Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1910 — Page 2

THE JiSPER GOONIY D WRIT. F..E. BABCOCK. HHHMBPBBIISBIR. — OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC r PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY. Entered as Second-Class Matter June 8, 1908, at the post office at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879. ' ■. ——- —+—' Long Distance Telephones Office 315. - Residence 311. Published Wednesdays and Saturday. Wednesday Issue 4 Pages; Saturday Issue 8 Pages. Advertising rates made known on application. SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1010.

STATE TICKET.

Secretary of State. LEW G. ELLINGHAM, Decatur. Auditor of State WM. H. O’BRIEN, Lawrenceburg. Treasurer of State W. H. VOLLMER, Vincennes. Attorney-General THOMAS M. HONAN, Seymour. Clerk of the Supreme Court J. FRED FRANCE, Huntington. Superintendent of Public Instruction ROBERT J. ALEY, Indianapolis. State Geologist EDWARD BARRETT, Plainfield. State Statistician THOMAS W. BROLLEY, North Vernon. Judge of Supreme Court, Second District DOUGLAS MORRIS, Rushville. Judge of Supreme Court, Third District CHARLES E. COX, Indianapolis. Judges of Appellate Court, Northern District JOSEPH G. IBACH, Hammond. ANDREW A. ADAMS, Columbia City M. B. LAIRY, Logansport 4 .’ Judges of Appelate Court, Southern District EDWARD W. FELT, Greenfield. M. B. HOTTEL, Salem. ■ t.

COUNTY TICKET.

. Clerk FELIX R. ERWIN, Union Tp. Auditor A. BEASLEY, Carpenter Tp. j Treasurer Sheriff WM. I. HOOVER, Marion Tp. Surveyor . Assessor BERT VANE RCAR, Kankakee Tp. Coroner DR. M. B. FYFE, Wheatfield Tp. Commissioner Ist District WILLIAM HERSHMAN. Walker Tp. Commissioner 2d District C. F. STACKHOUSE, Marion Tp. County Cbuncilmen—lst District. GEO. O. STEMBEL, Wheatfield Tp. 2d District A. O. MOORE, Barkley Tp. 3d District ' L. STRONG, Marion Tp. 4th District GEORGE FOX, Carpenter Tp. “1/ At Large GEO BE§SE, Carpenter Tp. JOSEPH NAGLE. Marion Tp. J. F. SPRIGGS, Walker Tp.

HOODWINK THE PUBLIC.

Newspaper That 3lr.tr.es the Shadow While Ignoring the Substance. The New York Press is a stand patter on the tariff question. It sees no harm at all in high protection, but it sees, or professes to see. a lot of harm in the combinations and monopolies which restrain domestic trade. The Press says: ' “If the industrious free traders who are attacking the American protective tariff were half as zealous in their demand for the application of the laws against restraint of domestic trade as they are In behalf of their hobby there would bp a stronger public sentiment for the removal or reduction of the internal tariffs that swell the cost of liv-. Ing. These tariffs that the railroads and the express companies charge, this tribute that combinations of manufacturers and wholesalers exact from the people, are the big items in the sum of the increased cost of living.” Granted that these combinations and coercive organizations of producers do force up prices, what are they but the effects of the high tariff? It is the tariff that gives them a - foothold. When a valuable special privilege is to be given out by congress, what is more natural than that those who are to share that special privilege should form a solid ring so as to keep it to themselves and work it for all it is worth? That is what the trusts have done. The tariff enables them to control the markets It is absurd, then, to talk about “trust busting” or destroying those mischievous combinations which conspire to restrain trade when all the time the law is affording them, the power and the encouragement to combine for that very purpose. The fact Is that pleas of this nature are seldom seriously meant by those who advocate them. Their game is to hocpwink the consumer. ; Read The Democrat for news

REPUBLICANS LOSE.

Second Election Under New Tariff Law Shows Country’s Indignation. The election of Eugene N. Foss, the Democratic nominee, as congressman for the Fourteenth Massachusetts district, to replace the late Congressman Lovering, Republican, is a significant victory for tariff reform. It was the second congressional district election since the Payne-Aldrich law was passed, and the tariff was the chief issue in the campaign, the successful candidate laying great stress upon the threatened tariff war with Canada and the high cost of living. Speaking of the result Mr. Foss said: “It is a demand by the people that the Republican party fulfill its pledge for an honest reduction of the tariff. It is a demand for the Immediate repeal of section 2 of the Payne-Aldrich act which substitutes retaliation for reciprocity and threatens commercial warfare with our best customers. It is a demand that Canada be treated decently." The defeated Republican candidate, Mr. Buchanan, said: “I do not consider It a personal defeat If the result will serve to convince the Republican leaders at Washington that something must be speedily accomplished in the way of lowering the cost of living I shall feel that my defeat has not been without value, not only to the people at large, but to the Republican party as well.” The Republican candidate had the benefit of Senator. Lodge’s support That thoroughly unbiased gentleman came from Washington, where he is conducting an inquiry into high prices, in order to defend the tariff from its accusers. He pleaded that the greatest increases' in price had taken place in connection with goods on which the duties had been lowered and that the price movement was worldwide, but Mr. Foss had no trouble In refuting his airy contentions and was able to show by comparative statements of prices in Boston and certain Canadian towns that there must be a special cause for American high prices.

The Highest Yet!

