The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-04
HENRY CABOT LODGE
 REVIEWS RECORD Eighteen Years of Service in
 Senate Discussed HE EXPLAINS HIS VOTE Senator Lodge Tells Why He Sup ported the Payne-Aldrich Bill and
 Argues for Protection for
 Many Industries
HE EXPLAINS HIS VOTE

Boston, January 3.-His record of IS years of service in the United States Senate was reviewed tonight by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge in an address before large audience, containing many mem bers of the state legislature q have been invited here to speak upon the ques- tions connected with the approaching election of a senator of the United States by the legislature of Massachusetts, said Senator Lodge. q come with unfeigned reluctance, for while I have a wide and long experience in public speaking, have never yet learned to speak in favor of my own election.
 Without striking recognition it would ill become me now, after having been honored with the confidence of the people of this state for so long a period, to drop from this rule of conduct But com polling reason exists in the misrepresen- tation, going far beyond the ordinary mis- representation that disfigures all public life, which has been poured out upon me-"
 After telling at length of his votes on various other measures, Senator Lodge took up the tariff, saying in part:
 Vote for Tariff Explained
 T have been a member of the commit- tee on finance only two years. but during that time the committee which dealt with all matters relating to the revenue and the treasury, as well as banking and currency, considered and reported the tar if of 1909. I knew that 1t had defects like all tariffs, but I also knew that it is a great improvement upon the law which it supplanted. I voted for 1t because 1t established a customs court, the maxi mum and minimum provisions, great measure of reciprocity and the tariff board, the first step in which I think great reform I voted for it because it removed the duties on hides, for which I had labored for years, and upon which I broke with my committee and led the fight in the Senate l voted for 1t be- cause it made art free and mineral oil free and reduced the duty on meat, lum- Der, coal, iron ore and scrap iron; because it readjusted the schedules on jewelry, watches, cotton goods and other great in dustries of great importance to New Eng land and Massachusetts.
 Lodge Is ProtectiOnist
 q am republican and a protection ist. I believe that a protective tariff is absolutely necessary to maintain the level of American wages, which is on higher level than exists anywhere else. believe that there should be permanent tariif commission composed of independent eX- perts whose duty it shall be to collect all facts showing comparative costs of pro duction and to submit them to the Pres ident and to Congress as rapidly as they are gathered for each successive item
 ",rhe policy of a tariff commission is not new. I am protection1st ana am convinced that an unbiased disclos- ure of industrial costs at home and abroad will fully sustain the protect i've policy. If the report of an expert commission shows that duty is too I,i iorI, cbn he lOvuara6 there- fore, opposed to another immediate and wholesale revision under the old meth ods by either party.
 ''As a representative of great in dustrial state I should regard sys- tenn which made everything we con- sumed free and which protected ev- erything we produced as highly desir- able for us.
 Removal of Duties
 If the agricultural states are ready to remove the duties on raw sugar and to give up their beet culture, if they are ready to remove the duties on to- bacco and wool and all their other products, no one representing an in- dustrial community could do otherwise than welcome it. But you cannot ex- cept when protection is not needed, as, for example, in the case of cotton. hides, beef and mineral oil, do this against the will of the agricultural states You cannot give free trade 10 the farmer and protection to the man. ufacturer.
 Tn this connection let me say Q word on Canadian reciprocity. I have been more consistently and effectively misrepresented on this subject than oil any other. I have always favored and earnestly desired Canadian reciprocity and have repeatedly spoken in favor of 1t.
 q have labored for 20 years to pro- mote the best relations possible with our neighbors to the north. Free trade would be reciprocity Mutual conces- sions in duties would be reciprocity, but to remove or lower duties on Can adian products without any equivalent from Canada would be neither free trade nor reciprocity for free trade. To lower or remove our duties on Canad- ian products without an equivalent from Canada would compel us, under the favored nation clause existing In more than 30 treaties, to lower or re- move these same duties on the same products from every country in the world This would give Canada no preference or advantage in our mar kets and would be of no benefit to us." Bible Officers Elected
 Montgomery, January 3.-(Special.) J.