The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-10

frequently have heard it charged that
the Door south is taxed to pay the
pensions to my comrades. 1 want to
| remind them that the only tax they
pay for that purpose is the Internal
revenue tax levied upon whisky,
beer and tobacco, and the payment of
tnat Is purely a voluntary matter with
each man." daughter on the Re-
publican side.)
Mr.. slayden: ''They pay it. do
| people of Kansas, drink without pay
| ing the tax" daughter from the
| Democratic side.)
Mr.. Calderhead: "Pay it? OF
course. they pay it. Unfortunately, it
may be for them, they have paid
more attention to the consumption
which results in paying the tax than
| they have to turning the steel shafts
that hold the spindles in the cotton
mills. daughter and applause on the
| Wherever I have had the pleas
! ure and honor of hearing those gem
tlemen (Democrats) talk about poll
tics from the stump in the last ten
years, / have heard these same ques-
| tons put to the audience as an evil
dence that the Republican party was
| unjust to the gentleman and his peo-
| pie and unfair in Partially to New
England. 1 am not from New Eng
1 land. I have seen very little of it. The
| only portion that 1 have ever seen
has been the heart of Connecticut.
| live west of the Missouri river. For
twenty-eight years I never was east of
| it.
| The Vests Development.
'I have watched the development
| of my country from the other side of
| the Missouri river. For twenty-eight
| years I was not east of it. A year
| after the time 1 went there they
drove the golden spikes that united
1 hn afro1 until ho TTr1in o.
! cific railway, and made one line of
| railroad from the Missouri river to the
| Pacific ocean. When 1 went there,
| freight was $500 a ton in gold from
| the Missouri river to Salt Lake. The
next year after that great railway was
built it was $39 ton for the same
| distance. The day before yesterday
| the sixth intercontinenta1 line was
| completed. No golden spike was driv-
| en- at Seattle when the Chicago, Mil
waukee and Seattle railway was COM
| pleted.
"All the notice that it excited was
paragraph in the newspaper. Fiji
| teen great states have been built since
| that time. Mines and minerals have
been developed, flocks and herds are
scattered over their vast domains, af-
fording the raw material that Will
keep the unemployed worklngmen OF
| America at work the year around You
are standing here to say that every tax
we put upon it is in some way or 9TH
err burden upon the consumer. The
consumer? Who is he but the man
who produces?
ct wish to remind my Republican
friends that it is not a question
whether hides come in free or subject
| to a duty, of whether lumber comes in
| free or subject to a duty. Personal
| ly I know that they ought both to be
protected for the tariff is for protec-
ton to the laborer in the lumber mills
and there has been no evidence found
in four years that there is a lumber
trust which combines the lumber mill
and the manufacturer. (Applause)
ct believe there ought to be tar
iff on hides, for it is an industry which
the farmer and the herd owner from
the Missouri to the Rocky mountains
furnish TO the market applause on
the Republican side.) I do not believe
that the shoe factories of New Eng
land or anywhere else need that 10
per cent. 1t is not a question OF
whether the legislation in which we
believe, the legislation which is con-
sistent with the life Of the 1aborer of
the nation, the legislation which
stands like a. wall around the laborers
of America to protect them from the
competition of the poorly paid 1aborers
of other nations applause from the
Republican side) shall be maintained
and passed as a law or shall be defeat
ed because some little petty item does
not suit you and me-" Applause on
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