Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 115, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 September 1924 — Page 8

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LA FOLLETTE SEES DEFEAT FOR G. O. P. By ROBERT M. LA FOLLETTE

This is the third of a series of ten . articles dealir.tr with the outstandinsevents in th life of Senator La Follette in the last twelve years. The Republican party lost control of national affairs in 1912 largely, I believe, because of the Payne-Aldrich tariff law. Os course it will be saidj that splitting of the party and can ! didacy of Theodore Roosevelt caused defeat of President Taft. But back of this was a great popular awakening and certainly nothing contributed so much to this awakening as blind greed of Republican party's masters in forcing the Payne-Aldrich law through Congress. The Republican party is going out of power again this fall, after a brief four-year term, because of that same blind greed, as revealed in another tariff law —the Fordney-Mc-Cumber act. Between these two enactments there was another, the Underwood tariff law. passed by a Democratic Congress. I voted for it. Although a Democratic measure it affords pro- j tection, in the main, equivalent i to the difference in cost of produc- | tion at home and abroad. The Demo- j crats abandoned their old theory of j a tariff for revenue only. In fact, the Underwood bill con ! tained the essential element of pro- j tection. Effect of the Underwood; act was to lower a vast number of j tariff rates to a point within reason j and so to remove excuse for exees j sive prices on a vast number of j American manufactured articles.; From standpoint of the average American citizen, it was a distinct improvement over the iniquitous Payne-Aldrich law. Tariff Board In doing my work upon the Undefwood tariff bill, as a member of the Senate finance committee, I\had the benefit of one concession wrung ! from the standat parents of thei Payne-Aldrich act. Night after night, sometimes all night, while the Payne-Aldrich bill was pending in the Senate, the progressives sought to incorporate in that bad bill a provision for the creation of a tariff board. I had a separate bill for this > purpose. Finally we obtained, in a • five line amendment to the tariff bill, authority for the creation of such a board by the President. President Taft surprised the authors of the bill by appointing a first-class board, headed by Professor Emery °f Tale. The work performed by this board and the experts employed by it, during its all-too-brief life, enabled students of the tariff to approach their task from j something like a scientific basis. j But this tariff board died early in j the Democratic administration. Funds to pay salaries were withheld and it ceased to function. The majority members, Democrats, of the finance committee, working on tjje Underwood bill, obtained assistance of old-time Treasury experts. So did the minority. Republicans, who were defending the Payne-Aldrich schedules. I was in the not unusual situation of being neither of the majority nor. the minority, so I ! asked for %n expert myself. William Culbertson, later appointed to the j present tariff commission and one of the most expert members of it, was assigned to help me. It is hardly conceivable any group of party managers could have forgotten the lesson given the Republicans following the enactment of the Payne-Aldrich law, but 1922 found the Republican majority engaged in the Fordney-McCumber bill, in many respects an even worse measure. It must be assumed that they totally misinterpreted the landslide which had swept them back into power In 1920. What they should have seen was that the people, being capable of changing a minority into a, 7,000,000 majority in four years, were quite capable of changing it back again in another four years. Indeed the people didn't wait four years in this instance;; they started sending standpat Sena- j tors and congressmen home to stay in the fall of 1922. And. indicative of growing politi-! cal discernment, the people in this j 1922 fall election did not swing th© j political pendulum clear over to the j other party. They began picking their representatives in Congress on their individual measurements as men and on the principles for which they stood. The revolt of 1922 was not a blind revolt. Bludgeoned Through But the interests behind the present tariff law bludgeoned it through. I know, as a matter of fact, that the party leaders did realize that, barring a miracle, it would mean the defeat of the party In 1924 and the end of the political lives of the men responsible for the bill. What were the interests so powerful, then, that they could compel the Republican party’s leaders to carry through such a course? The answer should be revealed by showing who has benefited b ythe Fordney-McCumber law. The steel trust, after one year of operation under this tariff law, showed, by its own reports, $75,370,043 available as net profits for dividends, after deducting estimated taxes, including Federal income tax. The corresponding net profits for the previous year were $28,424,686. Earnings of the Bethlehem Steel Company were increased 350 per cent per share on common stock in 1923 and the United States Steel Corporation about the same. The Dupont company earned $8.43 per share of common stock in 1922 and in 1923 increased this to $17.08. General Motors increased its earnings on common stock about 75 per cent. Department of Commerce reports for the first year under the new law revealed constant and steady increase in dividend payments of industrial corporations. There you find the beneficiaries of this legislation. Theoretically such high protection legislation Is designed to help labor —the employes of the protected Industries. It has not worked out that way in the case of the Fordney-McCumber law any more than it did in the case of the Payne-Aldrich law. Even if the employes had obtained correspondingly increased wages, which they have not. and even if employment had been greatly increased, which it was not, the higher cost of living directly AlLaltlng from this tariff legislation Aui have wiped out any such benemade by the bureau of

