Our land = La Nostra terra. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 191?-1913, 1913-07-05

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commissions. That is the La Toilette
Wisconsin way and that is the way
that makes LaFollette the constructive
leader of the country.
Tariff legislation involves volums of
detail and expert knowledge. Less
than score of the more that four hum
dred members of the house of represen
tatives had an intelligent conception of
the schedules proposed in the Wilson
Underwood bill of the reasons upon
which they were based or of their ulti.
mate effect upon the country. The bill
contained thousands of items, prepared
by Unknown influ lnces and adopted in
secret caucus. In all its glory the old
republican machine of Cannonism ne
yer eQualled the present machine Of
Wilson U Underwoodism in either its
power or its arbitrariness.
The republican congressman VINO vot-
ed against this bin are charged with
thereby voting for the Aldrich law and
being standpatt-rs The charge is en-
trely unjust ana its purpose in Wiso9n-
sin is to emyarrs Senator LaFollet.e in
deciding his own course, These votes
are not cast fer the Aldrich law. Had
these votes been necessary to pass the
Underwood bill the republican amend
ments, including the provision for ts-
riff commission to work cut the seize.
dules upon scientific Investigation and
dete mination Of facts and conditions,
would have been forced into the bill
These c -nstient.oas progressive repubi
cans, imbued with the scientific Wiscon
sin way Of enacting laws would have
insisted upon the secured a tariff revi-
sion bill upon as scientific basis as
possible at this time The vote of the
progressive republicans. against the Tn
derwood bill was a vote Of protest
against political tariff tinkering. + r
partisan purposes and an unscientifc
tariff hifs heiner s+eaOyoller26 through
I congress by means Of a secret party
caucus.
This bill, or one substantially like it,
the senatorial backfires in Wisconsin
insist that Senator LaFolette must sup
port, if he Lcannot secure his amend
ments or, be condemned as a progress
sive leader. The charge is made that
LaFollette, who for more than twenty
years has demonstrated his absolute
I and fearless independence and sacrifice
for what he believes to be right, has
now joined hands for personal political
/ reasons with Penrose and the Old
Guard Of the republican party to sup
port the wishes Of the Old Guard on
the tariff. Senator LaFolette will
wage an absolutely independent fight
upon the tariff, as he has done in
every fight in the last twenty years. te
/ is continuing his own tariff inyestiga-
tions and will present his own amend
ments. 1t is likely that the republican
senators will support NEST of the La
Toilette amendents. bat that is where
! the republican party comes to LaFolist
te and not where LaFollette goes to
the OLD Guard Of the republican party.
LaFoilette is recognized as a tariff
expert. HI Pas studied tariff schedule
/ ever since twenty five years ago, when
he wr,te the agricultural schedules Of
the Mckinley bill whereas President
+ Wilson is a novice 1t was Senator La
Toilette who pointed out, so that the
country saw them, the iniquitles Of the
Payne-Aldrich bill and not Wilson Of
the democrats.
+ LaFolette is a man of unHinchinq
courage and fearless poIit cal convi ).
ton and action, and this bureau pre-.
diets that he will not be Influenced one
whit BY the unfair tactics Of the demo.
Gratis in organizing an uniformed back.
fire movement, but that be viii debate
and vote fearlessly for what he believ,
e5 to be right in tariff legislation, ,.taat
he will give unanswerabIe scientific
reasons and not reasons Of political ex
pediency for his position, and tha
when the fight is over whatever ma,
be its result. the public opinion of th.I
country will back the position taken b,
LaFollette as 1t backed his position OF
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