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" . ,, 3 r I- i i rAGB TWO. DAILY EAST ORfXJONIAX. PEXDLErO.V, OREUOS, WEDXISUAV, Altil'ST a, 1910. EIGHT PAGES. ! 1 n i j 4 . NEW ARRIVALS IN OUR ART DEPARTMENT t ON THE BALCONY Fancy Scrims and Madrases in all the very latest designs and colors . . . 15c to 30c New Tapestry by the Yard Plain and Stripes suitable for Couch Covers, Drap eries and Pillows . . . 40c to $1.25 New Bungalow Net Come in Brown and Greens. Most beatiful designs 36 inches wide, yard . . . . $1.00 A La rge Assortment of Lace Curtains AT POPULAR PRICES The Latest Barred Effects. Plain Nets and Fancy. Come in White and Ecru, per pair $2.50 to $5.50 JUST RECEIVED a new lot of Embroidery Floss, Embroidery Hoops and Initials, also a large lot of D. M. C. Embroidery Cotton. Hair Goods Specials $10.00 Hair Switches $6.95 $9.00 Hair Switches $6.15 $7.50 Hair Switches $5.45 $6.50 Hair Switches $4.25 These Switches are all 3 Strands and of the Finest Human Hair, We have any Shade you should wish Another shipment of Fine Ginghams received, Come in Plain Tones and fine Checks and Stripes for yard . . . . . . 15c Our Complete Assortment of fine Novelty Silks $1.25 Values reduced to . . . . . 85c THE PEOPLES WAREHOUSE Where it Pays to Trade lift-' r-fii.y-t ii-T ir-fcr-fc.i n enough alone." The movement, how. I 1 te theory of a tariff for revenue only. STANDPflTTEHS ARE DENOUNCED (Continued from page 1.) came into existence as a protest against the Inaction of the whigs, and the mediaeval tendencies of the demo cits. and remembering, too, that for ir. ore th;:n a, naif century it has been The progressive party of the union, I cannot permit myself to doubt that the party of Lincoln, of Grant, of Blaine, of OarffeM, of McKinley and t Roosevelt will rise triumphantly a.7ove the clouds of its civil war and commit the destiny of the country to the democratic party, and there is less reason now for doing so than ever De ft re. tfo long as I look upon the consti tution as a command to look after the j welfare of the people, rather than a i mere injunction against invading the ! rights of the .states, there will be an j impassable gulf between the demo cratic party and myself. The character of the problems which now hold the first place in the American mind makes the republican view of the constitution vital to the common good. I admit tnat the dif ferences between republicans are many and that they are important; but any republican who, by reason of these differences votes for a demo cratic candidate, will find that he has Jumped from the frying pan into the fire. Vote for Party Candidates. I reiterate what I have always said he in't,0 ft,,re . it haB heen in the ! in f VPr' campaign during the stormy past, the best hope of mankind, the j ac,a,ie " "Mc 'h" bf" ln Pb ,'a, - re-ive party, not only of the na- oftlce- We will fight with all the i J ti'-ii but of the world. I understand perfectly that there are Home short-visioncd men amongst us who will continue either to bewail or i.'ijn'-t- individual independence. trength that i" In us before the nomi nations are made, but when they are ! made In the appointed way we will stand shoulder to shoulder ror the re publican candidates, and in this spirit f'.I v. ho will deplore free criticism" aT";aI to rr' republb an in the , mtlnurnPtu rors to d-strov eom -' f1phn i-any leader, and party acts, be- r,t ?ve his voice and his vote: ,ion )n j So J.evin that to be independent of anjt0, V the t,cket- nwn plished their purpose so cff.-etu- ' tl,ev a.-sum- d lealeisliip and to give ex-i ' pies-ion to honest censure of a party' Protection, measure jS to destroy party unity, and! With these preliminary observa t - invite democratic victory- Such j tions. I proceed to the consideration men disparage both the intelligence ! 'f the definite principles which touch and the patriotism of the people. The ' P-ir'y faith and which make up t r of the country know that there,'''"'" party history. The policy of tax is infinitely more hope of making the ! fn Import, not only for revenue but republican pany effectually progres- j '"r protection to domestic producers .s!ve .than there is of efficient ' :T;prchcn:-ive legislation rrom d moerats. ((HiccniiiiK Ix-iiHMTatn. a ad the estnblisho l in the very beginning by Alexander Hamilton, adopted by the whigs, an 1 inherited by the republl ean party, has beyond dispute helped There are many democrats who are i to make the I'nited States the mlghtl- ci.