Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-24
CUAMlNS ATTACKS CANNON
Claims Regulars Did Not Fulfill
Party Pledges in Congress.
EXPONENT OF PROGRESSIVE IDEA
Declares Cannes and AIdrfch Are
Driving Country Into Socialism
and Competition Only safe
guard for the Future.

COUNCIL GROVE. Kan, July 2.-sen-
ator Albert b. Cummins Of Iowa in
speech before a chautauqua audience here
tonight asserted that the pledge OF the re-
publican national platform for a revision
OF the tariff was not fulfilled and that
Senator Aldrich and Speaker Cannon and
others who took the lead in framing the
tariff bill, had never attempted. and had
never intended 20 keep the pledge Of the
party.
Senator Cummins came into the home Of
one Of the Kansas regular congressman
Representative James E. Miller to give
this message. The senator was cheered for
minute when he started his speech.
Cannon and Aldrieh and other stand pat
leaders we're driving the nation into social
ism or cooperative control and away from
the individual OF competitive theory.
II am an exponent OF the progressive re-
publican idea" he said
Il believe that the republican party can
he made the most progressive party on
earth, the one that does things for the
good OF the whole country. But the spe-
cisl interest man must be eliminated. That
is my sermon. That Is what talk and II
II helps or hurts any one where 1 may be
q. talking II does not bother me.
For ten years I fought for progress in
Iowa and we won and are winning. This
Ills not local matter at all. but one cover
ing all this country and affecting other
countries, so that any local matter is Of
e small consideration.
Individual Most Important.
Our forefathers organized this govern
ment on the broad principles that indfvid-
ual effort was better than cooperative OF
collective theory of government; that the
work OF the Individual was Of more i'm
portance and better for the country thar
the development of the socialist or monop-
= olisttlc theory of government and industry
1t Is the competitive against the socialist
theory Of government. Competition in th'
Individual or in industy are the only safe
guards against avarice and greed.
Speaker Cannon and Senator Aldrich are
driving the country into socialistic form
of government and industry because Of
their interest in promoting the cause Of
monopoles. They are unwilling to take
measures to prevent the rapidly growing
tendency toward monopoly or to dis
integrate or destroy the monopolies al
ready in existence whereby the prices Of
commodities are fixed. not by the usua
laws OF trade whereby the prices Of com
modities are fixed. but by the will of &
single man or a group of men. Monopoly
does not mean single factory with abso
lutte control of one article, but com
blnatIon OF factories making the same arti
Gle whereby the prices are the same Ii
ali, whether or not the factories are owned
D., by one company or are controlled through
a trust agreement
X 1T Is only within the last few years tina
the lack Of competition between American
and foreign goods has become so market
that the people began to talk about tn
tariff duties being too high The peopl
have found that the. absence OF foreign
competition in the markets of this coun
try has made 1t possible for the American
manufacturer 60 increase his prices at hi
own sweet will and without regard to tn
actual market conditions"
When shown a report from Des Nome
today to the effect that he favored tn
organization of a third party to take up tn
progressive propaganda, Senator Cummin
said:
II have never thought of q new party an
am not organizing one now and do not be
lisve in II as the exponent of progressiv
ideas. The republican party can be mad
the progressive party and 1 am a republ
cam"
DANVILLE. Ill, July 22.--When speake
Cannon was shown the speech made b
Senator Bristow at Manhattan, Kan, las
night and asked what reply. IL any, he hs
TO make the speaker said: IT do not car
to discuss or to pay any attention TO tn
rawlings and statements of Senator Bristo
and those who cooperate with him in q
effort to put the republican party out {
business. 1 endorse the Payne tariff bi
as the best tariff measure ever eracted."