The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-04
Tariff, He Says, Is Ono of the
Causes for Opposing Massa-
ChUSetts Senator.
PEOPLE OBJECT TO THE
HIGH PRICE OF LIVING
GOyerDor-EIect Rlamcs His Ad.
vcrsary and Aldricb for
Woes of Country.
By Leased Wire to Tho Tribune.

| BY Leased Wire TO The Tribune
BOSTON, Dec, 3.-"What do the rc-
cent elections mean, II means that
you can't raise the revenue 10 rup an
cNtravagaut government on tho food OF
tho people. II means that tho political
ring is n thing OF tho past, and that the
! people have taken things into their own
hands. You can call the victory Demo
| cratic in Massachusetts and insurgcnt
Republican In Kansas II you Ike, but 1T
iB the same thing
So soys Eugene n. Foss. Democra tic
governor-elect In Massachusetts
81 am going to beat Lodge for re-elec-
lion, or. rather. the people WILL" con-
| rnucd Mr.. Foss. I'm going after Lodge
with full confidence OF getting him. Pm
TO help get him. Down the Cape. where
wn began this campaign tour, they think
I'm pretty good Republican anyhow.
am. for That matter. AZ least, I've not
night for reciprocity and tariff reform In
the Republican ranks, That was good
Republican doctrine then, and II Is now.
,,. Men e. ~, Ike Senator Lodge. controlling
forced the party away from IT, The rnnlt
and file OF the party Is now busy busting
that machinery The fact is. this fight
In Massachusetts is Just now reaching
the interesting stage. Lodge and his
friends have been beating nc In conven-
tions. l never did like conventions
Before the People.
Now Two got them before the people.
The secret OF the whole thing Is going
osrore o, the people and telling them the
from them and they will smash you when
thoy find IL out. Lodge and his friends
have been keeping back the facts, and
the people have found il out
I'm no politician" he continued; 'T
never Was But ten years ago my fac
!9ry out on Jamaica prairie burned down.
Meh OF course, you'll move out west
my friends all said to me.
Now, j didn't want 10 move, and T
didn't intend to. l had about one thou
sano employees here, of whom ! thought
a good deal II | moved my plant they
were going TO bo out Of work j rebuilt
my plant and started out to find out WHY
couiont get my raw material In Massa-
was a Republican and reciprocity was
perfectly good Republican doctrine. aud
asked for reciprocity with Canada. Nat
urally l demanded free food for INV en-
ployeeS as well as free raw material for
myself '
That was all good Republican doc
f .fiue OF reclprYity. ] found myself in
stanty unpopular with Senator Lodge
and the man who ran the machinery Of
the Republican party In Massachusetts,
The light began then which VIC are now
going down to the Cape to finish I've
changed my party. name but never INV
attitude since that day.
Tho Aldrich- Payne tarirr law was the
climax OF audacity. This substitution
,or reciprocity caused the demand for a
tarin reduction. President TAFT has not
Jared TO begin an experiment with the
maximum and minimum provisions of
,his law. lie has only made 81 blufr at
ing stock OF the world. lie does not dare
make serious effort TO apply the maxi
mum tariff with any nation.
Merely Pretense
a prctonse has been made that tariff
concessions have been given us SUFFICIENT
10 excuse giving all countries the mini
mum rate: This is nero pretensc. We
nave received no real concessions Tho
maximum and minimum provisions have
simply proved too abruptly impudcnt and
out In practice.
What has been the situation since tho
passage OF the Aldrich- Payne bill? Lodge,
Hale and Aldrich said 10 us: You have
no 6ick IN New England. We stranglcd
tboso fellows out west New England
has all the best of protection
The people say: We arc kicking be-
cause cause II costs too much to cat and dress.
we re nGhting for FREQ food. a removal
OF The duties on wheat. potatoes. corn
and the clothes We wear
me manufacturers say: We want
free raw Materials Tho returns haze
shown whcro public sentiment stands,
american business Is now OFT from
20 TO 40 per cent The cry is for mar
hcNS' win our chinese wall policy we
cannot get the foreign markets TO satisfy
this cry. They say VIC need tho tariir
duties for money on which to rI,n Tho
government. Reduce the duties and lew
an income tax. We are trying 10 run an
cA.ra vasant government on revenue
raised from the food OF tho people
Lodge is a reactionary. Nc stands
Ior al the abuses | have cited lie is
responsible for many of them
THAT is why Senator Lodge Is coi,u
10 be beaten. That is why hIdrIch and
,iaic' VINO arc men OF the Lodge type.
government in Massachusetts as i'm
the Mississippi valley. Is going ba II, irtn -,
tho hunds OF the government. Privileges
havo been defeated all along the liTc
and The people arc going TO rule"