-tinguishr-d for their wise and broad i ' s- nation in the world. views upon public affairs, but the I There is not a republican anywhere large majority of the leaders of the I who doe not yieM to the protective democratic prty are incapable of making or administering laws for a country like ours, for they invariably find in the constitution an insuperable obstacle in the way of doing the things which are Imperatively demanded, and which If done at all rnuHt be done by the general government. I have been accused oftentimes by Dome of my blind and passionate op ponents of having democratic lean ings, and I have many warm personal friends In that organization, but there never was a time In my whole life when I would have been willing to system unreserved and unwavering al bgiance. Aldrlch. Lodge, Hale, Can non. Payne and Palzell may be its sincere and earnest advocates, but in zeal for its perpetuation, and In the eloquence of Its defense they cannot surpass Nelson. Clapp, Reverldge. La Follette. Dolllver and Brlstow. There has been no rontro'ersy, and there can be none, between republi cans an to the soundness or value of this doctrine. The divergence appears when we come to apply It to Inter national trade, and to a consideration ever, was irresistible and the repub lican national convention of 1908 re spondlng, not only with unanimity but with enthusiasm to the progressive sentiment of the rank and file of the party, not only pledged the incoming congress to a revision of the tariff, but defined the doctrine of protection with a care and precision unknown to any former platform. It solemnly prescribe a rule with which to mea sure Import duties, to the end that both producer and consumer, both capital and labor, might share in our prosperity. You remember it well, but nevertheless I quute It: 'The republican party declares un equivocally for a revision of the tar iff by 'a special session of congress Im mediately following the Inauguration of the next president, and commends the steps already taken to this end in the work assigned to the appropri ate committees of congress which are now investigating the operation and effect of existing schedules. In all tariff legislation the true principle of protection Is best maintained by the imposition of such duties as will equal the difference between the cost of pro. duction at home and abroad, togeth er with a reasonable profit to Am erican Industries. We favor the es tablishment of a maximum rate to be administered by the president under limitations fixed by the law, the maxi mum to be available to meet discrim inations by foreign countries against American goods entering their mar kets, and the minimum to represent the normal measure of protection nt home, the nim and purpose of the republican policy being not only to preserve, without excessive duties, that security against foreign compe tition which American manufacturers, farmers and producers are entitled, but also to maintain the nfgh stand ard of living of the wage earners of this country, who are the most direct beneficiaries of the protective system. Retween the I'nited States and the Philippines we believe In a free inter change of products with such limita tions as to sugar and tobacco as will afford adequate protection to domestic interests." I'pon this pledge, definition and ru'c we appealed to the country for the election of a republican president and a republican congress. The country. believing profoundly In maintaining our own Industries, and reposing 1m plicit faith in the promise that export duties would. In the revision to take place, be measured by the difference between the cost of production at home and abroad, elected a republican president and a republican congress. In redemption of the pledge so made the president convened the new con gress in special session, and it did re vise the tariff. I have never been much interested in the debate over the technical pro position that our promise was to re vise the tariff downward. Beyond dispute, the people generally expected that it would be revised downward, because they knew that the duties were too high, and were greatly more than the difference between the cost of production here and elsewhere. What ' the pledge Was. But whatever may have been said in the campaign. I agree that tli -re was no formal pledge in the platform to revise the tariff downward. There was. however a pledge that it should be revised so that the duties upon protected commodities should be the difference between the cost of producing them here and in other countries, and a fair profit added, and the intent, as everybody wili concede, was that our manufacturers should be able to enter our markets and sell tneir products at a fair price as against their foreign competitors: and it was the further Intent that grossly excessive profits growing out of ab normal prices should be prevented by reducing the duties to a point that wouiel admit lmperts whenever our own manufacturers raised their prices above the level of fairness and de cency. Such was the platform and such was the purpose that it became the duty of congress to carry into effect. I believe that ninety-nine republicans In every hundred desired a revision that would keep faith and accomplish the purpose T believe that the pres ident wanted to fulfill the; promises 