I labor statistics showed, at the end of that first year, the cost of living had gone up in every city investigated. Food prices had been boosted 13 per cent in Baltimore. 12 per cent in Boston, 16 per cent in Chicago, 14 i per cent in Detroit. 9 per cent in i New York, 13 per cent in Philadelphia and 10 per cent in Washington, D. C. Clothing costs had risen 10 per I cent in Chicago. 10 per cent in Cleveland. 8 per cent in Portland. Ore., with corresponding increases the country over. Bear in mind that the clothing in all these cities in 1922 was already from 75 to 100 per cent higher than it had been ten years earlier. Remember Schedule K There isn’t anything mysterious '■ about the effect of such tariff legislation upon the welfare of the people. The ideal tariff from the standpoint of selfish interests which want a free hand to exploit the American people is a tariff that will keep out foreign competition with their business in so far as possible. In the case of wool 1 they very nearly got this in the ! Fordney-McCumber bill. Schedule K. Those who remember the campaign of twelve years ago remember the universal condemnation of Schedule K in the Payne-Aldrich law. which embodied the rates on wool. The time that has elapsed since September, 1922, has proved what progressives contended then, that the operation of Schedule K in the new law ! would show higher duties being col- ] lected on wool than under the out- : tageous Payne-Aldrich bill. To make the Iniquity clearer, the tariff is found to be higher on the cheap wool used in making the clothing, blankets and underwear of the poor. Here it reaches 187 per cent! Within another year, no doubt, a progressive Congress will have undone the disastrous work of the privately controlled tariff makers who | framed the present act. JVith two such swift reprisals upon the Republican party for Its betrayal of the ; people in this manner, let us hope that the private interests never again will be permitted to write their own tariff legislation. (Copyright. 1924. NEA Service. Inc.) The fourth article by Senator La Follette will appear in The Times Monday.

Hoosier Briefs <‘J >B,” near-pet alligator of H the Portland fire depart- ___ ment, faces the auction block. Too cold for it to stay outside. "As soon have a polecat inside," says Capt. Jerry Florence. Scores of school children at Wash ington were menaced when Dexter I Booth’s auto coasted down a two- j block hill driverless. Daniel Hunsucker walked into the I bank at Seymour and secured money and paid off a debt he had owed Thomas Julian, junk buyer, for some I time, it is said. Julian was later arrested. ' He had a gun in Hunsucker's ribe when he walked in.o the bank, it was charged. Chickens and autos don’t mix. Lester Leedy of Winona was badly cut when one shattered his windshield when it flew against it. Mrs. Nina Lanning of Portland is suing her husband for divorce because he told her he hated all women. E'DWARD ALLEN of Brownstown had vowed to catch a certain husky catfish. Three times the fish has broken the line. He obtained a strong chain. Inserted springs in it to guard against breakage from sudden jerks, bated a huge iron hook with a two-pound , fish, and went away. He came back later to find the line broken and in a hopeless tangle. ‘'Darn,’' said Allen. Thieves took the tires from a wrecked auto in which Mr. and Mrs. Frank Droll of Evansville lay stunned. George Butterworth, weighing 400 pounds and Pearl Huntsinger, weighing 300 pounds were married in a tent at the Converse fair. Demands of railroads for rails has increased steel production In Gary. M'~] IYOR JAMES C. PATTEN has accepted an Invitation L___j to take members of "Kokomo’s own”—the 113th Observation Squadron of the National Guard air service, to the air races at Dayton. Seymour will have practically all new pastors. Rev. M. L. Bannister, pastor of the Baptist Church, the fourth pastor to leave, has resign ed.

