times necessary to
disagree with him and those surround
ing him. Men have crowded to the
front in his administration who nave
not had the welfare of the party or or
the country at heart.
ST am going to have some trouble
in keeping inside the breastworks OF
the Republican party, but 1 know
something of it's doctrines. l do not
intend to retire from it although L
have been invited, and declined the IN
ersham or any other man who comes
out here into the west to read men
out Of the Republican party who were
known before he ever was in it
''Most of the tariff reductions" said
the senator ''were so trivial as to be
ridiculous and were either upon arti-
cles which we do not import to any ex-
tent but on the contrary, export IN
enormous quantities, or were for the
purpose. of further protecting the man.
ufacturer, especially by reducing the
duties on raw material.
''In fact, a careful scrutiny OF the
particular items that We're changed
and the exact trifling change OF rate
in each case shows how cunnlngly the
revision was arranged in order to de-
ceive the public"
Senator Dolliver prefaced his review
of some of the schedules and items OF
the new tariff law by saying
"In the many attempts to defend the
Payne A1drich tariff question frequent
use has been made of a very remark
able table of figures quoted by the
president at Winona, indicating that
duties had been decreased by the new
tariff on articles consumed in the
United States to the extent of about
S5.OOO.OOO, while the consumption
value of articles upon which duties
had been increased amounted to only
about $s7s,750,0O0, and that most of
the latter were luxuries.' such as
silks, liquors and jewelry
''This would indeed tend to prove
most substantial downward revision
if the figures were accurate. Forum
ateIy, the necessary statistics to render
such an analysis comparatively easy
are available in a public document
prepared under the direction of the
finance committee by one of its en-
ployes. Such an analysis of the fig,
ures will soon convince any one how
deceptive and misleading this much
quoted table really is.