Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-12-21
sen. YOUNG CAUS'1|'||IC:i
NEW IOWA SENATOR FLAWS IN.
SURGENCY IN HIS MAIDEN
SPEECH.
WANTS AGITATION TO CEASE
Urges Tariff Revision and Thef.
Wants Agitation to Cease.-De-
fends Farmers and Aims Blow
at Middleman.

Washington, D, c, - Senator LAT
ayette Young of Iowa made his maiden
speech in the senate. Incidentally, he
stepped on the toes of his colleague,
Senator Cummins and while agreeing
that tariff revision was necessary, re-
fused to indorse the Cummins proposal
to amend the rules of the senate and
house to bring such thing to pass.
In closing he called on those Republi-
cans pledged to revision to accom-
plish all they can by March 4, and then
ito subside with their agitation and
give the country rest
my colleague said there were gross
inequalities in the tariff enacted in
1902" said Mr.. Young at the outset.
This statement is undoubtedly true
and would be true if my colleague
and those in sympathy with him were
to put in the next five years in re-
writing the schedules. Schedules are
prolific in opportunity for attack. It
has always been true and will con-
/ tinue to be true so long as there is a
duty on Imports
The Iowa senator challenged any
member to state his belief that the
farmer was receiving too much for his
products. He said it had been intimat-
ed the middleman was getting too
great share of the value of farm
products.
IF this be true," he demanded, why
strike at the producer? Why not go
; after the middleman direct? The tar
if Of 1909, in attempting to strike at
| monopoly, put petroleum on the free
list. The refners Immediately re-
duced the purchasing price of crude
Gil and continued the high price to
the consumer on refined OIL Thus
the consumer was not benefited. Why
repeat this performance in the case of
| the farmer and his products?"
Perfect Tariff Secuted.
With the declaration that tariff leg
islation never could be made perfect
nor universally satisfactory, Mr. Young
urged that the duty of public men and
the public press was to accept the
Payne-Aldrich law and let the country
get down to the transaction of bust
ness. He pointed out that changes in
the bill will not stem the tide of criti-
cism setting in from those interests
whose welfare is touched.
'The tariff ought to be revised" he
continued, "as the president has sug-
gested in a scientific way, one schedule
T iuh MT h1
object to the rule proposed by my
colleague, which would prohibit the
Offering of amendments to schedule
which might be pending, were I not
afraid the first schedule to be pending
would be the schedule covering farm
products
Such being the case, Mr.. Young con-
tinued, the great farming states would
be attacked by the South, the Rocky
Mountain states and New England.
Under the combined attack of the
great manufacturing and mining re-
gions the agricultural states would be
practically helpless. Because of this
condition, he said, he hoped the Cum
minis rule would not be adopted, and
at this juncture INDUCED in fling at
his colleague
Takes Fling at cummins.
II am surprised, also," he declared,
that my colleague, who has been fight
ing bravely and gallantly to unshackle
| the members of the house from the
| tyranny of the rules, should undertake
to bring the same shackles into the
senate. Yet my distinguished col
league seeks to make it impossible
for me to defend the only products of
| our home people,"