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

L nave De6n maze against the CnlCdBO
platform. 1t is enough for us that for
months the committee has been lis
| tening to the testimony of men en-
| gagged in every line of business. More
statistics and more data have been
collected for the preparation of this
| bill than for. all of the other bills
within the last forty years. In few
| hours, 1 think, the bill will be laid
| before you for discussion. section by
| section.
The Producers are Consumers.
LAS you read it it will be evident
| to you that it has not been made for
the purpose of enriching one man at
| the expense of another, and it will be
no reply to say that it is tax levied
upon the poor or upon the consumer.
| There is no consumer unless he is also
| a producer, and the man in America
| who is not a producer can not be
| consumer of any value either to the
| nation or to its productions from the
| farm or from the factory. The tariff
| legislation that is proposed now does
not differ from the tariff legislation
proposed by Hamilton, from that pro-
| posed and carried into effect by Nc
| Kinley, nor from that proposed and
carried into effect and operation by
| Dingley. You can not turn a page
| of the national life during the opera
ton of the Dingley bill that does not
show that the nation was richer by
| a thousand millions of dollars at the
end of every year. There were years
when the nation was richer at every
| shutdown by million dollars. There
were years when the nation was richer
| by a thousand millions of dollars ev-
| cry thirty days.
"Some complaint is made that the
| tariff is levied for the benefit of New
| England. Can you remember that at
| the same time the most of our man
| ufactorieS are in New England and
that there is neither coal, nor iron,
nor wood, nor leather, nor any other
! natural production there within her
/ borders sufficient to keep one-fourth
| of her mills running for thirty days
| The great supply comes from the rest
of the nation. Look at the map of
the country and at the roll of the de-
posts in the bank. The gentleman
from Connecticut (Mr. HID sitting at
my right represents a little district.
His whole state is only half as large
as nv own congressional district, and
yet in his state there are 100000
900 on deposit in the savings banks,
not counting deposits of the manufac-
turers who are protected by this pro-
tective tariff. Let me modify that ex-
preston. The men who are protected
by the protective tariff are the wage
earners of this state.
A Market for Our Crops.
"Rocky and mountainous, rough
with swamps, without coal mines
terial; without grazing for herds of
cattle or sheep, without a 40-acre field
even in one spot, for corn or grain, he
has in his state twice as much wealth
accumulated as wages of labor as
there is in my state, which has 3d.
600 square miles in it.
North of the Potomac and east of
the Ohio River are two-thirds or the
wealth of the country, and there are
the manufacturers, there are the pro-
Il xxr1ao fol No QhfhS
that come from your farm and mine
and manufacture it into material for
commerce, and there the things are
made, the $16,000.O00,000 worth, 49,
0OO, OOO,0 900 worth that is sold to us
in our country. There Is the market
for our flocks and our herds, our
wheat and our corn
"All New England, without coal,
without iron, without sheep ranges
and cattle ranges, and cotton fields,
without the great producing soil that
is found in your country, have been
accommodating more manufactures
paid more wages, and put more mon
ey in the bank that all the balance Oh
us together.
1.-THE only thing now that botherS
New England is the fact that cotton
mills have doubled in the field where
the cotton is produced. And other
factories are growing up In other parts
of the country.
''The shoe factories are in st. Louis.
in Kansas City, in St. Joseph, and
Omaha, nearer to the field which pro-
duces the leather for them and nearer
to the consumer who uses them. The
same protective-tariff law that
stretched over New England stretched
over the great south and the great
west and Invited labor in all its oper-
alton
''The same protection which stands
over the shoe factories of New En-
--Ir e%o d. Tana "a ~ ri
St Louis, and there is in st. Louis the
largest shoe factory in the world, turn
ing out a million pairs of shoes every
thirty days. There are in New England
the cotton mills which were built
nearly a hundred years ago, still in
operation, turned by the same water
power, while there is spread all over
Georgia the new cotton mills that have
been built within the last fifteen
years.
1--WE have never made a law which
you Democrats have revised or re-
pealed except tariff law. The only
tariff law that we have ever made
that you have repealed was the Nc
Kinley law. We made it and put it
in operation. You repealed it and put
in operation the Wilson bill, and the
country repudiated and repealed you
at the first opportunity.
1T want to say that the committee
did not intend to do injustice to any
OI the SIIOW pol
to any portion. We are preparing leg
islation to establish justice and equity
in the whole nation.
81 have just one reply to you who
say goods are sold cheaper abroad
than at home, that If the goods sent
abroad were emptied into the ocean,
the wages of the men who made them
would be paid just the same.
when I saw the south 1t was de-
vastated by war; it was poor I know
how poor it was when it went home
from Appomattox. I realize the hero
ism with which they finally returned
to their labors on their homesteads.
but know that until the operation of
the Dingley law spread its influences
and its sustaining hand over you, you
paid no attention to factories, and I
know that since that time you have
built more cotton mills than Won built