The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-10

OF the country continued TIL the Demo |
cratic check came IN 1894.
Butt it Is stated. the people were |
quick to see their mistake and at the
nrst opportunity restored the Republi-
can party to full power and no party
change has been made since during a
period OF ten years.
The industrial situation is claimed to
be unparalleled IN the annals Of nations.
Our volume of employment" the
statement continues. our rewards Of
labor, our enjoyment Of life, were never
before eoualed, and, best OF all. there
Is no sign OF abatement or signal of re-
treat There is prospect of still greater
and rrander results and only the rank
est pessimist can see a cloud on our
national material horizon"
Because of the various financial and
tariff measures Of the Republican party,
which, the book says have brought
about competition in manufactures. IT
is declared that q home market has
been built up in this country "Of such
masnisade that for several years we
have EtVen full employment at wages
about double those paid when the Re
publican party came into power.
I'm some cases these wages are treble
and ouadruple what they were in 1850"
A list OF % instances Of important
Republican legislation follows, begin
ming with the homestead law signed by
Lincoln;
at the last session OF congress include
the subjects of railway rates, Panama
canal, pure food, meat inspection, free
alcohol, statehood admission consular
REORGANIZATION, national quarantine
against yellow fever, rigid steamboat
Inspection, limitation Of immunity of
witnesses in criminal cases, promotion
OF militia efficiency, aid Tor san Fran
cisco. establishment of a national cent
etery embracing the grave Of Andrew
jackson with fifteen acres of land,
marking the graves of Confederate
soldiers, Jamestown exposition aid, $40
public actsi altogether 1888 private
pension acts.
Among the measures referred to as
left over for the next session of the
present congress are;
The Santo Domingo. Isle OF Pines
and Morocco treaties; immigration re-
strlctien Gin eonference1s Senator
Shoots right to seat, campaign pub
licity, shipping bill, modification OF
Chinese exclusion laws, anti-inJunction
bill, eight hour law, establishment Of
postal savings banks and parcels post,
limiting working hours of railway en-
ployes, Porto Rican citizenship in the
United States. reduction of tariff on
Philippine products. copyright re-
vision. navy to have big battieship
afloat and establishment Of Appalach-
ian and White mountain forest re-
serves.
Then follow extracts from speeches,
remarks and messages or President
hOOSGVElL on various pubic matters,
various statistics, the railway rate law
in full, and other legislation
The key note of the discussion of the
tariff question is sounded in the fol-
lowing statement:
"Protectionists are content to let the
present law stand, without change u
amendment. SO long as present condi-
lions prevail.
"A slight reduction in many Of our
schedules" says the campaign book,
\
markets of perhaps billion dollars
worth of manufactures annually more
than we now import. That would
mean a resort to one of two things:
We have to close our mills or reduce
wages. There Is positively no other al
tentative.
''Protectionists do not claim that the
schedules are sacred and never to be
altered. They do ciainn, however, that
the so-called American system of pro-
lection as exempli1ed by the operation
of the Dingley law for nine years is
sacred and must be maintained. We
do not have to theorize in the least de-
gree. We have tried and tried thorough
'ly both high and low tariff and we have
experience as an example to guide us in
reaching the truth.
we need go back no further in our
history than a decade to learn that A
low tariff means insufficient revenue,
closing our manufactures, -idleness for
millions of our laborers and low wages
for other millions and Improbable prices
for our farmers.
"A mere handful however, OF the Re
! publican party have been asking the
duty to be removed or reduced upon
certain material entering into the pro-
/ ducts of their own locality. 1t is be-
/ lieved this demand has been made more
for political than economical results
Regarding the negro in politics, the
/ statement is made that the mere men,
! ton of the facts we'll known to every
| observer of the times viii SUFFICE to In
cicate the relative attitude of the two
great political parties toward the color
/ ed citizen.
! The Republican party, it IS said, be-
/ lieves in the political equality of all men
| without refer enee to race or nationality
while the Democratic party believes IN
restricting the privileges OF citizenship
/ to a particular class, and has written
her opinions into the statutes, constitu-
lions and practices of nearly every
southern state where that party is DOM
| inant.
After quoting the letter of President
Roosevelt of August IS. last, to Wat
son. of Indiana, Analysing the issues of
/ the coming campaign, the book closes
with a quotation from what is given rs
| Speaker Cannon's New Platform
Put none but home made cake in the
pantry
STONE IN THE lead