The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-12
BURTON IN DENVER
Kansas Senator Talks About His
Position.
Saws He Has Been Defending
American Sugar.
SAYS IT'S SUGAR TRUST
Buying Up Thousands Of Acres
of Cuban Lands.
Believes Sugar Beet Industry
Will Rival Cane.

Senator j. r. Burton stopped in Dem
yer on his way to Honolulu and he OPP
ened his heart to Denver reporters anu
told all about his attitude on Cuban
reciprocity. He was much more frank
than he has been at home.
Following is one of the interviews:
Il opposed the proposed reduction OF
the tariff on Cuban sugar. said Sena-
tor Burton at the Brown TINS morning;
because ] am in favor of the cardinal
Republican principle of protection to
American industries and American Ia
Dor We have shut our doors to the
pauper labor of Hawaii and Porto Rico
If we are going to enter into trade re-
lations with Cuba she should shut her
doors to this labor. and the WealtnV
syndicates who import sugar beets
should be required to employ honest Ia
Dor I am in favor of protecting the
great American industry of sugar,
whether it is cane or beet. Cuba will be
better off if she diversifes her indus
tries and looks to the production OF COT
fee and rubber more and to sugar less.
1.-The whole thing is fight of the SUI
gar trust against the sugar beet indus
try This trust is an importers organ
ization- 1t buys sugar and rehnes IT, 1t
want to see the raw sugar free. Colo
RADIO has a fine opportunity now to up
hold the cardinal principle of the Re-
publican party. which is protection.
Reciprocity is secondary and should be
used only as an aid to protection. l am
In FAVOR OF reciprocal TRACE reldClOIlS
with all countries bearing on products
that we can't produce. That is the kind
of reciprocity that Blaine taught, and 1T
is the kind defined by the congressional
campaign committee of 1894, and by the
campaign committees of 1895 and l9UO
Reciprocity is not a Democratic doct-
rine. The Democrats are trying to steal
1t and make it free trade. We will not
let them do it. 1 want the reciprocity
that will go hand in hand as the SER
N nrnfPnfl0n master.
and the kind that will produce no an
tagonism the one with the other. I are
in favor of getting out an injunction
restraining the Democratic party from
getting control of our right to reciproci-
ty. We have the right by discovery,
and have the right to the name and the
principle. In fact, we have patent on
it, and the Democratic aggression is an
infringement"
Senator Burton was asked about the
report that he had been snubbed by the
president for his opposition to the Gu
ban sugar tariff reduction measure.
THE president of the United States
does not snub anyone" he said, evasive-
~. Interested persons are busy all the
time in Washington misrepresenting the
president. They seek by this means to
lend the power of his great name as an
influence in favor of the measures they
are asking as laws.
IT will say that this matter involves
fight between the sugar trust and the
is fight to the death, in my opinion.
The sugar trust is buying up thousands
of sugar lands in Cuba and investing
millions of dollars in it. 1t is fighting
for its life in this measure. 1t is but
natural that it should seek to shape
legislation in its own interest under the
circumstances.
II think that the sugar beet industry
in this state and in other states will,
in a short time become one of the most
important in the country. Beets will
displace cane in time as a producer of
sugar. l think SO, for the reason that
where product can be put forth in
temperate zone it always drives out
that in tropical country. This is true
for the reason that labor in the tropical
zone cannot compete with that in a
temperate zone. All of the men in the
latter are of greater ability and are
stronger.
Il have noticed numerous misrepre-
sensations since the Cuban duty meas
misrepreSented the president but many
members of congress in their effort to
accomplish their ends. I paid no atten-
ton whatever to the report they sent
out that the president had snubbed me,
although I saw the denial of Senator
Teller. and I appreciate it. I read re-
port about four congressman being de-
feated in Michigan because they did not
support the Cuban sugar reduction
measure. l have letter from Senator
Burroughs which stamps that as I'M
true"
F. M. Stoves. editor of The F'ulcrum,
the temperance paper which is in its
eighth year. is at outs with Earle r.
Delay, chairman of the prohibition
state central committee
The trouble began over the fact that
Delay started The Kansas Prohibition
list, a paper begun on August l, Stoves
Delay to the effect that The Fulcrun
should be the official paper of the party
and now he finds another prohibition
paper in the field.
Editor Stoves prints what he SAYS is
copy of the contract between himself
as editor of The Fulcrum and Chairman
Delay The contract provides for the
publishing of The Fulcrum the off,
also asks the following questions in the
last issue of his paper:
We would be pleased to have letters
from our friends in answer to the fol
lowing questions:
"First-Was it fair and square and
rlgnt Tor Earle r. Delay to use The
F'ulcrum for four weeks to advertise
himself and the fifth week start a new
paper?
"Second-Was it fair square and
right for Earle r. Delay to secure large
lists of subscriptions for The Fulcrlm
and then use the money and names for
new paper?
"Third-Do you believe that a paper
built on such a foundation ought ia
succeed?" -
Congressman w A. Calderkead Sc.
cured his first vote for senator Mondav
when the Marshall county Republicans
made the following nominations: Fo,
representative Forty-fifth district, F. H
Praiie; county clerk, Charles w. Kern
treasurer. A. H. Brubaker; probate
Judge, w. T Pulleine; register of deeds
Frank " Shaw; sheriff. St. Clair Guth.
RE; county attorney. E. A. Berry; clerk
OF the district court. j. s. Davis. sur.
veyor, NJ w. Sanderson; superintend.
ent, George K Thompson; coroner, w
f. Boyakin.
Inc resolutions indorse the admins
tration and policies of President Roose-
veit and the state administration and
the candidacy of w. A. Calderhead fol
United States senator. The latter reso-
luton reads as follows: