Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-01-27
BROWN PRAISES
PRESIDENT TAFT
NEBRASKA SENATOR SOUNDS
KEYNOTE SPEECH IN
INDIANA
DISCUSSES TARIFF.
Payne Law Has Closed No Factories,
He Says, But It Can be Improved
3 Through Taft's Commission
..' Plan.

through arts commission
| Plan.
indianapolis, Ind, Jan. 26.-Achieve
ments Of President Taft's administra
ton were defended here last night b!
Senator Norris Brown, of Nebraska
at the annual banquet of the republl
can leaders of Indiana. The speech
was regarded as a keynote of the ad
ministration efforts in launching
! country wide campaign. Besides th<
editors, republican party leaders from
all over the state attended the ban
quet.
Senator Brown received at consider
able length what had been accomplish
ed, by President Taft and the republi
can party and laid the greatest stress
on the Payne.Aldrich tariff law, rail
road regulation, direct election Of
United States senators, income tai
amendment, enforcement of the anti
trust law and other, measures and the
peace treaties. In discussing the
Payne tariff. bill Senator Brown said:
Payne Law Closed No Factory.
1.-THE Payne law has closed no fac
tory; it has reduced the wage Of no
man; it has denied labor not a sin
gle opportunity; under 1t the farmer
has prospered. It has in no way i'm
paired the general prosperity OF the
people, And yet the law can be i'm
proved. It should be improved a
schedule at time and this will be
done II the president and the republi'
can party have their way. Today con-
gress has before it q message from
the president demanding reduction OF
duties in one schedule based on the
facts as shown by the experts Of the
tariff board. ~
1.-THE tariff law contained two other
propositions other than tariff duties
which go far to give the. measure a
good name. 1t contained a provision
to tax corporations, thereby compel
ing those men who prefer to enjoy
the profits and immunities of doing
business with the public as incorpora-
tors rather than as individuals, to con-
tribute to the support Of the federal
government. That provision alone has
brought to, the national treasury in
round numbers more than $25,000,00O
a year since it became effective"
Taft and Commerce Commission.
Senator Brown said it was left to
the Taft administration to complete
the job of clothing the interstate COM
MERGE commission with power actual
ly to prevent an increase In rates un-
til after Investigation by the commits
sion. and by declaring any change in
rates unlawful unless first consented
to by the commission" He said he
we'll remembered the debate in the
senate on that feature of the law and
while the debate was proceeding .le
railroads were also proceeding to in
crease freight rates"
1T is good to know" said Senator
Brown, that while congress the presi-
dent of the United States was on
guard for the people and the day be-
fore the increase would become ef-
fective President Taft invoked the
power of the court and in the name
Of the United States stopped by in
junction every increase proposed by
the railroads. Again it was the ex-
ecutive arm of the government and
not congress which saved helpless
public from a great wrong. 1t Is not
IL
to approve public service of that char
acter." j.
Senator Brown declared that for
more than half century, the people
have been demanding the right to
elect by direct vote United States SEN
ators, and that while the proposition
never found a place in the national
platform Of the republican party, it
was advocated by President Taft in
his acceptance message.
Referring to the income tax amend
ment now pending before the states,
Senator Brown said that the resolu-
ton providing for this amendment was
resting peacefully in committee until
President Taft, by special message,
admonished congress that such an
amendment was right and should be
passed and submitted to the states.
Enforced Antitrust Act.
AS to the enforcement Of the Sher-
man antitrust act, Senator Brown
said: 49,.
For twenty years every attempt on
the part of law officers Of the govern
ment has been met by the lawless
stubborn and arrogant resistance. 1t
has taken the courts many years to
hear and determine the various ques-
tions so presented; but the day Of in
depreciation though long one, is
about over. s.. h.'.
Ever since the decree in the
Northern Security case was written,
the march of prosecution has been
steady and uninterrupted. The de-
crees in the Standard Oil and Tobac-
co cases. however much you may crit
icise the phraseology Of the opinions
of the court, resulted in taking the
life of those combinations in restraint
of trade. The scene today in Chicago,
where the great captains of the beef
combinations are facing trial jury
in a fight for their liberty, is a dem
onstration of the good faith and the
determination of this administration
to enforce the law. The attorney gen.
eral echoed the voice of the nation
when he said, Guilt Is Personal He
said that during McKinley's admin
istration three prosecutions We're
bro,,oht FOR tho enForcamenf If tho