Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1910 — BEVERIDGE AND T. R. [ARTICLE]

BEVERIDGE AND T. R.

Speaking of Roosevelt’s praise of. the; Payne-Aldrich tariff law the Philadelphia Retford says: “Yetj strangely enough, this ene,my of tariff reform is adopted as a leader, by some of its friends, and he is going to Indiana to speak for Senator Beveridge fresh from the carpentry of his Saratoga platform. Such championship is well calculated to bring suspicion with the people of Indiana the strength and sincerity of the senator’s advocacy of genuine tariff revision.” The people .• f Indiana —at leas: that the .'portion of them who read and remember—have never been deceived as to the “strength and sincerity'' of Beveridge as a tariff reformer. He never has been a tariff reformer and is not such now. The Dingley law had n<s> louder defender than he. And the trusts had no stauncher advocate: He asserted everywhere that the trusts were a logical and necessary outgrowth of the country’s industrial and commercial development. His speeches teamed with such stuff. And even now the. only material difference between bin: and Aldrich is as to the mere amount of tariff loot that should be legalized by congress. Beveridge a tariff reforirler ? X : at ad: he is only a politician who wants to hold his job, and who to that extent, is attempting to trim his sails to the Indiana breeze.