Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-13
TAFT AND HIS RECIPROCITY
MEASURE SEVERELY Ar.
RAlcNED RY IA TOILETTE.
PRESENT BILL VIOLATES
EVERY RECIPROCITY PRINCIPLE
laFolIette Says Measure Benefits and
10 Supported BY q Favored Few -
Taft Accused Of Rspudiatins Rooss.
veIt Policies and Of Sacrificing Pro-
arsssive Cause.

washington, July Ex-senator La
Toilette in a speech against reciprocity
today reviewed act by act the admins
tration of President Taft in unsparing
terms. and declared that the contest in
volved the Eight between the plain
people and corporate privilege"
"Considered as a me asure Of recipro-
city," said Senator La Toilette, ut vio-
lates every tariff principle Of reci-
procity heretofore expressed in the
platform declarations Of the republican
party, and recommended by former re-
publican presidents. Considered as a
tariff bill it violates every tariff prin-
ciple and platform promise upon which
William II. Taft was elected president
of the United States
Reduces Duties for Favored Few.
I'm the beginning it was heralded as
a blessing to the consumers. So was
the tariff bill in 1909. It promises to
reduce duties for the benefit of the peo-
pie. 1t reduces no duty the effect OF
which can ever reach the people, but it
does reduce duties for the millers, the
packers, Standard Oil, the brewers, the
coal combine, and in some measure for
the already grossly protected interests.
It Is nothing that it pretends to be, and
processes to be nothing that 1t is. It Is
a little brother OF the Payne-Aldrich
bill. the greatest legislative wrong in
flicted upon the American people in
half a century"
Roosevelt Policies Rspudiated.
Continuing Senator La Toilette said:
''Thruout the first pages of his first
general message he found it not safe to
say way for the great measure that
had made the name Of his predecessor
revered and loved everywhere in the
United States. Is 1t to be wondered
that the republican voter in 1910 efel.
that he had several scores to settle? A
president whom he had elected because
he believed him to be the custodian OF
the Roosevelt policies had dismissed
the Roosevelt cabinet and appointed in
their places men in the main Of known
hostilities to those policies.''
AZ - eaIInoer.
Mr.. La Toilette went into the record
of the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy
and the general administration Of the
interior department down to the recent
dismissal of the Cunningham claims.
"The congressional investigation of
the Alaskan coal scandal" he said.
confirmed the public opinion which
had early reached the stage Of convic-
ton that Ballfnger was using his off,
cial power to aid the Morgan Guggen-
helm interests in wrongfully acquiring
control of the Alaska coal fields. The
subsequent history Of the Alaska coal
lands scandal simply confirms the bad
faith Of that betrayal Of the public in
terests which the earlier testimony SO
clearly established.
Sacrificed Progressive Cause.
"Three months after Mr. Taft was
inaugurated he seemed to have forgot
ten that there ever had been any well
sooner taken his oath Of office than
the support OF Aldrich and Cannon and
their reactionary program.
Reciprocity is a popular catch word.
The president seized upon It, He made
an executive compact the basis, not OF
Upon this false basis he seeks to force
1t thru congress without amendments
or change.
"As treaty it should have come t6
the senate for ratification. AS a tariff
bill it should have been considered by
the house and senate with due regard
to every industry affected and subject
to whatever amendment is required to
make 1t fair and Just legislation.
"In letter and spirit this measure
violated every principle and every
promise of the republican platform ex-
pressed or implied and every printed or
spoken word and inducement employed
to secure the vote necessary to elect
William H. Taft This bill and the
Canadian pact are cruelty unjust to 49,
900 900 engaged in and dependant upon
Since the presidents ad.
at indianapolis. July 4. that the
bill promises nothing for the consumer
the real party to protect. are beginning
to be little more clearly distinguish.
able.
Backed 6y Selfish Interests.
Joined with the executive to force
this bill thru congress are the news-
papers. frankly admitting their selfish
interest, amounting to many millions of
dollars: the railroads, the over-pro-
tected manufacturer, and practically
every trust and combination backed by
Morgan and Morgan influences"
eristo~ Urges Amendment.
In a speech In support Of his amend
ment to the Canadian reciprocity bill
providing for a reduction Of the duty
Of sugar. Senator Bristow, Of Kansas,
a republican insurgents, today de-
nounced what he characterized as an
alliance Of certain standpat republican
senator's with the democrats to pass
the measure aud permit the inequal-
tiles Of the tariff to remain" He re-
ferred to the bearings Of this legisla-
ton on the next national election In
timating the democrats might use their
record in the house on this issue to urge
Speaker Champ Clark for the presi-
dency