The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-08-16
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congress VAS feeding the trusts.
I would be ashamed OF myself II
| tried 10 stir up any feeinlg on the
part OF any class against any otner
class, wish TO disavow ali inten-
ton OF suggesting 10 the farmer that
he go I'm and do somebody mp. That
IL not the point All that ! am
modestly suggesting TO you Is that you
break into your own house and live
there. want YOU 10 examine very
critically the character of the tenants
who have been occupying H. II is a
very big house and very few people
have been living In IL, and the rent
has been demanded OF YOU and not
OF them. You have paid the money
which enabled them TO live in your
own house and dominate your own
premises.
II regard this campaign as / re-
gard' the last one and the one be.
fore the last. aud every campaign in
which people have taken part since
the world began, as simply a con
{ tinued struggle 10 see 10 ii that the
people were taken care OF by tceir
own government And my indictment
against The tariff Is that IL represents
Fli'f III ! ltt HulpS anu uOtS not rep
resent the general interest
u &. a long time since tariffs We're
made by men who even supposed that
,aey We're seeking 10 serve the gen
eral interest. because tariffs are not
made by the general body OF members
OF either house OF congress. They
nave In the past been made by very
small groups OF individuals in certain
committees OF those houses. who even
refused information 10 their fellow
members as TO the basis upon which
they had acted in framing the
schedules.
one o: the gentlemen who has
been most conspicuously connected
with this thing has In recent years
prudcntly withdrawn fro mpublic life.
mean the one-time senior senator
from Rhode Island. Mr. Aldrich.
~ least give Mr. Aldrich the credit
OF having had large weather eye.
tie saw that the weather was chang.
ing an Rhode lslnd--even In Rhode
island. a well as in the rest OF the
union. that men who had long known
that he was imposing on them felt
that the limits had been reached. and
they were not going 10 be imposed
upon any longer. They saw that he
was not even doing what he pretend
ed TO do. NAMELY, 10 serve the special
interests OF Rhode Island. because he
was serving only some OF the special
interests OF Rhode Island and not all
OF them
Now there are various questions
which you gentlemen ought 10 realize
are pending-questio that directly
concern the farmer OF this country
Thu tariff intimately concerns the
farmer OF this country. II makes q
i great deal II difference 10 you thai
Mr. Taft the other day vetoed the
steel bill. II makes a difference tc
you in the cost OF practically every
I tool that YOU use on the fern, and Il
I is very significant. or ought TO bt
very significant. 70 you, that Demo
cratic house OF representatives has
just passed the steel tariff reduction
bill over the presidents veto. . thinl
am informed Is uuprecented in th'
history OF the country-that a house
should have passed two tariff meas
ures, the wool measure and the stee
measure, over the veto OF the presi
dent
Tariff measures are not measures
for the merchant merely, and IN,
manufacturer. The farmer pays jus
as big a proportion o, the tariff du
ties as anybody else. Indeed, some
times when we are challenged to sa.
who the consumer is as contrastet
with the producer, so far as the tariff
Us concernd, | am tempted 10 an
sVer the farmer, because he doe
not produce any OF the things tina
get any material benefit from the tai
if. and he consumes all OF the thing
which are taxed under the tariff sys
TEN
The governor explained the bene
fits that might accrue 10 the farme
from the digging 81 thC Panama cana
II the merchant marine We're restored
He continued
One Of the great. objects in cut
ting that great ditc hacross the 18th
mus OF Panama is 10 allow farmer
who are near the Atlantic to ship t
the Pacific coast by way OF the Al
iantic ports, Now, at present Their
are no ships TO do that And one o
the bills pending, just passed b
congress, provides for free tolls 10
American ships through that cana
which is owned by any American raj
|, way company. You see the object O
that. We don't want the railways {
compete with themselves because W
! understand that kind OF competition
We want the water carriage TO con
pete with the land carriage. so a
to be perfectly sure that YOU are &c
ing 10 get better rates around by tn
canal than you would across the COZ
tinent.
Then there is another thing 4
which you ought 10 be deeply intel
, ested which is in the program O
the great party belong 10. That
the parcels post This is the onl
civilized country in the world who's
government does not see TO il tina
rates established by the government
enable men 10 ship their goods. larg
and small. as they please. from on
end OF the continent to the other w
have no parcels post until you reac
! ,.c,f. from, the ,nrta n m