Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-25
oENAToR ON RETURN TO IOWA
DIscoNERs he HAS BEEN
MALloNED.
cuMMlNspHosIA VICTIMS
WILL HAVE TO BACK UP
Senator in Fact Attempted 70 lnddes
Democratic 60 Place Aluminium on
'Frss List Along With othsr Trust.
Made Artiolss-Nsvsr Acted 90 At.
ternsy For Trust.
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Special to Times.Republican.
Des Moines, Sept. 25.-Victims Of
|Cumminsphobia will have to back up
and start over again. A whole lot of
recent thrusts and jabs directed toward
the senior senator 60 for naught. They
were based on error, to use the mildest
term possible.
Senator Cummins is not allied in
any way, shape or form with the al
minimum trust. He did not represent
the aluminium monopoly at Washing
ton. He did nothing and said nothing
that would or could. in any way. be of
benefit to the trust.
II Senator Cummins' ideas had pre-
vailed and been embodied in the pend
ing tariff bill, which they were not.
aluminium would be on the free list as
soon as the democratic tariff bill had
become law. That would also be true
Of every other trust-controlled product.
And whenever aluminium, as every
other such product. was put into the
list Of articles where competition ap-
pears it would have protection. and
only such protection as would be
needed to aid and encourage domestic
production and competition.
Extensive editorial discussion Of Sem
ator Cummins in certain Iowa news
papers having q mania for misrepre-
senting him has appeared lately. in
Guiding an assertion. in the Burlington
Hawkeye, that Senator Cummins is an
attorney for the Aluminium Company of
America" and a hint in the Sioux City
Journal that "the Iowa senator hired
himself to the Aluminium Company of
America" The senator was for the
first time yesterday appraised Of this
line Of attack on him and he was as
tonished.
An Emphatic Denial.
"You may say" he said. "that I have
no connection whatever with the AL
minimum Company Of America. that !
have never had any such connection,
nor do intend to have. I am not ac-
quainted with the men who are inter-
ested in the making OF aluminium.
The first time ever saw them. or any
Of them. was when they appeared in
regular course Of procedure before tho
senate committee to present their case.
Any statement that I have acted az
attorney for the company is without
foundation"
Just how the error originated Is not
known. There IL also some haze as
to the origin OF the theory that what
the senator did in regard to the duty
on aluminium and other monopolized
products was inconsistent with the
principle Of the Iowa idea"
Senator Cummins offerad a proposal
to fix the duty on aluminium, as mat
ter Of law. at a rate much lower than
the present rate as hxed in the Payne
Aldrich bill and higher than that fixed
In the democratic bill-high enough to
afford protection In case Of independ-
ent companies starting up and making
actual competition. Aluminium 10 rare
in America and common elsewhere.
Then he offered an amendment which
would provide that some competent
tribunal would be clothed with author
ity to place all monopolized goods on
the free list so long as there was no
competition, and also authority to per-
NIT application of the tariff whenever
competition does appear. That is the
essence Of the Iowa idea"
An Aluminium Trust.
"As a protectionist." he said, Il am
in favor of protection to Independent
makers Of aluminium whenever they
give us actual competition. At pres
ent the aluminium business is nonop-
olized. That is admitted by everybody.
Under my amndment aluminium would
therefore go on the free list. So would
other products that are controlled by
trusts and monopolized. But II all such
products are put on the free list by law
with no provision for restoring pro-
lection to them when there Is no long
er monopoly and competition does
appear. then the only effect would be
to create and perpetuate q world
monopoly in such goods and the con-
sumer in America would be no better
off. The true principle is to give pro-
lection to such products as can be and
ought to be made In America, repre-
senting the difference In the cost OF
production here and abroad. and then
to provide, for free trade when the pro-
duct IL controlled by monopoly. I
think I made my position very plain on
that subject in what said in con-
.gress."