The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-24
HARRIS IN WASHINGTON
says He Win Keep Up Fight for Re
vision of Tariff

! Washington, Feb. 24.@Colonel w
A. Harris, former United States sena-
tor from Kansas, has returned to
Washington, and will spend some time
here in the interests OF the National
Reciprocity league. Of which he is an
official.
Colonel Harris met a Kansan today
in the corridors of the capitol. Are
YOU the man who is stirring up Kan
sas farmer and agriculturists all
over the west on the tariff question ?"
asked the Kansan.
q am" said the former senator;
stand I am going to keep it up until
these people here do something"
The reciprocity league is organized
to secure more favorable concessions
from foreign countries for markets Tor
AGRICULTURAL products of the west 1t
is particularly active in respect of the
German markets. Germany viii put
into force on March 1 its new tariff
law which will largely act as a bar
to American meat and grain products
This has alarmed the reciprocity peo-
pie; and they are endeavoring to have
the United States government, or con-
gress do. something to change the sit
uation. OF late it appears that the
German government may give TINS
country one year of grace, pending
the expiration of which some action
may be taken by this government.
Colonel Harris is also for general
tariff revision. He is for anything that
will cause break in the present pro-
lection wall.
The former Kansas senator is look
/ ing exceedingly well and hearty. He
insists that he has not removed from
Kansas, and does not intend to do so.
He maintains his legal residence in
/ Leavenworth county, and is only IN
Chicago temporarily. He states that
he expects to be in Kansas a great deal
during the coming summer, which
gives rise to the suspicion that he may
be in the political campaign to a con-
siderable extent.
Whether this may mean that Harris
Will become Democratic candidate
for United States senator to sue
coed Burton, is also another 4sus-
picion which some Kansans have puz-
zled over to some extent.
In this connection, and in view of
what Senator Harris and other reel
prOcity advocates are saying with re-
spect to the German market for Amer
lean food products, the opinion of Mr.
Shaw, secretary of the treasury, a
standpatter of renown, and a presi-
dental aSpirant. is of value. Secretary
Shaw believes that even granting the
German market is lost to American
producers, Germany will take enough
from Russia, Argentine, and other
agricultural producing countries to
make a hole in the markets of the
latter countries, and perhaps in these
countries themselves which the United
States can readily I'LL. Hence, Mr..
Shaw argues, it being a question of
supply and demand, and the whole
world to deal with, there will be no
danger, after all. to erican pro-
ducers; simply a substitution of for
eign markets.
The theory of Representative Camp
bell, also an eminent Sfandpatter. and
candidate for United States senator
from Kansas, is that the German. after
trying the products and foods of other
countries. having been educated to the
t American brand so long, will be dis
gusted, and viii demand some regula-
tons IS to tariff at home that will per-
nit the American products to enter
after all. thus affecting the American
output as to Germany only slightly
and temporarily.
Senator Harris will probably remain
here much Of the time from now until
congress adjourns. ~ ~