Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-07-12
BURTON EXPLAINS.
The Senator Tells About His Course
on Cuban Reciprocity.
The Accusation That He Is Oppoced e
Cuban Reciprocity FaIse-Kansas Re-
publIcans Asked to Read the Evil
dence-C. I.Long to Reply.

Topeka, Kan, July 8.-Senator Bur-
ton addressed an audience of about
1000 persons in the Auditorium here
last night on the subject and in de-
Tense of his course on the Cuban reci-
procity bill in the recent session Of
congress. He said that a cabal of
fellows in Washington had decreed
what sort of reciprocity we should
have with Cuba and then tried to
drive the majority of republicans to
their way of thinking.
The senator referred to the fact
that dispatches had been sent to
western newspapers representing
that the president proposed to dis
cipline the beet sugar senator's; that
he intended to ignore their wishes
in all matters coming before him. and
would exhibit his displeasure in many
other ways, which the senator said
''were entirely Unbecoming, if true"
He declared that these reports, while
thinly yelled as personal attack
upon the senators, were a malicious
SANDER upon the president. The SEN
ator then essayed to show from the
records that the present congress had
more nearly followed the recon-
mendations of the president than
any preceding congress had followed
the recommendations of any preced-
ing president. This was true, he said,
even of Cuban reciprocity. The sem
ator then said:
I, with other senators and members OF
congress-, have been accused of being
opposed to Cuban reciprocity. The ac-
cusation is false, and is based upon the
assumption that the bill reported by the
ways and means committee of the house,
or the bill that the senate committee pro-
posed to report as a substitute, ex-
pressed the only kind of Cuban reciproc-
lty there was. 1t is perhaps well at the
start to inquire what is meant by reel
procity. Reciprocity. as taught us orig
inally by Mr.. Blaine, was the admission
into this market, without duty, of all
of those articles which we do not or
cannot produce in exchange for a for
eign market for our products with equiv
Rlent reduction.
Until we had Cuban reciprocity the
foregoing was the only kind of reciproc-
ity that was ever advocated anywhere
by any republican convention, and it is
only fair to say that it is claimed by
Senator PIatt and his associates on the
committee that their kind of reciprocity
does not violate this principle or change
it. Therefore, the disagreement arises.
not as to whether we should have Cuban
reciprocity, but what kind of reciprocity
it should be. Should it be reciprocity
that would injure American industries
and American labor, a reciprocity that
is not reciprocity at all and for the bene-
fit of the sugar trust, or a reduction of
the tariff on Cuban products so sur
rounded by safeguards as to protect
American industries and American la
Dor?
1t is a safe proposition that the peo-
pie of no country are in distress when
all members of the laboring classes are
employed at remuneratiVe wages. The
evidence taken before the committee on
ways and means of the house, and that
before the senate Cuban committee,
proves this.
Now I want to say this to the people
of Kansas tonight. First I want the
republicans of Kansas, especially. and
the people generally to read the evidence
before the house committee on this SUBJ
ject. 1t is our duty thoroughly to I'M
derstand subject before we decide pub
lie questions in our minds. If the repub-
Hcans of Kansas after carefully consid-
ering this great question bid me to vote
for this Cuban bill, and I can find no
other way to satisfy them and at the
same time to protect the beet sugar in
dustry of the United States, will do it,
Senator Burton also criticised Con-
gresham Chester I. Long, who oc-
cupied a back seat. 1t is understood
that Long will reply to Senator Bur-
ton in a speech to be delivered at
the Ottawa Chautauqua July 26. Mr..
Long employed a stenographer to
make a special report of the sena-
tors address.