Bobette By United Preen GREENCASTLE, Ind.. Sept. 20. —This city now claims the youngest flapper. Miss Elizabeth Woods, ’l2-day-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Woods, had her hair bobbed by a real barber. The child has a remarkable growth of glossy black hair.

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BEGIN HERE TOIIAV Robert Koran, newspaper correspondent. accompanies the Theodore Roosevelt expedition into Africa in 1900. They arrive at Mombassa. the “gateway of British East Africa." and then make the railroad journey to their first eStnp on the gamecrowded Kapiti Plains'! With Colonte Rdosevelt are liis son. Hermit, and three scientific members of tiis staff—Major Edgar A Meafns. Edmund Heller and J Allen Lorlng. Now tho expedition camps at Saigai-Sai, a farm belonging to Commander Frederick Attenborough, after a wonderfully successful shooting trip in the Sotik country Now going in a launch across the lake toward the mouth of the Morendt River they catch Bight of a large hippo walking along the shore, Colonel Roosevelt, Hermit and Cunninghame leave the launch and row toward the animal. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY Dc - AWSON, the Attenboroughs and myself sat in the launch, which had come to a halt, and watched the hunt eagerly, at the same time keeping a sharp lookout for the hippo so as to warn the hunters of its where-abouts. The row-bot had not proceeded far into the bay when, less than a hundred yards away in the papyrus reeds, there suddenly came into view the huge head of a hippopotamus. It looked simply enormous, and very ugly. Calmly it watched the approach of the invaders of its privacy, until It seemed to realize suddenly that danger threatened it. At* this moment, it dashed off away from the rapidly nearing rowers and made its way along the papyrus edge, while its wet back glistened in the strong sunlight. Roosevelt was standing up in the boat, with ,his rifle held to his shoulder and ready for any emergency. There was a sharp report from the row-boat, and one of Colonel Roosevelt's bullets struck in a vital spot. The hippo turned immediately and charged, with its huge mouth wide open, straight at the frail row-boat. AVe could plainly see the- ivory tusks and teeth within that deep cavern of a mouth. Obviously, it intended mischief. Another sharp report came to us across the water —and we could ai most see the bullet enter that colossal mouth. As the bullet hit, the immense jaws closed with a vicious snap. It still held on its charge for

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the rowboat, hut Colonel Roosevelt fired a third time and dropped the hippo dead with a bullet through i’s brain. While this was going on we could see Kermit taking photographs of the charge and kill it with his camera. He appeared to be quite unperturbed. Liter on he said to me, when speakipg about his experiences with this hippo; "I only saw the beast through my view-finder, and never onco with my naked eye until i‘ was dead!" Then began the difficult task of dragging the huge carcass out of the weeds into clear water, so that the launch could take it in tow for

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the camp. However, after strenuous efforts by Cunninghame, who stood waist-deep in the water, ourselves in the Launch, and the native porters in the rowboat, we succeeded finally, after several hours' hard work, in achieving our object. Thereupon, we headed across the lake for the camp proudly towing the huge beast —it must have weighed fully th'-ee tons or more — behind us. Roosevelt and Kermit were delighted with their success on this hunt; and we were naturally overjoyed at being witnesses to such an interesting adventure. It’certain-

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“CAMP ROOSEVELT” ON LAKE NARVASKA.

