The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-20
NOT PARTISAN MATTER.
President Butler Discusses Business
Problems of the Nation.

Kansas City, Nov. 20-Dr. Nicholas
Murray Butler, president of Columbia
university. speaking here last night az
the annual dinner of the Kansas city
Commercial club, declared that the
great questions of banking and cur
rency, and of the regulation of the
transportation system Of the country
and of trusts were not properly a mat
ter for partisan exploitation or for
party difference. These questions, he
said. could not be solved either by
rhetoric or in passion, but only by in
teIigent solicitous study and reflection.
1T is the highest duty 'of the patriotic
and Intelligent business interests OF the
United States" said DR.. Butler, now
that there is an interval between polltl-
cal canvasses and campaigns to apply
themselves with all the power of their
great influence to the task of settling
the question in which politics and bust
ness border so closely on each other, In
ways that will conduce to the moral
and material upbuilding of our people
as we'll as to their happiness and pros
perity.'
DR.. Butler. Senator Albert ]. Bev-
eridge of Indiana. and Polk Miller OF
Richmond, Va, were the guests OF
honor at the banquet of the CONNER
cial club held in commemoration of the
signing of the John Jay commercial
treaty. The dinner was held at the
Baltimore hotel. Plates were laid Tor
four hundred guests which aside from
those mentioned lnCluuSu 0@A-IO'OAAASA
David R. Francis of St. Louis ana sew
eral army officers from Forts Riley and
Leavenworth.
Senator Beveridge among other
things. said all sectionalism should pe
abolished, and referring to the norIh
and the south said
There is more sense in solid south
and solid north than there was IN IhG
clan divisions of Scotland two hundred
years ago. Sectional lines based on the
heredity of prejudice are a more subtle
danger than most of the conventional
perils which we fear.
THE time has come for this condition
to pass Let every section of this coun-
try solve its local problems Ior llse!L,
but upon national problems let every
section act not as a section, but as
part of the nation 1t is absurd that
New England should have tradit1onaI
allegiance to the Republican party anu
that the south should be under a ira
ditional mortgage to the Democratic
party"
Speaking for the creation of a tariff
commission, Senator Bever1dge sa1d'
LAS our tariffs have heretofore been
constructed by both parties they have
been unscientific and crude. Nothing but
our great natural resources, utterly
overShadOWing those OF other nations
have saved our foreign trade from eX-
tinction- We are shamed by the tact
that comparatively Germany today
sells ten finished manufactured articles
abroad where we sell one.
Germany has been able to do TINS
chiefly by her double tariff system.
This she builded by having an expert
commission solve the subject. A wise
tariff law can not be struck off by men
not students of the question, WORKING
for few weeks without training or
aptitude for their work. The demand
Of the business and producing interests
of the United States for modern tariff
commission can not longer be ignored.