The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-08-13
BRIsTOW EXPOsED.

an example Of how the people are
robbed under the guise of protection
10 American industries. Outside Of
Kansas the people are not SO gullible.
ard even in the Sunflower state there
are many thousands of voters who do
not take stock in the absurdities Of
Bristow. Stubs and Murdoch.
Senator Bristow's charges agaiast
Chairman Aldrich were not accepted
as the gospel truth when he made
them, and when the Kansas mounte-
bank was exposed by Speaker Cannon.
the Kansas City Journal put the mat
ter up to Bristow in the following
words:
But TO get down to facts. Stand up
senator BristOw, and tell US is ii
true, as Uncle Joe says. that:
You mtsrepresented the facts as TO
rubber impOrts2
That you Joined with Aldrich and
let the rubber schedule be adopt
ed by a unanimous vote in the
Senate?
That you have not submitted your
proofs Of Aldrich forming a rub
Der trust with the department OF
justice or a grand jury?
If you did misrepresent facts about
rubber imports, why?
If you did join Aldrich and let the
rubber schedule be adopted by
unanimous vote, why?
II the rubber schedule was in the in
terests of the trust, why did you
not oppose Il when il was up for
consideration, and why did you
not demand a roll call on that
schedule?
And if you have evidence against Al
drich. why don't you present il to
the department of justice or a
grand jury, instead of presenting
II solely TO Kansas people in pO-
lttical speeches on the eve of Il
primary electiOn2
The people OF Kansas are asking
these questions, and they are en-
titled TO know the facts.
Now Senator BristOw has not made
reply as TO his part and lot in the mat
ter; neither has he presented his al
legged facts TO the department of jus
tice. He simply didn't have the faces
TO present. The Hiawatha Herald. a
Republican newspaper Of repute in
Kansas, takes note OF Bristow's dia-
tribe on the tariff on rubber, and says:
Senator Bristow says crude rubber
shipments have increased and
impOrJaUiOns OF finished products
have fallen off. Well, if that is
SO the men who have made the
finished products in this country
have got good wages for their
work and the producers who sold
them food products and those
who clothed and housed them
have been well paid.
Does Senator BristOw object TO free
crude rubber? And does he want
tariff that will eHf
making OF rubber goods in this
country. depriving workmen OF
employment and those who feed
and clOthe the WOrkmen of a
market? The money paid for i'm
pOrtatiOns under lower tariff
would spoil the home market.
Senator BristOw should give both
sides If a trust can control
crude rubber, couldn't a trust
control imported finished prod
ucts and thus give all of US the
worst OF II?
The Hiawatha Herald, like other re
publican journals not afflicted with
isms or under the control of cranks.
realizes that American labor is pro-
tected by the tariff on the manufac-
turers of rubber. The crude article
comes in free. In this instance, there
being no competition at home, we have
free raw materials, which the Demo- |
Gratis and insurgents tell US is proper
in all cases. >.
But il isn't a question OF a protec-
tive tariff or free raw materials The
insurgents have got their foot in it and
the widest assertions are made 20
serve their purpose. OF the effect up
on business conditions. the Utica, y.
Y, Press has the following:
Some parts Of the speeches which |
Senator Bristow is making in |
Kansas may help some particular
scheme in which he is directly |
interested in that state. but they
are not calculated TO help gen
eral business all over the cOun- |
try For example, in a speech |
reported yesterday morning he
said: 1t is only a question of |
time until the collapse will come. /
When it does come an industrial /
panic viii be precipitated which |
may shake the industrial stability
of the nation"
It is just that sort of talk which is |
calculated TO create feeling of /
unrest and uncertainty which is |
detrimental 10 business in every
line and all financial activity |
There is no special or general /
Iact on which TO base any such |
prophecy, but no argument |
which in common sense can be /
brought and proven can quite /
overtake and overcome and such /
statement from any such source. /
No good can and much harm may /
come from that sort Of loose talk. |
These men cannot be muzzled. But /
he who runs may read that their stock /
In trade is the telling of untruths; that |
they are trying 10 make bad cause
good, and that the people are being
deceived. Men Of the Bristow stamp
should not be the cause of alarm on