Show Illustrated A. good illustration of the practical of the protective feature of tariff schedules has just come to The latest news concerns Senator Aldrich's strenuous denial that the Payne-Aldrich bill legislated millions into coffers of a rubber trust in which Aldrich was charged with being a heavy The charge was made by Senator Bristow of It was denied first by the friends of by almost the entire press of the United and finally by Aldrich in the most but not without a certain ambiguity of Now comes the The books of the United States Rubber company show that shares of preferred stock are held in the name of Nelson W. United States Senator from Rhode and that the names of four other appear as stockholders of In replying to the charges made by Senator Senator Aldrich emphatically denied that he or any member of his interest family ever had pecuniary as to whether the rates on manufactured rubber were or Per or whether crude rubber was on the free or dutiable The proved facts are that Senator Aldrich and his son are heavily interested in the Intercontinental Rubber which is the chief importer of crude benator Aldrich's son is Vice-President and executive ead of the that Senator Aldrich as Chairman of Senate Finance Committee kept crude rubber on the free that Senator Aldrich and his family are stockholders in the United States Rubber commonly known the which is the chief of rubber in this that Senator Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee arbitrarily raised the duty on manufactured rubber to per There now is an excellent for Senator Aldrich to explain If Roosevelt were as the which brought out the might again be for of the since it is the favorite policy of the government the sacred protective tariff swindle that it is now Says that Aldrich family imports rubber and the Aldrich family manufacture The Aldrich family sells crude rubber to the Aldrich family to manufacture and resell to the In both cases the duty is adjusted by Senator Aldrich to the financial benefit of the Aldrich scandalized the country by bluntly admitting that he was working in politics for own pocket all the Yet the American people allow a Nelson W. Aldrich to revise the tariff for his own and not a voice is raised in the United States Senate in behalf of investigation of his is still the republican leader of the and no effort is made to depose He is still the arbiter of and the American people submit to Of course they submit to They have to What else can they Here in for fifteen years they have been taught that the protective tariff robbery was to home that it the money at and that it did not matter got the people's money so long as it was in the Are not the people beginning to see through this pious fraud that masquerades under so patriotic a title as Frauds always choose a most plausible pretense and a good-sounding Now that protection is being fully illustrated and exemplified before their very we think we can tell what the people will finally do about |