The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-05-06
INDIANA UP IN ARMS
Senator Beveridge, the Insur-
 gent, Indorsed
THE ALDRIcH LAW IGNORED

tne SoH'fH9 Odttio, SdyS oeverioSoy
 "Is Between the Rights of the People
 and the Power of the PiIlagers"-A
 Telling Exposure of Deceptive Sched-
 uIes and Sham Reductions.
 Indiana has raised it's potent voice against the Payne-Aldrich tariff. The Republicans of .that state have en- thusiastically indorsed the action of Senator Beveridge, who opposed the bill through thick and thin. They have adopted a platform which, while it advocates a protective tariff meas ured by the difference between the cost of production here and abroad" significantly ignores the Payne-Aldrich law altogether.
 Senator Beveridge in appealing for support did not soften in any way his antagonism to the bill, but loudly pro- claimed it. In fact, he made it the head and front of his offending. The lustrate what the Indiana senator thinks of ''the best tariff bill we ever had" After President Taft's mag unanimous defense of the Payne-Aldrich law it is singular that Mr. Beveridge should have mentioned him so con- spicuously as a co-insurgent on the tariff question. Senator Beveridge said:
 Like President Taft, I wanted free iron ore, of wkich we have the great est deposits on earth and which the steel trust chiefly controls. I could not stand for the duty that was pass ed, and cannot stand for it now.
 Like President Taft, I wanted on the free list many raw materials that needed no protection. Yet only one was so treated. I could not stand for the duties on these articles, and can- not stand for them now.
 Like President Taft, I wanted the ancient woolen schedule reduced. 1t gives to the woolen trust unfair con- trol and raises the prices and reduces the weight of the peoples clothing. I stood against this schedule when the bill was passed, and stand against it now.
 q could not stand for the duty on lumber when the tariff bill was passed,
 
 'sF stood against the increase of the duty on cotton goods, and I stand against it now.
 'sThe reduction of the tariff on re fined sugar is a deception, because it cannot affect the price. Yet that is one of the boasted reductions we hear of.
 ''These are examples of increases. I was against them then, and am against them now.
 From few, if any, of the decreases do the people get the slightest benefit.
 'Extortion is not protection.
 "The coming battle is not so much between political parties as such as between the rights of the people and the powers of pillagers
 "I believe that the reasonable pros perity of the few dozen American citi- zens should depend upon the common prosperity of all American citizens.
 Swollen and dangerous fortunes are not necessary to good wages to the workingman. fair salaries to the clerk or commercial traveller or honest prices to the farmer.
 'We want no Lord North or King George, no Bourbon or Romanoff methods in American life, whether in government or laws, whether in enact ing a tariff or managing a party.
 "A political party is not a group of politicians, each with his following, combining to win the spells of place and power. Such an organization is not party. 1t is band of brigands, and its appeals in the name of the party are mere attempts to beguile and defraud the voter for its selfish purposes. Such organizations and men are the tools and agents of law less interests which know no party, attempt to use all parties and practice only the policies of profit.
 "I was for just law. That could have been written, and it shall yet be written.
 'I could not stand for the obsolete and infamous sugar schedule, which no man in Indiana can read and un- derstand, but which the sugar trust can read and understand, yet efforts to change that schedule were opposed by Democratic votes. We reduced the tariff on refined sugar cents hun dred pounds of l cent, half of 1 mill, pound-which was worse than no reduction because it cannot possibly affect the price and therefore is deception. Yet that is one of the boasted reductions we hear of.
 Tt is said that the law has made re- ductiOns on articles entering into the consumption of the people to the value of $5,O00,O0O,000, yet those articles are made up of such things as lumber, ag- ricultural implements, meat and food products, petroleum and it's products, of all of which we are the greatest ex- porters in the world; steel rails and coal, which we export; barbed wire, monopolized by the steel trust; nails. manufactured and sold by an interna- tional trust as complete as the inter- national tobacco monopoly; yarns and threads, the raw materials for textiles, on which textiles, when finished for the peoples use, the tariff was increas- ed; sugar, which was not reduced in fact, but only in pretense."