The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-03

mills all the time. 1t can keep open
more of them and for a longer period of
time than free trade can.
1T can not keep wages at the high
est level all the time, but it can keep
them at a higher level and can sustain
them there longer than free trade can.
This is founded in good reason. 1t
is an ordinary, common sense propo-
sition. Under free trade, American
workmen have to compete not only
with themselves, but with the work
men Of all other countries, also, while
under protection they are not obliged
to compete with workmen in other
countries on the same basis. and they
have only to compete with their fellow
workmen in this country. Our Demo-
cratic friends believe that a protective
tariff is wrong. They have no hospi-
tallty for it. They regard it as rob-
berry and they propose to strike it
down. Let the wage earners of the
country reflect upon this and make
their answer. Let the capitalists also
appreciate the full significance of what
is meant by the overthrow of the pro-
tective system. The interests of Amer
lean labor and capital are both con-
cerned in the question in very con-
siderable degree
made in 1895 to a wooden mill in
Manchester. England. and to the fact
that he had found the mill shipping
large quantities of goods to the United
is something wrong about this
When 1 left home" he continued
there were thousands of men and
women in different states walking the
highways and the byways seeking for
an opportunity to work at any wage
but finding it not They would have
been glad of the chance to make the
goods that were being produced in the
Engl1Sh mill for our own consumption.
1t seemed to me that the Democratic
policy which closed our own mills and
opened the English mills was a wrong
TO our country and to our country
men, There is no reason consistent
with the interests of our own people
which can justify such a policy. The
Republcan party was against it in
1888 and it stands in protest against
IL today We have no unfriendliness
toward producers in other lands. 1t
Is not because we love them less, but
because we love more those who owe
allegiance to our flag, that we stand
oy the American protective policy. We
stand by that policy which stands
by u.s.
He concluded that the seven years
OF Republican administration had
demonstrated that 1.-THE protective tar
IN and the gold standard are we'll suit
ed to our requirements"
Then briefly summing up the ac-
complishments of the administrat ton,
the senator said:
The people demanded good money.
We have it. They demanded that good
relations with other nations should be
preserved. Tney were never better.
They demanded an isthmian canal 1t
isrnow in course of construction. No
act of dishonor attaches to it. What
has been done in connection with it
involved no violation of international
faith. There was no executive uSurpa-
ton President Roosevelt merely pro-
tected American interests. He acted
in a prompt and firm way clearly with
in our national rights, and thereby
made secure the early completion of the
great enterprise, so important to our
commerce and to our country.
I'VE did we'll our duty in the last two
national campaigns. Let us not jeopar-
die the fruit of those splendid victories
Let us not give over the administration
Of national affairs to the opposition
which has for many years antagonized
every great measure which has made |
for our present prosperity and strength |
and power"
Senator Fairbanks left for Chicago |
on the fast Santa Fe train this morn |
Ing. The train stops at Lexington juno |
ton. Carrolton Marceline and La Plata |
Senator Fairbanks will speak five min |
utes from the rear platform of his car |
at eacn of the stopping places.