The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-04-05
BEvER|DGE IS
! AGAINST THE
PRESENT LAW
In Speech Before Indiana Con.
vention He Scores Payne
Aldrich Bill
COMMITTEE on PLATFORM MADE
TARIFF s1RAODlE BY ITS SILENCE

VVmmIll lII Un TlhtTUnm mhuI
TARIFF S1RA0DlE By ITS SILENCE
Endorsed the Principles of Protective
Tariff But Kept Silent as to the
Payne.Aldrlch Law-Administrat
Of President Taft Endorsed.
Indianapolis. Ind, April 5.-When
United States Senator Albert j.
Beveridge, in his speech as temporary
chairman of the Indiana Republican
convention today. declared his anita
goD,sm to the tariff law passed at the
pr ing session Of congress, his Pc
ST.. % marked by storms Of ap-
pla> the delegates and the
crowa> III. f's in Tomlinson hall.
Repeat.,. eA. text 81 could not
stand for It &W cannot stand
for 1t now" sses.. 'eridge made
an impassioned de the counts
uron which he had b.. his vote in
the senate against the 1ayne-Aldrich
tariff bill. which he did not call by
name. In ringing voice he sent his
short sentences through the hall.
like President Taft, l wanted free
iron ore. of which we have greatest
deposits on earth, and which the steel
trust chiefly controls. l could not
stand for the duty that was passed
and / cannot stand for 1t now.
Like President Taft l wanted many
raw materials that needed no protec-
ton put on the free list. Yet only
one was SO treated. l could not stand
for duties on these articles then, and
I cannot stand for them now. Like
President Taft, wanted the ancient
woolen schedule reduced. It gives
the wooden trust an unfair control
and faises the price and reduces the
weight of the peoples clothing. !
stood against this schedule when the
bill was passed and stand against 1t
now. could not stand for the duty
on lumber when the tariff bill was
passed and cannot. stand for 1t now.
l stood against the increase of the
duty on cotton goods, and stand
against II now. The reduction Of the
tariff on refined sugar Is a deception
because 1t cannot affect the price.
Yet. that is one Of the boasted red0c-
tions we hear Of"
The convention adopted platform
that ignores the Payne-Aldrich tarig
law and declared for protective tar
iff measured only by the difference be-
tween the cost Of production here and
abroad and the creatio nof a non-par-
tisan tariff commission.
Senator Beveridge spoke as follows:
Beveridge's Speech.
"Thc Republicans of Indiana are
for a protective tariff which covers
the difference in the cost of produc-
ton here and abroad. Less than that
is unjust to American laborers; more
than that is unjust to American con-
sumers. Injustice is the only foe that
protection needs to fear. 1t was to
reduce the Dingley tariff to meet
changed conditions and secure jus.
tice that we undertook its revision.
Every economic policy, every po-
litical system, almost every govern
ment has been destroyed because of
excess and injustice that crept into
1t. The way to keep secure a policy,
a system or a government that In
itself is good is to administer it with
Justice and wisdom. The only way
to keep a party solid and growing ia
to keep 1t right and progressive.
Mckinley saw this when he de-
clared in his last speech that in
tariff matters "the period of exclu-
siveness is past
Senator Morrell. the father of the
war tariff of 1864, saw it when he
declared in 1870. 1t is the mistake
OF the friends of sound tariff to in
sist on extreme rates proposed dur
ing the war IL less will raise the ne
ecessary revenue
Garfield saw it when he said:
the wisest thing protectionists can
do is to unite on moderate reduc-
ton Of duties
"Theodore Roosevelt saw it when
he said at Logansport. Ind. in 1902:
What we really need in this country
IN to treat the tariff as a business
proposition from the standpoint OF
the interests of the country as a
whole and not from the standpoint
of the temporary needs Of any politt-
cal party
"The great masses Of Republican
voters understand 1t today when they
refuse to permit the great doctrine
of protection to be used to excuse and
cloak tariff excess. Use principle
to perpetuate fraud and the friend
of the principle thus m'sused is more
offended than the enemy of the prin-
ciple itself.
Democrats Protecti0nists.
like President Taft, wanted free
iron ore; of which we have the great
est deposits on earth and which the
steei trust chiefly controls. On iron
ore no protection is needed, and !
would not stand for the duty that was
proposed and passed: and 1 can not
stand for 1t now. But majority OF
Democratic senators did stand and
fight for 1t. and stand for 1t now.
Like President Taft | wanted free
,umbcr. out of which the homes of
tho peoplc are builded. could not