ALDRICH’S BOAST

He Says He Could Save the Nation $300,000,000 a Year—Did He Mean to Abolish the Tariff? Senator Aldrich said recently in the senate that “if he were allowed to run the government on a business basis he could save $300,000,000 a year.” The New York Times, commenting upon this statement, says: “Senator Aldrich’s economies would enable us to do away with customs taxes altogether, to make the United States of America a free trade nation. The customs revenues for the last fiscal year were just $977,438 above three hundred millions. The cost of living would come down at Once. The burden of tax upon raw materials would be lifted fropa our manufactures Clothing of all kinds would be cheaper. More, than all, by affixing his signature to a bill abolishing tariff taxes. President Taft would in half a minute bust more trusts than he can destroy with all the machinery of the department of justice at his command during bis incumbency of the office of president, no matter how far it may be prolonged.” AIL this is as plain as noonday. But the distressing fact is that ME Aldrich and his protection policy continue to be responsible for more national waste than he can ever hope to repair. He •tands for a system of favoritism which robs the great bulk of the people to enrich 4U pampered of business interests. The greatest obstacle to Mr. Aldrich’s laudable ideals of economy is—Aldrichism.

, _ ••• • . Economically, what difference* Is there between restricting the importation of iron to benefit iron producers and restricting sanitary improvements to benefit undertakers?—Henry George.

Brooklyn Eagle.

INDIANA UP IN ARMS

Senator Beveridge, the Insurgent, Indorsed THE ALDRICH LAW IGNORED “The Coming Battle,” Says Beveridge, “1» Between the Rights of the People and the Power of the Pillagers”—A Telling Exposure of Deceptive Schedules and Sham Reductions. Indiana has raised its potent voice against the Payne-Aldrich tariff. The Republicans of that state have en-i thusiastically indorsed the action of Senator Beveridge, who opposed the bill through thick and thin. They have adopted a platform which, while it advocates a protective tariff “measured by the difference between the Cost of production here and abroad,"’ significantly Ignores the Payne-Aldrich law altogether. Senator Beveridge in appealing for support did not soften In any way his antagonism to the bill, but loudly proclaimed it. In fact, he made it the head and front of his offending. The following extracts from his speech illustrate what the Indiana senator thinks of “the best tariff bill we ever had.” After President Taft’s magnanimous defense of the Payne-Aldrich law it is singular that Mr. Beveridge should have mentioned him so conspicuously as a co-insurgent on the tariff question. Senator Beveridge said: “Like President Taft, I wanted free iron ore, of which we have the greatest deposits on earth and which the steel trust chiefly controls. I could not stand for the duty that was passed, and I cannot stand for it now. “Like President Taft, I wanted on the free list many raw materials that needed no protection. Yet only one was so treated. 1 could not stand for the duties on these articles, and I cannot stand for them now.

“Like President Taft, I wanted the ancient woolen schedule reduced. It gives to the woolen trust unfair control and raises the prices and reduces the weight of the people’s clothing. I stood against this schedule when the bill was -passed, and I stand against it now. '

“I could not stand for the duty on lumber when the tariff bill was passed, and I cannot stand for it now.

“I stood against the Increase of the duty on cotton goods, and I stand against it now. “The reduction of the tariff on refined sugar is a deception, because it cannot affect the price. Yet that is one of the boasted reductions we hear of.

“These are examples of increases. I was against them then, and I am against them now. “From few, if any, of the decreases do the people get the slightest benefit “Extortion is not protection. “The coming battle is not so much between political parties as such as between the rights of the people and the powers of pillagers. “I believe that the reasonable prosperity of the few dozen American citizens should depend upon the common prosperity of all American citizens. “Swollen and dangerous fortunes are not necessary to good wages to the workingman, fair salaries to the clerk or commercial traveler or honest prices to the farmer.

“We want no Lord North or King George, no Bourbon or Romanoff methods in American dife, whether in government or laws, whether in enacting a tariff or managing a party. “A political party is not a group of politicians, each with his following, combining to win the spoils of place and power. Such an organization is not a party. It is a band of brigands, and its appeals in the name of the party are mere attempts, to beguile and defraud the voter for Rs selfish purposes. Such organizations and men are the tools and agents of lawless interests which know no party, attempt to use all parties and practice only the policies of profit. “I was for a just law. That Could have been written, and it shall yet be written. 1 “I could not stand for the obsolete and infamous sugar schedule, which no man in Indiana can read and understand, but which the sugar trust can read and understand, yet efforts to change that schedule were opposed by Democratic votes. We reduced the tariff on refined sugar 5 cents a hundred pounds—one-twentieth of 1 cent, a half of 1 mill, a pound—which was worse than no reduction because it cannot possibly affect the price and therefore is a deception. Yet that is one of the boasted reductions we hear of. “It is said that the law has made reductions on articles entering into the consumption of the people to the value of $5,000,000,000, yet those articles are made up of such things as lumber, agricultural implements, meat and food products, petroleum and its products, of all of which we are the greatest exporters in the world; steel rails and coal, which we export; barbed wire, monopolized by the steel trust; nails, manufactured and sold by an interna* tional trust as complete as the international tobacco monopoly; yarns and threads, the raw materials for textiles, OD~. WlliclL. icxlikis... when... finished for the people’s, use, the tariff was increased; sugar, which was not reduced in fact, but only in • pretense.” ’ “I’m licked,7 said Boss Aldridge when he heard thqt he was defeated by a majority of nearly G,OOO ' For once at least the Rochester political boss spoke the truth.

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