'if the party, and to make good his own declarations; but the leaders of both the house and the senate re fused to recognize the party pledge; refused to be guided by the rule which had been announced, and forced through congress a tariff bill without even the pretense of attempting to as certain or of applying when ascer tained, the standard which the party harl established. The bill made many reductions and many Increases but the reductions v.ere of little or no avail for they left the d'tt'es st'll far above the differ ence n cost of production, anil there fore permits the protected manufac turers not only to charge existing prices, but to lift tlvm still hk-her. and the increase?! were. In nearlv every instance. nrt onlv without rea son In tact, nut wthout eierense in debate. Some republicans, having done all pushed their purpose so effectu-1 they could to make the bill whnt It ally that years ago in nearly every I should have been, finally voted for It. impeirtant field eif production prices! and T have no word of censure for cense d to be the result of the time- ' them, for they did what they betiev- It is said that It has stimulated business. It may be that It has, tor the prize of enormous profits la ex ceedingly tempting. It is claimed that the average tax upon dutiable Imports is something like one per centum less than under the Dingley act. This may or may not be se, for I have leurned to doubt the accuracy of tariff statements, but granting the truth of the statement, what a superb showing It Is. We have revised the tariff In re sponse to an overpowering republican sentiment, and have succeeded In tak ing eiff about one-l'orty-seceend of the average imposition upon dutiable Roods. In all that has been said by those who have, during the last year, de fended the measure, there has been r.o claim that we either fixed or tried te. fix. the duties according to the ce.st ef production, and yet that U the test, and the only test, by which the act should be tried if we have any regard for our plighted word. 1 do not Intend to review Its sched ules upon this occasion. I have done that in another and more appropriate forum, and expect. to do It again when the time comes. It is no pleasure for me to differ from some of my party associates upon this subject; but there 1st no exigency In public affairs or party action that can Induce me to say that a thing Is good when I be lieve It to be bad. or to say that It Is true when I believe It to be false. There are many gratifying reduc tions In the Payne-Aldrlch net, but upon the whole It Is not a fair exem plification of the protective policy nor is it an honest performance of our platform promise, and no matter what happens I will tell the truth, as I see the truth, about It. Le't me, however, again warn re publicans who are of my way of thinking concerning the shortcom it'.gs of this measure that the failure of the republican leaders in congress to abide by our platform furnishes no reason for delivering this country In to the hands of the democrats, The one thing that can be said in favor eif our recent revision Is that It Is vastly better than anv tariff the highest type of patriotism can create to carry the government to a safe and Just conclusion. It would be an Intricate and trying problem, even If the railroad corpor ations would cooperate with congress in the effort to enact the proper leg islation, but their cooperation Is not to be expected. They will, In the fu ture as they have in the past, res st every proposal to increase the effi ciency of the regulation and control already ln our statutes Their Influ ence exerted In a thousand ways and flowing in a thousand channels, is oftentime hard to discover, and al ways hard to overcome. I reali.o that In the acrimony of the struggle which occurs whenever further regulation Is suggested there Is danger of reprisals. It Is to be hoped, however, that we will go calmly and deliberately for ward to the right point, undeterred by fhelr position, and unmoved by pre judice or revenge. We must do nothing that will with hold from these mighty factors in our Industrial life revenues that will be sufficient to bring them to and maintain them at the highest stand ard of efficiency, and that will reward the capital Invested In them fairly and reasonably; but we must not forget that It Is the business of the govern ment to see that they exact unjust toll from no man; that they practice no discrimination, and that there is neither favor nor disfavor In the ser vice which they render to the several communities which make up our com mercial union. Altogether the law was greatly strengthened In 1906 under the puis sant and patriotic leadership of Theo dore Uoosevelt, the experience ef four yars demonstrated that the power of the Interstate commerce commission should be materially enlarged, and we of the west at any rate, felt that there should be some