ly had been a memorable occasion, and we were all tired after the long day on the water. We reached the pier below the Attenborough's house at sunset. While the others returned to the camp, I helped the Attenborough brothers and Cunningham tow the dead hippo round into the little bay in front of the Roosevelt camp, so that it would be ready for dragging ashore early next morning for Heller and his skinners to start work on the carcass. “It’s been a bully day’s hunting.” called Roosevelt to me. gleefully, ns he started off to walk round to his camp. And his face wreathed in smiles. CHAPTER X “Rowevelt Luck” on Lake Naivasha Many interesting incidents occurred during the stay at Sai-gai-Sat. and certainly the memories of these adventurous days in that camp must ever remain pleasant ones for all of the members of the expedition. Heller will remember the huge leopard, weighing some twenty-six pounds, which he discovered one morning In one of his rat-traps, attached, for greater security, to a

thorn-bush for a free drag. On another morning, Colonel Roosevelt, Cunningham and the brothers Attenborough went out in the launch In search of a good made hippo for their group. AVhen they neared the proposed hunting ground. Colonel Roosevelt decided to embark in the frail row-boat, accompanied only by -two native porters to row him, and try for a hippo unaided. The launch was to stand by, ready to come to his aid and later to carry him back to camp. He had rowed across the lake for a couple of miles, when he suddenly found himself amongst a school of

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fifteen or more hippopotami. They immediately surrounded his boat and charged it repeatedly, bumping the bottom of It with their broad backs as they dived beneath it. The two natives were terrified and dropped their oars. There was ample cause for their terror, for It is no light thing to l>e attacked by even one single hippo when only in a frail rowboat —let alone some fifteen or twenty. Colonel Roosevelt, how’ever, was in his element and w'as undismayed. He calmly selected the biggest bull from amongst the school, and killed it with a beautiful shot through the head. He next picked out another exceptionally fine specimen, which later turned out to be a big cow r , and also killed it with his first shot. As he only wanted these two specimens for the completion of the groups for the museum, he thereafter contented himself with merely protecting himself against the remainder of the hippo. When, finally, * they had disappeared, he sat down in the boat and waited patiently for his two victims to rise to the surface. It takes from two to three hours for a dead hippo to rise after being killed in deep water such as these had been. The occupants of the launch had heard the firing, and now steamed up to Colonel Roosevelt’s assi c tanee. There was nothing to do but possess their souls in patience and wait for the two hippo to float to the surface. Cunninghame and the Attenboroughs heaped congratulations on Roosevelt, for he had indeed achieved a remarkable performance. Eventually, to the complete surprise of Colonel Roosevelt, who believed that he had only killed two nippo, five dead bodies of the monsters came to the surface. It took some considerable time to get ropes round them and prepare them so that the launch coulfij tow its burden of about fifteen tons dead weight back to the camp. Owing to the great weight of the animals, they were by no means an easy subject for towing, and the progress of the launch across the like was, of necessity, labored and slow. To add to their discomfort, night presently cast its inky pall over the lake and it began to rain heavily. It was bitterly cold, and they had no coats or blankets wi them. Neither had they had any food since breakfast shortly after dawn, and they had brought none with them in the launch as they had not expected to be so long away from the camp. They reached the camp on the shores of, Saigai-Sai farm at 3:30 o’clock in the morning—all very cold, wet and hungry—but delighted

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with their luck. The success of that day’s sport on the lake was ample compensation and no one was really sorry to have had such an experiene—least of all Theodore Roosevelt. On another occasion they had shot two otters in the lake. At first they had thought them to be some huge water snake. It was not until they approached quite close that they discovered that they were otters. Kermit had had good luck with the hippo, too; and he had also hilled a sing-sing near the camp. This was anew specimen of waterbuck, in so far as the Roosevelt expedition w’as concerned, and proved a very welcome addition to their large collection of trophies for the Natural History Museum in Washington. The day after I had reached Naivasha I received a letter from Theodore Roosevelt, which had been sent to me by a Masai warrior. This letter was in answer to one that I had written him in regard to a cable from America addressed to me in which it w’as stated that considerable agitation was proceeding in the American press over the large quantities of wild game that the Roosevelt expedition had been reported to have shot. I had asked him for a brief statement of his views on the subjet. in order that I might cable it to New

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