The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1908-10-07
TELLS OF FARMERS PROFIT.
Contrasts Prices of Products Under
Republican and Democratic Rule.

Contrasts Prices of Products Under
Republican and Democratic Rule.
Topeka, Kans., Oct. 3-Beginning
at Syracuse, on the western line OF
Kansas. at 6 o'clock this morning an,
ending at Topeka with two monster
meetings tonight, Wilma H. Taft s
campaign trip. begun eleven days age
in Cincinnati, reached its climax In
the matter of crowds and enthusiasm
A bit of Kansas humor was inject
ed into the early hours of the candl-
date when he was awakened to answ
er this telegram, which he did in the
affirmative:
Syracuse, Kan, Oct. 3-Personal to
william H. Taft: Hello Bill. We
live in the short grass country. never
saw a President and will probably ne
er have the chance again. and we arr
going to see if you indorse the Roose
welt policies enough to get up early
and let us take a look at you at
a. IN.
The Took" seemed very satisfac-
tory to the several hundred people OF
Syracuse who came to the station,
and Mr.. Taft not only gave them a
short speech. but divided his time
with Candidate Stubbs, who took o.
casion to make a strong Endorsement
of the national candidate as a man o
deeds, not words, in distinction to his
opponent, MT. Bryan, whom ne de-
clared to be a man 70 words, not
deeds.
At Dodge City there had been plac-
ed on a grain elevator large sign
which read:
Wheat, 1908, 92 cents-Republican
rule; Wheat. 1896, So cents-Demo-
cratic rule"
Taking notice of the sign. MIR. Taft
said to his large audience:
Il have statistics little more com
plete than that. The average price
Of corn in Kansas in SO. after four
years OF Democratic rule was Is cent
per bushel. Now 1t is more than A
cents per busheL This Republican
price OF A cents for corn in Kansas
gave to the farmers OF Kansas for
their corn crop of 1907 more than
S4O,OOO,OOO In excess Of what they
would have received IL they sold at
the Democratic price Of Is cents.
with respect to wheat, in which
l think this community is rather NOR
Interested than corn, the average
price of wheat in Kansas for the
four Democratic years was 40 cents
per bushel. At present 1t Is over 81
cents per busheL and II your present
wheat crop had been sold at Demo
cratic prices 1t would have left you
$21 100000 less than you have today.
For oats the Democratic price wa
16 cents. for barley % cents and for
potatoes "a cents. and for hay $2.7O
a ton. The Republican prices gave
to the farmers VI Kansas for the Gro
OF oats, barley. potatoes and hay IN
1907 over $lo.JOO,Vvv in excess OF
they had sod those crops at the
Democa l prioe which prevailed al
over Kansas in 1896 after the Demo
Gratis had run the government for fou
years.
You have increased the value of
your horses over what you had in
1896 from about $16.OOO,O0O to $4,000
900. six times In value what they
were in those days. The present val
ne Of your mules is $13.O00.O00. five
times what 1t was in 1896.
THE same Is true OF Kansas COWS,
oxen and other cattle, the present va
ue being $s2.OOO.OOO or nearly twice
what it was in 1896.
With respect to sheep and hogs.
the present value is S16.0O0.OOO, or
more than twice what it was in 1896.
Hogs today are worth something ovei
So, while in those days the price was
about SO.
"Of course the argument is that
that was not due to Democratic rule,
but as a matter of fact, in Harrison S
administration you had no such price
You had them in Clevelands admins
tration, after the Gorman-Wilson tar
III bill, and just as soon as the Re
publicans came in again and passed
the Dingley bill the prices began to
rise; you had a good market and you
have been prosperous ever since.
II ask in heavens name how SEN
sible people can take the power out
of the hands Of the party that has
made such prosperity possible and
put it in the hands of a party whose
record is what have given.
The Taft special leaves Topeka at
4:3O O'Clock tomorrow morning for
Kansas City where the candidate will
r1,0 o1I of