restriction upon com mon carrier corporations engaged In Interstate traffic with respect to the Issuance of stocks and bonds. The history of the previous decade In this respect had been so lament able that our national platform In 190S made emphatic references to this phase of the subject. The president democrats could enact nssumed the Initiative, but unfortu- atten- f;.irminded and dispassionate rtion. So "long as there was full and free competition In our own country It mattered little how excessive the du ties were, because the rivalry among domestic producers could be depend ed upon to bring prices to a fair Am erican level. We did neit, therefore, seriously concern ourselves about a scientific adjustment of the tariff. Our manufacturers were protected aeainst competition from abroad, and our consumers were protected by the natural laws of business at home. If the duties were higher than they should have been, and undoubtedly they were ln many instances, there was no complaint for no injury re sulted to the great body of the peo ple who bought and used dutiable commodities. As time passed on. however, there appeared a new factor in the indus trial and commercial life of the I'nited States, and the era of consoli- cation and monopoly began. With a idity that even now It Is hard to comprehend, business of all kinds i rushed Into close union, and scattered j capital was drawn into the stronu- ein Ibiaoe of trusts anil consolidations. Safe from the compe tition of .:her I countrie s. It became the ehief object honored laws of trade, and the power if deteTmlning profits fell into the hanels eitheT of a monopoly or an ac kiuiwledged master in protected In dustry. The n came a demand for a revision eif the tariff. It originated in the necessities of the people, and was founded upon the fundamental In stinct of justice. Peprlved of the safe guards which competition at home had furnished them, the people knew, without reasoning upon it, that they had n right to an intelligent readjust ment of he tariff. They felt the du ties should be so modified that the constinned Insistence upon unfair prices would expose our manufactur ers to the correction of foreign com petition. In this demand there was no dis loyalty to the doctrine or protection, although for a short period the bene ficiaries of excessive duties succeeded in cemfusing the Issue. Staiidpiitism Means Memonoly. It was then that the standpatter adopted the name which he now bears of that divergence I now ask your and nis campaign cry was "Let well cd to he th'dr duty. Some of us vot ed against the bill, and we make no apology for our votes. Ope'ii Repudiation of Pb-elges. Tf there had been an honest attempt to fix duties according to the cost of production I might, have yielded my view on the question of fact; hut there was no such attempt, and I. for one. refused to follow, and would re fuse ngaln to follow Aldrlch, Hale, I.eieltre, rnnnon. Payne and Palzell In to a sneering, contemptuous open repudiation of my party platform. Tt 1 not a republican measure,- al though passed hy republican votes, for the ipen who are chiefly responsible for it thought more of swelling the overgrown fortunes of their intimate friends than they thought of the par ty principles, the party pledge, or the welfare of a long suffering people. It is said that the law has been suc cessful from a revenue standpoint. This is quite true; but It must be re membered that it Is very easy to en large the receipts at the custom hous es. The democrats could have done that with their condemned and obso- which the founded upon the exploded theory of levying duties for revenue only. It would be fatal to commit this coun try to any such doctrine, nnd T know that republicans have too much pa triotism and too much intelligence to pun'sh a mistake In leadership by de priving our party of power, and turn ing over the government to a politi cal organization which holds a view eif the e onstitu'ion that would paral yze our efforts In dealing with the meidern problems of ceimmerce indus try and transportation, ami which hold a view eif the tariff that if put Into execution would bring upon us uni versal elis:ister. . Wijx Out the Plot. Th logical, sensible thing to do Is to correct our mistake none but re publicans can correct it and under the impulse of the sentiment, grow ing now by leaps nnd bounds every where .they will correct It nnd leave the republican name nnd republican pleilge without a stain in all Its won derful history. Our course It seems to me. Is set plainly before us. I do not favor an immediate general revision of the tar iff, indeed I earnestly hope that we may never be compelled to enter an other general readjustment of the system. In our last attempt it was made cleirer than ever before first, that some better way must be found than we now have of securing Information as to cost here and abroad; nnd sec ond, that we