Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 298, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1910 — New Iowa Senator Has Tilt With Cummings Over Tariff. [ARTICLE]

New Iowa Senator Has Tilt With Cummings Over Tariff.

Lafayette Young, who was appointed senator from lowa to fill out the unexpired term of Senator Dolliver, is a conservative. Senator Cummings is a progressive of the insurgent type. They naturally don’t hitch very well. Thursday Senator Young said in the U. S. capitol in answer to a speech made by Cummings: “My colleague said there were gross inequalities in the tariff enacted in 1909. This statement is undoubtedly true and would be true if my colleague and those in sympathy with him were to put in the next five years in rewriting the schedule. “I. am not so much concerned about inequalities as I am concerned, about business. I doubt if there is a petition on file in the senate urging further revision of the tariff schedules. “I challenge any senator to state the kind of products other than the products of the farm, which are particularly higher than two years ago. “The tariff ought to be revised as Che—President -has suggested, one schedule at a time. I charge that New England is drifting to a changed interpretation of the square deal, when she demands protection for her manufactured articles and fi'ee trade for our food products.’’

He referred to the secretary of agriculture and farm papers and magazines for proof that the farmer is not getting too muen. ir the middlelnan was at fault for the high prices, then the attack should be directed at him and not at the producer. “If Massachusetts shall decide,” he continued, “in pursuance of the recent election, to abolish the duties on farm products, there will arise a new band of insurgents which will makefile present band of insurgents look like boy scouts. “The arguments on which the country elected a Democratic house were the arguments laid down in this senate by Republicans. If the democratic party elects a president in 1912, that result will be obtained by arguments delivered in this senate by republicans. Three senators in every case voted to revise schedules which would not reduce the duties on products produced by their people. “I do not believe the man lives who will see the tariff revised and maintained on a purely scientific basis. _ “This great, legislative body should iest its case with a commission to inquire relative to the tariff, and meantime the ambitious politician, who must be in the limelight, should give the country a rest.”