Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-04


Emporia. Newton, Hutchinson and Stat
ford furnished the banner crowds of the
day. At each of these places the audi
ences numbered many thousands. and IN
Garden City, Dodge City. kinsley, Pea
body, Florence. Strong City and Usage
City the crowds were correspondingly
large In the fourteen speeches delivered
during the day and evening by Mr.. TAFT,
he not only talked in detail of the tariff
and trusts and labor but furnished Kan
Increased profits they made in the last
year because of the operation Of. the
principle of protection, as he put 1t, over
what they made under the democratic en-
novel feature of his speeches in Kansas
over what he has been saying in the
other states on the trip.
Think This Is Funny?
A bit of Kansas humor was injected in
to the early hours of the candidate when
he was awakened to answer this telegram.
which he did; in the ALTERNATIVES:
Syracuse, Kas. PersonaD:
ITO w. H. Taft: Hello. Bill. We live in
the short grass country. never saw a
President and will probably never have
the chance again, and we are going to
see if you indorse the Roosevelt policies
enough to take your Teddy early and let
us take look at you at am
The look" seemed very satisfactory to
who came to the station, and Mr.. Taft
not only gave them a short speech, but
divided his time with Candidate Stubs,
who took occasion to make strong in
dorsements of the national candidate as a
man of deeds, not words, in distinction
from his opponent, Bryan, whom he de-
clared to be man of words, not deeds.
This Endorsement was said to be i'm
portant from the further declaration Of
Mr.. Stubs that he is making campaign
On the La Toilette ideas, of which. he de-
clares Mr.. Taft to be the logical leader.
Such a Pertinent Sign.
At Dodge City there had been placed
On grain elevator q large sign which
read: Wheat. 1908 % cents. republican
rule; 1896. 55 cents. democratic rule"
Taking notice of the sign, Mr.. Taft said
to his large audience:
Il have statistics a little more complete
than that. The average price of corn In
Kansas in 1896, after four years of demo-
cratic rule, was 10 cents per bushel. Now
1t is more than Al 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
forty million dollars in excess Of what
they would have received if they had
sold at the democratic price of Is cents.
With respect to wheat. in which l
think this community is rather more in
terested than corn, the average price of
wheat in Kansas for the four democratic
years was ~ cents per bushel. At present
it is over 81 cents per bushel, and if your
present wheat crop had Deen sold at
democratic prices it would have left you
81 100000 less than you have today.
Looks Around the Barn.
For oats the democratic price was 16
cents: for barley, % cents, and for pota-
toes q cents, and for hay s2.7O ton. The
republican prices gave to the farmers OF
Kansas for the crop of oats, barley, pota-
toes and hay in 1907 over $1s,OOOOOO in
excess of what they would have received
If they had sold those crops at the demo-
cratic prices which prevailed all over
Kansas in 1896 after the democrats had
run the government for four, years.
You have increased the value of your
horses over what you had in 1896 from
about s16,0oNOOO to $96OO0.oOO and the
same Is, true of other stock.
'Of course the argument Is that this
was not due to democratic rule, but, as q
matter of fact, IN Harrson's admnistra-
ton you had no such prices. You had
them in Cleveland's administration, after
the Germany Wilson tariff bill. and just
as soon as the came III again
and passed the Dingley bill the prices be-
gan to rise. you had good market and
you have been prosperous ever since.
Il ask. in heavens name. how sensible
people can take the power out of the
hands Of the party that has made such
prosperity possible and put 1t in the
hands OF party whose record Is what 1
have given"
Trusts and the Tariff.
both the theater and the auditorium were
devoted to discussion of labor. the
trusts and the tariff. On the labor and
tariff issues he laid the most stress. He
went over again, as he has done re-
peatedly on his present trip. the de-
cisions he rendered while on the bench
Mr.. Taft regards a discussion of the
tariff as decidedly important He summed
the question up briefly in the following
manner:
"Ore of the important issues of the
campaign is the tariff. For forty-four
years out of the last forty-eight the
business of this country has been on a
basis of a protective tariff. 1t has pro-
Guced q condition of diversified industries
and increased the number of skilled
workmen to millions. who are now receiv-
ing the highest wages in the world. and
are enjoying the comfort of living that
they nave IN no OtftI country Inc Drln-
ciple of protection is that all industries
that need it shall be protected by a
customs tax equal to the difference be-
tween the cost CT production here and the
cost OF production abroad
Will Keep the Faith.
IF I am elected, as I expect I Shall
exercise all the legitimate influence that
a President OF head of the republican
party can to see to it that the plighted
faith of the party on this subject in letter
and in spirit is observed"
The Taft special will leave Topeka at
4 30 o'clock tomorrow morning for Kan
sas City where the candidate will to-
morrow make a short address at the Y.
NJ. c.. A. building and then rest for the
work of the coming week.