The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-22
KANSAS COMMETT
THE TARIFF.

4 "A
Moody's Magazine, a recognized au-
tnorlty, says the Steel Trust is making
an annual profit of thirty per cent on
its capital, according to it's own report;
put that it actually makes sixty per
This unjust profit is due to the Ameri-
can tariff; the great Steel Trust is being
nldoe'rlch every year by an unnecessary
anu UNFAIR tax on the people. The aver
age FARMER certainly pays a tribute of
a hundred dollars a year to the Steel
trust, because of the tariff; because of
nlgher prices for iron than are neces-
sary. Yet how little indignities exist
against the Steel Trust, which makes
an annual profit of thirty per cent on
It's capital. according to its own confess
sion, and profit of sixty per cent ac-
cord1ng to Moody's Magazinel
Tne average farmer does not pay the
consolidated Oil company to exceed all
toIo ten dollars a year, yet how the far
mers hate the Standard Oil company!
How the people generally hate it! John
ID. Rockefeller of the Standard, has
Deen malfgned as no other American
has been maligned. Yet the Steel Trust,
greater robber, is pointed to with
pride, and the people cheerfully pay an
unnecessary tax in order to enrich it.
Why is this. Has the Steel Trust
better political manager than the Con-
solidated Oil company?
The most cruel robbery in the worlds
history Is the robbery perpetrated by
the tariff. Yet the people cheer for the
tariff The Square Deal president finds
no fault with the tariff. There is a.
rush for reform issues, but to advocate
tarIH reform is regarded as wicked as
TO advocate religious freedom. Why do
we Americans SO cheerfully permit our
selves to be robbed by the tariff, al
though we so viciously abuse wrongs"
that are not wrongs at all? What Is
the explanation?--A Globe.
UNWRITTEN LAW.
Bellevflle's most popular drayman
says that there is lots of present day
objection to the unwritten law and he
thinks that possibly it is worked over
time little but when he first came to
this county that was the only law they
had and it worked mighty well.
Women used to camp on the open
prairie with no house but a wagon
cover or possibly dirt roof dug-out
while their husbands drove rs miles
to market, nobody molested them,
everybody knew the law. A fellow
from north of town at one time
Jumped" the present townsite of
Belleville. He knew he could, and
thought he would but when the citi-
zens sent for him to come to a public
meeting he skipped to Junction City
and released his claim. He knew the
law. There wasn't 900 new laws
passed every winter in those days,
fact is there weren't very many passed
good ones, though unwritten, and our
drayman says that they were very
seldom violated.-Belleville Freeman
WARNING!
The wise man who has been much
about the water knows that there are
times when safety demands that one
keep near the shore. There are times, |
too, when the cautious business man
who is acquainted with history or who
strives to profit by experience will make
ready for the Inevitable storm. Our
and our state has had about
as many years of plenty and prosperity
as usually go together. 1t would be
surprising if much time should elapse
before there is a. decided change. 1t is |
no ones fault in particular. 1t is simply
the storm that always follows the sun
shine and the wise man will be ready |
for it. A panic or hard times never
bankrupted any man not in debt. It's |
those who do business on borrowed cap |
ltal who are caught in a time of f1nan- |
cfa1 stringency The Leader-Courier is |
not an alarmtst but it does believe that |
the men who play close to the shore |
during the next five years, who pay |
their debts even though they must con- |
tract their business lines, will have |
cause r. boast Of their superior judg- |
ment.-Kingman Leader.