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Show SENATOR - .CUMMINS i Says Cannon- Aldrich Faction Repudiated , (he Platform i I i i i COUNCIL GROVE. K AS.. July 22. ! Senator Albert 1J. Cummins of 1 Iowa, In a speech before a thautau- qua audience here tonight, asserted , the pledge of the .Republican nation al platform for a revision of the tariff tar-iff was not fulfilled and Senator Aid-rich Aid-rich and Speaker Cannon and the others who took tho lead In framing tho tariff bill had never attempted and never intended to keep the pledge Senator Cummins came Into the' district of one of the Kansas "regular" "regu-lar" congressmen, Representative James Miller, to give this message. He said. Driving Nation Into Socialism, "Cannon and Aldrich and other stand-pat leaders were driving tho nation Into a socialism or co-operative control and away from the lu-dividual lu-dividual or competitive theory. "I am au exponent of the progressive progres-sive Republican Idea." he said. "I bellevH the Republican party can be made the most progressive party on earth. The one that does things for the good of the whole country. Hut the special interest man must be eliminated. That Is my sermon. That is what I advocate and if it helps or hurts any of my audlenco It ! does not bother me. For ten years I fought for progress In iowa and we ; have won ami are winning. This 1 Is not il local matter at all, but one ; ; covering all this country and affect- i lrig other countries. "Our forefathers organized this ; government . on the broad principle ' that Individual effort was better than co-operative or collective theory of government, that the work of the individual in-dividual was of more importance and , better for the country ihan the devel- j "pmpnt tit the socialist, or monoiw ' lipllc theory government and Indus ' try. It Is the competitive against the ; stela! theory of government. Com- ; petition In the individual, or in Industry, In-dustry, is ttie only safeguard asalnst j avarice and greed. . "Speaker Cannon and Senator Aid- I (Continued on Page Six.) i do It. It did r.ot even attempt to d-j j it. I'nder the leadership of Cannon a:id Aldrlch, the tariff was reIsi without the slightest heed to the cot of production of anything. It Is of t avail to reduce the, duties on any commodity If the duty is lft s. hlpa that the domestic producer can mtll maintain his prices by keeping ou'. competition or even make hi pric-i higher than before and still have Ion j cr duty. Some duties were reduce I. j but not so it would benefit the American Amer-ican people In any way because thi-r wait no effort mado to get at tho pro, tii.etlve cost of the article. "Iu many cases the charpea w-pn U-fl to high that tho price on many articles was Increased in the face a!1 a reduced tariff and because tbe d mettle manufacturer wa cot nfrnlj of foreign competition. Sample of Revision. "Here is a sample. The duty is steel rails was reduced from $7.21 a ton to $5.0.'! a ton and still tfc'. I'nlled States Steel corporation W able to maintain a price- of $2S a ton because we make rails so much cheaper here than In other conntrlel "The cotton rchedule was nctually raised in average of 2Ti per cnt sin-1 ply b changing the duties from al' valorem to specific duties and thl.! wfi.s one of tho biggest frauds perpc-j trated by congress in revising thy' tariff. I "In all the lung debate on the far-1 iff bill. Senator Aldrlch tv-ver attempted at-tempted to apply tho standard of tlnj Republican platform pledge. He and his followers openly and contempts ' ously repudiated every word of that! platform pledge. In all the evident i taken by the house ways and mean! committee there were no', a dozen Hems of the six thousand In which showing was made as to the cost of production at home and abroad. Repudiation of Republican Platform.' "It was an open ano explicit repu diatlon of our platform and a por verslon of tho protective theory. 1 Pm nt an Insurgent Republican If It Is said that 1 am in surging against the Republican national platlorm. I' nin Inaurglng against men of the Cnn i on Aldrlch stripe, men w ho are open ly lolatlng the pledges of the party and advancing causes of monopolistic control of Industry. "The Insurgents or progressives, t belter term, offer two reniedbs First, knowledge of the cost of pro durtlon No one knows what tli' different items of cost now are. What we need Is the constant work of ac intelligent, independent, impartlnl and imu-purtisaa tariff c-orandsshn that can get the informatlort arid then tell congress just what it wants to know. The llrst intention of the pn (-resslves is to establish such a commission. We have made a s'art In the tariff board, but it is not th'' best way of doing the work. "The second remedy Is to make a rule whereby any schedule of the tar-in tar-in bill may be revlsej at will without with-out going through the whole of th tariff schedule. ThlH would eliminate elim-inate the Intolerable vice of the present pres-ent system whereby a congressman will make combination with other members and will vote for many schedules he believes are absolutely" wrong to got a Fch dulo be believe ' is right. "I and all progressive Republican? 1 pincerely believe In the protection theory, but we do not believe In allowing al-lowing monopolies to control (he Id riustrU'8 of the country." t SENATOR CUMMINS. (Continued from Page One) rich are driving the country Into u socialistic form of government an 1 industry by promoting the causo of monopolies. They ;ire unwilling to 1 take measures to prevent the rapid- I ly growing tendency toward monop- ' oly or to disintegrate und destroy I the monopolies already In existence ' whereby the prices of commodities I are llxed, not by tho usual laws of trade, but by the will of a single, man or group of un.-n. Monopoly does nnt mean a single factory with absolute control of one urtiele, um a combination combin-ation of factories making the same article whereby the prices are the same In all, whether or not tbe factories fac-tories are ow ned by one company or are controlled through a trust agreement. agree-ment. "It is only within the lat few-years few-years that the lack of competition between American and foreign goods has become so marked that thy people peo-ple began 'to talk about the tarltf duties being too high. The people have found the absence of foreign competition in the markets of this country made u possible for the American manufacturer to Increase his prices at his own sweet will without with-out regard i0 actual market conditions. condi-tions. Something Must B" Don. "The feeling has grown that something some-thing must be done with the taritf to re-establish competition in trade. The Republican .National convent ioi realized this and It had to make an agreement that if U were successful, success-ful, it would revise the tariff so ironopolles and trusts could no longer long-er annihilate competition through tho tariff schedules. This was the first leal recognition that the tariff should be put on a fcienillic basis where the. measure ol the import duties was m-1 to protect the difference In cost of production at home and abroad wi n a margin tor a reasonablo profit. 'in the Republican platform there was no technical promise to rela.. the tariff upward or downward. The party simply pledged Itself to make such revision ol the tariff as would equalize the c-.t of production her-and her-and abroad and make competition possible In this country In manv lines. Congrets' Duty to Revise Tariff. It was th duty of congress to make this revhi'.n. Codkp.-b:, did not |