must amend the sched ules separately. As to the first, the way will be found In the creation of an independent, nonpartisan tariff commission, not to change the law, for that Is anl must remain the werk of congress; but to collee t and lay be fore congress and before the people the facts. When this Is done there will be neither high tariff man nor low tar iff man who will venture to disregard his duty. Fortunately, the demand for such a commission has become nl most unanimous among republicans, and the few who still eippose it will soon disappear from public )ife. We have already made a good be ginning, for under the strong and per ?'st nt recommendations eif the presi dent, oemgress gave him an appropria tion which he will use' Insofar as he has the power to do it, to get the in formation so necessary to a proper understanding of the subject. The provision is inadequate; but It give's us hope that before long we will be able t,, establish a commission with full powers and complete eetuipment. As to the second, we must Insist upon a law. or rule of congri'ss that will allow one schedule to be amend ed eir revised without going over the whole rango of the tariff. We must exclude- the opportunity for the trades and combinations whiedi now dishoii eT tariff legislation. We must, make it Impossible to coerce or bribe a mem ber of congress into voting fur what he kn us to be wrong in order to get what he believes to be right. Happily, the movement for .such a rule or law Is steadily advancing, and it will not lie long until It, too. will embrace eve ry republican In the land. These evidences ,,f progress cheer the heart of every patriot. We may stand fast for a principle, but we cannot stand still in applying it to the? affairs e'f mankind. We are sweeping along at a pace that is not only exhllerating, but inspiring. The optimist Is winning In every race and in the near future we will see a progressive protective tariff that will safeguard the interest! of the producer, shield the rights of the consumer, insure the high privil eges of labor, and contest the reason able demand of capital. Railroad Regulation. The most Important legislation of the last session eif congress was the amendment to the Interstate com merce law. The regulation eif com mon carriers Is altogether the most d'fflcult undertaking upon which the government has entered, nnd it will reeiuire all the independence which a popular selection of law makers can supply; all the Intelligence which gen eral education and specific study can contribute, and all the courage which nately, as I view It, he delegated to the attorney general the task of pre paring a bill to be laid before con gress. I have no reason to doubt the honesty of the attorney general.. but he had Just come from a long profes sional training and association which unfitted him to deal wisely with this subje'e-t, and there came freim his hands Into the house and senate a bill which, if It had passed, as Aldrlch so emphatically declared it should pass, would have consigned the republican party to eternal disgrace and defeat. Aneil her Repudiation. Contrary te our solemn preunise n the' platform it proposed to repeal the anti-trust law with respect to traffic agreements among railways specifying rates nnd charges, and to pe rmit sue-h agreements and the rates and charges made under them to go Into effect without the approval of the interstate commence commission. It proposed to allow a single Judge to Issue a temporary Injunction with out notice, restraining the interstate commerce commission from enforcing an order reducing rates, and took away the right of appeal to the su preme court from such an Injunction. It proposed to limit the period ln irtilch the commission could suspend changes In rate s to sixty days, a pe riod which everybody kne'w to be al together Insufficient. It proposed to take away from the commission the power to establish through rates between steam railways and electric railways, thereby sub jecting the latter to the arbitrary will of the former. It proposed to repeal the anti-trust law with respect to the merger and cnnsolldatiein of railways, and to sub stitute for It the unreviewable discre tion of the commerce court exercised In an ex parte proceeding. It proposed. In effect, to validate the existing capitalization of railway companies, and the regulation with regard to the future Issu uice of stocks and beinds was atte nded by a scries of exceptions which practically le galizes every known method of overcapital ization. It proposed to create a useless and expeois ve court of ceimnierce to elo the work which the circuit court now (ioi'S I am glad to be able to say that, wiiii tile exe-eptioii of the court of commerce eve ry one of these propos als found thedr way to the graveyard of legislative heresy ami reaction, and Continued on Page Three.) 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